Was That My Stomach Growling or Yours?

So this blog is all about trying what KT suggests and writing honestly about it...in this case the HCG Diet.  Inevitably, May 11th the day Shel and I decided to embark on this... we'll call it "our dietary adventure". 

We both arrive at work armed with our HCG drops (which I was very happy to see packaged in a small, brown glass bottle complete with a dropper).  The drops are our deviation from the shots KT talks about in his book...it was what was more readily available (please see first post for info on where I ordered from). 

These first two days are our "gorge days" and I must admit I am very curious to see if I notice any side effects from the drops.  We've all tried fat burner pills, appetite suppressant pills, etc...you know all the crap.  I've tried some that interfered with my sleep, made me have headaches, feel unwell, etc.  If any of those things were to happen...this would be a FAIL.  Back to the gorging....i'm really not familiar with doing that...(except on Thanksgiving and Christmas where my eyes are almost always bigger than my belly-i'm sure you know where i'm coming from) and i'm certainly not doing that at my workplace!  So Shel and I decide to eat as we would normally but, to have foods that are forbidden on the diet....like pasta, potatoes, etc.  We take the drops four times per day (four drops under the tongue) and take the supplements KT recommended.  I must note that KT recommends a lot of supplements, Shel & I chose a few (you can read more on these in my first post).  By the way the drops are virtually tasteless...Shel thinks they taste a bit like tears.

The next morning I approached my digital scale in my underwear and got on.  Do my eyes deceive me?  I get off and get back on again.  WOO-HOO!   I lost a pound...a pound in one day and I feel GREAT.  No ill side effects from the drops, so KT was accurate.  I set off to work with a spring in my step and see that Shel is also happily surprised.  Since this is our second "gorge day" we know that the real work will begin the next day when we go to the 500 calorie diet.

Its now the next day.   After having my coffee with no sugar and splash of milk (yeah takes some getting used to) I carefully pack my food for the day.  I take an organic apple for breakfast, 100 grams (a bit under a quarter of a pound) of steak (that I grilled with no oil the night before), 1 Grissini breadstick, chopped romaine lettuce with salt and pepper and one quarter of a lemon. I also take the HCG drops 4 times per day.  I liked to follow this schedule: 6:00am, 11:30am, 3:30pm, 8:00pm. 

Well the downside of that first day was...Shel and I are HUNGRY!  The first week our stomachs are always growling and we are trying to pin it on each other!  We'd be funny if we weren't so pathetic those first few days.  The MAJOR upside was losing a pound a day!  That was motivation to keep going.  There's nothing like having your clothes fit loosely after only one week of dieting.  Our Weight Watcher friend even comments over how quickly we are shedding pounds versus what she is doing.  Eating for Shel and I has become a ritual.  We now savor our meals and take the time to taste our food...gone are the days where we'd scarf down our lunch and get on to the next thing.  We come to a complete agreement that organic meat ROCKS!

I also notice while at the market (I go to Trader Joe's, Wild by Nature and Fairway Market) the difference in size between lets say an organic chicken breast versus a non-organic chicken breast.  You start to realize what a difference those growth hormones make considering the organic chicken breast is noticeably smaller. By the way some people may be put off by the cost of organic food...I bought bigger packs of the items I wanted and put them into individual baggies in my freezer.  I also cooked a lot of the foods i'd be eating on the weekend and put them in fridge for easy usage during the week. If you buy lunch everyday...bringing your lunch is always cheaper and even better..healthier by being organic. 

One more thing that I must touch on before I end this post is from Dr. Simeon's manuscript (Pounds & Inches-which you can get free on the internet) and KT's book regarding the use of creams.  Shel was horrified when she learned that we weren't allowed to use face cream and body cream.  I had resigned myself to being ashy.  Not so with Shel.  I had made a sort of "cheat sheet" for her to refer to since she hadn't read all of KT's book yet (although she did read "Pounds & Inches").  She questions me relentlessly over this and wonders (aloud of course) what the benefit is.  So, short of cursing Kevin through an email and being unable to contact Dr. Simeon since he's deceased...Shel agrees to not use creams along with me.  KT writes that the drops will keep your skin supple, fim and I guess hydrated but if you have to use something on your body...only mineral oil will do because it has a zero caloric value.  Who knew?  Turns out KT wasn't kidding, we didn't need anything!  Imagine that.

Introducing My Partner in Crime-The Queen of Butter & Ice Cream

So, I work full-time and since 99% of my office is male…us girls stick together. During our morning conversation I started talking about KT’s book “The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You To Know About”. One of the women I work with is a Weight Watchers fanatic and the other is well…a Paula Deen fanatic. Her name is Shel and she shamelessly tells us how she and her significant other devour a stick of butter every night with their dinner. The woman even has a butter stockpile in freezer (I shudder to think what KT would say)! I always look at her with a look of disbelief and hero worship. I would never dare such a feat, just thinking about it made my buttons heave. Shel is a nice looking woman and despite her “I don’t do diets” attitude…she takes care of herself and loves food (especially butter and ice cream). However, like me, she’d like to lose a few pounds. To my surprise…Shel says she wants to do this diet and orders the drops from the same place I do. I decide then and there to use a bit of deception. At this point I can since Shel doesn’t have the book yet (she orders one that day) and I know if I tell her the truth she’d back out. So, I tell her the diet is only for 21 days and in a barebones, vague kind of way gave her a quick synopsis. The first step we do is a cleanse. I chose to do the Full Body Cleanse from Enzymatics. (Note: If you sign up at their website, they have a $3 off coupon AND Wal-Mart sells this at the cheapest price I’ve seen…around $16.00). That cleanse takes about 2 weeks and no you are NOT living on the toilet. Shel and I then buy some of the supplements KT recommends. We choose Bob Barefoot’s Okinawa Coral Calcium (no, we didn’t know about the affiliation with him and KT, its just what was there), Jarrow Formula’s Acetyl L-Carnitine 500 and Life-flo’s Power of Krill Omega 3. While at the store, we also pick up boxes of organic green tea and Yerba Mate tea. I even convince Shel to buy a scale…yes, Butter Queen doesn’t own a scale. We decide to start the diet on Tuesday, May 11th, because we are due in company headquarters in Georgia for a business meeting at the end of April. Our anticipation level and dread mount as the day to begin the KT HCG diet approaches!

"The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You To Know About"-The Beginning

So, thanks for reading! I'm so excited to write my first post for Living KT!

We are going to rewind back to April of this year (2010) when I first read "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You To Know About".....

I had ordered this book and Natural Cures 1&2 from Ebay.  Yes, I know KT sells them on his site BUT I wanted to buy them as a bundle and not knowing anything about him...I went with EBay (sorry Kev). 

I remember racing home each day to see if anything came and after 3 days there it was.  The holy grail for the overweight! -- "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You To Know About".  I read the book in one night and my "Fat Begone express train" screeched to a halt.  500 calories??? Really Kevin?  Good Lord...call 911 now.  Then what really derailed my train...shots??? AND they're not available in the good old US of A...well, unless you're obese.  POW, POW...i'm hit and going down!  I'm not obese (but can stand to lose a few pounds) and I live in the US...how can this work for me?  Well, I guess if there's a will there's a way.  Kevin did say if you did the diet it would 100% work for you.  Sooo, I got on the internet and looked up HCG.  Yeah, tons of websites hawking this stuff.  Which one to choose.  Well, i'm not ordering anything from China and the shots seem too hard to come by.  So I looked up HCG drops and came across http://www.pureh2o2forhealth.com/ --took a chance and placed the order.