My Low Carb Road to Better Health: hCG Diet

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

FOUR DAYS OF NORMAL FOOD - AM I GAINING WEIGHT AFTER HCG?

It's now been four days of normal low carb, high fat food after three and a half weeks on The HCG Diet, and a few people have asked if I have kept off the weight so far.

This post from the other day explained how Bill and I both gained weight right afterward. But in the days since, that initial weight came back off and now it is staying pretty close to our lowest HCG weight. I posted about my weight here today.

The body fat function on my bathroom scale has stopped working, so I am back to using the free online calculator (shown in the right sidebar) to figure out my body fat. According to it, this is where I started the morning of April 22, 2011, the beginning of The HCG Diet:

148.6 pounds
54.4 pounds of body fat (36.6%)
94.2 pounds of lean body mass (63.4%)

The final numbers for the diet:

137.2 pounds
44.2 pounds of body fat (32.2%)
93 pounds of lean body mass (67.8%)

So that means that during the diet I lost 10.2 pounds of body fat and lost 1.2 pounds of lean body mass.

These are my numbers for this morning:

138.8 pounds
43.9 pounds of body fat (31.6%)
94.9 pounds of lean body mass (68.4%)

So that means that since starting normal eating again, I have lost 0.3 pounds of body fat and gained 1.9 pounds of lean body mass.

And since starting HCG until now, I have lost 10.5 pounds of body fat and I have gained 0.7 pounds of lean mass.

All that being said...

I have always preferred going by my body measurements instead of the scale, which can always be inaccurate due to water weight fluctuations and the machine just being inaccurate. I trust the tape measure, which has never lied to me!

When I started HCG, the total for all of my body measurements was 289.625", at the end of HCG the total was 272.375" (17.25" down) and today it is 271.875" (17.75" down from the start, and 0.5" down from the end of HCG).

So, all in all, I am keeping the weight and inches off and then some.

MAY 22 - WEEK 114 RESULTS

I tracked my food six days this past week on Fitday. The first three days were the HCG diet, and the next three days were high fat low carb.

Here are the averages of what I ate on the HCG days:

Here are the averages of what I ate on the low carb, high fat days:

I take my full measurements every Sunday. In the past week:

I lost a total of 3.875", which includes:
I lost 0" around my neck
I lost 0.125" around my bicep
I lost 0.375" around my bust
I lost 0.625" around my midriff

I lost 0.625" around my waist
I lost 0.625" around my navel
I lost 0.625" around my hips
I lost 0.125" around my thigh

I lost 0.25" around my calf

Lost 0.010 points off my waist-to-height ratio

Lost 0.004 points off my waist-to-hip ratio

Lost 1.8 points off my body fat percentage

Gained 1.8 points onto my lean body mass percentage

Lost 2.3 lbs. of body fat

Gained 2.9 lbs. of lean mass
Gained 0.6 lbs. on the scale

Gained 0.1 point onto my BMI

Here is what I have lost so far, since starting to lose weight in February 2009:

Neck - 13.75" to 11.875" - down 1.875"

Bicep - 12.5" to 11" - down 1.5"

Bust - 39.5" to 35.25" - down 4.25"

Midriff - 33.75" to 29.375" - down 4.375"

Waist - 35" to 29.75" - down 5.25"

Navel - 41.75" to 34.25" - down 7.5"

Hips - 45.5" to 38.625" - down 6.875"

Thigh - 25.75" to 22" - down 3.75"

Calf - 15" to 13.375" - down 1.625"

BODY COMPOSITION

TODAY

11.875" neck
29.75" waist
38.625" hips
0.472 waist-to-height ratio
0.770 waist-to-hip ratio
31.6% body fat

AT THE BEGINNING OF WEIGHT LOSS 2/22/09

13.75" neck
35" waist
45.5" hips
0.556 waist-to-height ratio
0.769 waist-to-hip ratio
44.8% body fat

Since my heaviest weight in February 2009, I have lost 1.875" around my neck, 5.25" around my waist and 6.875" around my hips. I have lost 13.2 percentage points on my body fat.

ONE YEAR AGO

12.5" neck
31.25" waist
40.5" hips
0.496 waist-to-height ratio
0.772 waist-to-hip ratio
35% body fat

In the past year, I have lost 0.625" around my neck, 1.5" around my waist and 1.875" around my hips. I have lost 3.4 percentage points on my body fat.

ONE MONTH AGO

12.375" neck
33.25" waist
41.25" hips
0.528 waist-to-height ratio
0.806 waist-to-hip ratio
38.7% body fat

In the past month, I have lost 0.5" around my neck, 3.5" around my waist and 2.625" around my hips. I have lost 7.1 percentage points on my body fat.

ONE WEEK AGO

11.875" neck
30.375" waist
39.25" hips
0.482 waist-to-height ratio
0.774 waist-to-hip ratio
33.4% body fat

In the past week, I have lost 0.625" around my waist and 0.625" around my hips. I have lost 1.8 percentage points off my body fat.

MY NEXT GOAL

11.875" neck
29.375" waist
38.5" hips
0.466 waist-to-height ratio
0.763 waist-to-hip ratio
31% body fat

To achieve this, I need to lose 0.125" around my waist and 0.125" around my hips.

MY ULTIMATE DREAM GOAL

11.875" neck
26.125" waist
37.25" hips
0.415 waist-to-height ratio
0.701 waist-to-hip ratio
25% body fat

To achieve this, I need to lose another 3.625" around my waist and another 1.375" around my hips.

If I reach this goal, I will have lost 1.875" around my neck, 8.875" around my waist and 8.25" around my hips since February 22, 2009.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

THE HCG DIET - ROUND 1 FINAL RESULTS

Yesterday was the last day of Round 1 of the HCG Diet. In six weeks, we will decide whether or not to do another round. I am willing to do it if I need to, but Bill says he is not and will not!

I lost an average of 0.44 pounds per day for this past 26 days. I lost 11.4 pounds.

Bill lost an average of 0.34 pounds per day for this past 26 days. Bill lost 8.8 pounds.

Bill decided that he does not want his pictures posted here. Here are my photos of the day we started compared to today, 26 days later: