Don't worry, it won't hurt a bit!

People often ask me about whether it’s better to use shots or drops for the most efficient weightloss with HcG.  I have done both, and I prefer the shots — I think they’re stronger, and I lose weight faster…plus, you only have to do it once a day, as opposed to three times, so it’s less to remember.

But people have a funny reaction to the concept of shooting themselves with a needle, so today, without further ado, I give you a close up view of the entire process.

It’s easy, it doesn’t really hurt, and you would do it if your life depended on it without a second thought, like diabetics do.  And guess what?  Your life DOES depend on it.  A few weeks of HcG, my blood pressure went down, and the only thing that was hurting was my wallet, when I had to buy some new clothes for my new svelte body!

Check out the video, and if you’re inspired to join the successful dieters, click on any of our ads to get started.  Keep up the Good Work!  You Can Do It!

Even Dr. Oz doesn't know EVERYTHING!

Funny thing, on the same day that the papers reported the astronomical rises in obesity in our country, the same paper published a syndicated column on health by Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of the country’s most well known and respected  physicians.  The headline: The HcG Diet is Risky. Subhead: There are healthier ways to lose weight.  I agree — eat less and move more always is best — if you can stick to it.  Problem is, as we know, it’s not easy, and for some people, not really doable. But risky?  Maybe, although compared to obesity, which is riskier?

In his column, Dr. Oz explains the HcG diet, talks about the controversial 2007 HcG book by Kevin Trudeau, and then gets down to the “risks”.   He says that, like with any hormone treatment, this one has health risks — a woman MAY develop cysts or blood clots, and with prolonged use, men MAY have long term consequences.

Well, what about the risks of obesity?  We all know that list — most of us with food issues have had it drummed into us for years.  I will tell you that, after losing the big 5-0, I was able to reduce my blood pressure meds from three a day to one.  My risk of a heart attack or stroke went down significantly.  I MAY  live longer.  Now that’s a risk I’m willing to take.

Tomorrow is 1 month till Valentine’s Day — you MAY want to click on one of the links today, and you MAY look better in red when you’re a good 20 or so pounds lighter.

Meanwhile, you MAY click here to see the video of me way back at the beginning — I hope you’re as amused by it as I was!  Or you may go get a snack.  The choice is yours.  More videos to come soon!

Not me, but maybe you. (Real shots of me to come!)

Happy New Year!  If you’re anything like me around food, which I guess you are or you wouldn’t be here, you’re sitting there feeling like a stuffed Christmas turkey and wondering how you got that way.  I say, who cares?  Just take control and start right now.

I have no scale today, so am unable to weigh in — good excuse, huh? But I know just from looking at my body that I must be up five or six pounds.  Fortunately for me, my HcG diet has given me a new way to eat — less!  And fortunately for you, the easiest diet in the world is there for the taking!

Many questions have come up around HcG since I started writing this blog.  So, starting today, here are some answers.  Number 1) What the heck is the HcG anyway, and is it safe?

HcG is a human polypeptide naturally produced by all people, male and female, animals and even plants!  Misnamed as a hormone, it has recently gained fame as “the pregnancy hormone”, as it is produced in great amounts in pregnancy, and is popularly used for fertility.  Basically, what it does in a pregnant female is to release stored fat to nourish the developing baby.  If there’s no baby, it just releases fat.

Of course, it’s not quite that simple, and I am not a doctor nor a scientist, just a satisfied customer, and that’s how it was originally explained to me.  For weight loss, very small amounts of HcG are combined with a very strict very low calorie diet and the pounds just slip away.  Don’t worry about keeping the low calorie diet though; HcG produces an appetite suppressing result that lasts for about six weeks, during which you can lose up to a pound a day! (Average seems to be about 25 lbs in the six week course.)  And no exercise is required except walking every day.

As for the safety, the only contra-indication is that HcG should not be used by people who have or have had any cancer, although the current thinking in the medical community is that it’s okay.  Personally, I wouldn’t ever take that chance, and for those of you in that group, I’m sure you’ll agree that your health is much more important.  Other than that, the only reported side effect that I’ve heard of is headaches for the first few days.

HcG has been around since the 1920s, and was studied extensively in the 1950s.  It’s been approved for weight loss in other countries for many years, and has only recently become popular in the US.

For all the details, click here to read the original, definitive report on HcG by of Dr. A.T.W. Simeons,  probably the world’s greatest authority on HcG.  Written over 50 years ago, his program remains the core of an HcG diet.

More answers to popular questions later this week.  But don’t wait.  Order your HcG today and get started — there’s still six weeks to Valentine’s Day!

Even Santa puts on a few at this time of year. No Problem -- he gets his HcG online!

Did you know that the typical American gains 7 to 8 pounds every holiday season? Think about it, you could become fat just by eating with wild abandon for five weeks out of every year!  Thank goodness I found the HcG Diet when I did.  I started my diet in early February almost two years ago, following a food-frenzy holiday and an orgiastic (food-wise) weekend cruise.  But by my birthday in April, I was down 25 pounds, and by the summer, another 25.  Easy weight loss with HcG.  That summer,  I took a road trip to NY, traveling with a neat portable scale, and I got to go to a Junior High School reunion looking nice and svelte.

So, today almost two years later,  I decided to celebrate the holidays with a cookie.  But darn that HcG!  It really changed the way I eat.  My head wants the sweet crunchiness of the cookie, but my appetite says “nah, not worth it, don’t bother”.  Who would have ever believed that I would have to talk myself INTO eating a cookie!

HcG is for sure the path to eternal thinness.  Eat On!

Want to see more from the beginning of the HcG Diet?  Click here.

Eat what you want when you're sick -- HcG will help you lose weight later!

I’ve been flirting with the flu for about 10 days now, and it’s so easy for me to play the sick card and eat whatever I want to make me feel better.  But again, I remember how good it feels to be thin, and I stop myself…do I really want that muffin, those cookies, that cake (yes, I’ve somehow managed to drag myself out of bed and bake)?  And sometimes, the answer is yes.  So I eat it, and enjoy it, and weigh myself every morning, and wonder how those 3 pounds crept on — must have been while I was sleeping!

So, how do you keep the weight off?  We all know that’s the hardest part of dieting, and when you have lost the weight with HcG, sorry, the urge to eat, although much less and with different foods, is still there.  The beauty of it is that 1) the new HcG habits, like eating less, eating better and daily weigh-in, keep that urge in check, and 2) there is an easy way to get it off (an apple day, will talk more about that later) and finally, 3) it’s really easy to go back on the HcG for a few weeks post-illness and after the holidays, and get the weight off before it all comes back, no willpower required!

So eat, drink, be sick, feel sorry for yourself if you have to, but make the commitment to easily knock those pounds off with a three week round of HcG after the holidays!   For me, those maintenance bouts of HcG are such a relief — no urge to eat, simple menus without much to plan, choose or decide, and the knowledge that the weight will be gone in just a few days!

For a look back at the beginning of my journey, click here. And enjoy your holidays, eat whatever you want, and plan to lose weight again by Valentine’s Day with the HcG diet.

Late last night, I tried on a dress that I bought at my very skinniest, the summer before last.  It fit me for about 20 minutes back then, and it doesn’t really fit now, but it DOES close!  I will take a picture later and post it here, to show you that, almost two years after my first HcG shot, I’m still almost the same size.

Maybe in my next life!

So here’s what I’ve learned about weight loss in general:  After  6 to 12 months at the new, lower weight, the body fat redistributes and guess what?  You’re back in the exact same shape as you were, just smaller!  Which is a good thing, actually.  Your face (and for women, your boobies) fill out and you look better in all the right places.   What’s funny is that most people (me included of course) regain weight so quickly that it never gets to that point.  I think it’s because when you lose weight, people always tell you that you’re too thin, (that, and jealousy, of course), and that is often all we need to hear or see to start eating again.  I know that my face looks better when it’s a little fuller but I made the choice that I’d rather be skinny and flabby than fat and flabby.

Now, the good news:  WIth HcG, the weight that comes off, first and always, is the adipose, or bad, fat that’s not doing you any good. Your face looks thinner but not drawn, and the self-regulating property of HcG only targets that fat, and stops working when it’s all gone.  And, if you’re really in great shape, with just some fat, for instance, saddlebags, HcG will target just those spots!

So here’s the dirt:  In all the HcG info I’ve read and heard, no one talks about keeping the weight off, except the owner of the office which first introduced me to HcG.  He told me that he eats everything he wants and never  gains weight back.  What he didn’t say was that he was never fat to begin with.  He used the HcG to lose the extra 10 or 15 pounds that life had added to his waistline over the last 10 or 15 years, and that he was not an eater like I was.

The truth is, it’s not magic, and if you start eating like you used to, you’re gonna get fat again.  Now, I never got my old appetite back, and I eat completely differently now than I used to.  I rarely eat bread, unless it’s super delicious, or white potatoes or pasta, and if I eat a cookie, I usually can stop at one or maybe two, not a whole box.  But that weight continues to chase me, and a few times since the initial weight loss, it’s crept back up.  Uh oh, suddenly I’m back up almost ten pounds!  What to do, what to do?

Back on the H (my heroin!) for a few weeks.  And while I do admit that it’s a little harder after the first time, and so I wasn’t quite as strict as I had been, the weight came right off.

So go wild when you have to; it is the holidays, after all.  And this year, make a New Year’s Resolution that you can really stick to!

I can’t believe that it’s been a year since I started my HcG diet.  And today I weighed in, STILL, at 50 pounds less than my after-binge highest.  I have not updated here in a while, so you’ve only seen the beginning.  Now, I have the pleasure of posting these before and after (and still, 6 months since reaching my goal) photos:

The week before I started HcG, we went on a weekend cruise.  I just didn’t see the weight creeping on. Even my sexy web-woman costume couldn’t hide the blob that I had become.

Flash forward a year –

I still can’t belive this is me!

I’ve been searching, but there are far fewer photos of me from last year than there are now.  Here’s me showing some skin: 

So what can I say but HcG works!  And quite possibly it really does have permanent results.  Just stick to the program and you too will see success!

Going into week three, I finally thought it would be a good idea to share my (ample) measurements, taken on day 4.  I can’t believe I am posting these numbers for the word to see, but hey, no surprises when you look at me.  First, a few words on video: click here.

Now, the measurements

Bust: 40 around, 46 at the biggest.  Bust size, a whopping 40DD!  (After being a 36B/C for like, forever.)

Waist: 41 (ARGGGHHH!)

Hips: 47

Upper arms: 15 and 14.5

Thighs: 25 and 26

The good news: more to love, more to lose.  Doing well, not hungry, and starting to see and feel a little difference.

Thanks for checking in.  Have a great day.

not too pretty...yet

Hi there — Here’s a little video of week two.  So far, so good — except I just found out that my blogging name, Flacita, which is Spanish for the Thin One, is actually spelled Flaquita, and I cannot change it.  Oh well, I will not let it kill my plans!  I’m down about 12 pounds already, and I am starting to measure myself.  I’ll let you know the horrid truths of the numbers…and we’ll watch them go down together.  Thanks for joining me!

Well, end of Week One on HCG; I was up 4 pounds after the initial two-day binge (i.e. feast!) and now am back to where I started.  I made this video of week one. In the future I will make them more frequent and shorter, but this tells a lot. Here’s the video link: My HcG Diet video blog – the beginning

Meanwhile, here’s a photo from the end of week one.

So whadda you think, am I thin yet?

No real progress yet, except that I’m eating healthier and staying on program easily — gee, what a concept!  See you in a few days.