Today was my first day on the very low calorie diet portion of the homeopathic HCG diet. I’m not going to lie to you; it was really tough. I don’t think I took in enough water. But that’s something that I’m just going to have to keep working on.

I was up one pound when I weighed this morning. So I’m at 171. That’s not that big of a deal since my weight goes back and forth a lot. And it’s doubly not surprising because I’ve been loading for two days (as required by the HCG diet). I immediately got rid of all the Thanksgiving day leftovers (I fed them to the kids).

Then I had some water. I tried to like some herbal tea. I even tried sweetening it with Vanilla Creme Stevia which sounded pretty good. But I didn’t like it very much. I’m going to try some different flavors and see if I can come up with anything that I can get attached to. I’ve never been a tea or herbal tea drinker so it’s kind of a big stretch for me. We’ll see how that goes. For today I just kept drinking water. I figure that was always a good idea since a lot of the homeopathic HCG reviews indicate that not getting enough water can be a big problem and a lot of people make that simple mistake.

But the water didn’t keep me from being really, really hungry by the time I decided I should think about putting something together for lunch. Next time I really need to start making lunch before I’m totally starving. I ate it standing up in the kitchen while my kids waited for me to make them lunch. They got grilled cheese. It smelled awesome; butter and cheese on bread never seemed so mouthwatering until I couldn’t have any.

But I didn’t eat their lunch; I ate my own. It was romaine lettuce with tomatoes, chicken grilled on top of the stove with the use of non-stick spray and Creole seasoning. And I had strawberries on the side. The Creole seasoning was terrific.

For dinner Lisa came over and we made Shake and Bake Tilapia from the HCG Diet Direct Cookbook. It was REALLY great! Even the non-dieters agreed the fish was amazing so it wasn’t just because we were hungry. I was able to successfully fit in my 3 doses of homeopathic HCG weight loss formula as well as my once per day B-Total Sublingual vitamin supplement. So I feel like I did pretty well. We’ll see if I can keep it up tomorrow.

Amelia Handley majored in exercise science in college with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she’s found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.