Restarting Again!!!! II
I reviewed the HCG Supply Checklist:
you need a scale that measures as low as 0.2# BUT the scale rx. at Amazon actually measure as low as 0.#. Have yet to get one.
I was going off of Dr. Pearsall's recommended scales in the handout. Both of those go down to .1 increments, but I am sure you'll be great with the one you have! I sure wish I could have spent less on one, but after not owning one in over 3 decades, now I have a nice one.
I started the hCG today!! Weighed, measured, and logged all the info. It didn't go as smoothly as I expected, mixing the hcg, but I think it will be fine the next time.
Dawn
^^^^Colorado (R1P2Day1-Loading)
Hey jotales..I started the hcg today. I am now going to eat my lunch and will let you know what happens as I go along.
Dawn,
I am not measuring myself. I can tell if it is working by how my clothes fit and by the scale.
ok, have to eat and then pick up kids from school. Not much time today to talk. Bye
I reviewed the HCG Supply Checklist:
you need a scale that measures as low as 0.2# BUT the scale rx. at Amazon actually measure as low as 0.#. Have yet to get one.
Been so crazy busy that I'm not getting to the organizing.
Went to Asst'd Living yesterday to watch the safe trick or treating! 3 kindergarden classes came...really cute costumes and they were darling!
Some of the young boys were waving good-bye to the residents...it was so darn cute. THe social staff did a wonderful job of decorating. The staff held a pumpkin carving contest.....boy I feel like my creativity is dead! Really enjoyed the staff's effort and so did the residents.
And now I need to get a BD gift for my father.
It's great weather here today.....wonderful for the kids @ Halloween.
Snow flurries are in the forecast; will take the yearly adjustment!!! :wink:
HI PAtrice...I thought all members got access to the HCG teleseminars....maybe you have to regieter...but they are free, I believe to members. If yo miss the call...after the fact.....look under the "My Account" page and click on the top tab of Telesseminar of Teleclass or DOwnloads. Try both places...but lately they are under Teleseminars.
If that doesn't work..then email SUPPPORT@ENLITA.com and LeAnn will help you!
DAwn...yes..I've got to talk to you about my sensitivity journey...I might sen you a private message about that sometime. Did I make a mistake? I thought the scale only needs to be down to 0.2 increments. Looks like I will have to recheck that info. So BB&B didn't have a scale. Well it might be onto Amazon then. I figure I don't need it the first week as my scale will show the beginning lossess OK. How great for you to have a family that makes sacrifices for you. Mine has never really gotten into my illness..its been a pretty battle of one. I wish I could help you w/ the ampules and mixing and all. It's not hard. Smaller ampules are easy to snap off if you wrap a couple of strong paper towels around the top portion. LArger ampules are a bit more intimidating. Did they come with a file. Years ago they did and you filed one side of it and then they snapped easily. WOnder if you can get a file at a drugstore from the pharmacist. Otherwise....do take like 2 paper towels and fold then several times and wrap the thick strip aroun the top of the ampuole.
Whne you go to snap/crack it off...don't hesitate...just snap it strong with confidence and it should go well. Let me know how you are doing with it.
I'm doing the homeopathic version with the first week of GB/LVR remedy.
Felt I needed it. My last detox. kit was a year ago and I didn't feel well on the herbs. I started out slow d/t my sensitive nature.
2gtts x1 on Mon. 3gtts x2 on Tues. Yesterday 5gtts x2....and didn't I have a bad hypoglycemia attack both times. Egads. This morn. I did the 5gtts again...40 min later...hypoglyccemia....so for the afternoon dose I took it 1 hour POST-meal...and that was the charm.
My first night I had swelling..couldn't bend my fingers. Didn't sleep so well the last 3 nights..also had night sweats........and was voiding alot. so brother..but I'm keeping up w/ it as I have suffered all of this and more before and basically I'm ok in everyother way and for the majority of the day.
I think I start the Adrenal support next week. Maybe I could use it now....I have not heard the results of my Adrenal panel yet.
WIshing everyone well.jotales
Jotales!
I have been very busy and seems you have too! I've read your most recent posts and you girls seem to be excited about starting HCG. I am not really sure what that is all about so I will have to read up on it- as usual I miss the teleseminars. Can we acess them from somewhere on this site after the fact?? I sure would like to learn more about it. Anyway, I am excited that ya'll are excited to start-wishing you all the best! I look forward to hearing more of your exciting progress! :lol:
Patrice
Ahhhhhhhh . . . THANK you for that wonderful visual! I am taken back to the days of relaxing on the white sands, hearing the surf . . .
You made my day!
Hug those babies,
Dawn
^^^^Colorado
Hey there Dawn.. glad you answered. When we are ready to go camping in Colorado, you can let me know if it's good weather or not :lol:
The beach is beautiful here but it's not the ocean. I live very close to the Gulf of Mexico..sometimes too close!! The water is very warm (I'm from New Jersey) compared to the ocean but the beach is like sugar..very white and soft. We were down there this weekend when our church (Eglin AFB) had a "Beach Bash" for everyone. The water was very calm and clear and the dolphins were very close to shore.
But I know Colorado is very beautiful..my son went to Colorado state in Ft. Collins one year. He used to ski a lot..
ok gotta go..taking care of my twin grandchildren and they are hungry!! (10 mos. old) Bye
Flgranny33
Hey there FLgranny33!
I understand the temptation with Panera Bread! I am sending you my prayers and LOTS of esupport on that one! I am not sure I could avoid it if it was in my house :).
That is so cool that you have someone in house to do this with! Between the two of you, you should keep each other on track! I would love to have someone who knows about opening ampules and mixing and all. THAT is going to be a new thing for me. (I have fears of breaking the ampule or screwing up the mixture and ruining a batch!)
Our neighbor had his dad visiting from Florida this summer. He was staying in a good sized RV on the property. Once the temperatures dipped down to 60°, he left for "warmth" he said! Camping in Colorado is great, but keep track of our drought. It has been DRY as a bone here and that puts a lot of restrictions in place.
WE want to go to FLORIDA and hit the BEACH! I love the ocean (grew up in Hawaii) and miss it :).
Enjoy your family, today and every day, Flgranny33. They are precious!
Dawn
^^^^Colorado
Hi Jotales,
I am also putting together the food I will need. I am measuring out meat ahead of time and freezing it. That way I can just grab and prepare and also keep mine separate from my family's food. I saw somewhere where it was asked if freezing the meat was OK? Do you know?
I am avoiding wheat so I am going to do rice crackers in place of the bread sticks. I saw your Q on how many substitutes for those (thanks for asking great questions! You saved me some typing!) I hope we get an answer either here or on the next teleseminar.
Dismayed to realize that my Boby/Fat scale weighs at 0.5#s as its smallest measurement. I see a scale on sale at Bed Bath And Beyond this week w/ the coupon. The image shows a weight ending in .2# so I'm hoping this could be the scale.
I haven't owned a scale for DECADES. I always wanted to care more about how I felt and how my clothes fit rather than a number. But knowing that for this diet it was necessary, I went and bought one. It was a pretty good one, but then I read in Dr. P's post where it has to be in .1 increments and the one I bought was, like yours, in .5's! Arggh! At my B,B,&B they did not have one that read in less than .5 increments, so I searched online and bought one. I am no longer scale-less :).
All in all we may be starting at just the same time.
You are exactly right! I responded to another post where you said that you were starting Monday! Well, that's my kick-off day!
I am taking photos this weekend and doing measurements as well. And, like you, I am thinking I am NOT sharing! :shock:
We also have a lot of organizing to do. We have been living in a little trailer for 5 years (4 of us!) while we are building our home. It has been a hard haul for us, but we've almost finished and met our goal of incurring no debt to build. (We live VERY frugally anyway, but this project squeezed us even tighter.) It is a labor of love. I am so toxic and sensitive, my family moved me from city water/air to the rural area and a good well, out in an area where I don't have to worry about pesticides, etc., and we are building a "green" home. They sacrificed a lot for me in doing this, and I am so grateful! We have a very limited budget, so most of the materials we used were recycled from other projects. It was a challenge (think: scavenger hunt to the extreme!) but so satisfying when we found something that would work for the funds we had at the time.
Anyway, enough on me! I wish you good success in you efforts to simplify and regain some balance in your life! :) I am sure once I finally am able to unpack, that I will be having a HUGE garage sale and also freecycling a lot!
I look forward to doing this protocol and y'all seeing less of me!!! (less of me to SEE!)
CHEERS to the LOSERS!
Dawn
^^^^Colorado
Hi All.couldn't post my ?s for this week's HCG Telecall. so I'm trying a post here to see if I still can.....Hope everyone is doing well.
Hi Dawn and Jotales,
I have been reading your posts and can relate to house overflowing with "stuff"! I also have not received my hcg yet though they said it was shipped on Sept. 25th.
I also have had a lot of trouble getting to places on the enlita site and today, it is especially slow. I am trying to find the downloads for the last seminar with Dr. Gage but maybe they aren't posted yet.
I have shopped for the food and did find those grissini breadsticks! Even down here in northwest Florida where you can hardly find anything!! :lol:
I do hope the hcg arrives soon.
I deliver newspapers and get up at 2 AM,have a cup of coffee , work til maybe 5:30 or 6 AM.
Then I eat breakfast (which is cottage cheese and olives and grapes) and go back to bed to sleep til about 10:30 -11:00. I then have a 2nd coffee and eat my lunch around 1 or 2 PM. Lunch is usually chicken or bison burger ( all organic) and tomatoes. For supper, around 6-7PM , I eat much the same. I go to bed again at 10PM.
However, my daughter and husband and 6 children live with me and lately my grandson , who works at Panera Bread , you guessed it..has been bringing home the stuff they would throw out! It's the breads etc that they make fresh and don't sell so they can't use it the next day.
I have been "snacking" on this delicious bread and cookies, etc. and have gained like about 6-8 lbs! I am allergic to wheat I think since it is in my family. Everytime I eat wheat, I can gain 2 pounds overnight. plus I feel terrible. I can eat spelt bread and some organic breads but the rest cause me to swell up and it takes at least 24 hrs. for it to leave my system.
So, I need prayers to resist this temptation!! :D Outside of the bread, I do not eat sugar..only xylitol or agave liquid. So now I am waiting the hcg arrival so I can have the motivation to stay off the bread. After spending that much money, I'm not about to mess it up. My daughter Kathi is also going to take the hcg so I will have a buddy in the house.
Well, that's all for now. i do have to get this house in order cause tomorrow I will be babysitting my twin grandchildren (10 mos...boy and girl) as their father finally got a job again after being laid off at Albertson's . Publix bought Albertson's and fired all the workers. (He's a meat cutter)
but he starts a new job at Fresh market this week. My other daughter Teresa, the twin's Mom, is a pharmacy tech at Walmart so she is gone each day too.
So that's my life..babysitting, picking up kids at school, delivering newspapers.
Hope I have time to post some more but I will be reading at least.
Bye for now . btw, where do you live, Jotales?
I know Dawn lives in Colorado ..great state! We were trying to go on a camping trip there . maybe this next year. Ok gotta go..bye
WELL Dawn.....not to worry, my homeopathic HCG has yet to arrive and I want to do the week of GB/LVR detox first. In the meantime I'm trying to pull together the items and food I need. Dismayed to realize that my Boby/Fat scale weighs at 0.5#s as its smallest measurement. I see a scale on sale at Bed Bath And Beyond this week w/ the coupon. The image shows a weight ending in .2# so I'm hoping this could be the scale.
Suppose to be thin and a Body?Fat/Water scale.
All in all we may be starting at just the same time. I did take a self-photo....egads!!. I don't think I could share it w/ anyone.
I spent all day Sat. exchanging summer/winter clothes...(you'ld think I had alot of them) I have spent years helping care for very ill family members and now for my 89y/o aunt who I moved into Ass'td living w/ extra plus help. went to visit yesterday and there was lots of excitement w/ firemen and all. Lg power shortage in the area and they were going from building to building looking for the source. THe problem was not in her building.
My life is way out of balance and I'm behind by years. My place needs a total cleaning overhaul. Every drawer, every closet,every space is packed full and overflowing. I say I want this place "QUaker-Shaker clean" It's totally overwhelming. I might have to be doing EFT till I'm bruised..LOL! But every day I'm trying to get something done. The HCG diet will be liberating, I think in not having to spend so much time on food.
Hi Jotales,
According to what I read in P&I and after Dr. Cage's response on menstruation, I decided to wait until after my period to begin. I will already have two strikes against me (1-using progesterone cream, 2-taking armour thyroid) so I thought it best to optimize where ever I can.
I'll be a bit behind you all, but it will hopefully be for the best weightloss for me.
Have I missed any of your other posts? I usually keep up pretty good, and will try to scan through again to see if I've missed any new posts.
Warm regards,
Dawn
^^^^^Colorado
If I can get this to go thru...........imagine...the possibilities??(again not sure my posting will last...)
LEANN...today is your first day on HCG...How's It going?...also Dawn?
Let us know!!
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HEY, flgranny33!
Great to see your post. Also glad to hear that I am not the only one...this is crawling today at snail pace. I think the Webmaster is tired of me; though I only emailed maybe 4 times...never emailed a WEBmaster before... :lol:
SInce I just got my homeopathics and ordered them when first available, too...maybe yours are just behind. Hope so.
My your place sounds busy...can you loan me some family members but ask them to keep the Panera's behind. Yum!Yum!! I was just reading Dr. Kendra's experience w/ testing wheat allergies when in school. I'm definitely that way with milk; but every once in awhile I try to eat it , DUMB! I think I'll have it for life...no matter how long I avoid it! Tried N.A.E.T. and that didn't "cure" me.
Midwest girl here...and it's getting colder...not at all ready......as I was sick alot this summer and really missed it...so I'm bummed about not experiencing the summer. Do love the crisp fresher air, though.
And I actually love to shovel snow as it doesn't bother my knees. I figure I could invent a snow-shoveling exercise machine?!
Well to get off now and do some cleanning. I don't want to be shown on Oprah!! though I'm not a hoarder, I don't have enuf energy to clean. THat's a big reason I'm coming here for support to do the program and see if I can build energy in this body.........Gd' Day!