My experience with the hCG diet

I am excited to keep track of my progress with this blog. I had heard of this diet through a good friend who has struggled with weight loss for years. Most notably, she has been exercising (walked a marathon last fall) and counting calories meticulously for the past year. I believe she lost a total of 4 pounds during that time... She and I have a history of dieting together. We've done it all: Weight Watchers, Atkins, and more recently-Medifast/Take Shape For Life. I began Medifast in September of 2009. I was able to lose well for about a month and a half, at which point my weight loss stalled... I kept on "mostly" abiding by the rules. But eventually sabotaging myself daily. I was at a standstill.

My friend told me she was going to do the hCG diet and I wanted to learn more about it. I looked up everything I could find about it and decided I couldn't take part because of the inability to wear makeup during the course...

In the first two weeks, my friend lost 11 pounds. She's at the end of 3 weeks and is down 19 pounds total. She is doing great and it got me to think about it some more. About two weeks ago, a coworker came in talking about the hCG diet and that she wanted to do it. (She only has about 10 lbs to go, so I thought it seemed a bit extreme for her....) The VERY DAY that my friend told me she was down 15 lbs, I drove past a sign at a Naturopath clinic/Medical Spa near my work-there was a sign outside that said hCG weight loss program here. I called them on my lunch break and this is what happened since then: