I’m going to start off the day’s review by saying that I should have paid more attention to the diet reviews I read. They told me that I should just stay home whenever possible. And it’s absolutely true. The program is pretty short so I could have been a hermit throughout it; no big deal. I lean a little towards hermit anyway. Today’s Day 12 on the diet. Since I’m doing the 25 day program I’m about half way. My buddy, Lisa, who is doing the diet with me as an added sense of inspiration (a.k.a. competition) is also still sticking to the plan for the most part. We’re a bit neck and neck when it comes to total weight loss and I really want to win the side bet we made.

But I might not! I just had to say it once and now I’m going to go back to acting as if I’m totally going to win hands down. I’ve lost a ton of weight. I’m doing fine and I’m identifying pitfalls as they come so that I can avoid them.

The day started off the same as usual. I got up and weighed myself. I’ve done pretty well so far remembering to note down my weight daily. I went down one pound. And I’m always good with one pound down. I’m officially at 160. That means I’ve lost a total of 11 pounds in 12 days. I’m liking the sound of that.

I thought when I started that the weight coming off would be inspirational and make it easy for me to stick to the diet; even though I read several diet reviews that said they loved the weight loss, but still had a hard time sticking to the strict guidelines. And it’s true. It’s still not easy. But I’m just going to keep a running list of the places and activities that I just have GOT to avoid while I’m on the low calorie diet. One for sure “no admittance while on 500 calorie diet” area is the Mall’s food court. I was absurd to imagine that would work out. It didn’t. And it won’t; ever.

Today I identified another problem location: family parties. I went to my niece’s birthday party. I took my HCG in the morning. I took my B-Total. I took my HCG again before I left for the party. It was supposed to be a barbeque lunch. So we didn’t eat before we left. But as sometimes happens at family parties there were delays; barbeque lunch because barbeque dinner and I was STARVING!

Waiting too long to eat is a definite problem. I’ve already noticed that. But this day was way worse than the sitting at home and didn’t make lunch until I was actually hungry day. I think my stomach was actually starting to eat itself. And then they served up barbequed sausage and turkey legs; which is absolutely fabulously yummy, but WHAT? Where was all the grilled chicken? Along with that I had the choice of Caesar salad or potato salad. I’ll cut the long story short and say…well, I did avoid the cake. That’s saying something, right? I should have paid more attention to those diet reviews before I put myself in the midst of a family party. I should have put some grilled chicken in a baggie in my purse or something. (Although that sounds really gross…)

Amelia Handley studied 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.