End of HCG

The morning of the 27th was the end of my HCG journey. I was happy to chew gum, put on lotion and use Chapstick for the first time in a while. It was a sacrifice to do HCG but it was worth it. They count your weight loss from the high point of your gorge day to your final weigh-in for me that was losing almost 35 pounds in 43 days!! 

I weighed in this morning at 229.8

I was 230 when I got out of the Marines so it's been a crazy change over the last couple months. Now I'm joining Mindy on Paleo to maintain my weight. And lose even more! I thought I wanted to be 220 but even a little less would be nice. 

Mindy wants to compete in Fitness competitions for women. I don't want to compete. But I'd love to be cut! 

We are finishing up a crazy year with weddings and starting right up in Jan with more weddings too. We are blessed to have amazing support in growing our business.

I can't remember if I mentioned it but I purchased Mindy a Vitamixer for Christmas and that thing is amazing. I'm even helping getting into the cooking and we are having a lot of fun in the kitchen. Hopefully as we get busier we will be able to keep cooking together. 

I'm so lucky to have an amazing wife! 

The weight loss journey isn't over, it's just starting a new chapter.

Doug

Day 41

Last day of the HCG shot. I also weighed in with my diet coach. I lost 8 pounds of body fat since last week. That's crazy!!!

Thank you, Thank you to TrimBody MD   http://trimbodymd.com/

Day 40

Well I can't believe it's been 40 days already. I still have a little HCG left so my diet coach said to keep doing the shots until it's gone. Probably another day or two of shots. Good thing my daughter is diabetic or I wouldn't have the extra needles. I knew her being diabetic would come in handy some day :)

I just photographed my last wedding of the year yesterday and it was a lot of fun. It was a wedding at the LDS Temple and TPC summerlin. While on HCG I enjoyed having an apple day for my long weddings. It really helped with my energy and I didn't struggle at all. There have only been a couple days where I've been really tired. After I went golfing two days in a row was the worst. For the most part I've had energy and been fine. One of the biggest annoyances has been not putting on lotion. My wife doesn't like dry hands. I've been rubbing carmex on my hands to help with the drying and cracking. That has worked well. 

When I weighed in this morning I came in at the lowest weight I've seen on the scale since my youngest daughter was 6 months old. Bree is now 7. The weight was 231.4. I'm so close to the 220's I can taste it.

As my oldest just told me today is Christmas Eve Eve Eve and I'm excited that for Christmas I'm getting a new me. I'm so happy my wife set up the appointment with the diet coach. Invested the money for HCG in me and helping me stick to the program.

I think I could have lost more weight but in the beginning I was using a lotion deep blue rub for my back and knee pain at night before bed. I didn't realize till half way through that it was probably a bad idea because of the lotion. I'm going to be posting some more photos after my maintenance days when the HCG is gone. 

Thank you to TrimBody MD   http://trimbodymd.com/

My diet coach Arian asked me when I wanted to lose my weight by and I told him Christmas. He sure did help me and delivered on that Christmas wish.

I've been wasting money for years on crap that never worked for me. The biggest change was the diet and the coaching. I was held accountable each week and texted Arian daily he was always pushing and helping me!

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Day 38

I have to say HCG is almost over and I'm a little burnt out with it.  I weighed in at 234 this morning. I had a really tough week or so and then last week I lost 6 pounds. I'm really happy that I've lost so much body fat and I'm really looking forward to working out. It's Dec 20th and I'm giving myself a new body for Christmas. Now I just have to keep going once in done. Back in May I did some measurements of my body and then just did it again tonight. It's crazy the difference and I was even bigger this summer. I weighed as much as 267 but on May 14th I was 256. Crazy what just over 20 pounds will do to you. 4 inches off my belly is hard to believe.

Mindy is down 20 pounds herself. I'm so proud of her changing her eating.

I really didn't want to lose my broad shoulders losing weight and I haven't lost to much from the chest so I think I'm alright there.  Just a few more days!!! I can do it!