Void of course moon will happen this evening at 9:06 PM MDT in Cancer
If you are a Pisces or Sagittarius by Sun sign or rising sign, today should be really pleasant. These two planets make good bedfellows and are on the same degree today bringing out each others golden energy. This happens only once a year unless one of these goes indirect close after they first meet which then means they will meet three times as they will this year. This combination of planets usually means expansions in arts, beauty, big movie openings. Also as this meeting is occurring in Aquarius it could also mean there could be some grand and beautiful fundraising events. A good time to raise money for a cause!!!!
As far as any art or design. Take advantage of this as anything you produce during this transit could make you a lot of money. If you are really feeling generous you may opt for donating some of your work to a charity. Some of you may join groups that have something to do with film or fundraising.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
HCG Diet - Some of my favorite meals
My staple has been to put my 3.5 ounces of chicken or halibut on foil and bake it for 22 minutes at 350 degrees with different seasoning.
Italian: squeeze fresh lemon on it, salt, pepper, 2 tbs balsamic, garlic salt, my one cup of onions sliced in rounds and spread around. I mix it all around and let sit out at room temp for 25 minutes. When you bake it the onion just adds that extra delicious flavoring
If you substitute tomatoes - I make a sauce by baking grape tomatoes whole with 3 cloves of garlic unpeeled but smashed. add lemon juice to them so the garlic is easier to peel out when baked (since u can't add oil). they should both get nice and soft in the oven at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes so put them in a little before the meat. once done peel garlic from its outer shell put them in a bowl with tomatoes and add salt pepper and and other seasoning desired mix these up to a nice paste and add a little water if too strong. This is so good on top of the meat.
Another great thing with this tomato sauce is to place in an oven safe bowl once prepared, add a little water, add a fresh slice of tomato on top , crunch up your saltines and sprinkle on top, crack and egg on top and cook at 350 degrees for 28 minutes. yummy!!! egg isn't on the list but in the book pounds and inches it does mention it as okay for vegetarians. I'm not sure if you lose less but to be on the safe side I only did this one once when I just had to switch it up a bit.
Italian: squeeze fresh lemon on it, salt, pepper, 2 tbs balsamic, garlic salt, my one cup of onions sliced in rounds and spread around. I mix it all around and let sit out at room temp for 25 minutes. When you bake it the onion just adds that extra delicious flavoring
If you substitute tomatoes - I make a sauce by baking grape tomatoes whole with 3 cloves of garlic unpeeled but smashed. add lemon juice to them so the garlic is easier to peel out when baked (since u can't add oil). they should both get nice and soft in the oven at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes so put them in a little before the meat. once done peel garlic from its outer shell put them in a bowl with tomatoes and add salt pepper and and other seasoning desired mix these up to a nice paste and add a little water if too strong. This is so good on top of the meat.
Another great thing with this tomato sauce is to place in an oven safe bowl once prepared, add a little water, add a fresh slice of tomato on top , crunch up your saltines and sprinkle on top, crack and egg on top and cook at 350 degrees for 28 minutes. yummy!!! egg isn't on the list but in the book pounds and inches it does mention it as okay for vegetarians. I'm not sure if you lose less but to be on the safe side I only did this one once when I just had to switch it up a bit.
HCG Diet - my experience
This has been one tough experience. It all started when I bumped into a friend one weekend evening who told me she had just started a diet that was supposed to help you lose around 1/2 to 1 pounds a day for 26 days. It sounded crazy but I was all ears as swimsuit season is approaching. Just for some background for any readers needing a reference point from themselves to me. I am female, 30 years old, 5' 7" and starting weight of 150
I made an appointment 3 days later at the med spa that she was going to for this diet. I did a lot of research before I started this as I wanted to know exactly what was making you lose weight and and health risks. What I found out is this hormone you inject everyday (which you do yourself and doesn't hurt) is taken from pregnant women. Apparently it is a hormone that appears when you are pregnant which allows your abnormal fat cells (this is the fat storage that is super hard to get rid of like your hips tummy.....) to move and be absorbed into your blood stream so the fetus can feed weather or not mommy is eating. The amount you inject, provided you follow a very strict diet which prevents interference, will burn 4,000 calories a day. You are supposed to consume 500 calories of a set menu which means you burn 3,500 calories a day (equaling 1 pound).
Below is a recap of my experience and highlights how easy it is to screw up and what I could have done to get better effects.
Day 1: The first three days you eat tons of fatty foods to get your fat cells opening up and make sure your normal fat cells are full. I was a little nervous to gain the couple pounds they want you to gain but indulged as instructed. I found myself feeling full much faster than normal.
Day 4: First day of 500 calorie diet. I was terrified that 500 calories wouln't be enough food and I would feel hungry. I found it to be plenty of food but struggled with the fact that I couldn't use any oils on my body or food or eat my favorite foods, bread and cheese. the shopping and food prep were easy though as It is basically spelled out to you in a short list of what you can eat, when to eat and how much at each point.
Day 5: It was encouraging to do my daily weigh in in the morning and find that I was in fact down 1.3 pounds from my starting weight.
Day 6-10: Here is where my first mistake came in. I had evened out to average .7 pounds/day and had been so good with my diet (I thought). I love to exercise and had read that moderate exercise was okay. I took up to altrenating days doing either 15 minutes on the treadmill at a moderate speed or my pilates reformer class. I started to plateau ( which for girls is not uncommon as we have so many hormones that can interfere. If it lasts more than 2 day something is wrong. I called into the nurse and she went through the list of questions. So far was doing everything right. She finally got to the bottom of it and came out that I was doing moderate exercise that was more that walking. I guess my definition of moderate exercise is different than what was meant. Apparently if you sweat you are losing important nutrients or fluids or whatever that helps the HCG do what it is supposed to do. I also discovered that it is not okay to mix 2 vegetables at one meal. I stopped exercising and mixing veggies and lost 1.5 pounds the next day...... whew. I probably could have lost up to an extra 3 pounds during that time.
Day 11 - 16: All is good about .7 pounds/day.
Day 17: I kind of lost it and decided to allow myself a cheat meal that evening with 2 slices of pizza. I was aware that I would prevent the HCG from doing it's job and had been told that I would probably gain a pound, which I did. It took 3 days after that to get 1 pound below the weight I was before the pizza. I didn't realize it would create that kind of delay. so once again during that time I could have lost an extra 2 or 3 pounds. If I hadn't had the other delay from exercise I would have thought it was worth it. I used the trick of eat only a steak and an apple the day after my pizza binge. It is supposed to help you kick start back to where you were and it did.
Day 23: I am now down 12 pounds from my starting point and had thought I would be at least 15 pounds by now. The weekend was a huge struggle as it was memorial weekend and I ended up at 4 different bbq's during the vacation. Considering all the alcohol and amazing food around me I did really well. I had two minor slip ups by having a bite of salad w/dressing once and literally two baked beans at another bbq. I may have gone over my portion sizes just a tad as well. It was tough. I still lost but more in the .5 pounds/day area.
I have 3 days left of injections and 3 days post injections to stay on the 500 calorie diet (to make sure it is out of my system before eating more calories) and am feeling determined to get down at least 16 pounds from my original weight. That means 4 pounds in 6 days. 3 of those days without the hormone injected so not sure what kind of loss to expect during those. I will let you all know my result in a week.
Conclusion so far: It has been fairly tough (mostly on weekends). If I were to chose all over though, yes, I would do it again. I don't know how else I could have lost even my 12 pounds in this amount of time without being more extreme and less safe. I almost feel purified too. I have tons of energy and have been needing less sleep than normal. I really think the stabelization diet after for 3 weeks will be another test and the real key in keeping the weight off. No starches or sugars for 3 weeks. The first week will be easy as there will be so many new foods to eat. Eventually I'm sure my bread craving will pop up.
I have heard of people who have kept it off and people who haven't. The common factor for the ones that have is being strict on the 3 week after diet and keeping portion sizes under control in one sitting after that point. Also around 15 minutes of exercise a day.
One funny thing I found out - I was telling my mom's friend about the diet and she did the exact same thing in the 70's. She said it was a huge fad back then. She never saw any negative side effects so that is reassuring. She did say she gained it all back really fast but they didn't have the 3 week stabelization diet. She thought that would have made all the difference.
I made an appointment 3 days later at the med spa that she was going to for this diet. I did a lot of research before I started this as I wanted to know exactly what was making you lose weight and and health risks. What I found out is this hormone you inject everyday (which you do yourself and doesn't hurt) is taken from pregnant women. Apparently it is a hormone that appears when you are pregnant which allows your abnormal fat cells (this is the fat storage that is super hard to get rid of like your hips tummy.....) to move and be absorbed into your blood stream so the fetus can feed weather or not mommy is eating. The amount you inject, provided you follow a very strict diet which prevents interference, will burn 4,000 calories a day. You are supposed to consume 500 calories of a set menu which means you burn 3,500 calories a day (equaling 1 pound).
Below is a recap of my experience and highlights how easy it is to screw up and what I could have done to get better effects.
Day 1: The first three days you eat tons of fatty foods to get your fat cells opening up and make sure your normal fat cells are full. I was a little nervous to gain the couple pounds they want you to gain but indulged as instructed. I found myself feeling full much faster than normal.
Day 4: First day of 500 calorie diet. I was terrified that 500 calories wouln't be enough food and I would feel hungry. I found it to be plenty of food but struggled with the fact that I couldn't use any oils on my body or food or eat my favorite foods, bread and cheese. the shopping and food prep were easy though as It is basically spelled out to you in a short list of what you can eat, when to eat and how much at each point.
Day 5: It was encouraging to do my daily weigh in in the morning and find that I was in fact down 1.3 pounds from my starting weight.
Day 6-10: Here is where my first mistake came in. I had evened out to average .7 pounds/day and had been so good with my diet (I thought). I love to exercise and had read that moderate exercise was okay. I took up to altrenating days doing either 15 minutes on the treadmill at a moderate speed or my pilates reformer class. I started to plateau ( which for girls is not uncommon as we have so many hormones that can interfere. If it lasts more than 2 day something is wrong. I called into the nurse and she went through the list of questions. So far was doing everything right. She finally got to the bottom of it and came out that I was doing moderate exercise that was more that walking. I guess my definition of moderate exercise is different than what was meant. Apparently if you sweat you are losing important nutrients or fluids or whatever that helps the HCG do what it is supposed to do. I also discovered that it is not okay to mix 2 vegetables at one meal. I stopped exercising and mixing veggies and lost 1.5 pounds the next day...... whew. I probably could have lost up to an extra 3 pounds during that time.
Day 11 - 16: All is good about .7 pounds/day.
Day 17: I kind of lost it and decided to allow myself a cheat meal that evening with 2 slices of pizza. I was aware that I would prevent the HCG from doing it's job and had been told that I would probably gain a pound, which I did. It took 3 days after that to get 1 pound below the weight I was before the pizza. I didn't realize it would create that kind of delay. so once again during that time I could have lost an extra 2 or 3 pounds. If I hadn't had the other delay from exercise I would have thought it was worth it. I used the trick of eat only a steak and an apple the day after my pizza binge. It is supposed to help you kick start back to where you were and it did.
Day 23: I am now down 12 pounds from my starting point and had thought I would be at least 15 pounds by now. The weekend was a huge struggle as it was memorial weekend and I ended up at 4 different bbq's during the vacation. Considering all the alcohol and amazing food around me I did really well. I had two minor slip ups by having a bite of salad w/dressing once and literally two baked beans at another bbq. I may have gone over my portion sizes just a tad as well. It was tough. I still lost but more in the .5 pounds/day area.
I have 3 days left of injections and 3 days post injections to stay on the 500 calorie diet (to make sure it is out of my system before eating more calories) and am feeling determined to get down at least 16 pounds from my original weight. That means 4 pounds in 6 days. 3 of those days without the hormone injected so not sure what kind of loss to expect during those. I will let you all know my result in a week.
Conclusion so far: It has been fairly tough (mostly on weekends). If I were to chose all over though, yes, I would do it again. I don't know how else I could have lost even my 12 pounds in this amount of time without being more extreme and less safe. I almost feel purified too. I have tons of energy and have been needing less sleep than normal. I really think the stabelization diet after for 3 weeks will be another test and the real key in keeping the weight off. No starches or sugars for 3 weeks. The first week will be easy as there will be so many new foods to eat. Eventually I'm sure my bread craving will pop up.
I have heard of people who have kept it off and people who haven't. The common factor for the ones that have is being strict on the 3 week after diet and keeping portion sizes under control in one sitting after that point. Also around 15 minutes of exercise a day.
One funny thing I found out - I was telling my mom's friend about the diet and she did the exact same thing in the 70's. She said it was a huge fad back then. She never saw any negative side effects so that is reassuring. She did say she gained it all back really fast but they didn't have the 3 week stabelization diet. She thought that would have made all the difference.
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