[Elaltergephah]

Peryn, I'm wrapping up my 4th round...down around 13 pound in 25 days (I'm going to 30 days). I'm having an unexpected TOM right now so I'm up 2 pounds and will probably end the round at 15 down. Ironically, I'm wearing the same size now that I wore 40 pounds lighter many years ago--same dimensions. So I'm trying not to think of pounds and think instead of health and body definition. When I eat dairy, wheat, and starch (I've figured it out), the resulting fat goes to ONE specific place. I think I've broken the code so I don't do this again! Pound-wise, I'd thought i was another 10-15 pounds to goal but looking in the mirror, I see that physically, I am looking good! There's not another 10-15 pounds of fat on me--I've gained a lot of muscle working out like crazy to lose the belly fat. BUT the weight/fat I've lost is primarily around my mid-section. Some in thighs and arms, but belly has been the problem area. I lose differently each time but in all rounds, I've lost belly fat. In some rounds, it was like the focus shifted to a different body part and my shoulders got sleeker or my legs thinner. But belly fat had lessened every time.

I use HHCG from a local nutritionist. All 4 rounds over the past 18+ months.

Round 2 was just miserable. I lost well but couldn't stabilize. I had unsupportive and sabotaging family/friends around me. People will LIE about what they put in your food, so I now cook it myself and no one else gets to feed me while I'm on hcg! Rd 1, I was sorta on vacation for 3 weeks so no one knew until the last week I was on protocol. With Rd 2, I decided to share my good fortune with overweight friends desperate to lose weight but not disciplined enough to stick to protocol, and they drove me crazy with their input/unresearched advice. I learned my lesson and then started keeping it more to myself.

The greatest thing hcg has done for me is to help me understand how my body reacts to certain foods--and some just go straight to belly fat. Even "healthy" foods. I know exactly how to eat now to keep my belly fat at a minimum. As I go into P3, I'll apply those lessons to stabilize, and I know that I really do have to eat a certain way the rest of my life if I don't want my middle to look like an apple. To help manage my insulin, I'll also start the leptin reset (jackkruse.com) in a few weeks so I can manage not just the foods I eat but the timing of them for max efficiency of my body.

My body didn't come with a how-to manual, so it's funny that at 50, I am writing it myself. Don't know if what works for me will work for you, but I do believe that self-knowledge and self-experimentation to get the regimen just right will work for most people. I'm not the one-size-fits-all that my doc thinks I am when she says, "That's hormonal fat--nothing you can do."