Updates from May, 2011 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
livingdreamteam
Today was so great. Got a car wash, then off the the market. Stopped at the pet store and the book store. Then back home. A quick run, shower and then a little work.Well, what I call work…First I checked facebook. R U 1 of those that need to check in at least once a day? Me too. I love it. Sent a Happy Birthday out to an old friend that I truly miss from high school. Congratulated an old work buddy. Cheered on a team member and got the daily headlines. I was just about to move on to email when I noticed this exchange:Michael O. said, A colleague just shared that two of her friends were on the HCG diet… one of whom ended up in the ER with horrible inflammation! The ER doctor told one of them that the HCG diet was not a safe way to lose weight (no surprise to me!) Then BOTH started using the same nutritional program I’m using! So if you’re using human pregnancy hormone to release weight, please reconsider… -
livingdreamteam
Isagenix Cleanse or HCG Diet?
Review: Isagenix Cleanse vs HCG Diet
“Have you tried the HCG diet yet?” That was the question going around my local gym at the beginning of this year. I will admit, it intrigued me. I had put on about 10 pounds over the previous holidays – on top of the 10 I had yet to lose from baby #4.
Even though I knew the claims sounded too good to be true, I kept hearing more and more people talking about it. Then on a visit to an Anti-Aging Clinic to get my hormones tested I saw a brochure that said they offered the HCG diet. Just the previous day a gym acquaintance had casually glanced at me and said those dreaded words, “Are you having another baby?” She was so embarrassed when I shook my head No, but I was even more shocked. Did I really look like I was pregnant? Had I really put that much weight back on?
During the free consultation at the clinic, they offered to tell me more about the HCG, and in my vulnerable state – I said, “Yes!” and started right away.
Honestly, giving myself injections did not bother me. I was the one in science class that liked dissecting the pig. What did bother me was that my 18 month old would mimic me pulling up my top and stabbing myself. Remember they are always watching!
What also bothered me was the all out, full blown hunger that I experienced during the HCG diet! I have never been so hungry in my life. And because I was so hungry I was not pleasant to be around. My husband and children never said anything, but I realized I was a raving witch (or substitute a b for the w). I have never had so much compassion for the children and adults around the world that have to live with that kind of hunger every single day.
I also noticed that if I strayed just a tiny bit from the 6 kinds of vegetables or 3 kinds of fruits allowed, especially if I had any fats at all, my weight would immediately go up. So basically slip up once and all of your starving for the last 2 or 3 days was for nothing!
Did I lose any weight? Yes, I did lose about 14 pounds in about 30 days on the HCG diet. (I could not finish the complete 40 days). I also gained more than half of that back in about a week!
That is when my husband put Isagenix back in front of me. Isagenix got me back to my pre-pregnancy weight before, so he wanted me to try it again.
Wow – what a difference. I guess sometimes you need to experience something else to make you appreciate what you already had. With Isagenix I wasn’t anywhere near as hungry. Yes, sometimes a cleanse day can be a little difficult, but it is just one or two cleanse days – not a whole month! With Isagenix I lost the weight I had put back on from the HCG diet, plus another 7 pounds. All in about 3 weeks – and at a fraction of the cost of the HCG.
So on Isagenix, I could mess up a little and be human without blowing the whole thing, I could eat chocolate every day, and be someone my family enjoyed spending time with – and have great weight loss results!
I promise, no more seeing if the grass is greener on the other side, Isagenix is the solution for me!
Shandra Valenzuela
http://www.Cleanse2Success.com