Lately, I have gotten back into making the rounds in blogs. All during my first four rounds I was very diligent in my blogging experience and it kept me very focused – and then I wasn’t. Hindsight like they always say is 20/20. NOW we know why I wasn’t focused, but while it was happening, I didn’t.

However, things always have a way of changing. We have since discovered many things about the last year of my life and how it pertains to my own personal hCG experience, my story if you will. One thing that never changed though was my love for all things protocol and getting the word out and seeing people experience for themselves all that is possible within themselves using the Protocol by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons.

Case in point was a blog I found and only visited for the first time yesterday. Gina (Between a Girl and Her Food) is documenting her experience with hCG and she posted something today that reminded me of how really cool the first round was. All things are brand new, every day there is something you learn about yourself. The losses are spectacular, you honestly cannot believe you have been given this gift and it’s turning out to be so easy. You are actually surviving on 500 calories and your not keeling over in starvation or weakness or whatever.

That felt good to read that. It felt good to remember that ‘first time’ – how this protocol, this gift, is so very wonderful and life changing. Something that I hadn’t forgotten per se, but maybe I had started taking it for granted for myself. Well, that is about to change.

My ND and I talked yesterday, I basically BEGGED her to let me go back on hCG and she gave me the green light to start on Saturday. She really thought I would have crashed since being home, but I continue to be up and I go through more moments of overdrive then I do of emotional anything, so she feels that I have been SET. I am excited, and that is why that post on Gina’s blog really did something for me. It helped me to realize that I need to go back to the beginning, go back to the basics. Remind myself of why I love the protocol as much as I do, apply those feelings back to ME.

Oh yes people, remember, this is all about me. HA! Guess who is back? And ready to go on hCG??? Yup Yup Yup!!!

There is lots to be said about clear thinking.  This is something that has been missing from my life for quite a while.

If you look back to my first four rounds of hCG, you will see that I was very focused, and then something happened where I kinda went bonkers. Hmmmm, what is the relation?

Whatever it is, it doesn’t merit spending too much time on.  Whatever it is, it’s been fixed, and for the first time, in what seems like YEARS (yeah, like since before my daughter was born in 10/99) I am thinking with a clear head.

So much so that I am actually “THIS CLOSE” to releasing an “eBook” that has to do with something that I hold near and dear to my heart:  Maintaining the losses that have been accomplished through the use of the hCG Protocol.  To me, maintaining the losses are the most perplexing part of the Protocol.   Over the 1.5 years PLUS that I have been on the hCG Protocol, I have, with the help of others devised quick fixes to catch any ‘gains’ that might happen and focus in on keeping them at bay so that we don’t have the YO YO Diet Effect that some of us have become accustomed to over the years.

I am longing to be back on Protocol.  But I value my health so much more, and if my ND says no, then really, I have to trust her and move on.

Today, I gained 1.2 – but I am pretty sure it was due to the fact that I was up late finishing up a goal I was working on and decided that a little snack of leftover steak wouldn’t bother me.  Yeah, I know better.  Too much protein produces a GAIN, but I did it anyway.  All in all tho, I have lost 9.2 lbs since the day I left to go to Baton Rouge to visit my ND.  So this is a good thing.

Keep watching, it’s getting exciting!

Got a few eMails and comments about the little point I made yesterday about the allergy found with the hCG – interesting that this subject even came up with the ND in the first place.

My ND has been on hCG – and her daughter as well. During her daughters first round she wasn’t losing very well, and came up with the thought that she might have been allergic to the hCG – come to find out, that was the case, how weird is that? We can be allergic to just about everything, so why couldn’t we be allergic to the hCG?

Question is why did I not experience hardships during my first 4 rounds, but then all of a sudden I did? Simply put my body underwent some changes – well, not just SOME but a lot of changes, and what I might not have been allergic to previously might have reared it’s ugly head. The allergy could have manifested itself as an imbalance of hormones, or for it to not ‘set’ the hypothalamus or a whole host of things.

My advice to any of you out there. Find a NAET Practitioner in your area, or someone that does this kind of testing to see if your allergic to the hCg. They can reverse it. Honest injun.

Update on my weight story. Now that you all know I have been dealing with the hormone problem for quite some time, it will not surprise you to find out that I had gained a total of 44 lbs since my last official round, which was in September of 2008 – most of that was part of my trip to Hawaii (stress) and then the cruise (fun stress) and then the winter break and then the subsequent try of another round in January that ended in failure because of the hormones. I was 44 lbs over LIW when I took off to Baton Rouge on February 19th – the last 15 or so pounds were put on between January 25th and February 19th. I could do absolutely NOTHING right. I would do a correction day, try to eat a normal P3 day and then bam, and I would gain more than I lost. I kinda got really tired of that. And of course, coupled with the fact that I had hormonal issues, I wasn’t doing well.

Since that Friday night, February 20, the first visit with the ND I have lost 9.4 lbs not really trying to do anything spectacular. So starting today I decided to put my nose to the grindstone and get back on High Fat to see how far it would take me. So over the next few days I will be letting you know where I stand on my way back to LIW – since I can’t go back on hCG until I see the ND again (which will be the first weekend of April) my goal will be to make a concentrated effort on working my way back down.

Here we go, on the losing train!