This morning, I weighed 141.4#, up 0.2# from yesterday and 1.0# below my last dose weight.
Today, I begin the stabilization phase of the HCG Diet. During this phase, I can eat anything except sugar or starch. The goal of this phase is to stay within 2# of my last dose weight. Last night, I went to the grocery store to get a few snack items for the new dietary requirements and came home with a selection of nuts (cashews, macadamia, and brazil) and a carton of full fat cottage cheese. From the looks of my list of what I want to eat, it would seem I’m really missing the fat. I looked at the nutrition facts for the nuts that I chose, and they’re all mostly fat. I really like cream cheese, too, and have some plans to make stevia-sweetened cream cheese-based treats.
One of the medications I take is an anticonvulsive for bipolar disorder. It works very well for me. As it happens, epileptics, for whom anticonvulsants were designed, tend to do well on a ketogenic diet, which is predominantly fat with very little carbohydrate. There is some thought that those with bipolar disorder might do well on a ketogenic diet as well since anticonvulsants help them, though that theory has not yet been tested.
Omega-3 fatty acids are helpful for bipolar patients, too, particularly of the EPA type. (You can read more about that in The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Antidepression Diet and Brain Program by Andrew Stoll.) I was hesitant to remove my Omega-3 supplements from my regimen at the start of the VLCD phase, particularly since I had already seen dramatic results with my vision from it, but I did not want to impair my ability to succeed with the HCG Diet. So out it went. I added Omega-3 capsules back into my medication tray today.
If the HCG Diet had the potential to be dangerous for me, it would probably be from the lack of dietary fat. Hopefully, the hCG liberated enough fat to compensate. I did feel good during the diet, though I did have some tingling recently. First thing I ate this morning as I entered the stabilization phase were those nuts. I may need to be careful with those, though, because nuts have caused me to gain weight in the past. We’ll see soon enough.