Hello Everyone!!

So today is day 5 on HCG and day 3 on 500 calories.  I totally forgot to bring my spray home last night, so I didn't have it first thing again this morning.  So I did my spray at 8:45am this morning.  I did drop another 1.2lbs since yesterday and my bodyfat dropped to 20.8%  Never thought I'd say dropped to 20.8%.  That for me is a very depressing number, but at least it's going down.

I had an observation last night after eating my handful of grape tomatoes for my app, 6oz sirloin and 10 Brussel's sprouts and having my orage for dessert, it was that I felt I should be hungry, but I wasn't.  I could easily have eaten more, but I wasn't convinced that I was hungry, I was just used to eating more.  Mindlessly stuffing my face, that's what I was used to!  The last time I did the program, I had the same observation, I just must have forgotten it.  Although I am hungry now, I guess it's time for my apple and some iced green tea to take the edge off.

Another observation I had last night is that I hate sirloin.  It's like chewing a piece of leather.  There's barely any fat on it, and we all know that fat = flavor.  This is why when foods are made low and no fat, the food companies add a bunch of sugar, because sugar will also add some flavor.  Not as much flavor as fat, but some.  The other nugget I got was from one of my favorite celebrity chefs, Anne Burrell, if any of you watch her, you know she says "brown food tastes good".  What that means is that when you brown your protein, it gives it some flavor as opposed to it turning a greyish color.  I think I'll work on my charring next time to get my protein more brown and give it some better flavor.  Anne, you ROCK!!

Anyway, to prevent any future missing of sprays, I'm going to keep my bottle home and just spray at home, plus my weigh ins have been done here in the office around 8:45am.  This is a bit later than I'd like, especially when I tell my patients on the program to wake up, pee, weigh in and do your spray.  So I'm taking my scale home and will be weighing in first thing in the morning.  The other problem with the office weigh in is that we,my wife Janine and myself, have tea in the morning while we watch the news shows and catch up on email.  Kind of like a morning ritual we've developed over the past 2 years.  So my weigh in is after a french press full of tea, and some water if I've been to the gym that morning.  Now I'll be able to be more accurate with my weigh in.

Ok, just had a few kinks to work out, but I now think I'll be able to be more systematized and organized to get even better results.

Talk to you tomorrow!!

Dr. Friedman