Hello lovely hCGers. This interview is part of what is now a plethora of weight loss success stories with real everyday women (and men! There’s a few dude interviews in there) who have used either hCG injections or drops with the hCG diet protocol to lose between 20 and 150 lbs.

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These are in-depth conversations one-on-one with hCG ladies where you get to hear their whole weight loss story and the tips that helped them succeed.

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Linda’s Basic Stats:

• Age: 61 years old (she’s turning 62 soon)
• Height: 5ft 3in.
• Starting weight BEFORE HCG: 154.5 lbs
• Post loading weight: 158.5 lbs
• Weight on last day of injection: 136 lbs
• Current Weight: 128.5 lbs
• Weight loss post hCG, in P3 and beyond: 7.5 lbs
• Went from a size 12/14 to a size 6/8
• Did one 6-week round of hCG injections
• Has been stable and successfully maintaining for over 8 months

Shownotes

• Skincare and Makeup Products Safe to Use on the HCG Diet
• Oil-free Moisturizers
• Corn Huskers Oil Free Lotion
• Food Scale
• Seal-A-Meal Vacuum Sealer System
• Jimmy John’s Unwich
• For a list of P2 recipes, visit hcgchicarecipes.com
• Favorite Resources for Phase 2 of the hCG Diet
• hCGChica’s Phase 3 to Life Program – you can enroll anytime, but I recommend at least a week BEFORE P3 starts if at all possible so you have time to familiarize yourself with the program and plan ahead.

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The hCG protocol has helped Linda lose 26 lbs in just one round! She has never felt better and she has been maintaining her weight loss for the past 8 months.

“I honestly believe going on the hCG diet was one of the best things I did for my body.”

According to Linda, she has been small and skinny the majority of her life. She remembers weighing barely 100 lbs when she was in high school.

At the age of 22, Linda was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. She was put on different kinds of medication and she went into remission in her early 30’s up until she was 39 years old, when she had to go through unsuccessful fertility treatments. Linda believes the fertility treatments caused her to come out of remission and may have also caused her to start putting on weight.

After coming out of remission, she had to go through chemotherapy for her Crohn’s and she also started taking high doses of Prednisone (a daily dose of 80 mg) which caused her to gain more weight. Linda was 45 years old when she went through remission again.

At one point, Linda had lost the weight she had put on because of a tragedy in her family that caused her to stop eating. However, she put the weight back on after she had a full hysterectomy and was put on Hormone Replacement Therapy. She went from weighing 103 lbs to her pre-hCG diet weight of 154 lbs.

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LINDA’S P2 EXPERIENCE

Linda decided to do the hCG protocol after she went to see her sister and brother-in-law who, at that time, had both been maintaining their hCG diet weight loss for almost a year. At the time of her visit, she was the heaviest she had ever been. “And I was always the tiny one in their family!”

“You can do anything for 28 days.”

Linda’s Mantra

Linda thought her sister and her husband looked amazing and she resolved to do the hCG diet herself. She initially committed to just doing it for about 28 days, but eventually decided to do it for 40 days instead because the longer she was on the diet, the better she felt. “I thought, why don’t I do this for 40 days and I won’t have to do another round.”

Rayzel: I committed to 6 weeks when I did my first round. I thought I was only going to do the protocol for that set period. I went into the diet not intending to change my eating long term. It was not because I did not want to, I just did not see how I could do it.

So remember, it is okay if you’re not mentally there yet, in terms of committing to a long term change, but commit to the specific time you will do the diet, whatever you think you can handle. You can always decide to commit to it longer once you see the changes and start feeling better.

Linda used the same clinic and doctor as her sister. She used hCG injections and what she followed was basically the original protocol, except that she did not consume the traditional VLCD of 500 calories, she was instead put on 600 calories a day (which she did not always reach). There were also some off-protocol food that she was allowed to eat and she was also able to mix her veggies.

Some of the AP (Alternate Protocol) food and ingredients that Linda included in P2:

• Ground turkey breast – Linda had turkey burgers in lettuce wraps almost everyday for lunch.
• Ground bison
• Bell pepper
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower rice
• White tuna and yellowtail – According to Linda, she really craved sushi and sashimi but she avoided the salmon and dark tuna. She also had a little bit of wasabi and shaved radish with it but she did not notice any impact on her weight.
• Braggs Amino – as an alternative to soy sauce.
• MCT Oil – She often used less than the allowed one tablespoon a day. She would usually add it to her stir fry or for salad dressing with red wine vinegar or lemon and garlic .

Linda knew that the best way to be successful on the diet was to plan ahead. A few days before starting the protocol, she prepared little muffin cups of egg white and spinach omelettes as well as baby meatloaf that she also put in muffin cups. She also bought a food scale and a food saver machine (Seal-A-Meal Vacuum System) for measuring and storing her protein portions (100g portions of chicken, fish, fillet steaks)

Other food items/meals that Lind