Santa Brought Presents

Santa came on Christmas eve - with a delivery to the post office, our box of hCG. It was a little bit exciting, wondering if our box would clear customs in time (if at all) for us to start our program on the 30th like we had planned. I had a short-term freak out when I saw that the hCG was in liquid form, as everything I had read up till now, including all of the mixing instructions, spoke of a powdered form. After I stressed about it for a while I visited one of several on-line forums devoted to this diet, and discovered that it does indeed come in a liquid, a newer formulation. Today I was able to get hold of Vi, who gave me mixing instructions - well, actually she tried to walk me through the mixing process over the phone. It's actually easy once you know what you are doing, but I had a very steep learning curve which included a puncture wound from a large bore needle, some cursing, and a bottle of mixed solution that looks like champagne, it has so many bubbles in it. Air embolism, anyone? I think it's going to be OK, but if I have to I will toss this bottle and get another mixing kit before we run out of supplies. We are one day away from our proposed start on Thursday, and I have been loading up on things like hormone free chicken breasts, stevia, and Tom's of Maine toothpaste. I also bought some goodies for the first two days of the diet - which are "loading" days, in which you must consume a minimum of 3500 calories per day. I bought braunschweiger, swiss cheese, provolone, olive oil mayonnaise, and all natural crunchy peanut butter. Oh, heavenly high-fat joy! I can't even remember when I last ate those things - and all in the same day no less. Maybe when we were on the Atkins diet? I lost six pounds the first month and then never an ounce after that - but interestingly, didn't gain either despite eating lots of meat, eggs, cheese, cream and coconut oil. Well, I digress, but I am so looking forward to two days of unbridled feasting before the diet proper begins.