Posts by bdmullaly

BEB- You didn't read long enough...I changed it from Knoxville where I live to Kansas City where I went to a couple years ago on a business trip. I know there are other places, dang it! I just can't think of them.

Gotta run errands and going to try to do a little extra work this weekend since it's just a nasty ole rainy Saturday.

Okay, but guess what. A year and a half ago I visited

K is for Kansas City! (It was for work though, no fun)

It sure is easier to say I'm getting back on the wagon then actually doing it.

CHRIS!!!!!  I've missed you too!!!!  I have felt like I've been living in a fog and just haven't been able to make myself do all the things I normally do. The fog's lifting a little bit, so I'm trying again to start living. But ugh! fog has a lot of calories, evidently.

BEB- what a mess!!! Bless your heart. Maybe we can find some chat time this weekend??

I'm going to try to get caught up on all the posts in here over the weekend.

Did I tell you all I had to have a liver ultra sound? I'm so mad. Eight years ago, I had my gall bladder taken out and they found this harmless cyst on my liver when they did some ct scans, which they said would always be there. Well the heart ct scan found a 'lesion' so my doctor insisted on an ultrasound. It's so teeny the tech said she doubted they could find it. She and another tech ran the stupid ultra sound wand over my liver for at least 45 minutes and mashed so hard, last night it was hurting - it's fine this morning. But anyway, the first tech said she'd show me if she found it and would tell me if I was right and indeed it was a cyst. Well the second girl was all secretive and just said I see something, let me go show the radiologist and then came back in and said ok you can go. I said did you find a cyst? "The radiologist will let you know". the first tech told me they can tell immediately if it is a cyst. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. They were asking me if I had had a biopsy and I told them no, the doctor said it's too teeny for a biopsy. So now I think I see where this is headed and if it does, then I'll have to try and get my records from where I used to live. Hopefully though they'll call and confirm it was a cyst and then I'm going to make them give me like 2 dozen copies of it sign and notarized so nobody ever does this again. Thinking about getting a tatoo (no I have never done that, don't have any tattos) on my belly that says....THERE IS A HARMLESS CYST IN MY LIVER, DO NOT FREAK OUT WHEN YOU SEE IT. 

Whaddya think? Would that be cute?

I can't believe that there are actually people who think that since hcg is natural this is perfectly safe. You know my estrogen that I take for hormone replacement is natural too, and people do produce their own......however, I can only take a certain dosage of it. There are a lot of people who are taking it without a doctor's prescription and whoever wrote that their doctor prescribed it, this doesn't apply to you (but I personally think quack). Cortisol is natural and produced by the body too, but would you take it if you heard it caused weight loss? HCG is not meant for weight loss, in fact when the body produces it all by itself........it generally results in a weight gain for at least about 9 months.

I've been researching, reading forums and it's just crazy....people get this stuff illegally from anywhere in the world they can get it from, and they think they can trust whoever sent it, but how many stories have we heard about tainted medicines, outdated medicines?

Weight loss is supposed to be about getting healthy. It's not healthy to eat 500 calories a day, period. It's not healthy to lose 1 or 2 pounds a day, and I don't care who wrote what 50 years ago. It's pretty simple, eat only 500 calories a day, you'll definitely lose weight, you don't need a shot to help you. No way is anything going to allow you not to lose muscle at that rate. Sometimes it just takes a little common sense. And by the way we will always have our fat cells, all we can do is make them smaller.

It's also a shame that right now this very minute there are women who need hcg to help them conceive but they can't get it because there isn't enough of it because of all these greedy, instant gratification seeking, lazy, nonsensical people who have no regard for their own health. I would guess that without a little self esteem and willingness to work hard to lose weight by a sensible diet and exercise, there really isn't much point.

In this day and age, it's hard to believe this country has dumbed down so much that there are still people who will fall for the 'too good to believe' scams. I'm sorry, but imho, what else could it be?

Lynn 129,

Could you tell us how you get all the vitamins and nutrients you need eating only 500 calories a day? You're going to reply that it's stored in all that fat the hcg makes you burn, right? I've heard that line, and all I know is I eat my 1200-1400 (when I'm on the weight loss wagon and I need to get back on) and whether or not I'm dieting or not, I feel better when I take my multi vitamin, so I don't buy into that we store the vitamins and nutrients we need in our fat. Do you ever feel like you might pass out say from low blood sugar?

Ever heard the old adage....if it sounds too good to be true it probably is?

And like edziabo says there are a lot of excuses, and some of them I think are some what true......I know menopause has made weight loss a much bigger challenge for me, the same as having a desk job has. It takes hard work to live healthy. Part of living healthy is eating the right foods and the right amounts of them.......and 500 calories doesn't do that.

Dr. Simeon started all this, 50 years ago, still no FDA approval. Kevin Trudeau is the scammer who got in trouble for pushing the program. 50 years, and still no FDA approval, WHY????  If this works, tell me why ALL doctors don't prescribe it, when obesity is one of the major causes of health problems in this country. It's a fad, a scam, and will be remembered as one, one of these days, and it will come back off and on like all the others do.

I'm really po'd that my daughter who needs hcg for fertility has a hard time getting it because there is this shortage due to this weight loss fad. I also heard lots of ppl are ordering it overseas.....now how smart is that? No regulation at all, you don't even know what exactly it is you are getting when you do that.

This is one of stupidest fad diets I have ever heard of. Prisoners get more than 500 calories a day, for Pete's sakes!!!

I'm sorry I've been away from the post for so long.......especially since I started it. If you go way, way back you might find a post or 2 about my dad's health problems, although there were some in the beginning about my step mom too. Dad's health got really bad all through last year, and I had just started a new job.....I just didn't have the strength left at the end of the day to keep up with my postings, and I'm sorry that I just couldn't. Dad passed away 2 weeks ago, Sunday Feb 15. I'm probably still going to be a while before I'm back here on a regular basis, although I've gained 10 pounds back and desperately need to at some point. I just have too much on my plate right now, but I hope the rest of you will keep this post going!!

Bonna