Just started taking Schroeder's HCG+ drops yesterday. It calls for a 750 calorie diet, instead of the 500 calorie that I hear about on other sites.
I am 36 years old, 5'1" and weigh 158.5 lbs. Up until I had my third child, I weighed anywhere from 100 - 110 lbs and wore a size 3 pants. I am going to try to at least get down to a size 5.
I have tried all kinds of diets, some diet pills, etc and the only one that did anything at all was Ali. I bought the starter pack, which is a 30 day supply and stuck to a diet of around 1200 calories per day. For the first 5 or 6 weeks, I lost about 18 lbs. Then I quit losing at all and started fluctuating up and down around 5 lbs. All but about 3 lbs stayed off.
I have looked at tons of sites that talk about the HCG injections and drops, although most are about the injections. Most are pretty contradictive but most also agree that weight loss does happen, so I bought a 12 day sample bottle and started the drops yesterday.
Does anyone have any experience with these drops? I am really skeptical that this is going to work.
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OK, so this is day 4. I weighed myself yesterday morning and weighed 159 (after 2 day binge). I stuck to the diet yesterday and had between 600 - 700 calories all day, not much fat at all. Ended up taking 8 drops 4 x yesterday. This morning, I weighed in at 155.5. Shocked me, so I weighed myself 4 more times within an hour period of getting ready for work. After drinking bunch of water went to 156.5 but 20 mins later went back to 155.5.
ReplyDeleteI think I will do it again when I get home and then again in the morning. That is kinda amazing to lose 3.5 lbs overnight. Im just not so sure it will continue, so I will keep monitoring. My work pants seem a little lose but maybe that is all in my head :-)
Weighed in this morning at 155. I guess that is still 1/2 a lb, but why not more if the first day was 3 1/2? I guess 1/2 lb a day still isn't bad, but I would have hoped for more since a regular diet would lose about 3 lbs a week. Who knows, maybe I am too impatient. I guess we'll see in another few days whether the weight loss will change again.
ReplyDeleteWas told that pickles are not good on this diet, which may be the reason for only losing .5 lbs yesterday. Guess I will leave out the pickles today and see how I do tomorrow. My guess is the sodium in the pickle makes you retain water, resulting in less weight loss? ............
ReplyDeleteWeighed in at 154 this morning.
ReplyDeleteMessed up :-) Weighed in this morning at 155.5. Had 3 or 4 drinks at bar last night and pretzels and bean burrito. Guess I shouldn't have done that but we'll see how much it affects this diet. It says that if you mess up, it will affect you for three days. Hope not. Guess I wont be doing that again :-)
ReplyDeleteWhoo Hooo!! Back on track :-) Weighed in at 153 this morning. Did actually change food yesterday though. Got bored with Chicken, so I started eating some catfish. Today, think I will go with some Turkey mixed in also.
ReplyDeleteWeighed in at 152.5 this morning. Didn't do anything different yesterday than the day before. Maybe it is supposed to be lose couple lbs one day then .5 the next.
ReplyDeleteWeighed in at 151.5 today. As long as I'm still losing daily, Im not gonna complain about the amount lol. Seeing the weight go down each day is what is giving me the motivation to continue through each day.
ReplyDeleteWeighed in again at 151.5. Not sure what I did wrong. No difference in food yesterday but I might be coming up on that time of the month, so maybe I am retaining water? Will give it a couple days and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteWeighed in again at 151.5. It is definately that time of the month. I did some measurements though and lost .5" in the arm, 1" Chest, Waist, Hips and thigh.
ReplyDeleteI do know that it is not the food because I had less cal/fat/sugar yesterday than any other day.
Weighed in at 151 this morning.
ReplyDeleteFriday's are really bad for me, lol. I go to the club and I always end up drinking, eating pretzels then having a burrito before I go home. So, I still did all that.
ReplyDeleteThis morning I weighed in at 150.5, so I still lost, just not much. But then again, lately, I haven't been losing more than that anyway.
Weighed in at 151.5. Now I think I am a little pissed off. I watched EVERYTHING I ate yesterday, and each day I get lower on the cal/fat/sugar but yet I still gained weight. I make sure to drink a gallon of water a day.
ReplyDeleteCan't figure out what happened here unless it just quit working. I am honestly beginning to doubt that the drops work at all because I did the same type of loss, although it wasnt as much as soon, when I was on Ali before I quit losing at all.
Maybe the change in weight was simply because of the diet itself instead of the drops.
Weighed in at 151 today. Only had bout 496 cals yesterday, 1.6 g fat, 10.2 g sugar and 80 protein. Figured I would have lost more though but the day before was almost the same and I gained.
ReplyDeleteStill that time of month, so.......I am hoping that is what is causing this up and down stuff. Will wait out the week and see what happens.
Weighed in at 149.5 yesterday and then 150.5 today.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, day after Thanksgiving, weighed in at 150. Yeah, I cheated. Had Ham, Turkey, gravy with Ham drippings, crescent rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy and little sweet potatoes and fat free, sugar free pudding. Still lost 1/2 lb.
ReplyDeleteThen cheated yesterday, had some screwdrivers at the bar, and a Bean Burrito from Taco Bell. Weighed in this morning at 148.5.
So, I am not so sure that the HCG diet plan and foods are what they say. When I did nothing but the foods that are safe, I basically had the same thing for lunch and dinner and stayed at the same weight for 3 days then gained 1/2 lb. Once I gained, I kinda got disgusted and decided to eat Taco Bell Burrito. I lost the next day but then went back to the same HCG diet and gained again - chicken and spinach only. Ate Taco Bell Burrito again and lost again.
It seems like each time I have cheated, I have lost weight so I am kinda thinking that this stuff doesn't work the way the say it does.
Could you please explain when you take the drops and how many drops? I just bought it and forgot how much i was supposed to take :(
ReplyDeleteSure thing! I take about 8 drops 3 times a day. I have taken an extra 8 at a separate time if I got really hungry but usually the 3 times is enough after the first couple weeks.
ReplyDeletecan u update us on what has happened with your hcg diet? did it work? did u achieve ur goal?
ReplyDeleteDid you have any unusual side effects? Actually, did you experience ANY side effects?
ReplyDeleteI did not have ANY side effects at all. I kept waiting to see any because of others talking about headaches and all and I am prone to headaches, but I didn't get any of those either.
ReplyDeleteso how long where you on the drops and how long did you have to have a maintaining period
ReplyDeleteI went through one bottle, so I think it was about a month. I lost about 10 lbs before I kinda gave up. I kept all but a couple lbs off and started trying to experiment and see if I did the same things while I was on the drops without taking the drops if I would lose the same. I am still losing the same amount when I apply myself, lol. I just cannot seem to stick with the diet anymore as long as I did the last time. I will eat the same types of food and still lose the same weight without taking the drops, so I am not so sure that the drops did anything at all.
ReplyDeleteTo be totally fair you expect these drops to work and it specifically says no Alocohol, no carbs etc and you are going out drinking and eating all sorts of bad foods.
ReplyDeleteYou lost 10lbs and you didn't really stick to the diet so imagine what you would have lost if you had stuck to it.
Good luck for the future.
That is true. I didn't stick completely to it, and that might have impacted the weight loss. Although I am losing the same without taking the drops and doing the same stuff that I did while I was, including some extra, like a candy bar once in a while.
ReplyDeleteim interested in the link as to where you got the drops. thank you
ReplyDeleteGillianne
Hey..I just ordered the drops and receved today. I did not get any manual showing how many drops t be taken.
ReplyDeleteI am given with three bottles.
1? HCG weight loss formula
2>Weight Off supplement
3>Btotal Vitamin Supplement.
Can you please help me with how many drops of these to be taken and when before food after food, or shall i take them together. I would need some one to guide me well.I will be glad if you can help me.