HCG Day 9

Just a quick mention that after 8 days we are looking at another 0.8 pounds loss. Total now just under 16 pounds (15.8 pounds).
Today at the office we are all walking around in something of a daze after 4 incredible days of Pledge Drive. Looking forward to the weekend, that's for sure, but I have a busy busy one ahead with multiple church commitments. Pray for me, for strength, and that I stay awake! I'll be going into work on Monday for a rest!!!

One week (Day 8) of HCG and the last day (Day 4) of Pledge Drive

So it's just after 5.30am and I woke of my own accord around 5. Maybe I'm too tired to actually sleep - who knows?
Anyway, after an exhausting week of pledge driving, we have our final big push today, the day when historically, most people call in. I really hope they do, because we are 100% listener supported, so we need people's support so we can keep going - that's no exaggeration. By 6pm tonight it'll be over and we'll know just how much we can do in the next 6 months.
After a slightly less exhausting week 1 of HCG, I can report that the total weight loss (after a loss overnight of 0.6 pounds) is exactly 15 pounds for the first week. Not too shabby, I think you'll agree! For those Brits reading, by the way, that is 1 stone and 1 pound.
Anyway, time to finish my cup of tea and probably go straight to work. Might as well, seeing as I have to be there by 7 anyway today. Get there early and get some work done....

Day 7 HCG, Day 3 Dove Pledge Drive

Well it seems that the Take That name change was just proposed, and not finalised, which is a relief - not that I'm too closely into that one, you understand!

On the weight front, day 6 saw a loss of just under a pound (0.8 of a pound to be exact - I have digital scales!), to make the total weight loss as we move into day 7 14.4 pounds. Those in the UK will recognize that as being just a fraction over a stone, which is the first big landmark. Feeling okay as well. No headaches, cravings or starving hunger, so I'm quite encouraged so far.

Right. To work!

HCG Day 6 and Pledge Drive Day 2

So apparently Take That are changing their name to "The English". Bizarre!

Okay let's cut to the chase here after a hectic Day 1 of our Pledge Drive at theDove. First time we've ever done a Monday, and at times it was lively, at times slow, but we're into Day 2 now.

As for HCG, the weight loss is slowing, but at least the trend is still down. Overnight another 1/2 pound lost, bringing the total to around 13 1/2 pounds.

More news tomorrow. Back to Pledge Driving now!

HCG Day 5 and Pledge Drive day 1

Okay, so the skinny for today (haha) is this. Weight loss overnight - 1 pound. Total for 4 days - 13 pounds.


It's Pledge Drive Day 1 today, so things are pretty insane here.

HCG and other matters

I realize it's been an age since I last posted. To be frank, I've struggled quite a bit recently with several things. The wait for news on my visa has been quite a strain, and I have sadly let myself go more than I would have liked when it comes to health, to the point where I am just not happy with what I am right now.


One thing I can do is to work on getting healthy while I wait to find out if I get to stay in the country, so I have just started the HCG diet. HCG has been very well documented online and pretty much everywhere else, so I won't go into the ins and outs of it here. 
Suffice it to say that there are many - my GP, who researched it thoroughly and then did it along with his wife - who have done, or are doing it who love it, and there are those who do not approve of it. That's fine. That's their choice. My choice is to do this diet.


Because I know there are a lot of people online who are struggling with weight issues, I don't personally feel I want to talk about HCG on networks such as Facebook, so I am going to use this blog as an update opportunity.


So, to update now. Thursday was day 1 of the 500 calorie HCG diet, and there are 23 days on the drops. On day 1 I lost 5 pounds. Day 2 I lost 4 pounds, making the total 9 pounds, and yesterday, day 3, I lost 4 pounds, making the total to date 12 pounds.



I will try and remember to update daily on here. That might be a challenge this week as we have 4 days of Pledge Drive at theDove starting tomorrow. This is a necessary but exhausting period of work, which we do twice a year to raise the funds that keep us going, since we are 100% listener supported. Basically if the money isn't donated, it doesn't happen.


I'll be the first to admit that I really don't like asking people for money, especially in these really tough financial times, but it has to be done, and so I'll be in endurance mode until Thursday night. If you have a spare moment, pray that the funds we so desperately need come in. 




Thanks, and now the football is starting. Gotta go!

The Patriot Academy

Let me tell you about a grassroots youth conservative organization that should give all forward thinking people hope in such dark times for this nation.

Patriot Academy is a five-day political training program where students aged sixteen to twenty-five learn about America's system of government from a Biblical worldview. Each summer, young people from around the nation come to the Texas State Capitol to form a fully functioning mock legislative body, drafting legislation, debating bills and passing laws. Students participate in interactive workshops on media relations, public speaking, campaigning techniques and the Founding Fathers' philosophy of government. Current and former elected officials and experts share their personal experience in government and discuss today’s most relevant issues.

Patriot Academy is a five-day political training program where students age sixteen to twenty-five learn about America's system of government from a Biblical worldview. Each summer, young people from around the nation come to the Texas State Capitol to form a fully functioning mock legislative body, drafting legislation, debating bills and passing laws. Students participate in fast-paced, interactive workshops on media relations, public speaking, campaigning techniques and the Founding Fathers'... (read more)

Today, Patriot Academy is the premier conservative political training camp in the nation, training young people to effectively engage in every aspect of government, whether as an elected official or an active citizen. As students are equipped to effect change for the issues that matter most to them, Patriot Academy is fulfilling its vision to raise up a new generation to lead the change in America.

 

I have blogged about my friend Breanna before, but she has just returned from Texas after a fulfilling week which I am sure will have done her nothing but good as she plays her part in trying to effect change in the United States from the grass roots upwards.

 

Lately I had begun to despair that the country was heading the same way as the United Kingdom has done in years past. As a lifelong conservative, from a family of conservatives living in an overwhelmingly conservative part of the UK, I was dismayed to see successive socialist UK governments spend their way into trouble, and although there are now signs that this may be ending with the new government showing a desire for conservative prudence, it seems that now the US is hurtling headlong into extreme debt.

 

All of us who despair at this tragic set of circumstances, not to mention the other ways in which this once great nation is being pulled downwards into mediocrity should take courage - as I have - from young people like Breanna, who are finally giving me hope for the future here. They really ARE the future at a time when at a national level, there is a marked lack of conservative unity and - dare I say - credibility.

 

Thanks to the likes of Breanna, things really could change, and Patriot Academy is giving young conservatives the opportunity to effect the kind of change we actually CAN believe in.