Update - Starting Again

Well a lot has changed since I last posted.  My father passed away very unexpectedly and I became engaged.  Before my dad had passed I was in a good routine of eating healthy, cutting portion sizes, and exercising a minimum of 4 days a week an hour at a time.  Since then I really haven't done much.  Enter a couple of new medical issues and now the doctors are once again on my case about losing weight. 

My doctor suggested I start the HMR Diet that one of the local clinics offer.  I'll get into more detail about HMR and their offerings later but from the research I've done they offer a couple of different programs targeting various levels of weight loss. The most stringent, which I've been asked to do, is a complete liquid diet fast that lasts 13 weeks under medical supervision.  They say the average amount lost during the 13 week program is 50-60 pounds. I would definitely be ok with those numbers as I wouldn't have weighed that since my freshman year in high school. 

I'm hoping to document as much as I can here since there really isn't a whole lot of information available online from people who've actually done one of the HMR programs. My biggest fear is not eating solid food. That's a valid concern from what I've read on the few blogs out there where people have talked about this program but most have said that goes away after the first week. My other fear is that you can get very sick if you don't transition from the liquids to solid food properly.  I've spoken with the people who run the program at the clinic and from what they've told me the transition really starts a couple of weeks before the program ends.

I'm going to wrap this up for now but I'm going to make it a personal goal of mine to post as much information as possible not only about the program but of my progress as well.