Cheating never pays off, even if it's just a little extra meat. For the first time during this diet I actually didn't loose. I've been o.k. For the past couple days I've been bracing myself every single day. Yesterday, instead of 261 the scale read 262. Now today it reads 261 again. Oops. Maybe it was the extra bites. Maybe It's because I stayed up past midnight 2 days ago and was a bit crazy and jumped at the chance at a ticket to watch New Moon with my dear friend. Maybe I was due for a stall anyways.
Whatever it was, I need to be a bit more careful. Really, what's the point of "justifying" a bite of a not-so-tasty hot dog meat. I guess if that's all I consumed at the party, I fared pretty well. I pretty sure that it didn't count as a portion of my "beef.
ha ha. :) I'm not crying, Just WONDERDING if it's my eating or just a stall. What really needs to happen is for me to follow some goals....things I already knew.
- count calories
- drink 5 liters of water
- have the computer shut off at 9:30 so I get my self in bed!
- stop mixing foods!
- follow the plan explicitly.
I've realized that a stall is a good time to analyze your ways! I have a few areas that "need improvement."
1. Not eating enough fat on your load days. Dr. Simeons explained that it was a fundamental error on the HCG protocol not to eat a lot of fat on the load days. By eating or gorging on food (particularly fat) for 2 days when you start taking the HCG, it helps to build up your normal fat reserves so you won’t be as hungry the 1st week and helps in your transition to the 500 calorie diet. Those that do not gorge on their load days will end up being hungrier the 1st week and not losing as much weight.
2. Not sticking to the 500 calories or serving sizes. Dr. Simeons clearly states 100 grams of protein. In ounces that is around 4 oz. raw or 3-3 1/2 ounces cooked. Eating a little more of everything will reduce your desired results.
3. Not drinking enough water. You should set as your goal to drink ½ your body weight in ounces of water. If you are 200 lbs that should be 100 oz of water a day. If you drink 16 oz. bottles of water that is 6 ¼ bottles of water.
4. Drinking diet drinks such as Crystal Light, diet soda or other diet drinks. People can still lose drinking these but it will definitely reduce the amount you would have lost had you kept to only water, teas, coffees, and mineral water.
5. Eating the same protein, fruit or vegetable for lunch and dinner. You need to vary these for lunch and dinner each day.
6. Eating beef that is too fatty. American Beef is very fatty. We suggest using very lean cuts such as London Broil or Round Steak. Even extra lean hamburger can be to fatty. Try having the butcher cut the fat off a lean steak and have it ground into hamburger meat.
7. Cooking with oil or applying anything with oil to your body. This is a very sensitive diet. Your body is in a fat burning mode. Your body will pull the oil right through your skin or use the oil from your food instead of pulling it from your fat reserves. There are a lot of alternatives that can be used but do not use anything with oil on phase two.
8. Getting sugar in your seasonings, etc. Sugar is in everything. Check out our sugar list and learn the many names of sugar. Start reading labels, especially on your seasonings.
9. Trying to eat out while doing phase two. You can eat so much better on phase two from home. If you are trying to do this diet eating out all the time you will pay a lot for bland boring food that rarely satisfies you. Not to mention the chemicals, etc. that are used to “juice up” restaurant food. If you eat out too often it will definitely reflect in your weight loss.
10. Not getting enough sleep. Most people find they sleep better on this diet. However we find that people who eat to late and do not get enough sleep seem to lose less on the HCG diet.
Remember results are typical on phase two of the HCG diet if you follow all the phases of the Dr. Simeons HCG protocol.
