![]() Just started on day four of phase 2. My question is can I have cream in my coffee? I have been drinking coffer and using some cream and splenda. HCG Diet Plan Help So You Can Do The HCG Diet Successfully. ![]() ![]() Got questions about Phase 2 of the HCG Diet? What should I do about cravings? What if my weight plateaus? Should I end early? Do a steak day? Answers here! Phase 3 of the h. CG Diet. Podcast: Play in new window . This way will essentially take the roller- coaster feeling aspect out of P3. Emma's HCG diet plan is better than the Simeons HCG diet. It is less restrictive in caloric intake and is tailored to the individual's activity level and. Foods For The HCG Diet Phase 2. This is a list of foods you can eat while doing Phase 2 of the HCG Diet. Use this list as a quick reference when shopping and. Here are a few recipes for the low calorie diet that you can use while on the HCG diet: Low Calorie (VLCD) HCG Diet Recipes. FRIED CHICKEN. 100 g chicken breast 1. What is The hCG Diet Injection Protocol? The human body is comprised of several different fats. Some of these fats are essential, provide nutrition and protect vital. HCG Diet Sample Meal Plan HCG diet plan is a combination of HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) hormone and VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet). The origin of this weight. Official HCG Diet Plan. Lose weight with the official hcg diet plan and drops. At least your odds of such are much lower. Yeah please don’t do that. If you want to hear about the time I did that read here. This article is all about. Phase 3 is different- you often don’t feel assured of anything. You’re desired outcome is to maintain your weight but the basic “rule” for supposedly achieving this feels pretty vague. This post is all about examining how you can do P3 in the most detailed way possible to make stabilizing your weight a sure thing. Or that’s what we hope anyway! Just a warning. Doing Phase 3 this particular “BEST” way requires that you be pretty mature when it comes to how you handle eating and food because you are needing to be extremely cautious in multiple areas. If you are not there yet (I wasn’t), then please read my Phase 3 Primer – the Do- Able Way – 4 Basic Rules. The following is a more detailed approach to Phase 3 – for those of you can handle it, it can lead to a very stress- free P3. For many women who are either in perimenopause/menopause or who take bioidentical hormones, the following way may be the ONLY way for you to stabilize, so take note! Are Phase 3 Rules Really that Important? The reason that what we are about to discuss is so important is that I’ve found weight to be very volatile when you first get off P2 and it requires that you take some special measures in order to help your body get comfortable at this new weight. Think about it- you just lost, most likely 2. A drastic change just happened in your body that wasn’t slow and gradual. Your body has been operating differently than it normally does during this time- instead of getting all it’s calories for functioning from food, it’s been getting the majority of it’s fuel from your fat- it now has to switch back to food as a main fuel source, which in itself I’m sure is quite easy, but to make that switch without gaining weight seems more involved. Whatever you decide to do, remember it is only for a few weeks- not a lifetime. Making your stabilization phase go smoothly and successfully is worth keeping out a few foods as necessary so that you can eat them and keep your new body at the same time later! ![]() Basic Keys for Phase 3 the BEST Way. For 3 weeks following Phase 2, do not eat sugars or starches. Eat to hunger. Introduce calories/amounts of food gradually. Introduce dairy, nuts, and fats slowly. Keep your weight within 2 lbs of your LDW*If your weight goes above this, do a Steak Day. If your weight goes above the 2lb window, start the three week Phase 3 period over again. An Exact PROGRAM FOR P3. Btw, as of March 2. Phase 3 Program – it’s called P3tolife – get the details on that here: See the P3to. Life Program* There are several instances where this won’t be possible – article coming soon to explain this!#1- No Starches or Sugars for 3 weeks. What does this mean though exactly? Basically we’re going low carb here. There are either starches or sugars in: Grains, Beans, Fruit, and Starchy Veggies. There can also be hidden starches in pre- made foods – ingredients such as Maltodextrin and the like. If in doubt, leave it out. You will be so glad you did this later. What’s definitely out in my mind: All grains. Or what we consider to be grains because they have carbs (ie. It doesn’t matter if it’s sprouted (example Ezekiel bread- this contains 1. P3 in my opinion). We can’t think about food from other diet perspectives, we have to think about it from an h. CG perspective. Starchy veggies. Things like potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, peas. Sorry! Fruits. Some low sugar fruits like the berry family can usually be gotten away with like 1/2 cup in a smoothie, but I’d avoid most other fruits myself- fruits are high natural fructose sugar still – not good for Phase 3 purposes. Some people do keep in the P2 fruits in P3 but I would say the vast majority run into trouble keeping fruits in. Beans. Beans. Whatever you want to call them – make your chili without beans. Doesn’t mean you can’t have any dairy, but be aware of the type of dairy and check labels. Doesn’t mean you can’t have them, but amounts and their resulting carb level (1/4 cup – 5 grams carbs – much better!) matter. What if you still aren’t sure if something is a starch or carb? Check the both the sugar and carb count on the actual nutrition label always. Labeling can be misleading and reading the nutrition facts and ingredients can quickly help you see what’s REALLY in there. Additionally, see my post coming soon on Common P3 Questions and you will see I’ve detailed out some carb/calorie/sugar amounts for some foods to give you an idea. As you can see then, you won’t be just eating more of P2 foods in Phase 3. And thank goodness! I’m sure you’ve had enough of those already. Not that you can’t still eat these foods of course, but really in most cases, removing most fruits from the equation is in your best interests.#2- Eating to Hunger. Okay this is the one of the keys for EASE in P3 that I am NOT a good example of. I wish I could say I was. While I have over the last 2 years learned to eat to hunger in general, the majority of my P3’s were not really run with this in mind. I was doing good just to be avoiding sugar at that point. Somehow it did work out, BUT I was also in hot pursuit of gaining muscle after most my rounds, and I did gain several lbs of muscle- building fat or muscle both take excess calories, so that’s why I don’t think I’m the best example for those in P3 wishing to truly stay the same weight- thankfully my “gains” during P3 and P4 have pretty much been all desirable ones (muscle), but I recognize this is not the goal of the majority of you h. CGing ladies out there. That being said, eating to hunger can be a very important piece of the puzzle to truly stabilizing your health and having freedom with what you eat later down the road. I am not going to dwell too much on this topic because there is already an excellent book that covers this subject in great detail, Weight- Loss Apocalypse: Emotional Eating Rehab Through the h. CG Protocol. I feel like this book is a must- read for anyone who has deeper seated reasons for being overweight or overeating. The author, Robin Woodall, will introduce you to her method of eating to hunger which involves a hunger scale- something to gauge your hunger, and teaches you when to eat and when to stop eating based on this scale- if you follow this method, you are basically gauranteed to maintain your weight. In real terms what you’ll find if you follow this is that at the start of P3, it really won’t take a whole lot of food to reach that satisfied but not overly full feeling. As P3 progresses, you’ll find your capacity for amounts of food to reach that feeling will increase until you are eating more what is considered for your new body size. Additionally, my friend Barbara from inspiredgirl. P3 and she IS a good example of eating the right amounts of food throughout P3 in a mature way.#3- Introduce Calories Gradually. If you follow #2 you probably can dispense with #3, but nevertheless, I put it here because for some this has been a very efficient way for some to know exactly how much they were eating and to gradually increase their food intake in a logical way that they could measure. I know in his manuscript Pounds and Inches, Dr. Simeons warned about not increasing your calories and food intake on p. But since he wasn’t specific on amounts, it’s difficult to know exactly what he had in mind. That’s why sometimes vague statements can almost be more hurtful than helpful because different people will take it different ways. As an example, for many years I have read about the importance of taking in “lots of protein” (a very vague statement- exactly how much is lots?) especially when working out- so that’s just what I did- I have eaten up to a whole pound of meat in one sitting, on many occasions, because I was worried about not getting enough protein after my workout and losing muscle. Did I mention I’m 5? A girl my size does NOT need a whole pound of meat after a workout. But somehow because most of what I had read was so vague and not specific at all, my brain had to come up with a definition for “lots” which ended up amounting to 1 lb. WAY more than I need for my size. So that’s my example to show that some of us, if not given clear direction, can take things too far one way or the other, because we simply don’t naturally know what’s balanced since we have no point of reference. You can tell from his manuscript that Dr. Simeons was concerned with individuals who were so nervous about p. CG was gone, scared to eat more for fear of gaining weight. So we know not to do go that far. But he was less clear on how much more we were actually supposed to eat. I think portion sizes have gone up QUITE a bit since his day, so our perception of what’s a “normal” amount of food is often not accurate and is actually too much. I am guilty of overdoing it in p. While I am very strict about not eating the starches and sugars, I have not been smart in the past when it came to amounts of food. I would often feel myself getting overly full, which is not good. Since you just spent several weeks eating very little food, your body is not going to be well equipped to handle too much food at first- it makes more logical sense to add amounts of food in more gradually- your digestion will thank you as well! If you think about this logically it’s really quite reasonable. When a person does a cleanse where they are taking only liquids or only vegetables for a certain period of time, it’s a common known fact that re- introducing meat, or solid foods must be done slowly- you don’t go from a 1. Those who have done such things have lived to tell their stories of doubled over pain. So the same principle applies.
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