What can you do if you are hungry on HCG diet?

Recently I’ve gotten quite a few phone calls asking what to do if you are hungry while on the weight loss phase (Phase 2) of the HCG diet in Gold Coast. I did a little research into this as I didn’t experience any hunger while I was the diet protocol.

When I first read about the HCG diet protocol I thought I would experience extreme hunger pains. After all, you are only eating 500 calories! But the HCG hormone boosts your metabolism so that you are not only NOT hungry there are times when I found myself having to practically choke down my apple or “remember” to eat my chicken and cucumbers!

So let me give you a few helpful hints on what things may cause you to be hungry on the HCG diet and what you can do about it if you are.

One of the reasons you may be experiencing hunger is that you didn’t load properly. The first two days of the HCG diet protocol are loading days. You were to eat as much high fat foods as possible. This was extremely important as it was preparing your body for the very low calorie portion of the diet. If you didn’t load properly you may experience hunger for up to 4 – 5 days. Stick to the HCG diet! Drink plenty of water.

Another reason for you may be overly hungry is because you have reached what Dr Simeons calls “Immunity.” Basically your body learns how to breakdown and eliminate the HCG Hormone very rapidly. Or, you might be nearing your goal weight and your body simply doesn’t have enough abnormal weight left to burn off. Your body maybe have reached a new metabolic set point with your weight. If you feel you have reached immunity you should wean off the diet and go to Phase 3. (Read Pounds and Inches for the procedure.)

So, what can you do if you are hungry on HCG diet? Drinking lots of water throughout the day will really help. There are some great herbal teas that can help as well and make you feel full.

Try spacing your meals out. Eat a piece of fruit early in the day. Protein and vegetable for lunch, protein and vegetable fore dinner, and a fruit for an evening snack. Again, drink lots of water and tea in between. Another trick is easy, add some extra vegetables. Dr Simeons didn’t put a real limit on vegetables so if you wanted to add some extra cabbage to your meal, that shouldn’t take you over the 500 calorie limit.

Try to determine if you are experiencing real hunger or a food craving. The results of this diet when followed correctly are pretty amazing so stick it out!

How to Fight Hunger Pains While on the HCG Diet

If you’re currently doing the HCG diet and you’ve been experiencing uncomfortable hunger pains, you’re probably looking for any solution to make them stop. It’s actually pretty uncommon for individuals to experience hunger pains while taking HCG, because the hormone releases enough stored fat for the body to fuel itself on. However, it could happen occasionally and there are some great tips to help find relief.

Check Your Dosage

The first thing you might want to do is check your dosage. While originally, the founder of the HCG weight loss plan recommended 125IU of HCG (6 Drops of the 4Phase Ft Elimination Protocol 3 times a day), experts have found that 175 to 200IU (8 to 10 drops) is much more effective. If you’re not getting enough of the hormone, it could leave you feeling hungry and unsatisfied. If you’re only taking the 125IU, bump the dosage up to 175IU to see how that feels. If you’re still feeling hungry, gradually bump the dosage up to 200IU (8 to 10 drops). This should take care of the hunger pains.

Are You Exercising?

If you’re exercising at all during the HCG diet, you may experience hunger pains. This is because you’re burning too many calories and the body is attempting to make up for it with food. Rather than eating more, stop exercising and see if you still experience the hunger pains. Only eating a 500 calorie diet and having the hormone supply the rest, exercising could mean that you’re burning too many calories and the body is rebelling with hunger.

 Water

 Another wonderful way to prevent or stop hunger pains during the HCG diet is to increase your intake of water. This will help you to feel fuller longer. If you don’t care for the taste of water, you can make it more palatable by adding Stevia all natural sweeteners. This should be the only sweetener you use during the HCG diet, though.

Green Tea

You can also drink green tea to help stave off the hunger pains. Green tea is said to be a natural appetite suppressant and it cabe sweetened with the Stevia as well. You can drink as much green tea as you want while you’re doing the HCG diet, and it should help your stomach feel fuller so you don’t feel the need to eat anything else. Try to drink a glass of water or green tea after every meal so you increase the fullness you’re experiencing from the meal.

Overall, while you shouldn’t really experience many hunger pains during the HCG diet, it is possible. Use the methods above to get rid of those hunger pains so you can continue your diet and reach the weight loss goals you’ve set for yourself.

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HCG diet is equally effective for men and women however woman dieters should make few tweaks during the diet plan due to several reasons. HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) is a pregnancy hormone, which when combined with a very low calorie diet promises to shed pounds and inches. HCG diet is a strict weight loss program and any deviations made during the diet may cause adverse results.

Dr. Simeons in the year 1950 discovered the benefits of HCG for losing weight after an extensive research. His book Pounds & Inches is considered to be the bible of HCG diet plan. It is advisable to read his book for attaining maximum results. There are three main phases in HCG diet plan (Loading, Maintenance & Stabilization). Dieters should follow these phases religiously for losing requisite weight.

Important HCG Diet Tips for Woman Dieters

• Menstrual Cycle: It is advisable to start your HCG diet (Loading phase) during the beginning of your monthly cycle for avoiding weakness and unnecessary cramps. However, it is advisable to discontinue the drops but stay on 500-calorie diet if your monthly period falls in between your diet.  You can easily continue taking drops after the period gets over.  It is only the first 2 or 3 days of your period that you should stop taking the drops.
• Pregnancy: Homeopathic HCG diet drops shouldn’t be taken at all during pregnancy.
• Lactation Period: HCG diet shouldn’t be taken during this tim. A nursing mother should completely avoid HCG diet drops.
• Menopause: Homeopathic HCG diet drops works for everybody. It’s extremely potent weight loss cure for any age group above 16 years. HCG Diet not only helps reducing weight but also prevent hot flashes. HCG Diet also works fine with hypothyroidism.
• HCG Diet & Medication: Homeopathic HCG diet drops don’t interfere with any medication including birth control pills hence women dieters can easily take HCG drops and birth control pills simultaneously.

4 Phase Fat Elimination Protocol is a permanent weight loss therapy that mainly targets the abnormal fat banks resting on your thighs, hips, abdomen, chin etc. It’s extremely popular among woman dieters across the world. There are thousands of testimonials available online that proves the effectiveness of this weight loss remedy. HCG diet prohibits the consumption of alcohol during the program. Dieters should also avoid heavy workouts and drink plenty of water to see the difference within 21-44 days.

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HCG and Men

Concerns about being overweight are not just reserved for women, the 4 Phase Fat Elimination is an excellent solution for men who need to lose weight. In most cases, they actually work better on men than women.

In the 1950’s Dr Simeons pioneered the use of HCG for weight loss and a lot of his research was with obese men. Following is an extract from his manuscript (Pounds and Inches) and we think it best addresses the question on most men’s lips.

HCG drops trigger the hormones released in pregnant women. Will these drops feminise me in any way?

This is what Dr Simeons has to say:

“It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that HCG is not a sex hormone that its action is identical in men, women, and children and in those cases in which the sex glands no longer function owing to old age or their surgical removal. The only sexual change it can bring about after puberty is an improvement of a pre-existing deficiency, but never stimulation beyond the normal. In an indirect way via the anterior pituitary, HCG regulates menstruation and facilitates conception, but it never virilises a woman or feminizes a man. It neither makes men grow breasts nor does it interfere with their virility, though where this was deficient it may improve it. It never makes women grow a beard or develop a gruff voice. I have stressed this point only for the sake of my lay readers, because it is our daily experience that when patients hear the word hormone they immediately jump to the conclusion that this must have something to do with the sexsphere. They are not accustomed as we are, to think thyroid, insulin, cortisone, adrenalin etc, as hormones.”

Four Facts regarding HCG Drops

HCG Drops are made from the hormone called “human chorionic gonadotropin.” It’s a type of hormone that is normally present only in the female body during pregnancy. This fact has made a few men a little nervous. If a man puts this female-generated hormone into his body, what will happen? Is it safe for men?

The following interesting facts will help clear this up.

Fact #1

HCG isn’t limited to the mother’s body. It also enters the foetus’s body and actually stimulates the development of the gonads in the male foetus. So all men have had HCG in their bodies while still in the womb, and they wouldn’t have certain male organs without it. HCG drops aren’t going to hurt your masculinity.

Fact #2

HCG has a similar effect in older boys. It stimulates the production of testosterone and can help the testicles develop and descend in adolescent boys with such problems. In fact, this use of HCG is what originally gave Dr. Simeons the clue that HCG could be used for weight loss. He was helping boys who suffered from Froelich’s syndrome, a condition that causes slowed sexual development and extreme weight gain. When Dr. Simeons gave these boys HCG, not only did their sexual organs develop rapidly, they also discovered that they could eat very little food without hunger and lose weight. HCG drops are a direct outgrowth of this discovery.

Fact #3

At its peak, HCG reaches levels of 288,000 International Units in the pregnant woman’s body, and this level has no negative effect on the mother or the fetus. The typical dosage of HCG injections for weight loss is only 125 International Units—that’s 2000 times less than the amount in pregnancy. HCG drops contain just enough HCG to trigger the weight loss effect.

Fact #4

Oral HCG drops have helped uncounted numbers of men lose weight. There have been no indications of HCG drops causing strange or harmful effects in men. In fact, HCG drops seem to work even better for men than women, since men tend to lose weight faster than women on the HCG diet.

Conclusion

This should help put to rest any fears you men might have had about the effects of HCG drops on the male body. HCG isn’t a “female” hormone; it’s a human hormone. Far from having a feminizing effect, HCG has special properties that aid the development of manhood and plays a key role in making men into—well, men. So yes, HCG drops are safe for men.

So now that the most important question has been answered let’s get down to business.

The beer gut, belly bulge or abdominal fat, no matter what you call it, it’s an epidemic and it’s affecting more Australian men than ever before.

Is this just a nuisance when donning the budgie smugglers at the beach or is there something more sinister involved?

The simple answer is unfortunately there is something much more serious going on. Excess stomach fat is directly linked to:

Cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2, respiratory failure, high blood pressure, cancer, high cholesterol and many more, serious health concerns.

The Problem:

Fat, when stored on the outside of the muscular system (subcutaneous fat), albeit unsightly, holds very low health risk when compared to fat stored inside the muscular system surrounding the internal organs (stored fat). Once fat begins to accumulate in these areas the health risks are greatly accelerated. They apply extra pressure on all the bodies’ life sustaining systems as well as become a storage area for poisonous chemicals otherwise known as toxins.

The Cause: Many things stack up to cause the fabled beer belly however the most common culprits are over indulgence in high carb food or drinks, hormonal imbalance and/or a sedentary life style. The Cure: Fear not, all is not lost. If you wish to decrease the health risks and feel great in the process it doesn’t mean giving up all that you love or spending hours every day in the gym. You can make a difference by making simple changes to your diet, balancing your body’s hormones and adopting an active lifestyle (as little as 30 minutes moderate exercise everyday).

Your health is in your own hands

How can the 4 Phase Fat Elimination program help you?

Going on one of our programs will initiate the reduction of stored fat (the beer belly), reset your metabolism (balance your hormones) and inspire you to eat healthy and the best part is that you will not be hungry, you don’t have to replace food with meal shakes and you don’t have to maintain an unrealistic and unsustainable exercise program.

What do homeopathic HCG weight loss plans do?

1. Case studies indicate that homeopathic HCG drops in combination with appropriate dieting protocol will result in weight loss.

2. Men typically experience higher rates of weight loss than women – this holds true when referring to homeopathic 4 Phase Fat Elimination Protocol.

3. The homeopathic HCG drops increases the body’s ability to conduct healthy fat treatment. Rather than emptying fat cells out with dieting and then filling them back up again as soon as the individual eats anything remotely high calorie or fatty…the body should begin to absorb empty fat cells into the body once they are emptied. This increases the dieter’s ability to successfully maintain weight loss.

4. HCG (in addition to the functions it provides during pregnancy) interacts with the hypothalamus to downplay hunger and cravings. This enables homeopathic HCG dieters to stick to a low calorie diet while on the plan.

Homeopathic HCG is available not just Women but Men are accessing the weight loss plan daily to lose unwanted pounds that are weighing them down. The Homeopathic 4 Phase Fat Elimination Protocol is particularly desirable because the weight loss results begin almost immediately upon starting the diet. Many dieters experience substantial weight loss beginning the first week. If anything…men benefit from HCG’s weight loss characteristics even more so than women. No one would say it’s fair, but it’s still the truth!

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85% of the illnesses we suffer from are due to lifestyle… meaning we cause them….. The biggest lifestyle factor is what we put in our mouth.

Most of the modern day foods we eat (meaning anything that comes pre-packaged) has been altered in some way has less nutritional benefit and contains preservatives and chemicals that cause inflammation and disease in our bodies.

Here is a list of food additives that have to be avoided:

Colours:

102, 104, 107, 110, 120, 122-129, 132, 142, 150, 151 155, 160B (annotto)

Preservatives:

Sorbates 200-203, Bensoates 210-213,Suplhites 220-228,Nitrates, nitrites 249-252,Propronates 280-283.

Antioxidants:

Gallates 310-312
TBHQ, BHA, HBT 319-321

Flavour Enhancers:

620-625, 627, 631

Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (HVP)

Hydrolysed soy Protein (HSP)

Soy Protein Isolate (SPI)

Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)

Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil

Vegetable Oil

A New Food Pyramid

(by Dr Joanna McMillan Price)

The traditional healthy eating pyramid puts carbohydrate-rich grain foods, such as bread, rice and pasta, along with vegetables and fruit, at the base to encourage us towards a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet. Many nutrition experts including myself now question this approach, as clearly it is not working in curbing overweight and obesity rates. There is a strong argument that humankind was never designed to eat such a high carbohydrate diet, but making it worse is our tendency to eat all the wrong carbs. Such a typical modern diet tends to be energy-dense and nutrient poor, leading to weight gain and ill health.

This revamped food pyramid is designed to reverse this. It will guide you towards a diet that gives you more bang for your bite, a diet that is nutrient-dense but energy saving. It is a back to nature approach reflecting the way we were designed to eat, and factors in the latest nutrition research.

Vegetables and fruit form the base. For very few kilojoules they provide an incredible wealth of essential nutrients. In essence this means you can afford to eat a lot more of these foods than any other.

On the second level you’ll find a flexible line between the more energy dense protein-rich and carb-rich foods. So long as you eat the minimum from each group, you can have more protein and less carbohydrate, or vice versa. How much of each you choose to eat will depend largely on factors such as your food preferences, exercise levels and body type.

Near the top of the pyramid lie the fat-rich foods. Being energy dense the volume we eat needs to be less, but because they contain many essential nutrients not found in other foods they must be included in the daily diet. The days of buying everything ‘low fat’ and ‘fat free’ are thankfully gone! It’s all about quality.

And finally at the tip of the pyramid are the treats. What constitutes as treats are the foods and drink that really give you pleasure but you feel you shouldn’t have. Chocolate, lollies, a burger, G and T, or whatever else you feel you couldn’t live without. And neither should you have to. As long as you remember the positioning of treats in the food pyramid and eat them in that proportion so that the bulk of your diet is packed full of more nutritious foods, it really doesn’t matter much what makes up this small space.

Why do we need to eat from each of these food groups? Well it’s quite simply this—each food group provides a different set of nutrients and has a special purpose. Without your share of each, your body cannot perform at its best and sooner or later you’ll feel the effect. Perhaps you don’t eat enough vegetables and fruit, and suffer from more colds and flu than you need to, or you’ve cut out carbs to try and lose weight – and find yourself constipated and unable to concentrate. You may have chosen to cut out meat, can’t cook fish and don’t understand tofu – but you always feel tired, your spirits are low and you never feel fully sated after meals. Or you may be battling with your weight on a low fat diet and have dry skin, a foul temper and an unbearable craving for a family block of chocolate.

The solution is to eat more different foods, not less. Broaden your palate to include foods from each of food groups, in the proportions illustrated in the pyramid.

Creating Healthy Meals

(by Dr Joanna McMillan Price)

Following an expert designed meal plan is all well and good for a week or two, but long lasting results require permanent change to your eating habits and that means knowing how to do it for yourself. To help you achieve this, here is my suggested template for how to create your meals.

This model allows you to translate the New Food Pyramid into a plate model for each meal. It is not meant to be set in stone, rather serve as a guide. So don’t stress if at breakfast you have a bit too many carbs and not enough fruit or veg, but then at dinner have steak and salad and not so many carbs. The point is to allow these things to balance out and overall to meet this pattern.

Try to fill half your plate with veggies and/or fruit. This is easiest to do at dinner, but work on the other meals. These foods best meet our requirement for low energy but high nutrient density. They pack loads of nutrition into only a few kilojoules.

Then add a moderate serve of both a high protein and a high carb meal, choosing quality over quantity. For the carbs that means a low GI, nutrient-rich food, and for protein one that is low in saturated fats, perhaps a source of omega-3 essential fats and certainly rich in other nutrients such as iron and zinc. Finally add some healthy fat for both taste and nutrition. This might be in the form of a healthy oil to cook, in a sauce or dressing or from a food such as avocado, nuts and seeds, or hummus. Cheese can also count here – although it’s high in saturated fat it is high in other nutrients, especially minerals such as calcium and zinc. Just be sensible about the frequency and portion size you eat.

The 4 Phase Fat Elimination and The Hunter Gatherer Diets

For those needing an extra boost at loosing those extra kilos or they are needing a good system cleanse out and hormone balance the 4 Phase Fat Elimination Diet (HGC diet) is a great tool for doing so. HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, a hormone naturally produced by the placenta in pregnant women and almost completely controls the metabolic function through the hypothalamus throughout the pregnancy. HCG weight loss studies have shown that weight lost following the Simeons protocol comes directly from adipose fat tissue rather than lean muscle. In doing so, the weight lost comes directly from unhealthy fat and does not strip the body of much needed muscle, vitamins or minerals essential to maintain good health, while at the same time, releasing excessive amounts of fat-stored nutrients into the blood stream to be absorbed by the body. For this reason, HCG dieters report a feeling and appearance of great health and marvel at the loss of negative health risks they had as an overweight individual. Dieters take a natural homeopathic drop that stimulates HCG production and a strict dietary intake. Most people loose 3-4 kilos per week.

The Hunter Gatherer Diet, also known as paleolithic diet or caveman diet (Paleo diet) , is all about natural foods to help achieve greater health and a leaner physique. The human body evolved for more than 2 million years with the food found in nature: game meat, fish, vegetables, wild fruits, eggs and nuts. The human race was thriving on this diet high in animal fat and proteins and low in carbohydrates, but things changed when we introduced unnatural foods to our bodies. 10,000 years ago, we started eating more agricultural foods completely alien to our genes and metabolisms and wreaked havoc in our body, often causing what we call the metabolic syndrome or diseases of civilization. That includes obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, auto-immune diseases, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and a host of other conditions that were unknown to our ancestors while plaguing us today.

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Historically, food has always been there to keep us healthy. Unfortunately, the Western Diet has become filled with processed foods that contain partially hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, and artificial ingredients. And we remain hungry.

The following foods are nutritious, can help you feel full, and can help individuals in pursuit for weight loss in Gold Coast.

1 – Eggs – an organic egg will help you feel full all day. Eggs are a good source of protein and have 13 different vitamins and minerals, including iron and vitamin D. I often have a hard boiled egg in the morning and it keeps me satisfied. When it is lunch time I am not ravenous. (see link below for an eco-friendly way to boil the perfect egg).

2 – Mushrooms – instead of meat use mushrooms in a sauce or salad. They are filling and cut hundreds of calories. Mushrooms are a rich source of germanium which increases oxygen efficiency in the body. They are also extremely low in calories and are a source of vitamin B.

3 – Beans – they contain resistant starch which triggers key appetite hormones. These hormones are what make you feel full. Beans have soluble fibre which lowers cholesterol and helps to improve insulin resistance.

4 – Crushed Red Pepper – the compound found in crushed red pepper is capsaicin. This is what ups the calories you naturally burn after eating.

5 – Olive Oil – contains oleic acid, which sets satiety hormones. Olive oil is high in monounsaturated fats and lower in saturated fats than other oils. (Dark chocolate also has oleic acid and curbs hunger – see link)

6 – Nuts – high in fibre and protein, nuts help you feel satisfied. Nuts have omega-3 fatty acids, phytochemicals, vitamin E, and potassium. By eating just a few nuts each day you are likely to eat 200 calories less per day. Also walnuts, almonds, and macadamia nuts are mono-and polyunsaturated fats – all good for your heart.

7 – Fresh Vegetables – a necessary part of our diet. By loading up daily on vegetables you can lose 25 percent more weight than people who only trim the fat in their diet. Plus, the magnesium, calcium and potassium in most fresh produce may help lower blood pressure. Organic or locally grown are recommended.

8 – Soup – by starting your meal with soup (broth style, not cream based) you are likely to eat 20 percent fewer total calories, than you would if you had opted to skip the soup. Soup fills you up.

9 – Berries – They’re loaded with fibre, which helps you feel full (and eat less). And they top the charts in antioxidant power, protecting your body against inflammation and free radicals, molecules that can damage cells and organs. To get the optimal health benefits of berries, eat two to three types of fresh, frozen or dehydrated berries each day.

10 – Green Tea – considered a great pre-workout drink. It increases endurance by as much as 24 percent, which can allow you to exercise longer and burn more calories. According to a Journal of Nutrition study, drinking five cups of green tea per day can help you lose twice as much weight – most of it around your middle. Enjoy your good health!

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