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3-Day Diet Cleansing after the Holiday

Not yet ready to do the HCG Diet after the holiday? Here is a 3-day cleanse diet to undo all the holiday damage. The 3-Day cleansing diet works effectively and quickly. It is generally enough and very simple to follow to help every dieter who’s not yet ready to embark on the HCG diet reclaim a bit of their body back.

Why use the 3-Day Cleansing Diet?

Most dieters want a faster fix instead of simply returning to regular healthy eating habits. HCG dieters who aren’t ready yet to the diet can try this 3-day detox to help them cleanse their body and eating habit before embarking on the actual HCG Diet. This 3-day cleansing diet can make dieters feel better and sometimes makes them lose extra pounds too. It cleanses the body from some of the harmful toxins from holiday parties and foods. It can provide a detoxifying effect.

How to do the cleansing diet?

After the 3-day cleansing diet, your body may look and feel different and your eating habit is detoxed as well.  Here, you only eat natural foods. This will help you change the way you taste foods so you no longer crave for crunchy, salty high-fat foods that you have gotten during the holiday. This plan is super simple. It requires no special hard to find foods. You just need to be organized in planning and cooking your meal.

Step one:  Stop eating unhealthy carbohydrates. Stay away from processed foods and starchy, refined grains. Eat lean proteins, raw, fresh or steamed vegetables. You may add at least a single serving of whole grains like brown rice or a small serving of dairy product at some meals. Remember not to jump straight at eating a very low calorie without the HCG hormone.

Step two: Avoid adding condiments and sauces to your foods. Condiments like barbeque sauces, tomato sauce and salad dressing have added sodium and sugar. If you need extra flavors, you can sprinkle some fresh herbs on your foods. Stay away from salt shakers too.

Step three: When you crave for something sweet, eat fresh fruits instead of baked goods. Baked goods are mostly empty calories which provide your body with unnecessary fat, sugar and tons of calories.

Step four: Drink plenty of water, Stay away from alcohol, high-calorie coffee and other flavored drinks that contain artificial sweeteners.

Quick fix plan won’t actually make you lose weight but clean eating will help you reset your taste for healthy foods so your body is ready if you wish to go back to the HCG diet.

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Weight Loss Fluctuations on the HCG Diet

Why does my weight fluctuate on the scale?

Weight loss fluctuation happens for a variety of reasons even on the HCG Diet. Well, because your body works in complex ways. This explains how some days you do not lose weight even when you did not cheat. Fluctuations are normal. No matter how much you adhere to the protocol, fluctuations happen and will happen. Here’s what Dr. Simeons got to say about weight loss fluctuation:

After the fourth or fifth day of dieting the daily loss of weight begins to decrease to one pound or somewhat less per day, and there is a smaller urinary output. Men often continue to lose regularly at that rate, but women are more irregular in spite of faultless dieting. There may be no drop at all for two or three days and then a sudden loss which re-establishes the normal average. These fluctuations are entirely due to variations in the retention and elimination of water, which are more marked in women than in men.

The weight registered by the scale is determined by two processes not necessarily synchronized under the influence of HCG. Fat is being extracted from the cells, in which it is stored in the fatty tissue. When these cells are empty and therefore serve no purpose the body breaks down the cellular structure and absorbs it, but breaking up of useless cells, connective tissue, blood vessels, etc., may lag behind the process of fat-extraction. When this happens the body appears to replace some of the extracted fat with water which is retained for this purpose. As water is heavier than fat the scales may show no loss of weight, although sufficient fat has actually been consumed to make up for the deficit in the 500-Calorie diet. Then when such tissue is finally broken down, the water is liberated and there is a sudden flood of urine and a marked loss of weight. This simple interpretation of what is really an extremely complex mechanism is the one we give those patients who want to know why it is that on certain days they do not lose, though they have committed no dietary error.

What does it mean?

Weight loss fluctuation happens due to water retention. The fat you lose by adhering properly to the HCG Diet protocol is obscured both on the scale and in the mirror by the additional water your body is holding. As your body burns down those fats in the fat cells, it retains fluid in place of the fat that has rapidly been metabolized under the influence of the HCG hormone. Since water is heavier than fat, the scale may show no weight loss even if sufficient fat is finally metabolized and consumed to make up for the deficit in the 500 calorie diet. The calorie deficit will systematically reduce the body fat level but the overall reduction in body weight is counter-balanced by water retention. This process is normal as water acts only as a place-holder for the lost fat until the structural tissue is broken down and eliminated. When the tissue is finally broken down, water is released and there is a sudden flood of urine and a marked loss of weight.

This process may not show up in daily weight loss however, fat loss will show up in smaller measurements around your waist and other areas of your body. The fat you loss only becomes visible when the excess fluid is removed out of your body.

Why is this happening?

The answer has to do with the cortisol hormone, the same hormone that your body produces in response to stress. Research shows that prolonged calorie deficit can dramatically raise the cortisol level causing an unwanted effect in the body such as water retention. How to lose water weight?

  1. Don’t starve yourself– or you will lose muscle instead of fats. Maintain at least 20% to 25% calorie deficit when dieting to lose weight.
  2. Eat a large amount of food occasionally– Have a cheat meal when dieting but do it correctly
  3. Don’t do hours and hours of cardio every week– Do 1 to 2 hours of cardio exercise per week when cutting back on fats or no more than 3 to 5 hours of weightlifting. This is enough to burn a large amount of fats at the same time preserving muscle and minimizing water retention.
  4. Adjust your sodium intake-because sodium can bring water into cells causing water retention. Increase your potassium intake because potassium pumps water out from the cell.

Weight loss fluctuation: Dietary Error

Dietary error while on the HCG Diet can lead to weight loss fluctuation. If you eat a very high carbohydrate meal your body weight is likely to increase due to water retention because, for every gram of carb that you eat, your body retains about three grams of water so it can store the fuel source.

Weight loss fluctuation: Menstrual Cycle

Most women experience some degree of bloating from fluid retention before or after menstrual period. It usually peaks on the first day of the menstrual flow and at its lowest during the mid-follicular period. If you happen to have your menstrual cycle while on the HCG Diet, it is advisable to stop having your shot on heavy days and resume after 2 to 3 days.

 

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HCG Diet For Above 60 Years of Age

Is the HCG Diet ideal for elderly obese people? This is one of the most recent questions asked on the HCG Diet. The answer is YES. The HCG Diet is ideal for those over 60+ years. Dieters over the age of sixty do well on the HCG Diet. In fact, there are already several testimonials found on various HCG Diet websites regarding dieters over 60+ both male and female who do well on the diet. The hormone works wonder in their system by increasing the metabolism with minimal to no side effects at all.

Age and metabolism

“As you age, you can’t eat like your younger self”, is sad but true. Metabolism changes over time so do losing weight and this is a fact. Losing weight gets harder and harder with aging because your metabolism slows down. This can make it easier for you to add a few pounds and harder to lose them. What was once easy in the early 20s, 30s, and 40s is much more difficult at the age of 60.

Your metabolism declines very slowly in your 30s and 40s but what makes you gain weight during this time is your lifestyle such as physical inactivity and unhealthy eating habits. You can keep your metabolism working faster and longer by being physically active, having a good diet and maintaining a muscle mass.

Age and muscle mass

As you age, you also lose muscle mass. You lose an average of 3-8% of muscle each decade after 30. Once you reach 80, you have roughly 30% less muscle than when you were 20. This alters how much energy your body burns. The growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland, which stimulates cell growth and builds muscle mass decreases. Your body can’t make or maintain muscle which affects how efficiently your body breaks down the calories.

HCG burns belly fat and helps boosts metabolism after age 60

At age 50, your body’s physique starts to alter as body fat migrates from the bottom and upper thigh to form a mass around the belly. This happens to males and females. It’s an inevitable process that happens in your body as you get older- a body fat redistribution that you can’t stand and is beyond your control. Combined with a low-calorie diet, lifestyle change and HCG hormone to helps boost your metabolism, you can burn those fats around your belly, thigh and upper arms due to the inevitable process of fat redistribution and slowed metabolism.

For individuals trying to lose weight at 40, eating a low carb diet can greatly help. Consuming a low amount of carb can decrease the level of insulin in the body so it can burn extra fat and use it as a source of energy. However, weight loss can be achieve faster and more efficient when combined with the HCG hormone to increase metabolism.

How to prevent metabolism from slowing down with age

  • Get plenty of sleep– This can reverse the effect of a slowed metabolism. Getting at least 12 hours of goodnight sleep can help restore metabolism while getting only 4 hours of sleep can decrease metabolism by 2.6%.
  • Eat plenty of protein-rich foods– Helps fight a slowing metabolism. A diet rich in protein helps boost metabolism by 80-100 calories per day.
  • Try resistance training– It’s great for preventing a slowing metabolism and preserving muscle mass.
  • Get enough calories-Do not skip meals in the hope of losing more weight. Not having enough calories can negatively impact your metabolism so your body will conserve energy instead of burning them.
  • Reduce stress– Stress can cause the body to produce more stress hormones than usual. Abnormal stress hormone levels can lead to eating disorders which can disrupt your metabolism.

 

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What happens when you skip a meal while on the HCG Diet?

We all skip meals in the hope of losing a few pounds. We usually skip meals at breakfast but often lunch as well but some skips their meals much more regularly. What’s the real danger? A meal is very important for our body whether we are on or off the diet. It’s where our body gets the nutrient needed for proper function. The HCG Diet, in fact, promotes a healthy meal plan that you should strictly follow for maximum weight loss. Phase 2 of the HCG Diet, specifically, restrict you to eat only 500 calories a day following a proper meal plan. The meal pattern, however, is different from other meal plans. You are only allowed to have your proper meal during lunch and dinner. Your breakfast must be in liquid forms like unlimited coffee, tea or water. This meal plan is perfectly safe. The amount of calories you get from is enough to sustain your body. The HCG hormone works amazingly in curbing your hunger, distributing the nutrient throughout your body and burning the stored fats as the main source of energy. We skip meals without knowing the possible consequences most of which are all negative. Below are some common negative effects of skipping a meal when on the HCG Diet:

  • Tendency to overeat

Overeating is the psychological result of skipping a meal. HCG dieters are not allowed to skip a meal because this can cause them to overeat on the next meal. When you skip meals, you feel like you owed something later in the day so you tend to overeat.  Each meal on the HCG Diet is an important part of the weight loss process. Skipping lunch is even worse. By 3 or 4 pm, you’ll get very hungry that you’ll reach for the first food that you can find or you’ll eat anything when you arrive home.

  • Hold onto calories

Your body goes into a starvation mode causing your body cells to crave more food. When you eat your body will hold onto calories for future storage. The foods you eat will transform into fat more readily and get deposited around your belly. When your body goes into a starvation mode, it looks for a new source of energy. As it transformed fat into energy you will feel nauseated and constipated. You’ll become irritable and stressed. Your blood pressure and blood sugar level are affected.

  • Sluggish and unable to focus

Skipping a meal will literally make your head spin. You will feel dizzy, low in energy and even feel like you might pass out. This is all due to a drop in the blood glucose level affecting your body organ’s normal function. Fluctuation in the blood sugar levels can increase your risk of developing diabetes later in life.

  • Does not lead to more weight loss

If you think skipping a meal is a smart way of losing and maintaining weight, then you are wrong. You will consume fewer calories for sure but there’s a great chance for you to binge on unhealthy foods and cave in to your cravings.

When you skip a meal your metabolism will slow down causing you to gain weight and making it harder for you to lose the weight you have gain. All this can lead to a dangerous cycle of yo-yo dieting. Yo-yo dieting can mess up with your metabolism. Your body won’t burn the calories from the foods you binge after skipping a meal efficiently. Your hunger hormone, leptin, will also take a hit. Your body might produce less leptin making it harder for you to discern when you’re already full.

  • Risky metabolic changes

Studies found out that skipping a meal during daytime and eat one large meal at nighttime resulted in risky metabolic changes such as an elevated glucose level and delayed insulin response. When persisted on a long-term basis could lead to diabetes.

Bottom line: Skipping meal on the HCG Diet is a BIG No

Skipping a meal can happen from time to time but it can negatively impact your health if you are doing it consistently. Skipping a meal when on the HCG Diet is not promoted as this will not make you lose additional weight. Here are some tips for you to avoid skipping a meal:

  • Keep a healthy snack ready. Having a nutrient-rich snack ready like low-sugar protein bars, plain Greek yogurt, granola bars and roasted almonds to hold you over until your next meal.
  • Eat frequent meals throughout the day rather than to skip a meal. You may eat your fruit or carb portion as morning, afternoon or evening snacks.
  • Have a meal replacement shake handy. A meal replacement shake can help you get a complete meal on the go along with some healthy snacks. Just remember not to turn this meal replacement shake into a regular habit. Even if you have a very busy schedule, making time to prepare for your meal is a priority.
  • Plan your meal.  Prepare a nutritious breakfast a night before so you can have something ready to eat in the morning. You don’t necessarily have to prepare a meal for the entire week.
  • Make a lunch date. Setting a lunch date won’t give you any excuses for not having a proper meal.
  • Eat less but do not skip a meal. Eating less is different from skipping a meal. When you have not eaten for a very long time your brain receives messages from your body for nourishment. When you are very hungry the more you eat and this happens when you skip a meal.
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Caffeine on the HCG Diet

Caffeine is healthy and it can help you lose weight. Yes! You heard it right, caffeine can help you lose weight in addition to the HCG hormone you inject intramuscularly each day. From “Pounds and Inches”, you are only allowed to drink coffee and tea while on the HCG Diet. Why Coffee? It’s because of the caffeine in it!

Caffeine on Coffee During the HCG diet

Coffee is the main source of caffeine worldwide and its safety has been established by several coffee studies. Caffeine is a natural stimulant also found in tea, cola and other products. It’s commonly used to improve mental alertness by stimulating the brain and the central nervous system. Caffeine helps control the appetite but what makes it good during the HCG Diet is that it can increase your metabolic rate.

The caffeine in the coffee you drink mobilizes the fat from the fat tissue and speeds up your metabolism. It does this by stimulating your nervous system so it can send a direct message to your fat cells leading to the breakdown of the fat. This helps the HCG on your system to promote faster weight loss. The high metabolic rate speeds up the fat-burning process during your diet.

Coffee contains very little calories. A cup of black coffee gives you only 2 calories so you can have as much coffee as you want or as your body can take. Coffee does not violate the HCG protocol. In fact, it’s one of the unlimited drinks that you can drink during the HCG Diet.  However, just like other beverages, too much coffee with caffeine (you can have a coffee without the caffeine in it, I am talking about decaffeinated coffee) can lead to something else. Consuming too much caffeine may give you the caffeine jitters. It can make you irritable and may even trigger anxiety. So, you must consume caffeine moderately besides there’s no evidence that increased consumption results in permanent or significant weight loss.

Further studies also have concluded that caffeine can prevent weight gain or slightly boost weight loss that’s why it’s a stable ingredient in many weight loss or fat-burning pills and supplements. It’s the darling of all intermittent fasters who drink coffee for breakfast.

Benefits of Caffeine

Aside from helping you lose more weight caffeine has tons of other benefits too.

  1. Increases fat-burning activity during exercise

Consuming at least 3 mg of caffeine per body kg can shift calorie burn towards fat burn. Caffeine will not cause you to burn a lot of calories during exercise but it will shift your calorie burn to use more fat. Instead of the usual carbohydrate, your body will burn stored fats. This sounds even better when you are on the 500 calorie diet. You’re on a low carb so your body will have to use the stored fat as a source of energy instead of carbs

  • Caffeine may help prevent weight gain after losing them.

The caffeine in coffee or supplements will not cause you to lose weight without any diet or exercise changes but caffeine can help you prevent regaining your weight after losing them.

  • Caffeine helps you eat less

We all know that over time, we tend to get tolerant to the effects of caffeine so the likelihood of losing more weight using caffeine may stop. However, there is still a possibility for caffeine to blunt appetite and this can help you eat less. The appetite suppressant effect depends on your weight. There is a stronger effect for those who were obese than those who are at a healthy weight. It has an appetite reducing effect particularly to men which makes them likely to eat lesser at a meal following caffeine consumption.

  • Promotes faster weight lose

Caffeine increases your metabolic rate by 3- 11%. For leaner people their metabolic rate increases by 29% and only 10% in obese. Over time, you become tolerant to its effects. If you’re using caffeine for the sake of weight loss it’s best to cycle your coffee drinking habit. A cycle of two weeks on, two weeks off is best.

  • Reduces cravings for comfort foods

Caffeine is a stimulant that makes you feel good thus improving your overall mood. Considering that low mood is a major cause of cravings, caffeine can help reduce cravings by reducing their desire for comfort foods. So, instead of reaching out for that comfort donut in the box, why not grab a cup of coffee and enjoy your moment.

  • Reduces headache

Caffeine is a mild pain reliever that helps relieve headaches when on and off the HCG Diet. Caffeine helps constrict the blood vessels in the brain when pain comes. It helps boost common headache remedies such as ibuprofen, aspirin or paracetamol by 40%.

  • Reduce the risk for diabetes type 2

Caffeine contains antioxidants called polyphenols that help improve insulin sensitivity thus reducing the risk for diabetes type 2. It also contains the mineral chromium and magnesium that have been linked with a lower rate of diabetes. Consuming at least three cups of coffee with caffeine a day can decrease the risk of having diabetes by 11%.

  • Caffeine keeps you alert

Caffeine tricks your brain to help you combat drowsiness. It temporarily blocks chemical adenosine to prevent fatigue.

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