Common Traits Associated with Weight Gain

Weight gain is typically associated with too much eating and insufficient exercise. However, numerous studies show that there may be more factors at play. Below are common traits that contribute to weight gain.

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  1. Slow metabolism– Slow metabolism can lead to weight gain. Metabolism is your body’s way of processing energy for activity and rest. People with faster metabolisms burn more energy and lose weight, as compared to people with slower metabolisms.
  2. Emotional eating– Sometimes, when you are at your weakest point emotionally, you turn to foods for comfort. You turn to foods to cope with tough situations or feeling of stress or even boredom. Emotional eating can lead to weight gain. It can also sabotage your weight loss effort during the HCG Diet. If you eat out of emotion, take steps to regain control of your habits.
  3. Chronic stress– Chronic stress is a common problem that can affect your weight. Even if you are on the HCG diet, stress can sabotage your weight loss efforts. During stressful times, your body produces cortisol to give your body the energy it needs to cope with stress. However, when cortisol is elevated for too long, it can lead to weight gain. High cortisol levels can make you crave for high sugar and high carb foods to provide your body with the fastest source of energy.
  4. Low satiety– Low satiety is responsible for excess weight gain. If you have low satiety, the tendency is, you overeat. You tend to eat a larger portion of foods and continue eating even after meals.

Your weight depends on the balance between your calorie intake and your energy expenditure. If you eat more than you burn, you will gain weight. Your body will store excess energy as fat. If you eat fewer calories than what your body metabolizes, you will lose weight.

  1. Lack of sleep– Lack of sleep increases your risk of weight gain. When you lack sleep, your hunger hormone increases, and your satiety hormone decreases, which could lead to overeating and subsequently weight gain.

Weight gain on the HCG diet

Hold on, weight gain on the HCG diet? Maybe weight gain after doing the HCG diet. Weight gain ON the HCG diet make no sense at all because the HCG diet is designed to let you lose weight and not gain. With the restricted calorie intake along with the daily shot of HCG hormone, you can lose around half a pound to a pound each day. Unless, of course, you are not doing anything right at all. Remember, if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight no matter what diet plans you follow.

The HCG diet is a perfectly planned weight loss protocol that will let you lose a good amount of weight naturally in just a short time. This diet will not only let you lose pounds and inches, but it will change your eating behavior into a healthy one, of course, so you can keep the weight off for good even after doing the diet.

Regulating Other Hormones that Causes Weight Gain

Losing weight is more challenging, but it can even be more challenging when your hormones are not balanced. Below are some hormones that you’ll want to get in check to make sure you are on the healthiest weight possible. 

  1. Leptin 

Leptin hormone tells you that you are full, and it is time for you to stop eating. It’s the hormone that regulates your appetite and is meant to keep you slim and away from overeating.  

When you eat foods rich in sugar, fructose’s oversupply is converted into fat and gets deposited in the liver, belly, and other areas of your body. Your fat cells will secrete more and more leptin, and your body gets insensitive. Your brain will stop receiving signals of “stop eating,” and this vicious cycle will lead to weight gain.  

  1. Ghrelin 

Ghrelin is a hunger hormone. Usually, whenever you’re hungry, your ghrelin would be too high and drop after having a meal. For obese people, their ghrelin is the same before and after having a meal. As a result, you eat more frequently eating, leading to weight gain. Your ghrelin hormone can also rise when you are on a very strict diet or fasting.  

  1. Insulin 

Insulin’s primary purpose is to help carry the glucose into the cells to be used as energy or stored as fat. But overconsumption of foods loaded with sugars like processed foods, alcohol, and artificial sweeteners can make your body resistant to insulin. Your muscles will not recognize the insulin, and the glucose will remain in your bloodstream. That finally leads to weight gain and diabetes.  

  1. Cortisol 

Cortisol is a stress hormone produced by the adrenal gland. Cortisol plays a vital role in the proper functioning of the body. Its primary function is to: 

  • Decrease the stress level by increasing the blood sugar level.  
  • Aids in the metabolism of protein, fat, and carbohydrates 

A higher level of this hormone would result in overeating. It increases visceral fat deposition and fat cell maturation, thus leading to weight gain.  

Given the poor lifestyle choices nowadays, your body can be in a constant state of stress allowing your adrenal gland to secrete more cortisol hormone, which could be why you are gaining weight despite your weight loss efforts.  

  1. Estrogen and progesterone 

Estrogen and progesterone are female sex hormones. Your body can function properly only if there’s a balance between these two hormones. Any imbalances in levels of these hormones can lead to weight gain.  

  • Too high estrogen causes weight gain. It irritates the cells that produce insulin, making you insulin resistant. As a result, your blood sugar level rises, and you gain weight. 
  • Too low estrogen can make you gain weight also. Typically, low estrogen happens during the menopausal period, where your ovary no longer produces estrogen. Your body may start to look for estrogen elsewhere. One good source is fat cells. To put things back in balance, your body will convert all the extra energy into a fat deposit on your belly.  
  • A drop in progesterone can increase your appetite and slow down your metabolism, leading to weight gain. Progesterone levels can drop due to stress, menopause, and the use of contraceptives.  
  1. Peptide YY (PYY) 

Peptide YY is a hormone produced in the small intestine. It helps limit the food intake and reduce appetite. Regulating the Peptide YY hormone may help reduce weight gain. Foods that may help increase the PYY include fiber-rich foods, proteins, and low carb foods.  

  1. Thyroid hormones 

Your thyroid gland produces three thyroid hormones. The three hormones function together in regulating your metabolism, heart rate, sleep, growth, and brain development.  

Sometimes, these three hormones become imbalanced. Underproduction causes hypothyroidism and is often associated with slow metabolism and weight gain.  

  1. Melatonin 

Melatonin is a hormone that regulates wakefulness and sleep. When you sleep, your body releases growth hormones, which help heal, build lean muscles and improve body composition. When you do not get enough sleep, these processes get disrupted, causing stress and inflammation-induced weight gain.  

  1. Glucocorticoids 

This hormone helps reduce inflammation that can sometimes lead to unfortunate outcomes like weight gain. However, the effect of this hormone opposes that of insulin. It doesn’t favor sugar as a fuel for the body.  An imbalance of glucocorticoids can lead to weight gain.  

  1. Testosterone 

Testosterone hormone, also known as androgen, is a male sex hormone produced by females in a small amount. Together with the female sex hormone, this hormone helps regulate, repair, maintain the reproductive tissues, bone mass of women and improve libido. However, high stress and age can significantly decrease the testosterone level, leading to bone loss, muscle mass loss, and obesity.  

How Can the HCG Diet Balance out all these hormones?

The HCG diet utilizes the HCG or Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin hormone produced in the placenta of pregnant women. The HCG hormone has been used in treating fertility issues in both men and women and has been used for decades in weight loss programs such as the HCG Diet.

When injected, the hormone allows your body to burn the stored fats to be the primary fuel source. One of the many benefits of using the HCG diet is that the HCG hormone can regulate other hormones in your body responsible for weight gain. It balances out your other body hormones, so you may lose weight safely and maintain a healthy weight for good.

Stress and Weight Gain

HCG can help you lose weight when combined with a very low calorie diet. It resets your hypothalamus gland causing your body to use the “Abnormal Fats” as a source of energy. However, a high level of stress can interfere with this process. High level of stress can counteract the effects of the hormone causing your body to put on weight.

Unexpected Ways Stress Can Cause Weight Gain

  1. Stress decreases your metabolism. When you are stressed, your body reacts to stress by acting as if foods won’t be available in the future. This causes your metabolism and fat burning ability to slow down.
  2. Stress provides for a more fat storage. Your body assumes that there’s a lack of food so it begins to store fats.
  3. Stress can lead to an unhealthy craving. People who are always stressed become emotional eaters. This leads to relapses into addictions, excessive drinking of alcohol and food cravings.

Reasons for Keeping Stress Level Low on the HCG Diet

  1. Stress often leads to diarrhea, bloating, pain and constipation due to physiological effects.
  2. Stress can interfere with the HCG hormone causing an immune problem. This is because when you are stressed your body releases new hormone that interferes with the ones that you have injected.
  3. Stress can lead to bad eating habits.
  4. The HCG hormone could alter your blood pressure when you are stressed.
  5. High level of stress can cause severe skin disorder.

Some tips to help decrease stress while on the HCG Diet

  • Exercise: Exercise is a great way to decrease stress. It releases a certain hormone that can make you feel happy.
  • Eat only the approved HCG Diet foods: The HCG diet foods can make you feel more relaxed. Just be creative with coming up with different mouth-watering menus using only the approved HCG diet foods and spices.
  • Meditate: Meditation relaxes both your body and mind. So take a few minutes every day to sit and clear your mind.
  • Make time for yourself: NO matter how busy you are, make time for yourself. A few minutes of your time can make a huge difference in your ability to deal with your day.
  • Learn how to respond to stress positively.
  • Be happy. The very low calorie diet can be pretty tough and challenging. But if you will have an easier time if you can change your attitude. Be happy and positive all the time.

Weight Gain During Loading Days

One of the frequently asked questions about loading days is How much weight should I gain when loading?”

The answer is it’s highly individual. But base on observations:

For first time to load on the HCG injection

Your loading gain is minimal with the usual range of 1 pound to 4 pounds per day. Yes, 4 pounds of loading gain is just minimal when loading during the HCG diet. You will likely to lose if not all, most of the weight gain on your VLCD.

Why? New loaders are carrying excess water weight before starting with the hcg diet. So, there would be no major inflation gain from suddenly increasing your sugar and fat while loading. For first-timers, you will usually gain somewhere between 1-4 pounds on gorging for HCG. However, all the weight gain will be burned off quickly on your next round with HCG injections.

Loading during subsequent rounds on the HCG injection

For those who have been eating a health diet in their previous phases and who load WELL on FAT gain as much as six to nine pounds on the first day. This is because they are not carrying around extra water weight unlike those who load more on carbs and sugar. The next day, they likely gain less.

On each loading day, it is important to eat between 3,000-5,999 calories. You should gain between 2 to 6 pounds. You can eat whatever you want in a larger amount provided that the foods are high in fats. Dr. Simeon did make it clear that the purpose of loading is to get a high amount of fats into your body.

Foods you can load on

On typical loading day:

  • Breakfast

Sausages, bacon, egg, bagel with cream cheese

  • Snack (midmorning)

Strawberries and donuts with whip cream

  • Lunch

                        Pork or chicken with baked potato and sour cream

  • Afternoon snack

Milkshake, peanut butter sandwich, nuts

  • Dinner

Steak, pizza, Caesars salad with Avocado, cheesecake

  • Late night snack

Avocado or Hard-Boiled Egg on Crispbread

It’s essential that you keep track of how much weight you gain during your loading days. Keeping track of your weight gain will be your benchmark for the rest of your hcg dieting.

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