Round 3 Preparations For Loading

I wrote this to the three people starting hcg for the first time this weekend with me as I enter my third round.

The two days of loading before beginning the very low calorie diet with hcg are meant to provide your body with fats for transitioning in the first few days. Loading properly will help with hunger while the hcg is kicking into overdrive.

You start the morning of your first loading day with your weight and your first dose of drops or injection. If on drops, space them out evenly throughout the day. They don't have to be at the same exact time each day, but someone near helps.

Load with good healthy fats and some carbs as well as things you will miss while on the diet. You don't have to stuff yourself to oblivion though. Use full fat items that you might usually use fat free versions like mayo, cream cheese, cheeses, sour cream, ice cream, yogurt etc. Use real butter, olive oil, canola oil, for cooking etc. Choose full fat oil-based salad dressings. Avocados, walnuts, macadamia nuts, almonds, olives, peanut butter, eggs, bacon, fatty cuts of meats, fried foods, cream sauces, etc are all good choices for loading too. You don't have to eat all these things, but do go a bit overboard. Don't stuff yourself too much with sugars, although enjoy that cheesecake or chocolate cake, etc.. but just do it as a compliment to all the healthy fats. Sugars in excess can make you crave more in the first few days.

Get in 2 or 3 meals and a few fat-loaded snacks. Don't worry about the gain, it comes right back off in the first few days.

Don't by a ton of these type groceries because you'll see them in the house and want them or will have to toss them or give them away.

I've ended up with alot of cheese in the house from being on maintenance. Sunday being Superbowl.. I'm cutting all of it up and leaving it out for people to snack on. Dinner Sunday night is going to be eggs (with cheese) and bacon.

Once you start this diet you need to follow it through to at least 30 days.. 2 days of loading with the hcg drops, 28 days of low calorie diet (500 calories a day from the Pounds and Inches Protocol) while taking the drops, and 48 hours (if using homeopathic hcg) or 72 hours (if using rx grade hcg) of the low calorie diet without the drops at the end before moving to Phase 3, the first 21 days of maintenance. Stopping somewhere in between can really do more damage than good and likely cause you to gain the weight back. Following through, you'll be amazed at the rapid results, and at how you can eat a normal amount of calories in maintenance and maintain your weight.  Yes I know that protocol talks about 23 days or 40 days, but it's recently becoming evident that people stabilize better if they have done at least 30 days of hcg before ending a round.  You can go longer.