Simeon's protocol (HCG Diet) February 2010 THREAD

[wmac]

That is too funny! I have lived here.....since I was in second grade. So did you attend WSU? My oldest daughter is a junior there.
So had did Superbowl go for everyone? I thought the game was awesome!!!!! Couldn't have been happier!

[wmac]

Originally Posted by BethLH

OMG. We lived in Pullman from 1992-2002. My DH was a police officer and then a sergeant for the Pullman PD. Isn't that what everybody with a BA in English does? Now we own our own coffee shops here in MN.

How do you go from working at Pullman PD to owning your own coffee shop in MN? That seems far fetched! LOL

[cleoland]

Originally Posted by wmac

Has anyone done the P90X workout?

I bought the P90X back in August but couldn't do it because I my shoulder. I had rotator kuff surgery on September and I haven't been clear to work out until now. Actually I was clear to work out my abs and lower body not my arms yet. Well, funny I decided to try the Cardio and Abs Riper DVD from P90X yesterday. Needless to say I couldn't do everything. So basically you need to be in some kind of shape to do the system, is not for beginners. I don't think I will try it again until P3.

[cleoland]

Good Morning everyone. I decided to go to the gym on Saturday and yesterday only lost .3 and yesterday I did a couple of the P90X videos and today only lost .1. I drank 4 litters of water besides doing everything per protocol exept yesterday I didn't eat one fruit. Today for the first time in all my rounds I skipped the shot. I haven't done it before but this is my 3rd round and I am not sure if my body is getting immune. Any suggestions/advise??? I was a bit scare about not injecting, I really don't want to mess this round. I still have 20 pounds to go.

Last week I was prescribed an antibiotic but I took just one and felt so sick I didn't take anymore. But antibiotics always messed up my system so even tho it was only one I took probiotics right away so I am not sure if the probiotics are the cause of not much loss. I won't take them today.

[cleoland]

By the way I should have Tom coming up soon but the first time I did this diet and my doctor told me I could go all the way to 53 days (without skipping any injections) I didn't get my period. I guess the HCG got my hormones all mess up. So it will be interesting to know what happens now, I am late by a week already.

[cleoland]

Originally Posted by FitAtForty

Good morning to all on this snowy Sat from Fargo, ND.... Well happy to report the scale was my friend again today Down -1.2 lbs....
So excited about that loss- bigger than I've had in awhile so totally makes my day... made it past my halfway mark by a pound so I'm on a roll now folks!! Hope you all are doing well and doing the best you can on program.
Off for now hope you all have a great day... till next time lets stay intentional and do our best. Rockin'

Congratulations I haven't seen that kind of loss for a long time. Good for you.

[Bob1956]

Good morning All. Today is R3P3D5, and my weight is 180.5 lbs., a 1 lb. gain from yesterday. Not bad considering I ate about 3500 calories yesterday. Still alot of moving around yesterday, so I couldn't eat as well as I should have. At least for the next few days I can eat P3, Thursday is my 26th wedding anniversary, which I informed DW that dinner will be a anniversary/valentine dinner, because I'm getting tried of looking at desserts in the menu's, and not eating them. DW understands, she's doing a interruption until the 14th, then back on the juice for about another 10 days. I'll try and catch up with you guys later.
Everyone have a great and INTENTIOAL day

[cleoland]

Originally Posted by CandySanDiego

109.4 for the 3rd day in a row! Unheard of! Ended yesterday on about 1450 calories - about 23% Carbs, 30% Protein & 47% Fat. Most of the carbs were from 2 apples I had and a cup of milk.

Last P3 my calories were a little higher in the 1650-1750 (with a few high days up to 2,200) - I am about 5lbs lighter now but not sure if that will lower the calories I need. Guess I'll try and see.

See Y'all!

-C

WOW you are doing Great. I am excited to see how well you are doing in P3 because then is hope for me. Congratulations and keep it up.

[cleoland]

Originally Posted by Bob1956

Good morning All. Today is R3P3D5, and my weight is 180.5 lbs., a 1 lb. gain from yesterday. Not bad considering I ate about 3500 calories yesterday. Still alot of moving around yesterday, so I couldn't eat as well as I should have. At least for the next few days I can eat P3, Thursday is my 26th wedding anniversary, which I informed DW that dinner will be a anniversary/valentine dinner, because I'm getting tried of looking at desserts in the menu's, and not eating them. DW understands, she's doing a interruption until the 14th, then back on the juice for about another 10 days. I'll try and catch up with you guys later.
Everyone have a great and INTENTIOAL day

Bob, Congratulations on your Anniversary!!!

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by wmac

So what is on everyones Superbowl menu?

I am loading that day as well as working. So for me, anything goes. As long as it is high fat I am all over it!! I ended up with 4 TBL of coconut oil, eggs, sausage, cheese, candy and some more goodies. All high fat good loading things!!

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by Emmytheshiba

Yay thank you! I also switched from this only sort of yummy cod I'd been eating to yummy yummy tilapia which is a huge upgrade!

Oh, Em I love tilapia. That was the fish I chose while on P2 also. I have some in the freezer from last P2 that is just waiting to be cooked again tomorrow while I am on my VLCD #1 for my 3rd and final round!! Cannot wait to get to losing again!! Congrats on getting below your LDW. I hope to not get too high over my LDW this last loading day. But I do know it will come back off!!!! Now I have to stuff my face with yummy goodness. Don't know how I will do it though---I am so not hungry!! Ugh!!!

[FitAtForty]

Good morning to all hope you all had a good wknd.... we are you to our hind end in snow yet again this morning..... anyhow no loss to report today on the scale- stayed the same so thats ok too I guess always better than a gain..
anyhow hope you all have a good one and talk @ ya soon ~~

[FitAtForty]

Bob- happy early anniversary - your DW is a lucky gal which I'm sure she already knows.... have a great time you deserve it ~!!

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by CandySanDiego

I really enjoy it - I have it for at least one meal every day on P2. I keep my apple cider vinegar in a spritz bottle and spritz the spinach leaves so they are nice and evenly coated and the ACV doesn't all end up in the bowl.

Let me know what you think if you try it.

-C

I cannot believe that in my buying for P2 this week I forgot to buy spinach. It was my go to veggie last round and even though I am not fond of it it became my favorite. Mainly because it cooks down so much that it takes a few bites to get that stuff down!! Good thing I work tonight--I can pick some up at the store!!

[klittle]

Good Morning everyone!! Hope everyone had a good weekend. I had a .2 loss Saturday, a .9 loss Sunday, but then a .7 gain today. That is the most that I have gained in P2. The only thing I can think is that I had some Divinci's sugar free white chocolate syrup over my strawberries and in a glass of seltzer water. I guess I will lay off that for now. Hopefully with lots of water today, I will lose that .7 by tomorrow.

[40winks]

Hi all,
I've been taking HCG for exactly three weeks today (including load days) on my first round of sublingual HCG, and I'm down 20.8 pounds. Praise to God and Dr. Simeons!!!!


That was a great superbowl game yesterday. Loved it.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

[klittle]

Originally Posted by 40winks

Hi all,
I've been taking HCG for exactly three weeks today (including load days) on my first round of sublingual HCG, and I'm down 20.8 pounds. Praise to God and Dr. Simeons!!!!


That was a great superbowl game yesterday. Loved it.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Winks - we started around the same time and with approximately the same stats, I was 266 after my load days. You are losing much faster than I am - I'm jealous!!

Can you tell me approximately what your menues look like? Just curious.

[40winks]

Originally Posted by klittle

Winks - we started around the same time and with approximately the same stats, I was 266 after my load days. You are losing much faster than I am - I'm jealous!!

Can you tell me approximately what your menues look like? Just curious.

Hi Kristi,


I'm following the diet listed in Dr. Simeons' book, Pounds and Inches except I'm doing sublingual instead of injected HCG. My protein in 3.5 oz. skinless chicken breast. To this I add one Melba toast, either an apple or orange, and either steamed fresh broccoli or frozen spinach, frozen broccoli, or frozen green beans.

• Breakfast is coffee with Sweet and Low.
• I buy the chicken in big family packs, slice it into smallish pieces and weigh it to make single serving baggies of the raw chicken then freeze 'em. Right now, my only protein is chicken, and yet it isn't monotonous, just satisfying.
• I prefer to eat my fruit with my meal. (I core and slice up the apple, and it fills out the dinner plate to make a whole satisfying meal.) Also, this is teaching me to eat two meals and no snacks.
• For added flavor throughout the day, I drink hot caffeine-free herbal tea, like Celestial Seasons, with Sweet and Low. I've made pitchers of cold no-caf herbal tea, but it seems to give me cravings, so I usually stick to the hot tea.
• About twice a week, I take a salmon oil capsule for omega-3. (I may start taking it more often. I'm pretty sure I'm deficient in omega-3 since I almost never eat fish or flaxseed.)
• Cooking my meals is easy. I boil about 12 oz. of water in a sauce pan, add the thawed chicken breast, bring it back to a boil for 2 minutes, add the veggie, and while that cooks, I cut up the apple. Preparing the whole meal takes about 10 minutes.

While the P2 chili and other P2 recipes sound yummy, to me, this isn't a time for yummy, it's a time for purposeful weight loss so I stick more closely to Dr. Simeons' protocol.

Hope that helps!!!!

Edited to add:

• I occasionally add a little hot sauce, a few pepperocini slices or a little saurkraut to dinner. (While saurkraut isn't listed as an acceptable food, cabbage and vinegar are both listed, and together they make saurkraut.) My weight continues to drop daily, so having these condiments seems to be okay.

[klittle]

Thank you Winks for the info. I might try doing just chicken for my protein. I eat p2 chili, as it makes a quick and easy lunch while at work. But maybe I need to cut that out. Usually the P2 chili is the only beef I have, otherwise I eat mostly chicken. I have had cottage cheese occasionally when I just can't stand the thought of more chicken. LOL!! Broccoli sounds good!!! I didn't realize we could have that in P2, I might have to try it!!

I wonder if I might be fighting a set point too. I am just about the same weight that I was when I got pregnant with my son, I'm not sure to the exact lb, but I know I was in the low 250's. I also don't know how long I was at that weight, but probably for awhile. (Scales weren't my friend then, so we rarely visited eachother).

Thank you for the sample menu!!

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by klittle

Thank you Winks for the info. I might try doing just chicken for my protein. I eat p2 chili, as it makes a quick and easy lunch while at work. But maybe I need to cut that out. Usually the P2 chili is the only beef I have, otherwise I eat mostly chicken. I have had cottage cheese occasionally when I just can't stand the thought of more chicken. LOL!! Broccoli sounds good!!! I didn't realize we could have that in P2, I might have to try it!!

I wonder if I might be fighting a set point too. I am just about the same weight that I was when I got pregnant with my son, I'm not sure to the exact lb, but I know I was in the low 250's. I also don't know how long I was at that weight, but probably for awhile. (Scales weren't my friend then, so we rarely visited eachother).

Thank you for the sample menu!!

I will warn you: broccoli and green beans are BOTH NOT on protocol. Be cautious if you are going to add those in. Dr S did say that you are supposed to use beef sparingly--or at least that is how I remember it!! Maybe twice a week? And those pesky set points---yuck!! If you feel you are struggling you can always do an apple day. Do you like apples???

[FitAtForty]

Question for the pros- I am starting week 4 today on P2 and for some reason I have totally no energy or get go today.... did any of you notice that all all after a couple 2,3 weeks? I am taking a sublingual B12 supplement once a day and that is the only vitamin I have taken since starting the protocol... I feel like I've run a marathon and am totally drained and I really haven't done diddly squat? any ideas or thoughts ??

[klittle]

Originally Posted by dawnyama

I will warn you: broccoli and green beans are BOTH NOT on protocol. Be cautious if you are going to add those in. Dr S did say that you are supposed to use beef sparingly--or at least that is how I remember it!! Maybe twice a week? And those pesky set points---yuck!! If you feel you are struggling you can always do an apple day. Do you like apples???

Apples - hmmm - one or two are ok, six or seven, not so much. But, I am considering it. If it got my weight loss started, then it would be worth it. I will see what tomorrow brings and might do an apple day tomorrow if I don't show any positive results.

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by klittle

Apples - hmmm - one or two are ok, six or seven, not so much. But, I am considering it. If it got my weight loss started, then it would be worth it. I will see what tomorrow brings and might do an apple day tomorrow if I don't show any positive results.

Yay, I was pleased I did not need an apple day. I can bet that you won't want another after only eating them for the whole day!! Here is to a whoosh tomorrow!!!

[afuentes]

Hello everyone! It has been a long time. I am under 150lbs and trying to get lower each day.

For those who don't know me - I lost around 35lbs on a 40 day cycle and a 21 day cycle. I maintained for 5 months and now losing again on my own.

I am here to see if any of you heard about the Government banning hCG? My friends (who have done it as well) said that is what they have been hearing. I guess the government isn't getting paid from it and wants it banned. I hope this is a rumor. Anyone hear about this?

[40winks]

Originally Posted by dawnyama

I will warn you: broccoli and green beans are BOTH NOT on protocol. Be cautious if you are going to add those in. ...

Oops, I'd better explain why I regularly eat broccoli or green beans.

You are absolutely right, neither broccoli nor green beans is on Dr. Simeons' list. (I'd actually forgotten that.) He wrote, "One type of vegetable only to be chosen from the following: spinach, chard, chicory, beet-greens, green salad, tomatoes, celery, fennel, onions, red radishes, cucumbers, asparagus, cabbage."

A friend of mine is going to one of those expensive HCG diet doctors, and his food list is much longer than Dr. S's. Since I do love broccoli (it's rich in calcium!) and green beans, and since both of these veggies are on this diet doctor's list of accepted veggies, I decided to see how I did at HCG weight loss while eating them. Everything has been going extremely well, so I've continued enjoying them.

[Debrat3]

I know Coconut Oil is not on P2 but have read other places that people have used a small amount with good results. I was just wondering if any of you use it and how it has affected your weight loss.

[Emmytheshiba]

Originally Posted by Meme1211

Congrats on your weight losses thus far this round Em. KUTGW!!!

Thank you! My losses this round def picked up after week 2!

Originally Posted by dawnyama

Oh, Em I love tilapia. That was the fish I chose while on P2 also. I have some in the freezer from last P2 that is just waiting to be cooked again tomorrow while I am on my VLCD #1 for my 3rd and final round!! Cannot wait to get to losing again!! Congrats on getting below your LDW. I hope to not get too high over my LDW this last loading day. But I do know it will come back off!!!! Now I have to stuff my face with yummy goodness. Don't know how I will do it though---I am so not hungry!! Ugh!!!

Oh my goodness I forgotten just how much better it is than that cod I've been choking down! And oh gosh I hope you had so much fun on your super bowl load. Remember, that load in weight will be off like a prom dress in no time!

Originally Posted by 40winks

Hi all,
I've been taking HCG for exactly three weeks today (including load days) on my first round of sublingual HCG, and I'm down 20.8 pounds. Praise to God and Dr. Simeons!!!!

Amazing loss so far! I can only imagine how excited you are!!

Originally Posted by FitAtForty

Question for the pros- I am starting week 4 today on P2 and for some reason I have totally no energy or get go today.... did any of you notice that all all after a couple 2,3 weeks? I am taking a sublingual B12 supplement once a day and that is the only vitamin I have taken since starting the protocol... I feel like I've run a marathon and am totally drained and I really haven't done diddly squat? any ideas or thoughts ??

Have you had a period recently? Mine is just finishing and I am EXHAUSTED and totally hungry and shaky and grotti feeling, and my diet or activity haven't changed - nor have my sleep habits - and I'm just tired all around. Water and sleep, either way!

Hello all! Stalled at 171.2 this morning, but not surprised; I had trouble sleeping last night and ate my meals on kind of a wonky schedule. Plus I went back on drops yesterday thinking my period was done (but cheeky TOM came right back with a vengeance today to remind me he's not through yet), so I figured it might be throwing a little blip at my body. Plus this is right around my lowest set point for the past few years, so I won't be surprised if it takes a couple of days to break through. Tons of water and intentionality today, so hoping it's gone by tomorrow morning, otherwise my impatient self has plenty of apples to speed things along

[40winks]

Originally Posted by FitAtForty

Question for the pros- I am starting week 4 today on P2 and for some reason I have totally no energy or get go today.... did any of you notice that all all after a couple 2,3 weeks? I am taking a sublingual B12 supplement once a day and that is the only vitamin I have taken since starting the protocol... I feel like I've run a marathon and am totally drained and I really haven't done diddly squat? any ideas or thoughts ??

I notice you're using Hhcg -- I assume that's homeopathic HCG, so please correct me if that's not correct.

Perhaps the homoepathic HCG isn't mobilizing your body's stored fat. If that's the case, it would mean you're basically doing a very low calorie, very low fat diet. I know that whenever I'm on a lowfat diet, after a couple weeks, I feel quite weak and unhealthy.

Perhaps you'd have better results if you change to non-homeopathic HCG.

Best wishes to you.

[FitAtForty]

40winks- yes I am doing the homeopathic hcg so we'll see how the rest of the week goes and access it from there- who knows what it may be from? Plus all this cold and snowy weather that alone starts to drain me by Feb. and believe me it has been one long miserable winter here in ND..... sooooo looking forward to the hot temps of summer again @ the lakes ~~ I can only dream of it about now under all this snow....teehee anyhow we'll see how I feel tomorrow.... I think my problem is I am due for a nice vacation somewhere WARM.....

[cleoland]

Hi, anybody with experience with interruption? Today is day 23 and I didn't inject this morning, just skipping for immune purposes. Well, I went to see my doctor and she prescribed me again antibiotics and a fungal medication. She said both are very strong and I need to eat a lot before taking them 3 times a day. I can't do the VLCD diet and take this medication because I normally don't eat breakfast and I have to. So I thought I will take a 10 day break. I already didn't do well today because at the time I finished with the doctor and bought the medication it was 5PM. So I ate my dinner about 530P so I can take the antibiotic. Then I have to take the other medication about 9P but I didn't think a fruit or grissini will be enough and it was all I have left to eat so I made a 3 egg omelet (1 full egg and 2 eggs white) with onions. So I already messed up the diet for today. Should I do the VLCD diet tomorrow except I need to add eggs for breakfast to take the med. Or should I eat Atkins induction for the next 10 days or go to P3 no sugar no starch. This medication got me all confused. I was prescribed an antibiotic last week and I just took one with lunch and felt so sick I didn't take anymore. I thought I could go without it but my infection got worse and now I needed additional medication so I made myself worse in a way. Got different antibiotic and so far I haven't feel sick. Doctor told me to take probiotics at least 3 times a day. Help!! This is R3 and I have never done an interruption before.