YAY! Several new videos from Robin Phipps Woodall, author of Weight Loss Apocalypse!
 

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Oh, Dream! Thank you for sharing these. I am going to have to take the time tomorrow to really sit down with these and watch them. It is my short shift at work, so good timing!!!!

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Sent these to my Bff who is on her 30th day of hcg rx and she said that she wishes she had watched these much earlier. She is still struggling with carb addiction and has had a few slip ups. She is down 20 lbs, I tell her that she will never see this kind of weight loss any other way. :dunno:

Okay, you started something Dreamchaser! I was up late watching these videos and you HAVE to watch this one. In fact, everyone who is doing protocol for the 1st time should. I wish so bad that I had before I did protocol 4 years ago. Practicing the hunger scale is amazing and can be used now even if you are in maintenance. :up: I had initiated the hunger scale after reading her book, but have not had the time to focus on it as intensely as she does in the Body/Mind Clinic, but I will now. ;)

It is so thought provoking and at the same time, so worth the end result! :love: Oh yeah, and the amazing energy you feel while being on Hcg, it is not the Hcg hormone causing this, it is your leptin doing what it is created to do and when you listen to the leptin, you have this freaking "energy high"! This is why on JUDDD, I can clean the house from top to bottom on a DD. Energy! ;)

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Oh I have seen that one. It's great! I think I have seen all of her videos and some of them more than once! :)

I could not agree with you more! Robin is awesome! :love:

These are FANTASTIC!!! Thank you!!!! The videos really bring the message of her book full-circle.

Man I wish I could have her as my own personal counselor!

Are you guys using the hunger scale in either P2 or P3? I've read Weight Loss Apocalypse book and am definitely intrigued and challenged by it, but also scared to death. It's hard for me to trust my own judgment on when and how to eat as I've been on the crazy diet cycle for all of my adult life. I am wanting to be free of the emotional hunger and all the rules, but yet I crave the rules, especially in P3 and P4.

I'm currently on my 4th round of P2, after having gained back 11 pounds during my last P4 because I just didn't weigh every day and kept splurging. I feel like I rushed into this round because I was desperate to get the weight back down. Now that I've read Weight Loss Apocalypse, I'm realizing what a dangerous game I'm playing with my hormones by not taking this more seriously. I'm actually worried I've done permanent damage to my hormonal system in that I'm going to put weight back on twice as easily if I'm not uber-careful with every morsel I put in my body, especially if it's at a time when I'm not hungry.

I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to handle P4 this next (and hopefully last) time. On one hand, the "rules" I've become so familiar with - weigh every day, do a correction day when over 2lbs, eat all your allowed calories - are appealing and comforting, but I also like the idea of just allowing my body to tell me what and when to eat. I just don't know if I can do it.

I read the book and was a bit surprised at her ideas about P3 and Correction Day. She has worked with thousands of patients and has witnessed the hunger scale work. So, it is intriguing. :dunno:

I am presently doing JUDDD maintenance and started to use the hunger scale while JUDDDing. The main issue I am facing is that my hunger is pretty much evaporated with fasting alternate days. This really makes adhering to the cal levels of Juddd a real trick. I have tried to bring it up a few times on our JUDDD forum and most of the experienced JUDDD budds, feel that you shouldn't listen to the hunger scale because of issues with eating to your calories on UD. :dunno:

So, I am *privately* experimenting with this and keeping records. Will report back as I get further along with hunger scale. The one thing I do know, is that she has been very effective with helping solve emotional eating issues. I stabilized well for a year and a half with my last hcg round in 09. It was when I went on a cruise and had other health issues that everything seemed to fail and I gained back 25 pounds over the course of a year. :mad:

So, I am like you and curious, especially to those of us who felt like Simeons plan is the only way. I have witnessed many others who did the protocol back when I did, have struggled maintaining the weight loss and then I have also seen some who never needed to correct or have stabilization issues.

Thanks for your response, Sunday. Please let me know how your experiment progresses. I'm encouraged by the fact that you maintained for over a year and a half, and hope you're successful at getting back down to goal. :up:

Yes, it is sort of a game with me now! I never thought I would enjoy the feeling of hunger or allowing myself to get as low as 3.0 on the scale. But I do! I like the free feeling of not eating at the time that we are programmed to eat, B, L, & D. And I also, enjoy waiting until true hunger strikes! :)

I also love that the girl in Robin's video lost 10 lbs in the 2 week practice trial of eating by hunger scale. :love:

Wow!! Good stuff!! Thank you for posting! I really needed to hear video 2 today!

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Another good one! :clap:

I am having a time about that as well. I am the type of person who will put off eating until I am starving and then eat all the bad things that I should not be eating!! That is why my doctor thinks my blood sugar was out of whack a few years ago. I got the fasting numbers under control so I am no longer pre-diabetic but I do have to be careful. Now that I am not doing P2, I do eat on a regular (as much as I can) schedule on my UDs. My schedule is such that I have to eat when told at work because when it is generally breakfast time or lunch time is when we are busiest and can barely get a sip of water in :laugh: I work at a fast food joint so I cannot eat when I want. But other than that little blip, I do try to eat regularly. Like today. I ate when I woke up; ate lunch around 1:00; and will eat dinner around 6:30 or 7. I find that I don't want/need snacks if I do this. If I don't eat true meals and let myself go, I will get out of control and eat a bag of chocolate :sad: There is no prep with that so it is grab and go and what I prefer to grab and go. I take the hunger scale to be perhaps a bit different, but I have to work with my schedule and what I have been handed. I use it more for a guide as how much to eat. I take this cue from my son. If he eats a doughnut and is full after eating the whole thing but 1 bite, he will leave the bite sitting on the plate. I would get so mad, because who in their right mind would leave one stinking bite of a yummy doughnut on a plate???!! Whereas I would finish the whole doughnut "because it is there". In using the hunger scale I will now leave food on my plate and don't feel I have to finish everything on my plate. That is freeing to me! I really like the DDs because I barely eat and that is so simple to do. No worries there. Just give me coffee and I am good to go for hours at work. Even weekends are not tied down to "what to eat" or scheduling errands around meal times.

I also worry about what I have done to my body with all the rounds I have done because I was over my LDW by "too much". And then cheated throughout those rounds :doh: Oh my goodness :stars: I am on JUDDD right now and it is going alright. I am still getting the hang of it and how to do it for my body, but at least I have the DDs down :laugh: I think if this is your only round you have rushed into you are OK. No harm done. Just ride out the roller coaster of JUDDD and don't panic when you do go up. Just remember that it will go back down. I am like you, I need rules and the rules of "no sugar no starch" are not good enough. That is why I like P2 so much and always hop to it. I know what to eat. For JUDDD, you know what to eat for half the time and the other half you can enjoy. Kind of freeing, with rules. Best of both worlds :D

You will do fine hikergirl

Btw, my stepfather was a by the clock type of eater and would get antsy when 12:00 came and no food was prepared :laugh: Sometimes he would just eat by himself because none of us was ready to eat lunch when he had to. That was when he would visit us. He and my mom are in FL.