WOO F***ING HOO !!! IM IN THE 170'S !!

So I skipped weighing in yesterday ( Monday ) morning like a chicken skips the free ride the farmer offers.  And Im glad I did because this morning my weight was 178.6 !!!  Good way to start the day.  So apparently the small amount of damage I did over the weekend wasn't horrible.  Today is day 30 of the plan and so far I am down 21.40 pounds !!!  12 more days on Phase 2 and I will begin to increase my daily calories and introduce new foods back into my life. 

This is how Phase 3 works:  Phase 3

1st 3 weeks: NO sugars and NO starches

• That means N-O bad for you sugars and N-O starches on the 1st 3 weeks of HCG (sometime mistaken as HGC) Maintenance
• If you cheat during HCG Maintenance you may mess up all of the hard work you endured over the last month in the HCG VLCD and take the chance of making HCG Maintenance in the future much more difficult. Believe me, you don’t want to do that.
• Good foods to eat on HCG Maintenance are protein-rich sources such as...

  

• Meats
• Eggs
• Hot wings
• Jerky
• Low Carb fruits
• Low starch Veggies
• Few almonds
• A little bit of cheese
• Some healthy fats
• Salads with low-carb HCG maintenance dressing such as Ranch dressing and Blue Cheese

2nd 3 weeks of HCG Maintenance / HCG P3: S-L-O-W-L-Y adding back sugars and starches in (starchier fruits and vegetables, good whole wheat bread, etc.)

• Slowly, very slowly, add back sugars & starches (starchier fruits and vegetables, good whole wheat bread, etc.)

• Your body needs time to adjust as the new food is being introduced in HCG (commonly mistaken as HGC) Diet Maintenance.

• Good foods during the 2nd 3 weeks of HCG Maintenance are all the foods listed in the 1st 3 weeks of HCG Maintenance with a little more leniency, any fruits and veggies, a little more dairy (yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese, etc.), still lots of salads, maybe a little more peanut butter, more milk, low carb/high fiber cereals like Kashi, oatmeal, etc. and your other favorite sugars and starches in very small portions and only one or so a day as the scale allow.

The goal during HCG Maintenance is to help your body learn a new weight set point. You must still weigh every day on HCG Maintenance (and for life) in order to train your body to maintain this new weight set point.

WARNING: Any day that your morning weight is 2.1 lbs over your last HCG date weight (the last day you took HCG), you do an HCG Steak Day. An HCG Steak Day is where you eat nothing all day (but drink plenty of water, coffee, and/or tea). Then, for your evening meal, you eat a huge steak (8-14 oz) followed by an apple or a raw tomato. This should put you back down 2-5 lbs and get you back in your HCG “range”.
As you move forward in life you will continue to weigh yourself each day and complete a HCG Steak Day any other time that your morning weight is 2.1 lbs over your last HCG (commonly mistaken as HGC) date weight. It’s that simple.
The foods you should NOT eat during this 3-week time period are starches and sugars: I want to re-emphasize. No starches or Sugars!

• Grains: rice crackers, flour, bread, pastry, tortilla, pasta, rice, cereal etc.
• Sugar: includes sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, powdered or confectioner's sugar, agave syrup, high fructose corn syrup, honey or maple sugar.
• Root crops (carrots, beets, turnips, parsnips, potatoes, yams, winter squashes, sweet potatoes, jicama, etc.)
• Beans, legumes
• Fruit not previously allowed
• Any food that contains any of these as an ingredient.

Do not restrict calories during this phase. In fact, Dr. Simeons reported that he often saw problems, primarily weight gain, if people tried to restrict calories during this three week period.
The reason is believed to be that resetting the hypothalamic set point becomes impossible if you are restricting calories and the body still thinks it is starving.