Are weight fluctuations just another name for yo-yo dieting? I don’t think so. Almost everyone in our groups and hCG clients has them. I have them. A lot of pounds lost, a few regained at some point. What now?
For me, there is a day-and-night difference when i think about my past struggles with the slow up-creep of weight after menopause: nothing I tried worked. With hCG I have the absolute reassurance that I can get a grip of it at any time again, the moment I decide to. My acting principle used to be: whenever I pass 5 pounds, like on vacation or over the holidays, I’d do a short-term “cure” for my stressed hypothalamus. Two days of hCG intake, one day of binging, 5 to 6 days of dieting with hCG or the Amino Acid equivalent. Back to normal — or that desired “normal” that can slip away again.
What I tend to forget is Phase II, the transition time, the week or two of no sugar and no carbs. I know myself. Carbs, carbs and chocolate are my tempters. They have to be kept limited to small portions and disciplined treats. I have to remind my body and psyche how wonderful I feel when I don’t give in to the old adage, “Oh, just one more piece or portion won’t hurt me…Right now I deserve a treat!” Once my system is reset to careful, caring, healthy eating, once my discipline is restored, the cravings dissolve. I am happy again with greens, protein and fruit. No need for lots of bread and chocolate. In case of an emergency or a big party I am able to make use of the famous Apple Day in order to balance out and correct any slipping up the scale by 2,2 pds a day. Can I always do this? No, I can’t.
Like many others I worked with, I experience periods where my body says, NOT NOW. Leave those extra 5 or 6 pounds alone and let them take care of themselves! These are often times when I feel a certain vulnerability. The slight coating of fat feels like a protection, as if without it, on the thin side, I am a bit fragile, a bit naked, and I want to hide. I want to understand, find out why this happens. What reasons of stress or anxiety trigger this response? It makes me curious.
Do I really eat more? Drink less? Walk and exercise less? Is it really hunger or some other dissatisfied appetite? Is it some “sluggishness of soul” that turns down my metabolism?
I wait and observe. For how long will I let this be, let myself go, before I find the motivation again to act?
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There are times when my body says “No”. I want that extra weight as protection. Getting too thin brings more attention from men that I don’t want right now. When I know I will be seeing my lover soon then my motivation returns. He lives 700 miles away and I can not be around him right now. So I feel safer to keep on the pounds.
Very good point, Deanna. I can share with you that when my weight goes down to the low “ideal” in my mind, I begin to worry that I am not “protected” enough! An interesting dilemma! I bet many of you know what we are talking about…
HCG helped so much, last year, at my initial stages of losing the ten pounds, that extra weight that only in these last few years had I ever reached. I was thrilled to have that weight drop off, almost with an ease. That brought me down to the final ten still to lose, and over the last year I’ve struggled with these last pounds. One thing that was clear, the sugar addiction gripped me, as it had always done, ever since I was a child. So always, each time I would lose a few of the last “ten”, I would quickly go back on the sugar. It had a real emotional component to it also. Sugar was my comfort, and sugar was where I hid. Then along came the wonderous food extract, foundational food supplement, called Laminine. And then the miracles started for me. Taken from the ninth day of a fertile hen egg, this powerful food in a capsule goes to work supporting the body to balance and renew. And renew I have done. What is most striking is that around week 5 or 6 of taking Laminine, the intense obsession with sugar lifted out of me, that’s how it felt. And it has not returned, and I continue on Laminine, now into month five. As my hormones and brain chemistry are normalizing, a calm and well being is restored, like I have never known. And in turn, it is becoming natural to turn to a healthy eating lifestyle, and that is what I am busy at learning now. It’s coming naturally and willingly. Nothing forced, no binges that creep up on me. I am so grateful for Laminine. And also grateful for HCG for getting me over the hump of the extra weight that felt so overwhelming.
Shema, this is fascinating. Thank you for sharing this new discovery. I will for sure try it!
Renate, I found my first found to be the easiest of all. Serious loss of weight, no temptations, just strict adherence, and then virtually a compliant phase II. But the subsequent rounds I didn’t follow with the phase two, just as you describe your post travel re-sets, and the creep back up is more a daily fight. Also, my carb …sugar/bread cravings just didnt ever dissipate other than when on phase I and the true phase II.
So, I am holding on to 7 above my all time low, but daily, I go up and down. I lose one or two, then see the green light for a pastry. Or ice cream. or another glass of wine.
I am heading back to work after the 4th of July….and vow to do phase II this time. I want to get to 132 which means 12 from today. And currently I am holding fast at 40-43 lost.
Hi Kathy,
Sorry this message of yours kept in hiding! Thanks for writing. You can be proud to be doing so well. Your success is spectacular. I guess the art of affecting real change is a very individual thing. I struggle with cravings, too, more or less, depending on how I eat and how stressed I am and how much sleep I get. I try to stick with the French way: discipline of eating only small amounts of crave-foods. And stick to small meals, almost more like snacks, so the occasional glitch is balanced out. Kepp it up, you are doing great!