Excerpts from the oral hCG technique for weight loss
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Three days test regime

The purpose of this three day regimen is to evaluate how your body's metabolic system responds to a specific set of circumstances. Therefore, it is essential that you carry out these instructions exactly as described. Otherwise, a proper evaluation cannot be made and the test will be inaccurate.

The information obtained from these Three day test regime will be very important in outlining a later stabilization program for you and designing a proper course of maintenance after weight loss -- that is, to stabilize your weight at the level reached at the conclusion of an hCG series of treatment.

Since we must know what you weighed before you started the test diet, and what you weighed after you have completed the three days of this test period you must report two weights to our dime -- namely, your initial weight and your final weight.

Both of these are first morning weights: You must weigh in the morning, after first getting out of bed, and having emptied your bladder. You should weigh either without clothing or with your night gown or pajamas, on the same scale and in exactly the same way.

Here is what you do: Initial weight: Weigh yourself on the first day of the test diet (day one). This will also be the day of your first hCG administration in most instances. (If your case is an exception you will be told or. what day to begin the test diet), Final weight: Weigh yourself again on the morning of the fourth day (after you have completed the three days of the test diet). This will usually be the day on which you will take your fourth hCG administration. After you have weighed on the fourth morning you will be ready to begin the regular hCG diet, which you will then continue until three days after your last hCG administration.

Amount of food

Foods should be eaten in as large quantities as possible. The purpose should be to satisfy your appetite completely and without reservation. Continue to eat and eat and eat as much as you can. You should be thoroughly satisfied that you have had enough. Make your appetite your friend, rather than your enemy, as you have up to now. By getting on the same side with your appetite (instead of on opposing sides), you will be much more successful with this regimen.

If your condition is low, owing to excessive previous dieting, must eat to capacity for about one week before starting treatment, regardless of how much weight you may gain in the process. One cannot keep a patient comfortably on 500 Calories unless his normal fat-reserves are reasonably well stocked. It is for this reason also that every case, even those that are actually gaining, must eat to capacity of the most fattening food they can get down until they have had their third hCG administration .

It is a fundamental mistake to put a patient on 500 Calories as soon as the hCG administrations are started, as it seems to take about three to four hCG treatment days before the hypothalamus receives the proper signals to allow fat mobilization. That fat will be thus ready to be used for metabolic purposes without any discomfort to the patient.

We distinguish between the first three to four oral hCG administrations, which we call "non-effective" as far as the loss of weight is concerned, and the subsequent hCG administrations given while the patient is dieting, which we call "effective". The average loss weight is calculated on the number of effective administrations and from the weight reached on the fourth day of the hCG administration, which may be well above what it was three days earlier when the first administration was given.

If you have been struggling with diets for years and know how rapidly you gain if you let yourself go it will be very hard to convince you of the absolute necessity of gorging for at least three days, and yet we must insist upon categorically if the further course of treatment is to run smoothly.

If you have to be put on forced feeding for ten days before starting the hCG administration (because of previous dieting) you will usually gain weight rapidly—four to six pounds in 24 hours is not unusual—but after a day or two this rapid gain generally levels off. In any case the whole gain is usually lost in the first 48 hours of dieting. It is necessary to proceed in this manner because the gain re-stocks the depleted normal reserves,

If you are in a satisfactory general condition or do not have just previously restricted your diet, start forced feeding on the first day of hCG administration.

We have noticed that some patients say that they can no longer overeat because their "stomach has shrunk" after years of restrictions. While we know that no stomach ever shrinks, we compromise by insisting that they "eat frequently of highly concentrated foods such as milk chocolate, pastries with whipped cream, sugar, fried meats particularly pork, eggs and bacon, mayonnaise, bread with thick butter and jam, etc".

If you strictly follow this indications, your compliance will always be amply rewarded afterwards by the complete absence of those difficulties which patients who have disregarded these instructions are liable to experience.

During the three days of forced feeding — from the first to the third hCG administration — you will be surprised that contrary to your previous experiences you do not gain weight and perhaps even lose some.

One explanation is that in these cases there is a compensatory flow of urine, which drains excessive water from the body.

The other is that you may be so anxious to start dieting, that at the moment when you take your first hCG dose you are seriously committed to dieting so that there's no argument that can counteract your decision.

The third explanation that hCG administration rapidly reaches the hypothalamic area, creating a sensation of satiety not experienced before.

To some extent this seems to be a direct action of hCG, but it may also be due to a higher protein intake, as we know that a protein-deficient diet makes the body retain water.

It is usually at this point that a difference appears between those patients who have literally eaten to capacity during the first two days of treatment and those who have not. The former feel remarkably well; they have no hunger, nor do they feel tempted when others eat normally at the same table. They feel lighter, more clear-headed and notice a desire to move quite contrary to their previous lethargy. Those who have disregarded the advice to eat to capacity continue to have minor discomforts and do not have the same euphoric sense of well-being until about a week later.

It seems that their normal fat reserves require that much more time before they are fully stocked, and the proper satiety signals did not reached the hypothalamus.

Any Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) generates a situation of stress in your organism. For the centers regulating fat accumulation and deposition, your conscious desire to start dieting "on Monday" has no meaning.

Your hypothalamus is a very robust and efficient administrator: until Sunday was administering 2,000 Kcal and on Monday you consciously reduce your intake to 500 Kcal/day.For those centers, that severe food restriction creates a stress situation: the hypothalamus doesn't care if you are dieting on your desire, or you were left alone in the middle of the desert. All it knows is that it has to administer 500 Kcal instead of 2.200 .

Since it's a stress, creates defense mechanisms : one of them is adrenaline secretion. Adrenaline is a very powerful substance that gives an adequate reply to stress. Some of the well known effects are tachycardia (heart beat acceleration), peripheral vasoconstriction (goose skin) and fat mobilization.

Under hCG, stress is minimal or null. hCG reaches the hypothalamic area, exerts its action there , and due to the fact that hCG molecule contains Beta endorphin ( a natural peptide related to neuroregulation), patients feel in excellent mood throughout their treatment. hCG administration prevents the hypothalamic stress created by a Low-Calorie- Diet

15/08/2009