For Mel....want to join her? (updated 6/26)

Mel wrote:

Hey Dan, thanks for your prompt service. Yep, I'm gonna try HCG one last time. I've already spent over $500 within the past year. I originally lost over 30 lbs, gained back most of it and have been struggling ever since. I'm hoping this time will work for me. I've bought the HCG at 3 different overseas pharmacies so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Anyway, you're still an inspiration and I'm always checking out your web page. Thanks for keeping me positive.

Mel


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Dan wrote:

Do you like chicken, apples and tomatoes?

If so here is my sure-fire method;

Cut and weigh 3.5 oz portions of boneless skinless chicken breast. Fry in a little water with whatever spices to taste. I cook a week or two at a time and freeze whatever I need to after cooking.


At as close to 11 am as you can, it's lunch time.

3.5 oz chicken (weigh before cooking)
1 medium tomato
1 apple (or orange)
2 little grissini bread-sticks (make sure they say grissini).

Dinner is as close to 5 pm as possible.
It is an exact repeat of lunch.

You will count water throughout the day. Set an alarm for the top of the hour. One 6 to 8 ounce glass every hour. Yes!

No, you can't substitute. No, you can't drink less.

Feel free to add zero calorie soda, coffee or tea, but NO milk or creamer and only zero calorie sweetener, AND any of this only in addition to the water.

Go to a health food vitamin store and buy a liquid dropper-type yeast-killer. The strongest one they sell. You use that one drop in morning and one drop at night in your water. Also get a 14 billion per capsule, active pro-biotics (PB 8 or equivalent). Store in the fridge! You will take 3 capsules morning and 2 night. Increase the yeast killer drops by one additional each day (2 drops day 2, 3 day 3, 4 day 4, and so on until you run out).

You will eat the exact same meal lunch and dinner, every day until you get to your goal. No break. No cheating. Yes it sounds boring, but it doesn't end up being boring.

Tell me by email your weight every morning. You are going to weigh after you get up. In the raw. After you pee. Email me okay? Pinky swear?

You are going to ignore days you do not lose pounds because on those days your body is absorbing empty fat cells and you are losing inches and shrinking. All the energy is going into that process, so you won't lose or won't lose as much. If you have an intestinal yeast infection, this will cure it. If not, you will be very intestinally healthy, so just do it. Those of us who eat a lot of sweets, or a lot of stuff like processed white flour that is easily turned into sugar in the body, have the potential to develop an intestinal yeast infection along the way, which then craves more sweets, etc. I suggest people just treat it just in case, because after the diet is done, you will rebound if you have one and the diet is perfectly ph balanced, so it helps with the eradication.

Your first 3 days, you are going to go crazy and eat so much junk and fat that you throw up and cry. Well try to get close to throwing up and crying anyway! :) But I am serious - you don't do this, just quit now. Yes it is that important. You MUST top off healthy fat stores in your body, or your body has trouble for a week or two as it tries to do that and balance external calorie intake with internal calorie consumption. It also helps the body to not be stingy and give up the fat. The higher initial weight loss days 4 through 10, the quicker you will lose weight from then on!

You are going to stay at whatever level of exercise you are at from 2 weeks before you start, all the way through the diet, and you are going to be sooooo religious about it, so that it is the same precise, and exact amount every week. Every day if you can. Best yet is if you don't exercise, but you need 2 weeks of no exercise before you start if you are currently exercising. It takes the body 2 weeks to adjust calorie processes with a change in exercise level. But you can exercise if you want with this diet. Just have to do it consistently.

I am going to help you. I am going to be your accountability partner and adviser. I need complete honesty. Just tell me what you did right or wrong if need be. Daily. If you run into a snag, I am going to help you figure it out.

Okay? Let's do this.


Dan


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Another note from Dan (6/26)...

Here is why I gave Mel and everyone else this advice. When I initially did my weight loss, I tried to figure out how I could try to make the food limitations on the Simmeons protocol, just as interesting as they are off the diet. I spent way too much time thinking about what to make and how I was going to make it and dwelling on food so much makes you cheat. It just does.

My brother had been very successful at the injecting version of the diet and I asked his advice and he told me that his best success was when he ate the exact same thing for every meal. I started the same and boom, I was down the rest of my weight and through with the diet. It was so unexpectedly crazy. I was in a little shock. I wasn't hungry and I wasn't bored with the food choice at all, which is not what I expected, and it all went by so fast.

Here is why; Your hypothalamus pre-plans energy usage. How much it expects you to consume externally, and then what it needs to convert from fat stores. In my experience, what you eat today has the biggest effect on this process a day and a half to 2 days from now. Cheat and consume a bunch of calories today, and you are hungry tomorrow and the next day. IF I cheat on the diet, I will be hungry not the next meal or two, but the third. If I can just get past that hunger, I will not be hungry any more.

It is because the body expects that what you consume at any given meal, is the new amount you will consume at every meal. With hCG in the system, you can push the hunger a day because of all the calories from fat in your bloodstream. But you will pay a hunger toll.

On the diet, just remember that hunger means your body is doing well. Days you have hunger at all and don't cheat tend to be your biggest weight loss days.

So, this is a short-cut. If you eat the same lean meal every meal, every day, you are getting enough vitamins minerals, and enough calories from brain function and muscle repair, and it is ultra consistent, so your body just runs like a fine-tuned machine. Your weight loss is maximized.

Also, on the first three days of the diet, you must load right. Your normal fat stores have got to be topped off or you can struggle in the beginning. Because we are heavy, we are always watching what we eat. Yea, we blow it and consume too much, but the problem is accentuated because of the processes of our body. It all kind of works against us - we eat too much so it isn't cataloged by the hypothalamus, but then when we try to take the weight off, and it can't get to what it didn't catalog, so it eats the normal fat stores instead.

We have to get all our normal fat stores healthy, to be successful on this diet, because if not, the body struggles to get them topped off and it interferes for a week or two. So on day one, two and three, eat so much that you are sick, sick, sick of food. And then keep eating. Eat the fatest, sweetest, sugary stuff. And eat so much you gag. And then keep on eating. If you do, you will have big weight losses initially, and big weight losses initially sets a pattern for weight loss that you actually keep and you will lose weight faster.


A third thing mentioned above is water. Why do I mention water? It is important for many reasons. It helps you feel full. Also, if you don't drink enough, your body has to adjust and yank more water out of what you consume and so it interferes with the intake process, and then also your body decides, well it better keep all available water and goes into bloat-mode. It retains the water for a day or two or more and your weight loss is impacted. But most importantly is it's use in the fat utilization process - once the body consumes the fat out of the cell, it consumes the empty cell too. This is where your body gets all the vitamins and minerals it needs, and is why you don't have to take supplements on this diet. This process of cell absorption take a lot of water. If you don't drink enough water, then the above negatives happen and it impacts your weight loss. If someone tells me they are not losing weight, I start looking at water consumption first. Remember reading about the apple day? Do you know what the apple day is doing? It is hydrating you so your body will stop retaining water.

Consistency is also very important to the way your body plans energy usage. That's why I advise to eat lunch at the same time every day. And dinner too. My experience is at 10:45am sharp, I get hungry. Same at 4:30 to 4:45pm. That's my body. You will have something similar. Be consistent and do the above things and you will succeed with flying colors!

Notice the yeast advice too. If someone is having trouble with their weight loss, this is another area I go after. I figure we all have the perfect environment for intestinal yeast to flourish - too many sweets unbalances the ph is a way that yeast can flourish over the probiotics in our intestines. This allows the yeast to root in and cause big problems that you don't even know are yeast. The diet is perfectly ph balanced, which is one of the things you need to beat a yeast infection. So why not take advantage of the situation and treat any yeast infection with yeast killer and probiotics? I felt that after I treated for the intestinal yeast infection I had, I had much more clarity of thought. I felt generally better and all the sweet craving went away!

Also, being very scientific about this diet, weighing every morning, weighing the meat and watching everything closely, helps you take it more seriously, which helps you stick to it and achieve your goals. So that is important too.



Dan