12) Oops! I gained more than 2 pounds! A steak day (my abstract from P&I)

• Skipping Two Meals - the Steak Day
  
  • As long as their weight stays within two pounds of the weight reached on the day of the last hCG dose, patients should take no notice of any increase but the moment the scale goes beyond two pounds, even if this is only a few ounces, they must on that same day entirely skip breakfast and lunch but take plenty to drink.
  • In the evening they must eat a huge steak with only an apple or a raw tomato.
  • Of course this rule applies only to the morning weight. Ex-obese patients should never check their weight during the day, as there may be wide fluctuations and these are merely alarming and confusing.
  • It is of utmost importance that the meal is skipped on the same day as the scale registers an increase of more than two pounds and that missing the meals is not postponed until the following day.
  • If a meal is skipped on the day in which a gain is registered in the morning this brings about an immediate drop of often over a pound.
  • But if the skipping of the meal - and skipping means literally skipping, not just having a light meal - is postponed the phenomenon does not occur and several days of strict dieting may be necessary to correct the situation.
  • Most patients hardly ever need to skip a meal. If they have eaten a heavy lunch they feel no desire to eat their dinner, and in this case no increase takes place.
  • If they keep their weight at the point reached at the end of the treatment, even a heavy dinner does not bring about an increase of two pounds on the next morning and does not therefore call for any special measures.
  • Most patients are surprised how small their appetite has become and yet how much they can eat without gaining weight. They no longer suffer from an abnormal appetite and feel satisfied with much less food than before.
  •  In fact, they are usually disappointed that they cannot manage their first normal meal, which they have been planning for weeks.