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Increase water
intake to 2-3 quarts per day. |
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Try adding 2-3
cups of green tea to your day. |
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Don't eat 2
apples for the two fruits or cut
down on the size of the apples. |
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Cut American beef
down or out. |
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Check all
condiments for any form of
sugar. "Garlic Salt" may list
sugar as an ingredient. Any
seasoning salt or seasoning
product must be carefully
checked. |
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If mixing
vegetables, stop. |
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Try leaving out
one or both breadsticks. |
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Make sure there
are no additives in chicken or
other protein sources. Many
times these are injected with
some form of of sugar even in
the grocery store. Buy organic
meat and chicken that are not
injected with bovine growth
hormone. |
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Consider the
potency of your HCG. You may
need to mix a new, fresh batch.
Potency can be checked by
drawing up some of your mixed HCG
and putting it on a pregnancy
test kit that you would put
urine on. |
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Consider if
immunity could be setting in
based on how long you have been
taking shots (longer than 30
days), consider dosage (between
125 and 250), and whether a day
per week has been skipped. |
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Consider if you
are potentially at your ideal
weight. Are you in the suggested
weight range for your height and
build? Are you also hungry and
not feeling good? It may be time
to stop losing. See Dr Simeon's
HCG diet protocol on reaching
your goal during a cycle of
shots. Basically, you increase
food intake to level off losing
until the minimum number of
shots is reached, then follow
the HCG protocol through the 6
week stabilizing period. |
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For women, your
cycle may be coming into play.
Review Dr Simeon's
HCG diet protocol |
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Have you changed
or started one or more
medications? The change may just
cause a few days delay as your
body adjusts, but you may want
to consult with your physician
to possibly change again or go
back to the previous medication
if the plateau continues and all
other plateau breaking methods
fail. |
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Review
HCG
diet protocol for
serious plateaus (5 days or
longer). While the HCG protocol
reports "apple days" as purely
psychological, many participants
report a loss of 2 pounds the
day after an apple day. |
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The HCG protocol
states you are not required to
eat all the food each day so you
may want to consider dropping
one or both of the "breads"
and/or one of your fruits. |
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Do a "mini-steak
day" every so often. If you are
familiar with the HCG protocol a
"steak day" refers to a routine
you follow after you have
completed the HCG injection
phase and are weighing daily.
During this time, if your
morning weight is 2 pounds over
your last shot weight, you must
complete a "steak day". A "steak
day" means you drink water, tea,
and coffee when you want and in
whatever quantity you want, but
you do not eat anything until
dinner. For dinner you eat a
large steak and either a tomato
or an apple. So for a
"mini-steak day", the client
drinks allowable drinks but has
a 100 gram (3.5 oz) steak
serving with an apple for
dinner. |
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Consider adding a
brisk walk, some yoga, or any
type of exercise for 15 minutes
a day, a few times a week -
anything that elevates your
heart rate throughout the day.
Any type of activity increases
your metabolism and may increase
your rate of weight loss. |
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Make sure you are
getting enough sleep. More than
a few participants have reported
being up late and getting up
early and the scale reflecting
little to no weight loss.
However, simply weighing an hour
or so later (without eating or
drinking anything) reveals a
drop on the scale of up to 2
pounds. This suggests that
routine and adequate sleep can
effect what the scale registers.
While this probably doesn't
actually affect the rate of
weight loss, it can cause
discouragement and therefore,
routine and exceptions such as
being "up late and getting up
early", should be kept in mind. |
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Try taking 2
tablespoons of apple cider
vinegar to your daily routine.
Some resources recommend that
you take the apple cider vinegar
diluted with water, but not to
spread out throughout the entire
day as this has been shown to
have negative side effects on
teeth enamel. Many resources
claim extensive benefits due to
apple cider vinegar intake,
particularly increased weight
loss; however apple cider
vinegar may cause discomfort if
you digest the vinegar using
undiluted spoonfuls only.
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