Lowest Common Denominator – R6C1P2D04
Beginning in early September of 2007 there was a two month period of time that I really put my nose to the grindstone in regards to this protocol. I was reading everything and anything I could get my hands on and applied it directly to what I was doing.
In that time, there were lots of discussions I had with various people over at the HCG2 Yahoo Group, and when I look back on it today, I cannot believe how incredibly ON I was on about certain things. That is not bragging. That is just fact.
Over the next few days, I will be rewriting some of these observations and sharing them with you.
My Lowest Common Denominator Theory
Back in early September of 2007 JPS and I were having a discussion about how new the protocol was and that we were still figuring out all the nuances about it. Since we didn’t have Dr. Simeons to ask, we had to come up with theories on our own. I had mentioned to her that the Yahoo Group we belonged to at the time was basically a research study in what works and what doesn’t. I had told her that with the wide diversity of people that there is on the board we are creating our own research study results.
But with like every research study results, in order for something to work for the masses, you have to bring things down to the lowest common denominator. So with the testing grounds that Dr. Simeons had in his time, he had to figure out what was going to work for every single person across the board. He had to bring his diet into a field where if anyone one did it, they were going to have similar results. He couldn’t possibly come up with a diet that would change from female to male, from age 45 to 25, from really obese to only needing to lose 15 pounds.
So my thoughts are this, and they always have been this:
You WILL have success on this protocol if you follow Dr. Simeons by the book. But you COULD also have success if you deviate for what is good for YOUR body. What is good for MY body is not what will work for YOUR body. I do believe in something NHW once told my sister in that “you will lose weight on this with whatever you eat as long as it totals 500 calories or less – you may not lose as fast as you would if you followed the menu, but you will lose faster than with any other diet” – and for some, quite frankly, this is all it is, a “diet”. To me though, it’s something FAR different. But you know what? NHW has been around for 18+ years and it has worked all that time with them.
Because all of these ‘case’ studies we did with ourselves was in the infancy stages, we really didn’t know what the final results will be. But now that I have almost two years of my own research under my belt, I know what works and what doesn’t. I know if done right and done correctly, that a good clean Phase 3 will yield good clean results, in other words, I can reset my hypothalamus to maintain my weight.
What will tomorrow bring? More on the theory of “Lowest Common Denominator”.
Update
7.8 total for the round so far in 3 completed days (just for fun, I took my measurements – 5.75″ lost so far!)
I ate:
2 hard boiled eggs for lunch
2 hard boiled eggs, small can of tuna, lettuce, tomatoes and onions with a bit of sf relish and mustard, sprinkled with a bit of vinegar for dinner
Did I mention I was in the ZONE???
