The incredible edible egg!

It’s about time. Recently there was a study done at the University of Surrey that finally tells us something most of us knew all along (CTV.ca News Staff). Eggs are healthy. Bruce Griffin tells us that not only will eggs NOT cause cholesterol problems as had previously been reported, but they will help you lose weight when combined with other dietary changes, all actually leading to LOWER cholesterol.

Further declarations of the study prove that only 20 – 30 percent of the body’s cholesterol can be attributed to diet, with more significant cholesterol problems stemming from being overweight, lack of exercise, and smoking.

This is just added to the long list of misinformation the worldwide public has been fed ever since the advent of the scheme of LOW FAT was introduced in the early 90’s. Yet isn’t it interesting that as fat consumption decreased, obesity rates increased dramatically.

It just goes to show how incredibly important it is to do your research. Only then can you distinguish between what is real and what is information that is being forced fed by the powers that be that want your money.

Oh yeah, I could go on and on.

Citations:
Study further unscrambles egg-cholesterol myth
If the low-fat fad was bad for waistlines, could this be why?

The Biz

What can I say?  The HCG Protocol will NEVER fail you, honest to goodness.  You follow it, you believe it, you embrace it, and it will reward you every single time.

Dr. Simeons said you would lose your load gain weight within 48 hours, and by George he was right once again.  This is actually my 8th time starting a P2 portion and each and every time I have lost my LOAD GAIN during the first 24 – 48 hours.  Not ONE time has that failed.  Ever.  He absolutely KNEW what he was talking about, plain and simple.

Gain during Load:  3.2
Loss Overnight:  4.8

Amazing what happens to me during protocol.  My mind really becomes clear.  I think better.  I sleep better.  I am much more organized, I actually get things done.  JPS and I were joking around last night that we might as well inject for the rest of our lives because we both feel so incredible while we are on Protocol.  It’s a thought.

So today I was 162 – which incidentally was the exact weight I was when I closed my 4th round out back in February of this year.  So, my wanting to pretend that the whole 5th round was a maintenance round sounds good right about now, eh?

I am focused, what a feeling.

Yesterday, I ate 6 eggs.  I did that to clean my system out, and it worked like a charm.  Today is pure protocol.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

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R5P2 Starting Weight 176.8
Yesterday – 165.2
Today – 165.4
0.2 lb GAIN Overnight
3.4 lb Over LIW of Round Four (162.0)
11.4 Lost Since Start of R5C1 (VLCD) 05/06/08
85.4 Total Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

Ok, this is getting simply ridiculous! ROFL – In all my rounds I have never done this two steps forward, one step back thing. But I had to experience it sometime, I guess. I wonder if I am more issues this time with TOM because I am at a lower weight? I have to remember what Dr S says:

any gain of more than 100 grams is invariably the result of some transgression or mistake

So since .2 lbs is only around 90 grams, there is nothing for me to worry about. So again, another chalk one up to TOM and be on with my day!

I didn’t eat anything yesterday off protocol. I had a smoothie for lunch of cottage cheese, grapefruit, cocoa, and spinach. And then for dinner I had P2 spaghetti sauce with green beans. Oh well. I am still on target.

Phase Two Deviation Recovery

Ok, it happens – at least at one point in a round, something will happen and we either eat too much food, have a protein craving, we are stuck out unprepared, but we eat something we don’t mean to and the next morning we are faced with a gain. There are tricks that might help when such occurrences happen.

Please keep in mind before I offer these suggestions, that this does NOT give you the license to deviate. I am only trying to provide some guidance if the situation was truly unplanned or unexpected. And yes, these things DO happen. Life happens. And these suggestions will help you get past these places and move on. Please remember that Dr Simeons says the following (under “Duration of Treatment“):

It seems that even in the mildest cases of obesity the diencephalon requires about three weeks rest from the maximal exertion to which it has been previously subjected in order to regain fully its normal fat-banking capacity.

That being said, and I am NO doctor or research scientist, but I do have a feeling that Dr Simeons saying you need at least 21 days of rest for your diencephelon in order for the course to be effective means just that. It needs to rest for 21 days. So keep that in mind if you suffer a deviation. It just MIGHT be harder for you to stabilize in Phase 3 should you deviate in Phase 2, unless, after the deviation, you give your diencephelon an additional 21 days to rest. Make sense? I’m just sayin …

Ok, so you find yourself in this predicament, and you are 1 – 2 lbs heavier the next morning, what to do? The point is to fix this issue as soon as it happens, don’t give up, get right back on that band wagon and start again. Here are TWO suggestions for deviation recovery:

1) Modified P2 Steak Day – Easy enough. You save all of your allowed protein for a supper meal – 7 oz of whatever protein you choose. What works best is the beef, but there are people out there with an aversion to beef, so pick your protein. 7 ounces tops raw, and then with an apple or tomato. Nothing to eat during the day, only waters, teas or coffee (without cream). This will produce a lost sometimes of the whole gain, or very close to it. In my research, will not be followed by a bounce back.

2) Modified P2 Egg Day – Now this can be handled two ways, one you can use real eggs. The other you can use Egg Beaters – your choice. If you use real eggs, your choices are very limited as real eggs add up very fast. The trick is to maintain the 500 cals on an “egg day”. Since one egg as a whole equals around 75 cals, you can have 6 whole eggs in a day. If you choose to use Egg Beaters with yolk, you can get up to 12.5 servings (since one serving is 40 cals).

Keep in mind, with my research, the P2 Steak Day seems to have more success than a P2 Egg Day, so the choice is yours. In any case, here is help for you to recover from a Phase Two deviation!