Dr. Simeons, who came up with the HCG weight loss cure in the first place, had a lot of advice for maintaining it—for making sure it was actually a cure. Today, people using oral HCG for obesity treatment aren’t necessarily working as closely with their physicians as Dr. Simeons worked with his patients while giving them HCG injections. However, they are provided with much of the same advice, such as nutritional meal planning.
Watch Out for Hunger
Dr. Simeons stressed with his patients that it was important to not become over-enthusiastic as they wound up the diet. They should pay attention to a marked increase in hunger, which could mean that they had effectively burned all of their excess, unneeded fat and were now on the borders of starvation mode. The thing about HCG is that it won’t permit you to actually starve yourself. It will cause your body to put that essential fat right back where it needs to be.
Thus, if you lose two pounds more than what you needed to lose, you’ll gain it back when you eat enough again, and that’s okay. You need to gain it back, and you actually don’t want to lose it in the first place. Because your body could start overcompensating, making you gain back more than what you need. It could affect your ability to maintain your weight loss.
Watch Out for Protein Deficiency
Once you stop taking the drops and can eat more than 500 calories a day, you still need to eat within reason, but you also don’t want to skip important nutritional components of your meals, such as proteins. Protein deficiency causes water retention and thus perceived weight gain. During the diet, your body hovers just on the edge of protein deficiency, but since the HCG is breaking down fatty tissue, the protein is being fed back into your body.
Without HCG supplements in your body, you cannot comfortably or healthily live on 500 calories a day, and you don’t need to. You’ve lost that excess weight. Sure, you want to keep it off—but you will, by eating nutritional, balanced meals and exercising and just generally engaging in a healthier lifestyle.
