[Soresbox]

Another 3 pounds today.... Total of 13 pounds in 3 days..... But I dont know if I can stay on the diet much longer. I am close to cheating. I am sooooo hungry. Maybe I should skip tomorows dose of HCG and see what happens.... Any thoughts? If I feel better then what should I do?

I am on day 5 of the drops. 3rd day of the diet. My weight loss is fine. I am down 13 pounds already (345 starting). My wife is doing this with me. She is half my size (170 starting) and she has lost 6 pounds. She is doing great. Not hungry at all and told me she thinks it is not hard at all...

I on the other hand am ready to quit. This is horrible. I have done 700 calorie diets in the past and lost lots of weight with no medication. I had no problem. I was never hungry. But so far I am starving all the time. I have hunger pains and I feel nausea from the hunger. I have had headaches ever since I the first day of the diet. Even Motrin wont get rid of the headaches.

I have been taking .5 cc of Hucog HCG mixed with Saline. I know it is correct because it is working for my wife so well..... Since I am larger and I have been starving I increased the dose by .3 cc. I just took a mid afternoon dose yesterday and today with the extra .3cc.....

[VQdeochratis]

Bad idea increasing your dose. Most hunger on this diet is because of too much HCG, and you can't assume that it's the right dosage for you just because it's working for your wife. Every person is different. Also, there is no link between body size and dose- I'm a big girl, taller with about 100lbs to lose and I don't even need the average dose in order to lose. I dropped mine way down over the course of the round and I do fantastic on just 132iu each day, but I started at 175iu PER DOSE (I'm doing sublingual) and I know how bad that hunger is. Skip an entire day and gauge how you feel, but it really sounds like too much to me. I'm very familiar with that hunger and it really sucks. Do the skip test, it really is the best way to know what you need. Skip and feel better = too much hcg. Skip and feel the same or worse = not enough.

[Jourgenz]

Thank you so much for the advice. I really apreciate it... I will skip a day tomorrow and see what happens. There is no way that it can be any worse than this.....

If I skip and take less HCG will it slow my wiehgt loss down. If I start taking half as much HCG will there be any negative affects?

[Andrew1978]

If I skip and take less HCG will it slow my wiehgt loss down. If I start taking half as much HCG will there be any negative affects?

No, the amount of HCG def won't slow you down, in fact it takes several days for the HCG to even clear your system (hence the 3 VLCD days at the end of the diet for the HCG to clear out), so if you are indeed taking too much, which I believe you are, your body will have plenty of HCG to run on during your skip day. You won't lose less on a smaller dose just as you won't lose better on a bigger dose. Actually once I started getting my dose right after I dropped it way down I was losing a bit more steadily than on a higher dose.

One thing about this diet is that it challenges traditional thinking. I initially assumed I'd need a higher dose because I'm a bigger girl (I have a large body frame, I'm 5'6" and I have a lot to lose) because a lot of the thinking is that a bigger body needs more of something to circulate properly. Sort of the way we tend to think of alcohol, you know? But the truth is that you really need just enough to trigger the right mechanisms in your body to shift fat burning to your abnormal stores. Some people just need less to accomplish that, and there's no hard and fast rules for dosing-you jut have to try it and see. I also think that some people absorb sublingually better than others. The idea behind the double sunlingual dose is that less HCG is getting through each time, so you increase the dose to make sure you're getting enough for it to be effective. Your case sounds like mine in that your body is absorbing it quite well, so it's absorbing too much with too high of a dose.

Anyway, feel free to PM me anytime, I've dropped my dose so many times on my round that I feel like a pro! But I always go with the skip test, it's the best way to know for sure!