[mvjvz]

Hey all. Question! Pretty much in the title.

Suppose you take your normal hCG dose and it release say 2000 calories. Well say you go to the gym and burn 500. So do you burn those calories from your fat stores, so technically you burn 2500 for the day? Technically if you did it that way you could lose a whole extra pound a week!

Or would you just be canceling out your 500 calories from food, and put your body in starvation mode = more harm ?

Ok. Thanks all!

[Trientoriciom]

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[Rtebydou]

The Pounds and Inches protocal states that exercise isn't encouraged or necessary while taking HCG. Other than that, I don't know the answer to your question.

[zlZ95pjt]

You can do some light exercise like yoga or walking or low impact calisthenics while on HCG if you feel up to it.

[Mmccqrtb]

I tried to exercise when I first started out because I was in a really good exercise routine. Although I don't know the particular science on how the calories worked, I was noticeably VERY tired and VERY hungry after working out. I was trying to go 3x a week for about 20-30 minutes, and it was too much. My husband is in the military, and he has to do the once a week squadron PT, and he says that if he takes a protein shake and eats one of his fruits, he can manage through the rest of the day without it causing too much fatigue.

I'd say try it, and if it works for you, go ahead and do it. But if you are feeling hungry or exhausted at all, I would just forgo it. I'm still losing plenty of weight without the exercise, and I'm planning on picking up exercise as soon as I am able to without getting fatigued.

[AgowlSown]

Or would you just be canceling out your 500 calories from food, and put your body in starvation mode = more harm ? I doubt you woudl enter a starvation mode, but i do expect you would slow down your rate of loss some. Also the inflamation woudl increase your water weight which you woudl notice over and above your rate of fat loss.

Secondarily.
YOU CANT DO IT! - Dr. Robert Lustig when discussing Burning of excess fat via exercise Most of what we know in America is garbage. When you take a good hard look at the metabolic pathways of cells you realize that you were sold a load of bullshit.

THE ORIGINS OF THE CALORIE THEORY In 1930 two American doctors, Newburgh and Johnson, of the University of Michigan, suggested in one of their papers that ”obesity results from a diet too high in calories, rather than from any metabolic deficiency". Their study on energy balance was based on very limited data and, above all, had been conducted over too short a period to deserve serious scientific acceptance. This did not prevent their study from being immediately and widely acclaimed as irrefutable scientific truth, and it has been treated as ”gospel” ever since.
A few years later, however, Newburgh and Johnson, concerned at the publicity which had been given to their discovery, somewhat hesitantly published some serious reservations they had concerning their previous findings. These went entirely unnoticed. Their initial theory was already integrated into the syllabus of most Western medical schools, and there it remains to this day. Cells have two parts ( for our purposes ) one part that eats glucose and spits out pyruvate as waste and ATP as energy, and one part that eats pyruvate and spits out ATP and Citrate as waste.
That is all we are and all we have.

when your cell eats glucose it only eats as much as it needs. when the waste comes out then the second part eats it and finishes the process.

We want to belive that we can control the rate of intake, and we can to some extent, however when you zoom back out to the system as a whole there are counter regulatory mechanisms that limit that and can cause the exact opposite to occur.

What we have the most control over is what we eat. Hormones and signalling determines how fast that food gets burned, and in a healthy human ( and people on HCG see ) weight regulation happens when the body is asleep. On HCG that is why you notice that going back to bed is how you drop more weight NOT going for a jog.

Catabolic ( energy releasing / breakdown ) processes must be balanced out with Anabolic ( energy storing / creation )processes and to be blunt your body will see to it that they are regarless of what you want to happen.

I cannot stipulate the best route to fastest results, however i do recommend that you focus on a zen approach.

I assume you are looking to reduce faster than on hcg alone and while my personal experince is that you can only optimaize i suspect that you can do much to harm the process.

How to "speed it up" will be determined by what is holding you back. i can tell you it isnt exercise.
If you want to exercise while on hormone go for it, the best type will be the approach Dr. Doug McGuff advocates. That is becasue it works in such a way to work with the cellular sturctures rather than against them like most ways of exercise.

If you just think you shoudl exercise but really only care for results, investigate and determine which metabolic pathway is out of balance for you and work on correcting that.

I have averaged 1.15 pounds of loss a day over the course of 5 rounds. I have dont this by addressing the metabolic need of my body and not be adding exercise. While there are some here who have higher averages, they also had less pounds to remove and did so in a shorter time, and by their comments were in far worse metabolic shape than i started in.

[HoqCBYMl]

I'm not doing any exercise per se, what I am doing is light weights and sit-ups to tone the muscle below all this fat, so when I finish losing everything I will be nice and toned. I did increase my protein to 4.3 ounces to compensate and I'm still losing about 1 pound a day.

[iouiyyut]

I'm not doing any exercise per se, what I am doing is light weights and sit-ups to tone the muscle below all this fat, so when I finish losing everything I will be nice and toned. I did increase my protein to 4.3 ounces to compensate and I'm still losing about 1 pound a day.

Weight training and ab work is exercise. Building muscle is work. Just making an observation, no comment on doing these things in conjunction with the VLCD.

[Haibundadam]

I'm not doing any exercise per se, what I am doing is light weights and sit-ups to tone the muscle below all this fat, so when I finish losing everything I will be nice and toned. I did increase my protein to 4.3 ounces to compensate and I'm still losing about 1 pound a day.

I do the same with my protein and do light weights and yoga. I have cut out the cardio as it was too much and I was too drained after. I am liking where my body is headed this round with some very light exercise added in. My goal is to maintain my fitness gained over the past six months.