Guest guest Posted May 26, 2010 Report Share Posted May 26, 2010 Hi Sara, The diet is going well. I am not hungry on the 500 calorie diet. Any desire to eat is out of the habit of snacking or boredom. There have been a few days that I could only get 360 calories in. My arm muscles did ache a little the day after those days so I assumed that I wasn't getting enough protein. (I was also quite active cleaning house so my arms could have been sore from that). So, I make sure that I eat my daily ration of protein as per the diet. This 500 day diet can ONLY be done while taking the injections otherwise you lose the good fat and put yourself at serious risk. At the end of this post is an excerpt from his manuscript that describes the three different kinds of fat. Dr. Simeons' diet forces the body to lose the abnormal fat first and only. You MUST stop when you start losing the good fat. I have also found that my pancreatitis that I have is resolving itself and that reduces my discomfort greatly. I used a nutrition website to convert his diet to foods that I eat (I am gluten free) and in doing so I learned alot about nutrition. The diet breaks down to 65gm of protein, 45 gms of carbs and 7 gms of fat per day. When I have chronic pancreatitis or edging toward an acute attack, I cannot even eat the 7gms of fat - I go on a liquid diet with no fat for about 3 days and I keep myself from being hospitalized. So this low amount of fat is common for me anyway. http://www.nutritiondata.com/ I am hoping that several rounds of this diet will reset my hypothalamus. I have no idea if this is possible but that is my primary goal. The weight loss is wonderful as well as the detox. I have had a few days where something must have been coming out of the fat. A little charcoal and some caffeine cleanses and that resolved itself. It has happened a couple of times. http://hcgdietinfo.com/Dr-ATW-Simeons-Pounds-and-Inches.htm This website might have some advertisements but I have not found a website with his original manuscript that doesn't sell HCG on the site. I purchased mine from a different pharmacy in India for $33 for three 5000 IU bottles. This would be three months worth. I do not have that much weight to lose but my goal is to cycle this protocol to perhaps reset my hypothalamus. You can only stay on the injections for 40 days or 34 pounds or when you feel really hungry (that means you are now burning the good fat so you must stop.) Then you follow the diet for 3 days after stopping the injections as the HCG is still pulling out fat. Then for 3 weeks, you increase your caloric intake but still limit fat and carbs a bit. Then 6 weeks later, you can begin the process again. I just want to stress that this must be done correctly as it is a very complex protocol and should be done under the guidance of a physician. I do not feel that I am the most sick among us and feel that my body could handle the injections and the diet (due to my occasional pancreatitis.) While I am not working with a doctor, I read and studied his original manuscript and spent a week exploring the nutrition data website and creating an Excel spreadsheet tracking my intake, my symptoms and my progress. I have not read Trudeau's book so I do not know what he has to say about this. To be honest, when I ordered this, I thought I was ordering HGH, Human Growth Hormone! The difference became apparent as I did some internet research. Marti " Three Kinds of Fat In the human body we can distinguish three kinds of fat. The first is the structural fat which fills the gaps between various organs, a sort of packing material. Structural fat also performs such important functions as bedding the kidneys in soft elastic tissue, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin smooth and taut. It also provides the springy cushion of hard fat under the bones of the feet, without which we would be unable to walk. The second type of fat is a normal reserve of fuel upon which the body can freely draw when the nutritional income from the intestinal tract is insufficient to meet the demand. Such normal reserves are localized all over the body. Fat is a substance which packs the highest caloric value into the smallest space so that normal reserves of fuel for muscular activity and the maintenance of body temperature can be most economically stored in this form. Both these types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks them to capacity this can never be called obesity. But there is a third type of fat which is entirely abnormal. It is the accumulation of such fat, and of such fat only, from which the overweight patient suffers. This abnormal fat is also a potential reserve of fuel, but unlike the normal reserves it is not available to the body in a nutritional emergency. It is, so to speak, locked away in a fixed deposit and is not kept in a current account[2], as are the normal reserves. When an obese patient tries to reduce by starving himself, he will first lose his normal fat reserves. When these are exhausted he begins to burn up structural fat, and only as a last resort will the body yield its abnormal reserves, though by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned. It is just for this reason that obese patients complain that when they diet they lose the wrong fat. They feel famished and tired and their face becomes drawn and haggard, but their belly, hips, thighs and upper arms show little improvement. The fat they have come to detest stays on and the fat they need to cover their bones gets less and less. Their skin wrinkles and they look old and miserable. And that is one of the most frustrating and depressing experiences a human being can have. " Dr. A. T. W. Simeons > > Marti, how is the diet going? Have heard such alarming things about the 500 calories??? Would you mind sharing the cost? > > > God Bless, > Sara > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Hi Marti, Thanks for the info. My dr. tells me we will use HCG but not now. He says you can't work on repairing your adrenals, immune system and fight viral and bacterial infections while you withhold your body the nutrients it needs. So I will need to wait probably other year or so before I will be strong enough (if ever) to start. How do you manage that? Will store your info along with all the other wonderful stuff you have send over time. Just wanted to say thanks. -- Portland, OR On May 26, 2010, at 8:07 AM, marti_zavala wrote: > Hi Sara, > The diet is going well. I am not hungry on the 500 calorie diet. Any desire to eat is out of the habit of snacking or boredom. There have been a few days that I could only get 360 calories in. My arm muscles did ache a little the day after those days so I assumed that I wasn't getting enough protein. (I was also quite active cleaning house so my arms could have been sore from that). So, I make sure that I eat my daily ration of protein as per the diet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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