Days 3 & 4

So, on day 3 I was awakened by not having lost more than a few ounces. Oh well, that is the nature of your first week.

It's sort of touch and go, and I said before, you lose mostly water. It's okay because of the two load days. We don't realize how much sodium we really consume until we do something like this. Then, when we drink the extra water that we should have had all along, we then find the truth!

Day 3 consisted of an apple day, simply because I only lost a few ounces. I knew that this meant only one thing-it had to be an apple day because I still felt the bloat!

For those of you who don't know what this is, it's a particular trick used in the HCG Diet to trigger the elimination of extra fluid in the body that isn't necessary, while giving the body enough fiber, and vitamin C to sustain itself.

Additionally, apples are high enough in calories that we can easily make it through the day eating apples when we face this challenge.

Apples contain water, and if you ever doubt that, just bite into one and take a quick look at it. It's juicy because it contains water.

The combination of apples with their own grams of fiber, and the combination of the HCG drops with the aminos is plenty to keep hunger at bay. So, how does this trick work?

Simply put, you start at lunch time, and eat one large apple, then eat one every few hours until your cut off point which is 7 p.m. This is the time in which you would normally have your half apple on a normal day of eating.

This is put into place to train the body to finish eating way before bed time. Make sense?

So, what happened the following morning on the scales? They were certain tipped in my favor, down another 3 pounds, so it goes to show the trigger works. Keep in mind that this is normal. As my holistic doc would say, two pounds of that is probably water, but I still lost one pound of fat.

The HCG Diet is Thermogenic in it's own right, simply because your body is still burning thousands of calories per day. This prevents the body from going into starvation mode, so it's impossible to hit catabolism.

Any questions? Feel free to comment or email me, I always love hearing what readers have to say, and yes, I am still putting the book together.

Health and wellness take a lot of research, and with the controversy, it's well worth the wait to get it right!

Until the next post, be healthy!

Tammy Coffin-Hana