Day 31

Weight: 177

My scale fluctuated back and forth between 177 and 177.5.

Maybe I’m getting to the end of what my body will get rid of?  I thought yesterday I would have no problems maintaining adherence to the diet, but in the afternoon I was really hungry and my knees got a bit weak.  I was in the pantry for something and the container of mixed nuts looked SO wonderful I just couldn’t help myself.  I ate about 4 handfuls of nuts, so completely blew the calorie count for the day, but I felt better the rest of the day.  Maybe I just need extra protein?  I drank lots of iced tea but not as much water as I should have, so that is probably a factor as well.

I posted a question to the Yahoo groups I subscribed to asking if using diet and exercise to lose my remaining 10-15 pounds would be feasible, after I go through the lock-in phase, and I was told no, absolutely a bad idea.  That seems counter-intuitive to me, as the idea is to reset your hypothalamus and your metabolism.  So, if everything is working correctly, I should be able to lose weight without hCG assistance in the future.

I also found a new hCG website community called Http://www.4hcgsuccess.com/ and signed up.  Regarding exercise, one of the postings there said that if you do a lot of exercise during the lock-in phase, you will reset your metabolism to always require that much exercise along with a lower calorie requirement.  So, the recommendation there was to delay getting into any sort of exercise program until past phase 3, at which point you can exercise all you want.

That makes more sense to me, but I’ll have to do more research on this issue.