The Problem of When To Eat
Many overweight people are emotional eaters. Not all emotional eating is bad. For example, almost everyone eats to celebrate happy occasions. Even sad occasions, such as funerals, can be associated with food. However, emotional eating occurs on a higher level and is most often associated with negative emotions like boredom, frustration, stress, anger, or loneliness.
Many overweight people feel the strongest hunger urges when they are emotionally weak. Because of this, you may eat snacks or even full meals at the slightest emotional change, even when you aren't hungry. Your eating habits may become so closely tied to your emotions that you automatically go for a treat without thinking. Since sugars and fats provide the quickest physical and emotional response, they are often the food of choice for emotional eaters. Unfortunately, they are also the quickest way to gain weight.
While taking HCG drops and following the HCG diet, emotional eaters get help breaking free from emotional eating. The method is simple: the HCG weight loss diet forces you to take a hunger reality check.
Many overweight people feel the strongest hunger urges when they are emotionally weak. Because of this, you may eat snacks or even full meals at the slightest emotional change, even when you aren't hungry. Your eating habits may become so closely tied to your emotions that you automatically go for a treat without thinking. Since sugars and fats provide the quickest physical and emotional response, they are often the food of choice for emotional eaters. Unfortunately, they are also the quickest way to gain weight.
While taking HCG drops and following the HCG diet, emotional eaters get help breaking free from emotional eating. The method is simple: the HCG weight loss diet forces you to take a hunger reality check.
How Is It Done? HCG drops work by unlocking your stored fat deposits, which floods your blood stream with 2,000 to 4,000 calories per day. In order to lose weight while being flooded with so many calories, you'll reduce your calorie intake to 500 calories per day. This equates to about two small meals per day, made up of a limited number of food choices. Due to the flood of calories released by HCG, hunger is minimal or absent.
What this means is that during any given moment on the HCG diet, you know exactly what you can and cannot eat, and you seldom feel true hunger. When you feel a craving, you are forced to stop and think about whether you can eat right then, and if so, what food you can eat. This simple "stop and check" requirement helps you recognize whether you are actually hungry, or whether you're just feeling a craving. |
The Benefits of the Hunger Reality Check The hunger reality check has helped many people who didn't even know they were emotional eaters. Suddenly they come face to face with their situation and finally recognize what their emotional triggers are, whether boredom, loneliness, stress, or whatever it may be. Once they realize what's happening, it is usually a simple act to say no, especially since the HCG drops are keeping them from being hungry.
After a few weeks of following the HCG weight loss plan and watching the weight come off, you'll become an expert at recognizing your own emotional triggers and saying no to your personal temptations. When you're done, you'll be empowered to carry this new habit into your everyday life, and your new eating habits will help you maintain a healthy lifestyle indefinitely. |
The Problem of What To Eat
Many overweight people have a difficult time making healthy food choices. They suffer from genuine, gnawing hunger, and they know that the quickest way to quell the hunger pangs is with sweet and fatty foods. More than that, their body knows it, too. Their bodies require more calories to function, both because of their increased body mass and because their body takes more energy to move and keep at a normal temperature. Their cravings aren't just gluttony - they are created by the disorder we call obesity. After years of feeling the constant pressure, many overweight people begin to make poor eating choices out of pure habit, regardless of cravings or hunger.
However, taking HCG drops and following the HCG diet helps overweight people control their cravings and learn how to make better eating choices.
However, taking HCG drops and following the HCG diet helps overweight people control their cravings and learn how to make better eating choices.
How Is It Done? The first component of this is the HCG drops. They act on your stored fat deposits, essentially unlocking them and telling your body to use them as fuel instead of other sources. Your stored fat moves into your blood stream, providing you an extra 2,000 to 4,000 calories per day of extra nutrition.
The second component is the HCG diet. While your stored fat supply provides the majority of your calorie needs, you reduce your calorie intake to 500 calories per day, made up of a limited number of healthy food choices. Hunger is low or absent thanks to the extra calories provided by your stored fat. Dr. Simeons designed the HCG diet food choices very carefully, because the chemical makeup of certain foods can interfere with each other and the action of HCG. So while you're taking HCG, what to eat is limited and well defined. Each food choice is an appropriate part of a healthy and well-balanced diet after you're done with the HCG weight loss program. |
The Benefits Are Natural Results of the Program Although you can eat whatever you want when you're done with the HCG weight loss program, many people have discovered that they are now used to eating more healthy and balanced choices. Some have found favorite foods and recipes that they continue to eat even after they're done with the HCG drops diet. It's a natural result of making good choices for the duration of the program.
Besides the good food choices, HCG dieters become used to paying better attention to the ingredients and nutrition information on food labels. Once you're used to it, it's fairly easy to avoid foods with unhealthy sugars, oils, or fats added. This can have long-lasting beneficial effects on your diet and your health. The HCG weight loss program also helps people get used to eating a good balance of foods. Many people who were not used to eating vegetables and fruit find that it has become almost automatic to add appropriate portions of veggies and fruit to every meal. Some people find that fruit and vegetable snacks have become a tasty replacement for sweets and fats and carry this habit into their post-HCG diet. |
The Problem of How Much To Eat
Restaurants have severely distorted our society's view of what a normal portion of food should be. Since the 1950s, average portion sizes at restaurants has increased by anywhere from 2 to 10 times as much!
Of course, restaurants don't carry all the blame. Food marketplaces also tend to package food in bigger containers, and studies show that the larger the bag, the more of it gets eaten. It's really easy to down a large bag of chips in front of the TV if you're not paying attention. It takes a few minutes for the stomach to register that it's full. If you're trying to satisfy a particularly strong craving, it becomes far too easy to eat too much.
However, following the HCG diet while taking HCG drops not only helps you lose weight, it helps bring your portion sizes back under control.
Of course, restaurants don't carry all the blame. Food marketplaces also tend to package food in bigger containers, and studies show that the larger the bag, the more of it gets eaten. It's really easy to down a large bag of chips in front of the TV if you're not paying attention. It takes a few minutes for the stomach to register that it's full. If you're trying to satisfy a particularly strong craving, it becomes far too easy to eat too much.
However, following the HCG diet while taking HCG drops not only helps you lose weight, it helps bring your portion sizes back under control.
How Is It Done? The HCG weight loss plan is composed of two primary parts that work together to bring your eating back under control. The first part is the HCG drops, which mobilize your stored fat deposits and make them available for your body to use as fuel, providing as much as 4,000 extra calories per day. The second part is the diet, which consists of 500 calories per day and is made up of regular or small portions of protein, vegetables, fruit, and grains. Because of the extra calories unlocked by the HCG weight drops, you experience little or no hunger while on this diet.
The problem of portion control is all about perception and expectation. After a few weeks on the HCG weight loss plan, you'll find your perception of portion size dropping back down to a normal, healthy level. More importantly, you'll find your needs and expectations dropping as well--you won't feel like you need oversized portions to satisfy you anymore. |
The Benefits of Portion Control Can Last a Lifetime Before experiencing the HCG diet, your eyes and your stomach are used to a larger-than-normal portion size. If you're not paying attention to the actual size of your servings, overeating probably feels normal to you.
After finishing a round of HCG drops, many people are astonished to think of the huge portions they used to eat. They have become used to smaller portions and paying attention to how much they truly need to eat. Even when indulging in treats, they find it easier to reduce their portion size to a healthier level. When you're done taking the HCG drops and are ready to transition from the HCG weight loss plan back into your regular life, you'll be empowered to maintain your new weight and carry these new habit into your everyday life. Your new eating habits will help you maintain a healthy lifestyle indefinitely. |