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I started working out more agressively in my first round on week three, I stalled a bit. I brought in weights, yoga (1 hour 15 minutes) Cardio, jump rope etc. THis time, I brought in less, 1/2 hour yoga, light weights, walking, and my losses were better. I am starting p3 by next weekend and will up my exercise again...

andrew- i have no idea where these docs get this. there is nothing in the protocol to discourage exercise except to say that if you have a full day of intense exercise (like skiing) that you will TEMPORARILY retain some water. if anything, i think he encourages it. there are only 2 sections in the protocol where he refers to it- here they are:

We encourage swimming and sun bathing during treatment, but it should be remembered that a severe sunburn always produces a temporary rise in weight, evidently due to water retention. The same may be seen when a patient gets a common cold during treatment. Finally, the weight can TEMPORARILY increase - paradoxical though this may sound - after an exceptional physical exertion of long duration leading to a feeling of exhaustion. A game of tennis, a vigorous swim, a run, a ride on horseback or a round of golf do not have this effect; but a long trek, a day of skiing, rowing or cycling or dancing into the small hours usually result in a gain of weight on the following day, unless the patient is in perfect training. In patients coming from abroad, where they always use their cars, we often see this effect after a strenuous day of shopping on foot, sightseeing and visits to galleries and museums. Though the extra muscular effort involved does consume some additional calories, this appears to be offset by the retention of water which the tired circulation cannot at once eliminate. (margie here: note that the retention is temporary only)

Here is the other:

Towards the end of a full course, when a good deal of fat has been rapidly lost, some patients complain that lifting a weight or climbing stairs requires a greater muscular effort than before. They feel neither breathlessness nor exhaustion but simply that their muscles have to work harder. This phenomenon, which disappears soon after the end of the treatment, is caused by the removal of abnormal fat deposited between, in, and around the muscles. The removal of this fat makes the muscles too long, and so in order to achieve a certain skeletal movement - say the bending of an arm - the muscles have to perform greater contraction than before. Within a short while the muscle adjusts itself perfectly to the new situation, but under HCG the loss of fat is so rapid that this adjustment cannot keep up with it. Patients often have to be reassured that this does not mean that they are “getting weak”. This phenomenon does not occur in patients who regularly take vigorous exercise and continue to do so during treatment. (margie again- from this last line, it seems clear to me that he does not discourage exercise- if he had, I think he would have mentioned that here.)

I am a work out junkie, I know that.... But for me, every time I did INTENSE exercise I saw a gain on the scale... Yesterday I did 1 1/2 hours of yoga on p3 and bowling, was starving all day AND gained this morning... I don't know.... I think I am going to wait on Intense exercise until P4... that's just me

What a wonderful sentence:
"I think exercise has to be used to enhance and nurture ourselves not to beat our bodies into submission."

Hamp