Ok everyone. I want to start a new batch of HCG because I'm not sure what I got with this one. It was already mixed and I was told it was enough to take .2ml - .3ml once a day for 40 days (skipping Sundays and TOM.) Thank you to Colleen and others who have been trying to help me figure this out already! My new question is: Can I stop at 23 days, do Phase 3 for a little while, then start over on another 23 with a new batch of HCG that I've mixed myself? I need a break. I'm up to .3ml and still hungry. It's all I can think about. It's affecting day to day life, my family, my work, everything. I have stomach cramps that double me over, and I am following protocol. I've only cheated the once, and that was a week and a half ago. I can not keep going for the 40 days with trial and error like this. I don't want to stop completely, but I don't want to gain back what I've already lost either. I need to do something different though, becaues I don't think this is working the way it should if I'm hungry like this all the time. My weight loss over the past week has been: -0.2 -0.4 -0.6 -1.6 -1.2 +0.6 +0.2 -0.8 And that is verses my first week that was 1.5 pounds to 3 pounds lost each day. I got through the first 10 pounds pretty quick and now it's just bouncing back and forth, kind of at a standstill. I could even stand the small amounts lost, if I wasn't raveneous all the time. Again, I think something is wrong with my doseage, but since I don't know what was mixed, I don't know how high I dare go. I'm ok with throwing the rest of this away and starting over, if I can stop at 23 days and try another round after p3 for a little while. Please help! Either this 23 day idea has to work out somehow, or I'm going to have to quit completely, and I am not a quitter, so it would kill me to do that.
You can stop at 23 days go to the 72 hours without injections and move to P3 for up to 14 days then just start your injections up again taking the 17 injections remaining from the max of 40.
This is on protocol and many have done this with success. I am going to try it this round.
I'm not thinking it was Linda. That 2nd week, after my 1 cheat day, I felt awesome though! I wasn't hungry, I had energy, I was happy, I had that "pregnancy glow" going on with my skin. It was amazing! Now I'm so miserable I want to curl up in a ball and die. :( Colleen, Ok, I'll try .4 tomorrow. I did yesterday and today with .3 and it didn't do much. I will try .4 till the 23 days, go 72 hours afterwards with my VLCD, go to P3 for 14 days, then finish up my 17 injections with a new batch of HCG. Sound like a plan? Will I need to load the last two days of P3 or can I just go right into it again. Thanks so much you two! You're going to keep me from quitting for good!
If you get to the right dose your loses could pick up dramatically but if you feel like you just can't deal with it anymore then the break may be a really good option.
I'm so sorry you've had this experience. Sadly we see this with doctors and clinics all the time :~(
Don't let this stop you, this thing does work and it will work for you.
Sounds like a plan to me. They say that up to 14 days you really don't have to reload, you just start the injections and go right into the P2 diet.
Here's where it is in the protocol, when he says eat normally he means load: Unforeseen Interruptions of Treatment
If an interruption of treatment lasting more than four days is necessary, the patient must increase his diet to at least 800 Calories by adding meat, eggs, cheese, and milk to his diet after the third day, as otherwise he will find himself so hungry and weak that he is unable to go about his usual occupation. If the interval lasts less than two weeks the patient can directly resume injections and the 500-Calorie diet, but if the interruption lasts longer he must again eat normally until he has had his third injection.
When a patient knows beforehand that he will have to travel and be absent for more than four days, it is always better to stop injections three days before he is due to leave so that he can have the three days of strict dieting which are necessary after the last injection at home. This saves him from the almost impossible task of having to arrange the 500 Calorie diet while en route, and he can thus enjoy a much greater dietary freedom from the day of his departure. Interruptions occurring before 20 effective injections have been given are most undesirable, because with less than that number of injections some weight is liable to be regained. After the 20th injection an unavoidable interruption is merely a loss of time.
Today is day 16, so another week? My TOM should be starting this weekend or first of next week. I won't stop them then. I'm wondering if I should even stop on Sundays like I was told. I still don't know the purpose behind that.
My 2 cents worth here. You only have a few days to get 23 days in, plus with Tom visiting, it is as good of time to take a break and give yourself time to adjust and regroup. I do know ladies that do not stop when Tom visits, but they do experience heavy and harder visits. I don't know cause I had that taken care of a long long time ago.