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There are a lot of reasons why you might stall during the program. Not drinking enough water or not eating enough proteins will cause a stall. Being more active and being under more stress, and unfortunately women, getting our cycle will also stall weight loss. The one thing that does the most to cause a stall is cheating! You may not think that one chip or one piece of cheese will not do anything but it does. We are working very hard with you to create this balance in your body and the slightest thing will tip the scales and make you stall.

Our bodies will also recognize a weight from our past and think its done having to burn any more fat. That’s where we come in with some tricks of the trade. We at the Centre like to do what’s called shake days to break a stall. I know the original protocol called for “apple days”, but  your body cannot function properly without enough protein. So we do a protein shake in the morning for breakfast and the same for lunch. Then do a normal low calorie dinner. You will also do some type of protein snack either in the middle of the afternoon or at night before bed. A protein snack would consist of actual meat protein or a 1 scoop whey shake. You may have to do a couple of days of this but you will break that stall and start losing again.

The biggest thing to remember is not to give up….

Most people think that a 700 calorie a day diet is a recipe for starvation but I’m here to tell you differently. HCG is amazing and you are truly not hungry. You are burning at least a pound of fat a day which means the hypothalamus, (the part of the brain that controls the way we burn and store fat), thinks it’s getting 2500 calories from the breakdown of your own fat. Not only are you not hungry but you have this sense of well-being and a lot more energy.  

For a lot of people it’s not only the physical aspect of so little food, it’s also the mental thinking that you are going to be starving on such little food. But that’s just not the case, you are actually at times surprised at how full you become on the smaller portions and wonder why you ate so much before the diet. Then you take that thinking after the diet and are able to maintain and even loss more weight. Most people eat for so many other reasons and you’d be surprised that being hungry is very low on the list. We can help you figure out why you eat and how to eat healthier.