Why if I’m on a diet are you feeding me more?
Our body is amazing!!! The goal is to keep it in balance. And that’s what we are trying to do with the HCG diet.
Protein is one of the key components to the HCG diet, eating enough protein whether you are on the diet or not is so important. Protein is the fuel that our body needs to do everything. We find that patients on the diet that are not eating enough protein tend to stall and in some cases even gain weight. Why you ask, it’s because your body decides what to do with the limited calories we are supplying on the diet. The most important thing your body will do is keep your brain alive and then the heart. Then let’s add some stress in and then you’re running all over the place trying to get things done. Sound familiar. With all that activity and not enough proteins you will hit a wall and send your body into “survival” mode. Which means it’s going to hold on to everything, including your fat, for dear life.
How much protein is enough, then? A general rule of thumb is that a 150 pound person needs roughly 140 grams of protein a day. How do you get that? One ounce of any cooked meat is 7 grams of protein. One egg, or one ounce of cheese, is 6 grams of protein. You can see that it adds up slowly! This is why all of us at the Centre supplement with protein shakes for breakfast and whey shakes as snacks in the afternoons or at night.
Once your body knows what enough protein feels like, you’ll never go back!
