The HCG Protocol

Breakfast: Tea or coffee in any quantity without sugar. Only one tablespoonful of milk allowed in 24 hours. Stevia and Xyletal may be used.

Lunch:

1. 100 grams (3 ½ ounces) of veal, beef, chicken breast, turkey, fresh white

fish, lobster, crab, or shrimp. All visible fat must be carefully removed before cooking, and the meat must be weighed raw. It must be boiled or grilled without additional fat. Salmon, eel, tuna, herring, dried or pickled fish are not allowed. The chicken breast must be removed from the bird.

2. One type of main vegetable like cabbage, broccoli or asparagus or a salad consisting of the following (1 . 1 ½ cups): spinach, chard, chicory, beet greens, green salad, tomatoes, celery, fennel, onions, red radishes or, cucumbers. Home-made Salsa as a dressing or part of vegetable or fruit.

3. One bread stick or one piece of toast.

4. An apple or a handful of strawberries or other berries (1 cup) or one-half grapefruit or one whole orange.

Dinner : The same four choices as lunch. Change up meats and fruits if possible.

The juice of one lemon daily is allowed for all purposes. Salt, pepper, vinegar (red cider, balsamic, and wine), mustard powder, garlic, sweet basil, parsley, thyme, marjoram, etc., may be used for seasoning, but no oil, butter or dressing. Tea, coffee, plain water, or mineral water are the only drinks allowed, but may be taken in any quantity and at all times. In fact, the patient should drink about 1 gallon of these fluids per day.

Many patients are afraid to drink so much because they fear that this may cause them retain more water. This is a wrong notion as the body is more prone to store water when the intake falls below its normal requirements. The fruit or the bread stick may be eaten between meals instead of with lunch or dinner, but not more than four items listed for lunch and dinner may be eaten at one meal. No cosmetics other than lipstick, eyebrow pencil and powder may be used without special permission. You may NOT use any oil of any kind while on this protocol. Every item in the list is gone over carefully, continually stressing the point that no variations other than those listed may be introduced. All things not listed are forbidden, and the patient is assured that nothing permissible has been left out. The 100 grams of meat must he scrupulously weighed raw after all visible fat has been removed. To do this accurately the patient must have a letter-scale, as kitchen scales are not sufficiently accurate and the butcher should certainly not be relied upon. Those not uncommon patients, who feel that even so little food is too much for them, can omit anything they wish. There is no objection to breaking up the two meals. For instance having a bread stick and an apple for breakfast or before going to bed, provided they are deducted from the regular meals. The whole daily ration of two breadvsticks or two fruits may not be eaten at the same time, nor can any item saved from the previous day be added on the following day. In the beginning patients are advised to check every meal against their diet sheet before starting to eat and not to rely on their memory. It is also worth pointing out that any attempt to observe this diet without HCG will lead to trouble in two to three days. We have had cases in which patients have proudly flaunted their dieting powers in front of their friends without mentioning the fact that they are also receiving treatment with HCG. They let their friends try the same diet, and when this proves to be a failure - as it necessarily must - the patient starts raking in unmerited kudos for superhuman willpower. It should also be mentioned that two small apples weighing as much as one large one never the less have a higher caloric value and are therefore not allowed though there is no restriction on the size of one apple. Some people do not realize that chicken breast does not mean the breast of an other fowl, nor does it mean a wing or drumstick. The most tiresome patients are those who start counting calories and then come up with all manner of ingenious variations which they compile from their little books. When one has spent years of weary research trying to make a diet as attractive as possible without jeopardizing the loss of weight, culinary geniuses who are out to improve their unhappy lot are hard to take.

Schedule for Food Intake

10:00am - Fruit and bread stick or 1 piece of toast

12:00-1pm -Meat and salad meal

3:00pm - Fruit and bread stick or 1 piece of toast

5:00-6pm - Meat and salad meal

Day Four Through Day Forty-Five

Follow the Day Three instructions every day for the entire course of treatment. In order to achieve permanent results you must continue the treatment exactly as described for a minimum of twenty-one days and a maximum of forty-five days. The Simeons weight loss cure protocol, as you can see, consists daily doses of hCG, combined with a very strict AND specific food consumption plan. The specific foods cause chemical reactions in the body, combined with the hCG to activate the hypothalamus into releasing the secure abnormal fat reserves causing dramatic eight loss with theloss of muscle or structural fat. The amount of food consumed isapproximately 500 calories. The reason for the very low caloric intake is that the body will only release the abnormal fat reserves after it has burned the consumed calories. Interestingly enough, eating lower amount of calories do not speed up the process. Eating smaller quantities of food actually stop the fat releasing mechanism. Dr. Simeons discovered that by changing the food, the fat releasing process is also slowed or stopped. For example, when Simeons added mushrooms or artichokes, even though they had the same or less amounts of calories, the fat releasing was slowed or stopped completely. This is due to unique chemical compositions in the food.

The last day of the HCG Diet:

On the day you receive the last hCG, you must follow the diet program exactly. For the next two days you also must follow the diet exactly. This is because your body is flooded with hCG and it should take two days for it to leave the body. Hunger will vary for each individual. Hunger pangs will last no more than five to seven days. The more you did in Phase 1, in many cases, determines how long the hunger pains last.