HCG Phase 4 Eatting for Life

Phase 4 - the rest of your life!

When you start Phase 4, this is the way you will eat for life! You will never look at food the same way again. You will not feel the urges to eat the wrong foods, and you won't be hungry all the time. You will be able to eat a normal, healthy diet of reasonable portions of clean, healthy foods, and maintain your weight. You'll even be able to indulge from time to time! If you gain, just correct the next day by dropping back into Phase 3 eating or do a steak day until you regain your last injection weight. Your metabolism will be higher, so you won't gain as easily. This is *NOT* a license to eat Wendys' Triple Burgers, you WILL GAIN if you do this.
You'll notice that you're more alert, move easier, have better sking, hair and nails. Exercise will be much more appealing in your new, slim body, and you'll find you wish to maintain it the way it has become!
Phase 4 is for the rest of your life (unless you are doing more than one course of the protocol). This phase is basically Phase 3, expanded by carefully adding back healthy carbs one at a time until you learn your body's limits to maintain your new weight. Everybody has an upper limit of carbs. You will need to find yours. So monitor your weight as you add back complex healthy carbs. Add them one at a time, and let 2 days pass to ensure you don't gain. Note the carb level, and eventually you'll get the top limit. This upper limit is different for everyone.
The simplest rule to follow is to eat anything you want, as much as you want, as often as you want. But only eat when you are hungry. Try to eat clean foods, organic if available and affordable, and stay away from boxed, processed or other 'fake' foods. These are loaded with sugars and starches and will cause you to gain weight. These are the foods that *got* you here in the first place!! In real life, in the real world, eating only 100% organic food can be next to impossible. But if you stay away from 'box' foods, and prepared foods and cook your own so you know the ingredients, you'll do well. KNOW YOUR FOODS. If it doesn't have a label, you should look up the nutrition on that food.
To keep the weight off permanently, here are some guidelines:

1. Drink your water!! Keep up the 2 liters per day you drank during the VCLD and Phase 3. Water is critical to healthy functioning of your body, so don't slack off now that you're 'done' with the protocol.
2. Eat organic food if you can. Do the best you can. You don't have to count calories or be concerned with fat, carbohydrates, protein, or sodium. Relax, eat when you're hungry and stop when you're full. You should have more fat and and protein than carbohydrates, as that is what your body needs. I end up at around 50% fat, 40% protein and 10% carbs. This number is *not* set in stone, just what I do. It might serve you as a guideline to start with as you explore *your* bodies' needs.
3. Mimimize fast food, regional or national chain restaurants. This food tends to be loaded with chemicals, sugars and starches. Much of it has been injected with sugar, MSG and other chemicals for preservation and or flavoring. If you must eat it, return as soon as possible to your clean eating habits to negate the effects of such food. Drink plenty of water to keep your system cleaned out and hydrated.
4. Do a Candida cleanse. In Simeons' day Candida yeast overgrowth was almost nonexistent. Today, over 80% of the U.S. population has some degree of Candida yeast overgrowth. This condition creates massive food cravings, gas and bloating, depression, increased hunger, poor digestion, and fatigue. You can learn more about candida and cleansing at Natural Cures Depot and Significant Healing.
5. Clean your colon and liver and do a heavy metal cleanse. Since it is impossible for you to eat perfectly for the rest of your life, Periodic colon, liver and heavy metal cleanses are helpful to good health. Other good cleanses can be found at Natural Cures Depot, or Significant Healing.
6. Do a liver cleanse. Cleansing the liver will dramatically improve digestion, increase metabolism, and make permanent weight loss very easy. A couple of good liver cleanses can be found at Significant Healing.
7. Drink one-half to one gallon of water daily. If your local water is city water, you might want to consider using purified water instead. Mine is from a well and contains none of the chemicals that city water has. This will keep the cells hydrated and continually flush toxins from the body.
8. Walk for one hour, outside, every day. Make sure you have *some* sort of exercise program that gets you moving for an hour a day. Inactivity will lead to gaining weight. Your body is designed to *move*!
9. Eat! Always eat breakfast, eat something six times per day, and finish your dinner three and one-half hours before you go to bed. Avoid eating a huge meal as this overtaxes the hypothalamus.
10. Take Acetyl L-Carnitine. This helps turn fat into fuel.
11. Eat lots of low-glycemic veggies with lunch and dinner (made with organic ingredients).
12. Add organic hot peppers and cinnamon as often as possible.
13. Use organic virgin coconut oil as often as possible. I get mine from Tropical Traditions. Sign up for their newsletters and they'll send you weekly sales circulars.
14. Use organic raw apple cider vinegar as often as possible. Get the stuff that has gunk in the bottom. This is the 'mother' and means the cider is alive and much more effective.
15. Sleep eight hours per night; ideally, between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
16. Drink organic Yerba Mate tea, chamomile tea, Wu Long tea, and green tea liberally.
17. Every day take a whole food supplement, probiotics, Vitamin E, and krill oil.
18. Use stevia as your sweetener of choice.
19. Get sun on a regular basis.
20. Take digestive enzymes with food.
21. Limit carbonated drinks. I have switched to Zevia, a stevia and erythritol flavored carbonated soda. You can read reviews of them here.
22. Limit non-prescription, over-the-counter, and prescription drug use. The side effects of such drugs are long, and many are harmful.

The following items must be avoided at all costs as they will quickly and easily make you gain weight:

1. No super highly refined sugars. These include high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, sucrose, and dextrose.
2. No genetically modified food. If it doesn't say 100% organic, it is probably genetically modified.
3. No artificial sweeteners. This includes NutraSweet, Splenda, aspartame, sucralose, and others.
4. No trans fats. This includes hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils.
5. No monosodium glutamate.
6. No food with nitrites. (I haven't been able to resist this one, I *love* bacon.....)
7. If possible, no meat, poultry, or dairy that is not 100% organic. All meat, poultry, and dairy that is not 100% organic is loaded with growth hormones, antibiotics, and other drugs. These absolutely cause weight gain and other physical and emotional problems.
8. No farm raised fish. Look for packages that say 'wild caught'.
9. No propylene glycol or sodium laureth sulfate. Make sure your shampoos, conditioners, moisturizers, soaps, lotions, and creams do not contain these deadly poisonous chemicals.

This list may seem overwhelming and difficult to implement in real life. I can tell you it is relatively easy. The key is to shop in stores which carry the types of products that do not make you fat. Shop at your local farmers market, your local health food store, or stores such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, or Trader Joe's. You still must read the ingredient list on the label. Go into a major supermarket chain to do some investigating. Look at mustard, ketchup, and bread. Every single jar of mustard had high fructose corn syrup in it! Every single bottle of ketchup had high fructose corn syrup in it! Most amazingly, every single loaf of bread had some kind of super highly refined processed sugar such as high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, malto dextrose, honey, molasses, etc. This is why obesity is an epidemic today. However, at Whole Foods you can easily find many brands of mustard, ketchup, and bread that do not have any high fructose corn syrup or any other super refined highly processed sugars. You see, it's not that mustard, ketchup, bread, or any other type of food is fattening, it is the ingredients and food processing techniques of that food that make it fattening! Understanding this means you can eat virtually any kind of food you want and not gain weight. You can still eat mashed potatoes and gravy, cheeseburgers, French fries, pizza, pasta, cheese, butter, eggs, pot roast, cake, cookies, ice cream, etc. The key is reading the ingredient list. All of these foods are available without the forbidden fat inducing manmade ingredients. They are all available with 100% organic whole food, non-refined, real ingredients as nature intended. This kind of food actually tastes much better, is more filling, and much more satisfying than the man-made mass-produced counterparts that are sold by the large publicly traded international food conglomerates.