A ketone stick is what you use to measure the ketones in your urine. The body creates and eliminates ketones in the urine when fat is being burned. You can get them OTC at any pharmacy. They are usually on the shelves with diabetic supplies.
Permalink Reply by bob on April 16, 2008 at 9:21pm
When I read the book kt it said, after finishing the injections. You have to wait for
2 days before geting off the 500 c diet, it takes that long for the hcg to get out of your system. The 3rd day is when you start the diet for the 6 week program in between the p2. I don't know if this will help, or if I understood you;r comments right....if wil work keep to the course......Linda
This is true! 72 hours after last injection, p3 begins. However, there are some of us that just can't jump back into higher calorie meals. It can take up to a week for the body to "get hungry" and need up to, say, 2000 calories. If I go right to eating like that, I immediately gain!!! If I just follow my appetite and begin with very small amounts, I maintain "spot on!" My body also registers ketones (which means fat burning) for that whole week. As the ketones disappear, my appetite begins to increase and I need more food.
You have alot of understanding,i'm certain you have helped many :) 1 question i have. My appatite has always been pretty normal not too hungry not too full feeling. i would try and eat to 70% full in the past. I am on day 6 of ph 2(yep a newbeee) on my gorge days i had a really hard time because i physically wasen't hungry but i did eat as much as i could fatty foods.. On my first day of the 500 calories i was pretty hungry but expected it. Day 2 better. ever since then i have been pretty hungry. i have not cheated,not even licking a spoon. i take the injection in my tummy as prescribed by my ND. she gave me TB needles and said to fill each day to the 15 mark wich i have. i think thats not a low or high dose just average. I wake up at 515 and go to bed around 1030 and am on the go most all days i am very active. My weight loss has been good. ave. 1 1/2 to 2 lbs a day. As i write this my tummy is growling,as it has been most of the time. I really feel good other wise my shape is already changing alot,this nagging hunger sucks.
I thought I would give my 2 cents, I'm on ph2 day 20, and I've had couple of days, where I was really hungry, like I was ready to chew my butt off and eat it hungry. It seems to pass, a couple of things I've found for me is celery, which I try to eat very slow, and chew and chew, the other thing was cherry tomatoes, I try to take the skins and the stringey stuff off with my tougue,which takes awhile. wierd huh, I guess it takes my mind off my hunger pains, ha ha, I also found juicing a lemon w/ some stevia seems to eliminate the cravings I was having for sweets. hasn't seemed to afftect progress, like I said "salt" was my culprit and I was staying at the same weight for a few days, I bought some mag/with vitia C.... and I wasnt craving salt anymore. Well, those have been my little cheats day 20 17lbs
thanks for the celery tip. I'll try it. I have been trying to chew slow as well(takes patients when you're starving) the cherry tomato thing makes since.kinda like a veggie suckie thing :) Good to know some one else is chew your butt off hungry. every one i personally know who did it said they were always so full they forgot to eat or could hardly finish. so I'm like ?????? today i kept finding projects to keep me buisy so i would forget about having some nuts. We buy the unsalted so it may have been the protien i wanted as said by grammasmitty. Any how i have to behave because on my day 20 of phase 2, we are traveling 5 hrs to a retirment lunch for my husbands dad. I'm planning on taking a cooler with stuff i can have and at the lunch eat as close as i can to the protocal. I don't want to have any questions raised by my husbands family. I already know if i told them about the hCG they would not agree.
The symptoms of too much or too little hcg are both the same: hunger AND/OR poor weight loss. I don't know how your hcg was mixed. According to MY mixing (1cc bac water to each 1000 IUs) 15 units on the syringe is 150 IUs, which is average to low. Call your ND and find out exactly how many IUs are in the injection you've been taking. If your dosage is below 200, try increasing by 25 IUs for a day or two and see if that helps. If needed, increase by another 25 and see if THAT helps. You might also try increasing your protein by just half an ounce per meal. This might slow your losses a bit, but it will help with the really bad hungries.