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How Sleep Affects Weight Loss Success
If you’re trying to lose weight on the HCG Diet, the amount of sleep you get is extremely important for amazing weight loss success. For overall health, you should aim for seven to nine hours of sleep every night.Poor sleep is a major risk factor for weight gain and obesity. Inadequate sleep has been linked to a higher body [...]
FAQs on the HCG Protocol
You may have several questions and concerns about the HCG Protocol, and it's important to find the answers before you start the diet to ensure you go into it with an easy mind and a full understanding of what's involved. Here are the answers to the top eight questions people have about the Protocol. Do I have to eat [...]
How Blue Light From Screens Affects Your Health
Long ago, before artificial lights became the norm, our evenings were illuminated by the light of the candle or by kerosene lanterns. These days, we take our access to lighting for granted. But lights at night can throw our circadian rhythm — your body's biological clock — off kilter, causing problems with sleep that may contribute to a range [...]
Calculating Your Frame Size
It's important to know your ideal weight range before embarking on the HCG Protocol so that you can lose the optimum amount. But to determine your ideal weight range, you first must calculate your frame size.Calculating Your Frame SizeYou will need a tape measure, ruler, or a set of calipers to measure your elbow to determine your frame size. Extend [...]
How to Help Your Child Cope with Stress
Kids may seem happy-go-lucky and carefree, but the truth is, they experience stress like the rest of us. While some stress is normal and perfectly healthy, chronic stress in children is an important factor for substance abuse, emotional problems, and learning disabilities later on in life.While you can't protect your child from feeling stress, you can help her learn to [...]
Struggling to Maintain
When followed to the letter, the HCG Protocol can bring about real, permanent weight loss. For most people who faithfully adhere to the Protocol, dieting or counting calories after the HCG Protocol is rarely necessary as long as they make healthy lifestyle choices most of the time and remain mindful of the food they put in their body. Unfortunately, [...]
Fighting the Hunch: Five Fast Stretches for People Who Sit at Work
It didn't take long for standing at a desk all day to be ruled out as a healthy alternative to sitting at a desk all day. Cornell University found that standing all day can increase the risk of heart disease and varicose veins, and since most people who use standing desks don't set them up correctly, standing all day [...]
20 Tips to Break the Plateau or Bump Up Weight Loss: Part Two
Reaching a plateau during the HCG protocol is no fun, but it's bound to happen, according to Dr. Simeons. The most important thing is to first make sure you're following the protocol to the letter, and the second most important thing is to not give up. Plateaus don't last long, and in due time, your weight loss should start [...]
3 DIY Face Masks for Beautiful Skin
Beautiful skin takes some work. It all starts, of course, with a healthy diet that promotes optimal blood flow, body cleansing, and skin elasticity. It continues with regular exercise that keeps your organs, including your skin, in the best possible shape. The icing on the skincare cake is what you actually do to your skin. Washing your face, moisturizing [...]
20 Tips to Break the Plateau or Bump Up Weight Loss: Part One
In his manuscript, Pounds and Inches: A New Approach to Obesity, Dr. Simeons discusses the dreaded plateaus, wherein weight loss seems to slow or stall. These are inevitable, and they shouldn't cause you to give up hope. There's not much you can do about these, and as long as you're following the Protocol to the letter, they will pass. [...]