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11) If you drink coffee or tea, make sure you have a good selection on hand. Also make sure you purchase approved sweeteners (Stevia and Saccharin).
12) Start drinking water. While on the Hcg, you will need to drink 68 oz per day. If you’re not used to drinking this much, your kidneys will appreciate a little head start!
13) Kevin Trudeau recommends eating apples and grapefruit every day. Personally, I’ve found that eating apples tends to decrease my craving for sugar.
14) Try to cut back (or cut out) sugar as well as products made with white flour. If you do some of this ahead of time, you will be less likely to have headaches during the first few days of the 500-calorie diet. It’s also a good idea to eliminate (or limit) trans fats and high fructose corn syrup from your diet.
15) Buy some B-12 drops, a B-complex vitamin, or talk to your doctor about getting weekly injections. Many people find that this increases their energy significantly while on the low-calorie diet.
16) Eat breakfast. Trudeau states that this is important for increasing metabolism, decreasing your appetite, and for resetting the body’s weight set point. Also try to eat smaller amounts of food at one time, but more frequently throughout the day. Some people recommend 6x/day, others say every 3-4 hrs.
17) Eat your dinner 3 ½ hrs before you go to bed. Your sleep will be better if your body is not busy digesting your food.
18) Ideally, get to bed by 10 p.m. and get up at 6 a.m. Your body performs some much-needed tasks between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m.
19) If you’ve had any history of difficulty digesting meat, purchase some digestive enzymes to take while on this program.
20) RELAX! It is normal to feel some anxiety when trying something new. It is a learning process, and it will take you a while to get the “feel” for the program- but you will find the people on this forum to be friendly and helpful.
)). The dose of hcg we take is so small compared to doses used in infertility. If you have a uterus, your TOM may come a bit early or you may skip althogether, but if you don't have one...you are fine. The injection schedule is set to try to avoid building up an immunity to the hcg. As a homone, its effectiveness is receptor mediated. After a number of doses, usually 40 or so, your body down regulates the number of receptors for it and it will become less effective. You will get hungry, stop losing weight, etc. Once you stop for 3 to 6 weeks, your body will increase the number of receptors back to normal again, and you are good to go for another round. I hope this helps! Barb 
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