Thread: day 13 and still gaining on P3

Are you eating many veggies and fruits? It didn't really look like it from your original post. Maybe you're a little overboard on the protein and not quite enough fruits and veggies. Have you ever added up the calories you're eating? I know that you don't really need to, but maybe getting a rough idea of how much you're consuming would be helpful. I think I read a suggestion by one of the veterans that 11 times your weight is a good starting point for calories in P3.

And does it matter if I eat to late at night? I tend to want to snack around 8:00pm

Yes, it matters. Your body needs a 12 hour fast. Here's why: after you go to bed, and drop into deep sleep, your body unleashes a growth hormone that starts burning fat, while you sleep. If you have food in your belly, that will not happen because your body is too busy digesting the food you ate late at night.

Here's what worked for me: Eat 3 meals per day, and no more than one fruit per day for a snack, plus plenty of water. Make the first meal a good protein and fat (for instance: eggs, butter, cheese). Space meals 4 or 5 hours apart. Don't eat anything after 7 pm. Get a good 7 to 9 hours of sleep. Try that for a couple of days and see if you don't start to stabilize or even lose a few.

I have been working on breaking the snacking habit too. When I was researching hcg, and also leptin and insulin resistance, that's where I learned about the hormone that was released in our sleep. I always knew it was important to get a good nights sleep, but I didn't know why, so now it makes a lot of sense.

Generally, the rule of thumb around here, is on your first round, you should do a full P2, then 3 weeks of P3 and 3 weeks of P3/4 to make sure you stabilize, and to give your skin time to catch up. If you did a short round of P2 and haven't been in P3 very long, you could call it an interruption and jump back into P2 but then you will need to do 23 days, and follow up with a full 3 weeks of P3 & P4.