Sarasota Diet:HCG and the Low Carb Lifestyle-DAY 25; Why am I not losing weight? Robert G Carlson, MD, FACS

Sarasota Diet:HCG and the Low Carb Lifestyle-Why am I not losing weight?

Day 25: 214.6
HCG Dose: 300 units (.3 cc or the "30" mark on the syringe)
Day 15-25 : 300 units

Below is the menu recommendations we are using in our :Sarasota Diet: HCG and the Low Carbohydrate Lifestyle Book. We will give you our recommendations or meals that I chose for my first 28 days, and then a second chart so that YOU can keep a track of what you are eating.

DAY # 25	Sarasota HCG/Low Carb Diet
TIME OF DAY	MEAL
BREAKFAST	WHEY PROTEIN MILKSHAKE (CHOCOLATE); CUP OF COFFEE
SNACK	CHEESE STICKS(2)
LUNCH	FOUR ROLL-UPS (TURKEY AND SMOKED GOUDA)
SNACK	WHEY PROTEIN MILKSHAKE (CHOCOLATE)
DINNER	STEAK-16 OZ;SALAD-SPINACH,ETC/BLUE CHEESE
DESSERT	VANILLA ATKINS SHAKE, BLUEBERRIES WITH WHIP CREAM

I take care of a large number of women who while going through menopause have or are experiencing unpleasant weight gain. Often this weight gain is tied with a commitment towards exercise and careful eating. So why do women struggling with menopause and/or hot flashes and night sweats, experiencing weight gain?The bottom line is that you aren't responsible! It is your body that is dedicating itself to gaining weight and building its fat stores. So why is that?

One reason why your diet and exercise plan might not be working is because of an imbalance in hormones, more specifically perimenopause and menopause. So why do women in menopause gain on the average 20-30 pounds? The simple response is that your body needs estrogen. And when a woman enters menopause, her estrogens plummet to levels lower than when she was nine years old. Her body is now dedicated to make more estrogen, and the primary estrogen of menopause is Estrone. Estrone is made primarily in fat tissue. So the only way to make more Estrone, is to make more fat. It’s very simple. Your body becomes absolutely dedicated to making more estrogen, and therefore dedicated to making more fat. It doesn’t care if you eat properly or exercise. It just demands more estrogen, and the signal to tell the body to make more fat is the same signal that results in hot flashes and night sweats. Balancing your hormones during menopause with Bio-identical hormones has been shown to cause a 15 pound weight loss in one year. So if you are having hot flashes, balancing your hormones will get rid of the night sweats and hot flashes, nurture your sleep, improve your memory and lose weight.

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" DAY 9. Adding exercise to melt the fat ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" DAY 9. Adding exercise to melt the fat ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

Day 9: 218.4

I have been very dedicated to maintaining my diet approach, and why not? It is really easy, especially for those people who would never be able to tolerate the 500 calorie diet of the “classic” HCG approach. I would never be able to run 5 miles and eat only 500 calories. Incorporating exercise into your weight loss program is important, but timing is critical. The first few days on the low carbohydrate approach may make exercising difficult as you have depleting sugar levels in your blood stream and we begin teaching our body to burn fats for energy, not sugar. I really enjoy running and went for a 7 mile run this weekend, tolerating it amazingly well because of the addition of the HCG to the Low Carbohydrate approach. My morning weight was 218.4, but my post run weight was 214.2. I know it is mostly water weight, but I still enjoy seeing those decreasing numbers on my scales. For those who can walk, that is an excellent way to start burning that fat. If walking isn’t enough, jump into the T-Tapp mode. This exercise, nothing to do with tap dancing, is absolutely incredible, dousing the inflammation that is persecuting your body, and helping you melt the fat away and experience a disappearing waistline. Please try it! You can go onto the T-Tapp website, and the amazing Teresa Tapp has provided all kinds of FREE exercises, that she has devoted years developing. You will find the exercises easy to do, and the results amazing. So tie your low carb /HCG diet with an exercise program that burns the fat away.

http://www.t-tapp.com/index.html

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" DAY 2 ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

Day # 2 “Sarasota Diet”

223.6 pounds (down from 226.4 )

For breakfast I started with a cup of coffee and before leaving the house drink a 12 oz mixture of Jay Robb Whey Protein Chocolate (adding 12 ounces of cold water and ice to a scoop – 30 grams of powder. Total 1 gram carbohydrate. I really tried to drink a lot of water and flavored water all day long, attempting to consume a total of 100 ounces a day. (I use this as a guideline to drink about half of your weight (pounds) in ounces). For lunch I ate four roll-ups of white cheddar cheese and Boars head Londonport roast beef. (Zero carbs) For dinner I ate an entire lemon pepper chicken- zero carbs. (Most women might find that rather “gross”, but most men could probably eat an entire chicken and still be searching for dessert) This night however I didn’t feel hungry and didn’t eat any sugar free jello. I have also added two tablets of a product I created called Stop-it. This blocks all sweet flavors, even diet soda for about 45 minutes. I took my shot of HCG 200 units prior to going to bed. I was surprised that I really wasn’t that hungry. Also in the evening, when I might be tempted to forage for carbohydrates, I just wasn’t hungry.

SO TELL ME ABOUT THE DIFFERENT FAT IN MY BODY, AND WHY HCG REDUCES THE ABNORMAL BELLY FAT, AND NOT THE STRUCTURAL FAT?

In the human body we can distinguish three kinds of fat. The first is the structural fat which fills the gaps between various organs, a sort of packing material. Structural fat also performs such important functions as bedding the kidneys in soft elastic tissue, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin smooth and taut, it also provides the springy cushion of hard fat under the bones of the feet, without which we would be unable to walk.

The second type of fat is a normal reserve of fuel upon which the body can freely draw when the nutritional income from the intestinal tract is insufficient to meet the demand. Such normal reserves are localized all over the body. Fat is a substance which packs the highest caloric value into the smallest spaces that normal reserves of fuel for muscular activity and the maintenance of body temperature can be most economically stored in this form. Both these types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks them to capacity, this can be never being called obesity.

But there is a third type of fat which is entirely abnormal. It is the accumulation of such fat, and of such fat only, from which the overweight patient suffers. This abnormal fat is also a potential reserve of fuel, but unlike the normal reserves, it is not available to the body in a nutritional emergency. It is, so to speak, locked away in a fixed deposit and is not kept in a current account, as are the normal reserves.

When an obese patient tries to reduce by starving himself/herself, he/she will first lose the normal fat reserves. When these are exhausted, they begin to burn up structural fat, and only as a last resort with the body yield its abnormal reserves, though by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned. It is just for this reason that obese patients complain that when they diet, they lose the wrong fat. They fell famished and tired and their face becomes drawn and haggard, but their belly, hops, thighs and upper arms show little improvement. The fat they have come to detest stays on and the fat they need to cover their bones gets less and less. Their skin wrinkles and they look old and miserable. And that is one of the most frustrating and depressing experiences a human being can have. So how does HCG help burn this abnormal fat, and to preserve the structural fats?