HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 24, An Appetite Reducing Food that Benefits Your Health ..part 2 . ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day 24, An Appetite Reducing Food that Benefits Your Health ..part 2 . ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS



Day 24: 214.6
HCG Dose: 300 units (.3 cc or the "30" mark on the syringe)
Day 15-25 : 300 units


Had a long run yesterday , going about 9.5 miles at 2:00 in the afternoon. Yes it was warm, around 80 degrees, but I did well, and despite consuming no carbohydrates before or during the run, and maintaining my Sarasota Lifestyle approach keeping carbohydrates to 20 grams a day, I never hit the wall. I drank a lot of water but nothing else. This morning I had a chocolate whey milk shake, mixed with ice and topped with whip cream...sounds like dessert! I had a few cups of coffee and for lunch went to brunch with my mother. I ate a ham,cheese, and bacon omelet, and endured the chants and callings from a cinnamon roll. I went running in the later afternoon, when the temperature snuck below 85. My run was shorter, but still about six miles, along the white beaches of siesta key. For dinner I had a steak, and dessert I took on three containers of cherry sugar-free jello smothered in whip cream. And that dessert has absolutely no carbohydrates!

Continuing with my review of the amazing appetite suppressing benefits of the egg...

The study titled: Short-term effect of eggs on satiety in overweight and obese subjects, was published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.

This 2005 study from Saint Louis University shows that eating eggs for breakfast can effectively promote more satisfaction from cravings during the day.

Researchers compared two groups of women who for breakfast ate either a low carbohydrate egg meal or a high carbohydrate bagel with cream cheese and yogurt. Degrees of satisfaction and additional food consumption were measured throughout the day.

The results were stunning. The women eating the eggs for breakfast felt more satisfied during the day and spontaneously ate significantly less food at their next meal. The appetite suppression actually continued for another 36 hours with a significant reduction in calorie consumption. The other group, with their high carbohydrate meal, developed a sustained cravings and an increased appetite throughout the day.

Eggs have really gotten a bad rap from all the low fat promoters. Instead, they want you to fill your plate with bread laced with fructose, and margarine made from some chemically derived source. Eggs are pure natural food. Each egg is packed with 6 grams of protein, which not only helps stabilize blood sugar and rising insulin levels, thus reducing one of the causes for sugar cravings, but also produces greater satiety (feelings of fullness) than the typical low-fat (high sugar)breakfast of highly processed carbohydrates.

Egg yolks are one of the most significant sources of lutein and choline. Choline, an important nutrient that converts into acetylcholine and is critically necessary for proper brain function and memory. The Journal of Nutrition has shown that the lutein from eggs is more readily absorbed into the bloodstream than lutein from other sources because of components in the egg's yolk, such as lecithin. Low lutein intake has been implicated in age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss among older Americans.

Choline in eggs has recently been shown to be beneficial in lowering harmful homocysteine levels, a causative risk factor for inflammation and heart disease. Numerous studies have repeatedly proven that the cholesterol in eggs has an insignificant effect on blood cholesterol.

Can you imagine the demand for a drug without side effects that provided natural appetite suppression, stable blood sugar, protein, healthy fats and cholesterol, as well as nutrients that support eye and brain health? This “new” drug must be very expensive. But no. You can find all these benefits in those Styrofoam containers that contain the perfect egg. So next grocery store trip invite some eggs home with you.

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day #13 MAKING YOUR LOW CARBOHYDRATE APPROACH SUCCESSFUL BY SHOPPING CORRECTLY ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

HCG AND THE "SARASOTA DIET" Day #12 MAKING YOUR LOW CARBOHYDRATE APPROACH SUCCESSFUL BY SHOPPING CORRECTLY ROBERT G CARLSON, MD,FACS

Day # 13: 218.4

Went by the Deli at Publix and had them cut a pound of Turkey nice and thick, and then added a pound of smoked Gouda cheese. I ate that for lunch and I had a late dinner with it as well while working at the office on some manuscripts I'm trying to complete on Hormone Replacement Therapies and a second on The Myths of Cholesterol From A Heart Surgeon's Perspective. I focused on drinking more water today. Sometimes I forget, but I like the "rule" that whenever you feel like you want a "snack", just drink an entire glass of water and you will be amazed how that satisfies your hunger. But of course, with this approach there are no caloric restrictions , so you can eat anything (of course no carbohydrates) that you want and eat all day if you want.

Here is the last section on your Grocery Shopping Adventure, and How important it is to pick the correct foods( All Low carbohydrate, except romaine lettuce, spinach, and even asparagus are allowed and will consist of 75% of your carbohydrate input each day.)

The critical part of the Sarasota Diet or what I would like to think of as a New Lifestyle with limited carbohydrate intake( accentuated by HCG), is to firmly avoid the foods we have restricted on the Sarasota Diet. For the first round of 28 days you can’t eat these items because the sugar cravings will take hold and your weight loss will screech to a halt. Avoid those simple sugars like sugar filled drinks and juices, pastry, cookies, sweets and candy( STOP-IT helps you fight those nasty cravings: http://andlos.com/information/stop%20it%20booklet.pdf ). Also you absolutely need to avoid those complex carbohydrates that rapidly become sugar in your body like bread, whole wheat and white, rice, oatmeal and grains. We have been told that oatmeal is good for your, Brown rice is so healthy, and whole grain breads and pasta are the best things to eat. The answer to all of those is a resounding “NO”. All of these presumably “healthy items” contain massive amounts of carbohydrates and are absolutely restricted from the Sarasota low carbohydrate approach. My goal is to restrict the total carbohydrates to 20 grams for 4 weeks and with the use of HCG , you will have the strength to fight the cravings, the energy needed to carry on your daily activities and the development of a physiology that is the healthiest form to reduce inflammation, diabetes, triglyceride levels, without experiencing the “blah” feelings that are so common with diets that aggressively restrict caloric intact, and push people into a starvation mode.

This low carbohydrate approach will now train your body to live on the fats and not the carbohydrates which are promoting inflammation and making you feel so bad. This low carbohydrate Sarasota Diet will drive your body to ketosis , where it will preferentially learn to burn your excess fat because no excess sugar is around. We know that excess sugar in your body will cause insulin levels to rise and these chronically elevated insulin levels cause excess sugar to be changed into fat and then stored inside of your belly as visceral fat, inside your blood vessels, inside your liver, and in all kinds of places we just don’t want it to be. Blocking the insulin directed fat accumulation program, will result in using your fats as energy instead of as storage units. I won’t discuss hormonal balance yet but one hormone, specifically progesterone ( which is essentially gone in women over 45 and is immeasurable in men over 50, will block the forced accumulation of fat inside of your belly as visceral fat( I LOVE NATURAL PROGESTERONE)

http://progesteroneandmen.blogspot.com/.

This is not necessarily the fat I refer to as Dunlap’s disease..or” It Dun Lapped Over My Belt”, but this is the fat that wraps around all your organs, and causes diabetes, massive inflammation and heart disease. It’s really bad stuff and I want to train our bodies to use that visceral fat as an energy source, as well as to block the creation of that “belly fat”.