There is no gray area when it comes to this protocol. If you eat too many calories in a day or if you eat the wrong thing, you are not going to lose weight. You may even gain it.
Last night, I stayed up with my friend, Steve. We stayed up till 6 this morning. Big mistake!
But is was semi-planned. Up till about a month ago, I was pulling all-nighters with Steve, working on sorting and selling MTG cards. Then, I would make up for it by sleeping half the day. I was able to get a lot done, because my little ones were not underfoot.
The problem with staying up all night, other than it robs my family of family time, is that it puts me on a different eating schedule. To be honest, it meant I was eating fast food at night. Selling cards is quite a sedentary activity; what better way to mediate this then with crunching on food to keep one awake?
This went on for several months before Steve got hurt throwing his back out, etc. But, while he was gone, another friend, Dave, took his place.
This last week, I have been going to bed between 10 and midnight, which is early for me. But, I've needed the rest, since I've been on calorie reduction and this has been like the HCG Hell Week as my body has gotten used to the new eating plan.
And although I didn't eat any fast food, I did eat an extra meal of spaghetti squash and lean ground beef. But worse yet, I had about 4 servings of peanut butter on a spoon or roughly 800 calories. So, while I should have been sleeping, I consumed about 1000-1200 extra calories.
And there isn't anything gray about that or my resulting decision. It's black and white. You stop losing weight and actually gain weight cuz your body retains the food you shouldn't have eaten in bulk weight, especially since you are not having normal bowel movements due to the low amount of total food consumed. Truth be told, I was miserable last night. My body said in every way, "Go to sleep!" But, Steve was there and I wrestled to stay awake all night. I even ate off my protocol, but I thought to myself, "I'm not eating really bad. I'm not having fast food!" Hence, I figured, "There's some gray area here."
NO. There isn't. When it comes to HCG, there isn't. My decision:
No more staying up all night. I need to stay on schedule. If that mean I don't get any work done or I don't get any help, so be it. My health is more important; and my family is more important still. Hopefully, this means I'll stay on my protocol and continue to lose weight. I've been told that your eating decisions today really show up 3 days later. So, please pray that my eating decisions today and later will somehow atone for bad decisions last night, and I'll drop it back down.