• No sugar, dextrose, sucrose, honey, molasses, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, or any sweetener other than Stevia.

• No starch, including breads, pastas, any wheat product, white rice, potatoes, yams, etc.

• No food from fast food restaurants.

• No trans fats, including hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils.

• No nitrites.

• Limit non-prescription and prescription drug use.

You must weigh yourself every morning after first emptying your bladder. You must do this daily without fail. As it takes about three weeks after completing Phase 2 before the weight stabilizes, it is important that daily weighing during this phase be adhered to. As long as your weight stays within two pounds of the weight reached on the day of the last injection you are fine. The moment the scale goes beyond two pounds, even by only a few ounces, you must do the following steps:

• The same day you notice the increase you must entirely skip all food until 6:00 p.m. During this time you should drink as much water, up to one gallon, as you can. You must drink a minimum of half a gallon of pure water. In addition to the water, drink as much of the various teas that are recommended. You may use stevia in the teas. In the evening eat the biggest steak you can. The steak can be grilled or fried with oil and seasoned with pepper and herbs, but no salt. You may have either a large raw tomato or large raw apple.

It is of the utmost importance that these steps of skipping meals occur on the same day as the scale registered an increase of more than two pounds from the weight you achieved on the last day of injections. You must not postpone this protocol until the following day. Weighing yourself daily is vitally important. Because the hypothalamus is now corrected from its abnormal condition, when you gain weight the body will not store the excess in the secure abnormal fat reserves. This means that weight gain will now result in storing of fat evenly throughout the body in the normal or structural fat areas. This means that by looking in the minor, or by feeling how your clothes fit, will be misleading. You can actually gain ten to fifteen pounds and never notice it. This is why daily weighing is so important.

During the three weeks in maintenance monitor and be aware of your appetite. Many people out of habit put large amounts of food on their plate. During this time you will notice you get full very quickly. Take note of the feeling of fullness and loss of appetite and stop eating! It is very important that you eat a full breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and have three snacks, ideally consisting of an organic apple or an organic grapefruit, however, during each meal it is advised that you eat slowly, consciously be aware of chewing your food thoroughly, and stop eating when you are full.

Many fat people have the fear that if they don’t continue to eat during mealtime they will be hungry later on and feel miserable. This three-week maintenance is important as it helps change behavioral habits that played a part in your weight problem.

You should never gain more than two pounds during this phase without immediately correcting this situation by doing the skipping meals and steak protocol. Surprisingly, Simeons discovered that it is equally undesirable for you to lose more than two pounds after the last injection. This is because any loss of weight after the last injection is usually a loss of muscle, or structural fat.

Simeons noted that some patients become overly enthusiastic after the success they achieved during the hCG diet protocol. These patients do not believe they can eat normal amounts of food six times per day without regaining weight. They disregard the advice to eat anything they please (with the short list of exceptions) and want to play it safe. They try, more or less, to continue the low calorie diet from Phase 2 with minor variations. To their honor they find that their weight actually goes up. They then follow the instructions of skipping breakfast and lunch, but are afraid to eat the steak for fear of gaining more weight and instead have something such as a small salad. They become hungry and weak. The next morning they find they’ve increased yet another pound! They feel terrible and even the dreaded swelling of their ankles comes back. Dr. Simeons explained these phenomena in these terms. During Phase 2 the patient is just above the verge of protein deficiency, but because of the hCG, protein is being fed back into a system from the breakdown and release of the secure problem area fatty tissue. Once the treatment is over, there is no more hCG in the body and this process no longer takes place. Unless an adequate amount of protein is eaten as soon as hCG diet protocol is over, protein deficiency is bound to develop. This inevitably caused a marked retention of water, increased weight, which many times results in swelling of the ankles, huge hunger, tiredness, and irritability.