BROWN FAT

Brown fat is the thin layer of fat that we have covering our whole body.  This is GOOD fat.  Think of it as the body’s debit account for energy storage.   Under ideal circumstances, when we eat, our body will fill our blood stream with nutrients, and then fill the brown fat stores, and then the body will dump all the other nutrients. 

As we go from meal to meal, we will burn the nutrients out of the blood stream in about an hour.  This occurs faster during vigourous exercise. As the body needs more energy, it will pull nutrients from the brown fat into the blood stream.  Eating restores the stores of brown fat.  An average person stores 10-15% of their body weight as this healthy fat and can burn all reserves if they quit eating. Resuming regular eating patterns replenishes the healthy fat reserves in about a week. Depletion of the brown fat reserves are what triggers your hunger response. 

 

 

WHITE FAT

White fat accumulates around the belly, the hips, thighs, under the arms, on the chest, under the chin, and everywhere else. The body will only store white fat when we have elevated levels of insulin in our blood stream.  It is physiologically impossible for your body to store white fat without elevated levels of insulin in your blood.  When we eat sugar, starches or processed foods, we are injecting sugars into our blood stream.  The pancreas then excretes insulin into the blood stream to keep us from going into a coma. The elevated levels of insulin in the blood signal the body to store white fat.

In today’s society we eat sugars, starches, and processed foods all the time, so that we incur elevated levels of insulin in our blood all the time.  Our bodies are constantly storing white fat.  On average, most Americans will gain about 5lbs per year.

HOW DO WE GET RID OF WHITE FAT

There are only 2 ways to get rid of white fat:

# 1 – Live Through A Famine

And by this, I mean that you need to move to a place where there is NO FOOD and you have to LITERALLY live through a famine.  All diet programs are a form of self imposed famine.  “Eat less, exercise more” is the standard mantra of the medical profession and the weight loss community in general.  If this were truly the way to lose white fat, we would all be a lot thinner.  The fact is that “Eat Less, Exercise More” does not work when losing white fat.  It only works to lose healthy brown fat. 

WHY THIS DOES NOT WORK

When we starve our body, here is what happens:

• 1st we use up all our healthy brown fat
• You will get very hungry and irritable and think about food constantly.
• The body will now go into the infamous “starvation mode” and will lower your metabolism.  You will feel listless, tired and be unable to concentrate.
• If you are lucky enough to eat fewer calories than your body burns, then and only then will you begin to burn white fat, but your body will also burn muscle at the same rate. When we go off the diet, our body will INSTANTLY restore all the healthy brown fat we have lost (so we will gain 10 to 15lbs within a few days), then our body will spend the next 3 weeks packing as much white fat on as it possibly can.  Most people will end up gaining at least as much fat as they lost.  The bad news is that they now have less muscle, so they will gain even more fat as time goes on and they are less equipped to lose it.

# 2 – Get Pregnant (or use hCG to trick your body into thinking it is pregnant)

With the hCG Weight Loss Protocol the body is tricked into thinking a fetus is present.  A pregnant woman will have literally millions of units of hCG in her system. When there is hCG present, the body will no longer follow the normal set of rules for fat usage. When hCG is present the body will stimulate the adrenal gland so that the mother is more alert.  It will also cause the body to produce endorphins so that the mother is happy.  If the mother eats less than she burns, then the body will use the white fat first and leave the brown fat and the muscle alone.  The mother must be prepared for fight or flight, so the body will preserve brown fat stores and the muscle.  Since the white fat stores are almost never used, the body will access this as energy.  This is great news for us!!! 

What we do on this diet is to trick the body into thinking that we are pregnant, then we simply starve ourselves.  We will inject .125 ml of hCG into our muscle each day and then eat 500 calories or less per day. 

The average man will need about 3500 cal per day to maintain their current weight.  The average woman will need about 2000 cal per day.    If you are only eating 500 cal per day you will lose between ½ and 1 lb of white fat each day!  While on hCG you will not lose any brown fat, and you will not lose any muscle. 

While on the hCG you should not exercise, you do not need to purchase expensive supplements and you will not spend money on prepackaged food.  You will have lots of energy and you will not be hungry.  Please understand that you will have an empty stomach…but you will not be hungry.  Your body will make sure that you have lots of nutrients from your white fat stores in your blood stream all the time.  Since the brown fat is not being used, your hunger response will not be triggered.

How do you keep the white fat from returning?

You have just spent over 40 days starving your body and forcing it to eat 1000s of calories of white fat. The body will want to replace this fat as soon as possible. It will take about 21 days for your body to adjust to the fact that it is not starving. During this phase you will want to eat between 1200 and 1500 calories per day. It is perfectly OK to eat fat, butter, oil, meats vegetables, and fruits (apples, oranges or strawberries) in whatever amounts you want. During this phase, feel free to use your favorite salad dressing on your salads. You may now eat eggs, pork and turkey.

 

DO NOT EAT ANY TYPE OF SUGAR OR STARCH DURING THIS PHASE!!!!

Your body cannot store white fat if the insulin level in your blood is low. It is impossible for your body to store white fat if you give it no sugar and no starch. For 21 days we will be giving your body lots of food, but NO SUGAR AND NO STARCH. It will take about 3 weeks for your body to return to a normal metabolic condition.

You MUST weigh yourself each morning. If you are 2lbs or more from your stopping weight you must immediately do what we call a “Steak Day.”

What Is A Steak Day?

When you get on the scale and you weigh 2lbs or more from you stopping weight, immediately fast from all food until dinner. You may drink all the tea and water that you want, but eat nothing until dinner. For dinner you will eat a big steak and an apple or a tomato. When you get up and weigh in the morning, you will be back down within 2lbs of your stopping weight. If you do not like steak, then eat several pieces of chicken breast, or drink 2 or 3 protein drinks (make sure they do not have any sugars).

Why does this work?

For your body to store white fat, the body will increase the level of the fluids in order to suspend the excess nutrients. The process of storing white fat takes the body about 2 days. When you get up in the morning and you have excess fluid retention, you immediately fast from eating for 2 meals. You will be using the nutrients in your blood stream and then you will be using the other nutrients that are suspended in the excess body fluids. At the end of the day, you will flood the body with protein by eating a big steak. The body will respond by dumping the excess fluid. This TOTALLY derails the body’s attempt to store white fat.

The Rest of Your Life

For the rest of your life you will weigh yourself every day. If at any time you are 2 lbs or more from your stopping weight, you must immediately do your “Steak Day.”

Upon completion of the 21 day phase, you can begin to slowly introduce starches and sugars back into your diet. Begin very slowly. Start with a slice of toast with breakfast. Make sure to check you weight the next day and see how you body responded. If you are within the acceptable range, then you know that you can handle a slice of bread a day. Do the same with other starches and sugars.You should start with starchy vegetables first moving then to breads and finally to sugars. Done correctly you will be able to introduce all these items back into your regular diet and not gain weight. It will not take you long to be able to tell where your threshold is with sugars and starches. You will be surprised how much of these items you can eat and not gain weight.

Remember - If you weigh yourself in the morning and you are 2 lbs or more from your stopping weight, you must immediately do a steak day.

 

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