Really need your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 16 and have had the same weight for 6 days straight including my apple day!!!!!!!!! Really a bummer!! Following all the rules - no oil, lotions, lipstick, cheating - if at most I have been under the 500 cal and I have only lost 6 lbs including the 2 lbs that I gained for Phase 1. Something must be very wrong---I am desparate--please help - can't seem to locate the first blog I found here with a lady with the same issue. Please help!!! BK

Hey there! A six day stall?! That's extremely frustrating on such a strict diet, isn't it? I have a few suggestions.

1) Maybe you are a person who needs to eat MORE protein on the diet. I added protein my first and second round and lost pretty well. Just an extra .5 to ounce of protein with your two meals.

2) A steak day works for many, including myself. I ALWAYS lose on steak days. However, I don't do them by the book. I buy a 6 to 8 oz. steak and cook it in the afternoon. I eat half at lunch with some type of veggie and then half at dinner with a tomato cooked with basil, garlic, salt and pepper. Steak days were typically for P3 but many here were doing what we referred to as "mini-steak days" in P2. I just call mine a steak day considering I don't wait all day to eat it and I eat more than the recommended amount. Oh, and I have 1 small apple as a snack IF I'm hungry at some point in the day.

3) At times I did an egg day. I would boil, fry, or make omelets of up to 8 eggs a day, yolks included. If I did an omelet I even threw in a little bit of feta (very little maybe a Tbs. for flavor and spinach.

Since everyone's body chemistry is different it would stand to reason that we may all need different little things to make our body react again to this diet. I found myself deficient in many vitamins and things while in P2 and often a day of something a little different helped to 'unstick' my body!

I would also highly recommend that you check your inches too? If you are doing this right, you can often experience stalls but a lot is happening internally that you may not recognize. Please be patient (just like you are, 6 days is a long time) and up your water if at all possible. I HIGHLY recommend the steak day unless, for some reason, your body doesn't respond well to beef and you already know that

Good luck and please come back to update what happens

Don't feel like you are alone with a mega stall. I stalled for one hole round ~39 days.
I tried everything.

Here are some helpful tips. Try one and wait a few days, then try another, and so on.
http://www.hcgsupportgroup.com/t4728-why-does-my-weight-stall-or-plateau-part-1?highlight=stall

http://www.hcgsupportgroup.com/t4729-break-a-stall-or-plateau-part-2

I also recomend increasing your calcium intake to 2,000-3,000. This helps curb cravings and will help reduce you mid section.
Vitamin B5 or pantethine will also help flush out fat in your system. Take between 600-900mg daily.

There are lots of options here, the key to remember is do it gradually.

But, on another note, are you loosing inches? Some people have lost more in inches during a stall then when actually loosing the weight.
Could this also be a "setpoint" at one time in the weight gain journey?
Give your body time... maybe even retire the scale for a few days, so this will not diacourage you and your efforts.

Best of luck!

Thank you so much for your help - Day seven of the stall. Yipes. I am not takin anything calcium so will try that. I am taking no vitamins at all because was afraid of what a multi would contain and how it would impact the diet. But the increased amount of steak and a tomato - just sounds lke the regular HcG diet---well pretty close. I am never very hungery and the inches are NOT decreasing or I would be less worried. It sounds like an egg day is in order today----but really want to omit the yolks because they have so much fat in them. Why am I eating the yolk and not just the less fat-filled whites?