Must I do Maintenance

From our experience with many participants (thousands with many doing injections, many doing mixed sublingual, and many doing homeopathic) immunity CAN happen, but does not generally happen at 40 days with any of the methods.  We have had as many people stop early from losing too much too fast as from signs of immunity.

I have known several participants who have continued on the protocol and continued to lose weight after the 40 days (acquaintances; not clients), BUT I feel strongly that if it was in our best interest as long as we were not immune, then Dr. Simeons would have specified that a round could be continued until signs of immunity appeared – after all, the signs of immunity are quite drastic as described in Simeons protocol. We have seen them on occasion and concur that immunity is obvious and drastic. 

The breaks are about far more than immunity.  Establishing new weight set points, rebuilding nutritionally, and relying on 20 years of experience (Dr. Simeons) should not be taken lightly.

This is how strongly I personally feel (from my book, the HCG Weight Loss Cure Guide):

“If you are tempted to not go to maintenance after 40 days of HCG because you have lost so well, do NOT give in to the temptation. Your body and mind need the break for many reasons including the avoidance of sagging skin and rebuilding your nutritional stockpiles. Dr. Simeons worked with the protocol for decades and for best overall results – don’t underestimate the purpose behind each step.

We have seen MANY people very successfully complete Round 1 including the locking in of a new set point.  As participants go on to Round 2 on their own, the participant many not be quite as driven or quite as particular during the round and even less particular  in Phase 3.  A month or so later, they find themselves back at their set weight after round 1. The significance: if you successfully create set points along the way, when you stop paying close attention you have backups to stop you from ever going all the way back to your highest weight. If you don’t, when you stop paying close attention (and virtually almost everyone does at some point), you will steadily go all the way back to your highest weight, instead of back to your last round setpoint.

If immunity is your only concern, most participants will not hit immunity at 40 days. Furthermore, if immunity hits, it will be obvious. Counting days isn’t necessary with any of these methods. But please consider the other reasons that Dr. Simeons did not recommend this as an ongoing, longer term protocol.”

Linda Prinster