Shirataki noodles are all the rage not only with people who are on the hCG diet, but with people who are interesting in maintaining their weight and living a more healthy lifestyle. They are soy-free, wheat-free and gluten-free, so they are becoming popular in the special diet and allergy community.   Shirataki noodles are made from soluble fiber of a root of a plan called the Konnyako Imo.

Recently, I bought a box of the Angel Hair Miracle Noodles. They come  two servings to a bag in a liquid-filled plastic baggie.  First you need to strain the noodles to drain off the liquid.  I noticed a mild smell, that I can only describe as slightly fishy.  The smell comes from the fermentation process of the root of the plant, but it goes completely away when you boil the noodles.

What you need to do is place the noodles in a strainer to drain off the liquid, rinse with cool water, and then place the noodles in a pot of boiling water for one minute.  Strain the noodles again and then dry them off.  To dry the noodles, I wrapped them in about 3 paper towels and squeezed.  Now I was ready to add the noodles to my recipe, which was a stirfry.  After adding my meat and veggies to the pan, I tossed in the noodles, added my seasonings and soy sauce and a little water. I ended up cooking the noodles for about 3 additional minutes.

What I found was that the noodles absorbed whatever flavors I added to the pan, in this case, garlic, ginger, and soy sauce.  The texture reminded me of Asian rice noodles, but with a little more spring.  Not tough or rubbery at all.  I throughly enjoyed the meal I made and I found I was able to feel satisfied for a longer period of time after eating the meal with the noodles. I can’t wait to experiment with more recipes. Here are several great Miracle Noodles Recipes.

One note: It also might be a good idea to chop up the noodles a little before cooking.  They tend to stick together a little and if they are in smaller pieces they’ll be easier to eat.

Perfect low carb shake for the hCG diet now in three flavors, Chocolate, Vanilla and Chai. Read my review here.

The shake has 127 calories, 2 grams of fat, 2 net grams of carbs and 18 grams of protein per serving.

Ingredients: Protein Blend (Whey Protein Concentrate, Yellow Pea Protein Concentrate) Hi-Oleic Sunflower Oil, Coco Powder, Guar Gum, Calcium Citrate Creafibe SC 40 (vegetable dietary fiber), Potassium Citrate, Soy Fiber, Oat Fiber, Hoodia, Sucralose, Xylitol, and Trace Mineral Complex.

hCG Shake – CANNISTER  $45.00 + $10.00 shipping (U.S. only)

Homeopathic hCG

There are a ton of companies that sell homeopathic hCG.  I’ve even heard of some being sold at Wal-mart!  The question is–how can you be sure that you are getting true homeopathic hCG and not just a placebo? It’s easy.  How can you be sure it will work?  One way is to deal with a reputable company and find out if it has worked for others. Lately, the FDA has put pressure on the labs that manufacture true homeopathic hCG, so several reputable retailers have stopped selling it. I truly don’t know how much longer we will be able to get these products.

UPDATE:

After months of searching, I have finally found a reputable source of homeopathic hCG.  hCG Deluxe Drops. I have become a sales rep for the lab that makes the hCG Deluxe Drops here in the USA. They know the laws and are working with the FDA. They are the strongest hCG drops you can buy without a prescription! hCG drops must have alcohol in them to preserve them and keep them STRONG. The hCG Deluxe Drops  are 12x 30x 60x, and are not cut with any vitamins or aminos or fillers!! If the label says 3x 6x or a 6x they are cut that many more times from the original hCG.

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There are thousands of weight loss clinics and doctors that will be happy to prescribe the hCG for you, but you may feel like you are capable of doing the diet on your own.  I did, and many of my friends in the HCG community have too. I have purchased hCG from All Day Chemist and Reliable Rx Pharmacy.  All Day Chemist is not currently selling hCG; however, you can buy it from Reliable Rx Pharmacy.

If you’re going to administer pharmaceutical hCG by injection or orally, there are a few supplies you will need. You’ll need mixing vials, mixing needles, and dosing needles, in addition to sodium chloride or bacteriostatic water. You should buy enough of these particular supplies for as long a round as you plan to do (for a 21 day round or a 40 day round).

Several people have asked me for a foolproof recipe for mixing hCG for sublingual dosing.  This is what I used when I did a round with sublingual hCG.  It’s Mamaclok’s video on how to mix for sublingual dosing.

For more information on the pros and cons of the different dosing methods, read my article on the pros and cons of both methods.

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A month ago I was talking to a good friend who was on Phase 2 of the hCG protocol. She said she wasn’t hungry, but she was just so tired of the same old P2 foods. I made several suggestions, but she just wasn’t hearing it. She didn’t want chicken, she didn’t want shrimp, she didn’t want fish and she doesn’t eat beef. She was just bored and ready to throw in the towel. We spoke again later that evening her mood was totally changed. While listening to a podcast I had recommended (Colin Watson’s hCG Body For Life), she had heard about a shake for the hCG diet and had ordered some. I had heard about the shake too, but wasn’t inclined to order it because I am not really a shake person. I had tried several protein shakes, but I never really liked the taste. Anyway, my friend said that the shake she had ordered was sitting on her doorstep when she got home from work. She threw a couple of scoops in the blender along with some cold water. Her exact words were, “Toni, it was SO good! Chocolate-y and creamy–it really hit the spot. This is just what I need to keep going on this round.”

Of course, I was intrigued so I ordered a canister for myself.  Interesting… it only comes in chocolate. Well, I thought, good thing I love chocolate! I received the shake during my last week of Phase 2 and tried it right away. My friend had told me she added some strawberries on one occasion, but I wanted to try it “straight.” And it WAS good. So good that I contacted the manufacturer and told him I wanted to offer it for sale to my blog’s readers.  UPDATE (8/2012):  TWO NEW FLAVORS!  Rich Vanilla Bean and Smooth Spiced Chai.

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What I love about this shake first and foremost is the taste and texture. Secondly, it contains hoodia, which helps suppress your appetite.  Because of this, it can not only be used on Phase 2, but on those Phase 3 and Phase 4 days when you don’t have time to prepare a proper meal.  I plan on using the shake as a meal replacement two to three times per week during Phase 2.

I’ve recently had to increase shipping costs because I noticed the amount I’m charged for shipping depends on the geographic area to where the shake is being shipped. Very few of the shakes ship for $8.71. Most ship for $10.71 or $11.70, so I’ve decided on a happy medium of $10 per shake.

HCG Shake Recipes

The shake has 127 calories, 2 grams of fat, 2 net grams of carbs and 18 grams of protein per serving.

Ingredients: Protein Blend (Whey Protein Concentrate, Yellow Pea Protein Concentrate) Hi-Oleic Sunflower Oil, Coco Powder, Guar Gum, Calcium Citrate Creafibe SC 40 (vegetable dietary fiber), Potassium Citrate, Soy Fiber, Oat Fiber, Hoodia, Sucralose, Xylitol, and Trace Mineral Complex.

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Are you tired of taking breaks between your hCG rounds? Do you just want to keep going until the weight is OFF?

You can do the THIN Deluxe Drops and still lose from 1/2  to 2 pounds a day just like on the hCG diet. I have recently become a sales rep for the lab that makes this product right here in the U.S.A.

THIN Deluxe is a homeopathic, all natural weight loss product. It has a homeopathic code to make your body think you have 2000 – 4000 calories in you, B12, B6, coq10, L-Arginine, and African Mango Extract. Hundreds of people are losing just like on hCG!

You cannot become immune to the THIN Deluxe, so you can stay on it for 90 + days, and lose a lot of weight! I’m on it now, and have lost 8 pounds in 8 days and I have not been hungry for one MINUTE.  I have tried rX hCG and the Thin Deluxe Drops are working for me in the same way.  If you never cheat you will lose between ½ lb and 2 pounds per day.

You can also go straight from 40 days on hCG to the THIN Deluxe and keep losing your weight! The doctor who developed this product  knew they would one day make the hCG illegal so he came up with this over two years ago!!

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Is your homeopathic hCG working for you?

hCG Deluxe Drops are high quality, potent, homeopathic hCG drops.

I’m a sales rep for the lab that makes the hCG Deluxe Drops here in the USA.  They know the laws and are working with the FDA. They are the strongest you can buy without a prescription. hCG drops must have alcohol in them to preserve them and keep them STRONG!! hCG Deluxe Drops are 12x 30x 60x, and are not cut with any vitamins or aminos or fillers!!

The hCG you buy at over the counter at many stores does not have any HCG in it!! Read the ingredients!!  For instance, if a label says 3x 6x they are cut that many more times from the original hCG drops!! Don’t be fooled by cheap brand.  You get what you pay for, trust me!!

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I had started a rX injection round earlier this year and failed 8 days in. I was so discouraged because I had started to lose (about 6 lbs)–and then I had a bad cheat day (stress related)–and gained 3 lbs back!!! Then I just couldn’t seem to get back on track. And honestly, I couldn’t face another day of  a super-restricted diet. So I took a break and was just trying to figure out where to go from there.

So I decided to try a product called Thin Deluxe Drops.These drops have a proprietary homeopathic code that acts like hCG in your body, but it does not have the hormone in it, so you cannot become immune. I had been reading about some Facebook Friend’s experiences on the Thin Deluxe Drops for a while and I was curious.

This is what interested me most:

1) You lose the same way as on hCG but you can stay on them longer without taking a break (90-120 days).

2) You can start taking it right after RX hCG without taking a break.

3) The Thin Deluxe food list has a wider variety of foods than the original hCG Protocol. For me this means I’m less apt to cheat and I think it will be easier to stay on the plan longer. My favorite item in the food list are the corn tortillas and I’m developing a bunch of new recipes based on this addition alone, like my fish tacos pictured below!

4) And last–I didn’t really know about this benefit until it happened to me and was confirmed by another person on the plan–if you do happen to have a bad mess up, it’s more forgiving.

My “Mess Ups” on Thin Deluxe Drops

I don’t really like to use the word “cheat,” because to me that infers that you did in on purpose or planned it. So I’ll call it “messing up.”

One mess up happened on VLCD’s 3 and 4. I only lost .1 and .2 on those days. VERY unusual during the first week of Phase 2. Were the foods on the list affecting my losses? Maybe this product didn’t work like hCG! I contacted my distributor and she told me to BE SURE I was eating ALL of my calories, and that I needed to shoot for 520 calories or I would not lose. Hmmm… I didn’t have this issue on hCG, but apparently it is important if you are taking Thin Deluxe. I hadn’t been tracking my calories carefully, but I did know that I had mainly been eating seafood on those days–a fish meal and a shrimp meal. Turns out that 3.5 ounces of seafood has a LOT less calories than 3.5 ounces of chicken or steak. She also told me that if I was working out I would need to add ALL of those calories burned back into my diet.

Another mess up happened on VLCD 6 when I was at an outdoor concert with my family and my sister’s family. I planned ahead of time to have a salad with grilled chicken, no dressing. But when I got there my sister had wine, veggies, crackers, and the best hummus you have ever tasted. I thought I’d just dip the broccoli in a little hummus and have a sip of wine–but it was ALL DOWN HILL after that. I even got home and ate a half a bar of dark chocolate. The “whys” of that are too complicated to explain, but you know what I mean. This is what I mean when I say I think the Thin Deluxe Drops are more forgiving when you mess up: the next morning I was down .1, the next day I was the same, and the next day I was down 1.2. That NEVER would have happened to me on RX hCG.

My Weight Loss on Thin Deluxe Drops

As of today, I’ve been on the product for 10 days and I’m down 8 pounds (including my “mess up” days). I loaded, but gained less than a pound. So my losses are about what they were on RX hCG. In addition to the Thin Deluxe Drops, Pure Green Coffee Extract and Pure Raspberry Ketones and I feel great! I have not been hungry one minute. In fact, I had to ease up on the Green Coffee Extract and Raspberry Ketones so that I could eat all my calories.

Next week I’m going to try a few days without the additional supplements and see how it goes.

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Pure Raspberry Ketones Drops are the perfect supplement for the hCG diet. The benefits are:

• Reduce cellulite
• Induce fat loss
• Control weight gain
• Reduce fluid retention
• Burn carbohydrates at increased rate
•  Appetite suppression
• Provides additional energy without the jitters
• No known side effects
• 100% natural
• Equivalent to consuming 1,000 red raspberries

Raspberry Ketones in the liquid form provide faster absorption into the body so that you can reap the benefits quickly. These drops are full of antioxidants and and enzymes that helps the body to burn fat more efficiently.

On the hCG diet you may take 10 drops twice a day 30 minutes before meals on the very low calorie diet (VLCD), and continue to take it on Phase 3 and Phase 4.

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Pure Green Coffee Bean drops are made from raw, green, unroasted coffee beans. The roasting process of coffee beans reduces amounts of the chemical chlorogenic acid. Therefore, green coffee beans have a higher level of chlorogenic acid compared to regular, roasted coffee beans. Chlorogenic acid in green coffee is thought to have health benefits for heart disease, diabetes and weight loss.

Research on Green Coffee Bean and Weight Loss

In a study by the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania study, 16 overweight or obese individuals took capsules containing green coffee bean extract.

“The subjects took low doses of the extract supplement, higher doses of the extract supplement, and placebos over a period of 22 weeks. The subjects took the green coffee bean extract pills 30 minutes before a meal three times a day.

Throughout the study, the participants did not change their eating habits or exercise regimens. On average the study participants lost 17 pounds. This equaled a total bodyweight loss of about 10 percent. What’s even more interesting is that the participants also saw a 16 percent decrease in total body fat. This is especially promising because the subjects’ average daily caloric intake was around 2,400 calories and they burned an average of 400 calories through exercise. This calorie level alone would not result in the dramatic weight loss that was observed with the supplemented coffee bean extract.”

Pure Green Coffee Bean Drops have the following benefits:

• Energizes
• Increases metabolism
• Supports Healthy Body Weight
• Supports Body Fat & Blood Sugar Levels
• Supports the Use of Fat for Energy
• 100% Natural
• No Side Effects

Dr. Oz says there are antioxidants in green coffee beans that melt your fat away and that it doubles your weight loss. You will not be jittery because green coffee bean extract contains very little caffeine. Listen to what he has to say here.

On the hCG diet you may take 10 drops two to three times a day 30 minutes before meals on the very low calorie diet (VLCD), and continue to take it on Phase 3 and Phase 4.

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Native to Indonesia and grown in India, Southeast Asian, and West and Central Africa, Garcinia Cambogia is a small, pumpkin-shaped fruit, sometimes called tamarind. The natural extract is called hydroxycitric acid (HCA), and researchers claim that HCA can double or triple one’s weight loss.

Benefits:

• Suppresses appetite
• Lowers cholesterol
• Blocks the production of fat
• Helps to manage stress and improves mood
• Blocks carbs

The HCA extract from garcinia cambogia supplement aids in weight loss by doing two things: It helps to block fat, and it suppresses your appetite.

HCA blocks fat by inhibiting a key enzyme that your body needs to make fat from carbohydrates: Citrate lyase. Usually carbohydrates or sugars that are not used immediately or stored in other forms are converted into fats. When HCA inhibits citrate lyase, the fat-making process is halted and the production of LDL (bad cholesterol) and triglycerides decrease.

Garcinia can help emotional eaters. Study participants showed an increase in their serotonin levels, which helps to suppress your appetite, and it may also improve mood and sleeping patterns. 

With no other changes, you may lose 2-4 pounds within one month. However, it is highly recommended that the person taking HCA also find time for moderate exercise a few times a week and eat properly portioned meals. Let the power of the HCA supplement work along with making healthier choices.

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There are thousands of weight loss clinics and doctors that will be happy to prescribe the hCG for you, but you may feel like you are capable of doing the diet on your own.  I did, and many of my friends in the HCG community have too. I have purchased hCG from All Day Chemist and Reliable Rx Pharmacy.  All Day Chemist is not currently selling hCG; however, you can buy it from Reliable Rx Pharmacy.

If you’re going to administer pharmaceutical hCG by injection or orally, there are a few supplies you will need. You’ll need mixing vials, mixing needles, and dosing needles, in addition to sodium chloride or bacteriostatic water. You should buy enough of these particular supplies for as long a round as you plan to do (for a 21 day round or a 40 day round).

Several people have asked me for a foolproof recipe for mixing hCG for sublingual dosing.  This is what I used when I did a round with sublingual hCG.  It’s Mamaclok’s video on how to mix for sublingual dosing.

For more information on the pros and cons of the different dosing methods, read my article on the pros and cons of both methods.

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These days millions of people are searching for information about the hCG protocol.  There are so many sources on the internet that it would be difficult for me, if I were just starting the protocol, to figure out the best place to buy my hCG, mixing supplies, needles, supplements, etc.  I want to share what I believe are the most reliable sources, for not only hCG but for supplies and the support you will need while you’re on the protocol.

Where to get hCG

1. Pharmaceutical hCG administered orally (drops, sublingually)

2. Pharmaceutical hCG administered by injections

3. Hormone-free drops

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Garcinia Cambogia, Raspberry Ketones, and Green Coffee Bean drops have be best effect when they are taken in conjunction with a low fat, low carb, and low calorie diet.

Refrigerate all drops after opening.

The drops may be taken up to 3 times a day, preferably before meals.

Don’t eat or drink anything 15 minutes before or after taking the drops.

The drops may be taken consecutively (for example, take Garcinia Cambogia, hold for 30 seconds, swallow; take Raspberry Ketones, hold for 30 seconds, swallow; take green coffee bean, hold for 30 seconds, swallow.

Place 10 drops under your tongue and hold for 30 seconds before swallowing.

Each bottle will last about 30 days.

Here’s a list of benefits for each of the drops.

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