How Your Experience with HCG 2.0 Can Make You an Immediate Fasting Pro
- Dr. Zachary Laboube
- 2 days ago
- 4 min read
If you have had success with HCG 2.0, you are familiar with the “zone.”
That stretch when your cravings are gone, your energy is stable, and your body starts burning clean fuel—stored fat (ketone calories)—for energy instead of glucose. It’s a state of pure efficiency.
When you reach that sweet spot of ketosis, you’re no longer relying on quick-burning carb calories that spike and crash your energy. You’re running on ketones, the fuel your body creates from stored fat—and it’s like switching from regular gas to jet fuel. Your thoughts sharpen, your focus deepens, and your energy feels smoother, steadier, and more sustainable.
That clarity, that calm drive you get 4-5 days into your HCG 2.0 protocol? That’s the exact same energy you’ll feel during a well-planned fast. It's true. By day two of a strict water fast, you're there. In the zone.
Why HCG 2.0 Veterans Are Built for Fasting
If you’ve completed a round of HCG 2.0, you already have the discipline, awareness, and preparation that fasting requires. You understand the role of macronutrients. You’ve tracked your proteins, fats, and carbs. You’ve learned that food is more than comfort—it’s chemistry.
The same principles that made your HCG 2.0 experience successful apply directly to fasting:
Preparation matters. Success favors the prepared mind. As is life, right? Just like you don’t start HCG without preparation, you don’t start a fast without strategy.
Hydration is key. HCG taught you to drink water, and fasting doubles down on that.
Awareness of hunger vs. habit. You’ve learned to differentiate the two—and that’s everything when fasting. In fact, fasting will make you entirely conscience of your habitual eating. It is eye-opening.
The Day-One Rule
Here’s the truth: day one is the hardest. It’s your body’s rebellion period, when it realizes the routine has changed. By three or four in the afternoon you'll hear your stomach begin to growl. Don't listen. It's your mind negotiating with you. Do the hard thing and power through. Why?
Because if you can survive day one, you’re golden.
Something shifts after that. Hunger signals fade, your energy smooths out, and sleep - it becomes the bridge to effortless momentum. I always say: if you can make it through the first night, you’ll wake up and cruise through the afternoon.
There are times when I plan a 24-hour fast, hit the 36-hour mark, and think, why stop now? The hardest part’s already done. Before I know it, I’m closing in on a 72-hour fast without even meaning to. That said, there are tricks and hacks. If you survive your first 24, it will only get easier.
That’s the beauty of it—it snowballs. But only if you plan for it.
Scheduling Makes It Sustainable
Fasting success isn’t about willpower—it’s about structure. In fact, if you can stick with the schedule for 6 months, you will come to depend upon it - to make you feel "right." Additionally, fasting will open the door to new food experience. If you are in full control, you can afford - and are allowed - to indulge guilt-free.
Plan your fasting windows around busy, productive days. Idle time invites temptation. If you know you’ll be on the move or deep into work, that’s the perfect time to fast. And your productivity will NOT suffer. It will improve.
And just like your HCG meal prep, you can prep your fast. Stock up on electrolyte water, black coffee and herbal tea. A squeeze of lemon is fine. Keep your Fast Patch ready to suppress appetite and maintain energy.
If you treat fasting with the same mindset that made your HCG 2.0 journey work—discipline, structure, and mindfulness—it becomes effortless. When it is effortless is when you can call it a lifestyle. Your lifestyle.
The Metabolic Similarities
Both fasting and HCG 2.0 optimize your metabolic flexibility—your body’s ability to switch between fuel sources efficiently.
HCG 2.0 does it through nutrient control.
Fasting does it through discipline and restraint (with the assistance of the Fast Past).
Both train your body to burn fat instead of sugar. Both rewire your relationship with food. And both remind you that hunger doesn’t mean weakness—it’s often a sign of progress.
Autophagy: For the Elite Fasters
The ultimate goal of fasting is a metabolic process called autophagy. Autophagy means cell death. It sounds grim, but think of it like your body's internal composting system. When you deprive yourself of calories for an extended amount of time (30+ hours), your body goes to defcon 4. In response, it begins to break down the oldest and weakest cells so that it can re-use the parts to make healthy one. When you get beyond the range of 30-36 hours, your fast becomes a true detox with removal of bad cells and manufacturing new ones.
The Takeaway
If you’ve done HCG 2.0, you already have the playbook. You know how to listen to your body, manage your macros, and respect the process.
Now, fasting gives you the chance to take it one step further—to simplify everything. No tracking. No weighing. Just a focused, empowered reset that strengthens the foundation that your success with HCG 2.0 built for you.
So grab your Fast Patch, schedule your window, and trust the process. You’re already a pro—you just didn’t know it yet.
If you have questions about HCG 2.0 click here to view our quick start guide.
👉 If you want more information to my fasting schedule, go to www.TheFastPatch.com
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