It is easy for someone who knows nothing about the protocol to be worried about you embarking on it. Show them this website and let them see how the protocol was originally derived by Dr Simeons and how Leslie Kenton’s Cura Romana® has developed in recent years. This can help them understand the nature of the program, how health-enhancing it can be, and how it has been successfully used by many people all over the world. Tell them that you want their love and support. Ultimately you are the one responsible for what you choose to do for your health. Honor that. 

 Yes, it does. It’s used with equally good results in men and women. In fact, it works even better and faster for men than it does for woman.

If you are on any prescription medication, it is important that you let your doctor know that you intend to carry out the Cura Romana program. Your doctor will need to check whether the dosage of any medication you are on needs to be adjusted as you undergo your Cura Romana journey. So improved are many people’s health parameters that doctors frequently want to reduce the dosage of medications they are prescribing.

If you suffer from gout, gallstones, diabetes or have recently been treated for a coronary occlusion, it is important your doctor monitors your progress while you are on the program. These conditions are not contraindications for Cura Romana, but in such cases, as Simeons says, the protocol needs to be carried out under the watchful eye of a wise physician. 

It would be natural for you to feel a little hungry before lunch and dinner although some people report days when they do not even experience this. Everyone is different. About 60% of people report little or no significant hunger right from the very first day. Others report feeling low to moderate levels of hunger off and on for the first few days as your body shifts its functioning. It is extremely rare for anyone to experience strong hunger during the protocol. 

No. Cura Romana is not like many weightloss diets which compromise muscle and bone and cause metabolism to slow down. It draws energy from, and only burns up, your inessential fat stores not your muscle tissue. 

Good question. You might well lose the same amount of weight eating fewer calories, but you would need phenomenal willpower and you would lose weight not only from your inessential fat stores but also from your essential fat stores. This is what makes people look so haggard and feel so weak on some weight loss diets as often both muscle and bone are lost before inessential fat. This is also what causes metabolism to slow down, makes them highly prone to regaining weight easily and laying down more abnormal fat in the process. The Essential Spray together with Simeons’ Food Plan helps turn only abnormal fat into energy and helps you shed fat without undermining bone, muscle or metabolism. 

This is an effective protocol for anyone over 18 years of age who carries abnormal fat deposits. Even if you need to shed only 10 or 15 pounds you can use it to reshape your body and enhance your health. 

Simeons allowed his patients to drink as much coffee as they wanted. But that was more than 50 years ago before insulin resistance, leptin resistance and food intolerance burgeoned to epidemic proportions as a result of all the grain-based carbs, sugars, junk fats and convenience foods our society feeds on. I strongly advise anyone going on Cura Romana to stop drinking coffee altogether before beginning the protocol. At the very least, I suggest you limit yourself to one cup a day. There are several reasons for this:

1.  Coffee can slow or halt weightloss in 80% of people on the program because of the way it triggers blood sugar and insulin release.
2.  It depletes B vitamins important for good brain and nervous system functioning.
3. It undermines adrenal functioning and can lead to adrenal exhaustion.
4. Coffee does not provide you with energy. What it’s providing is chemical stimulation and the perceived “energy” comes from your body’s struggle to adapt to increased blood levels of stress hormones. In most cases this induced emergency state leads to well-defined side effects. Collectively they are known as caffeinism. Ironically caffeinism is characterized most by fatigue.

Use QV Lotion or liquid paraffin as these contain no animal or vegetable fats. Get yourself some plain Aloe Vera gel (make sure there are no oils mixed with it — you want the kind that can be taken orally) then put it in a spray bottle and spritz your skin with it. Use petroleum jelly for dry lips. Be patient. My own legs felt like alligator skin for the first week or so whilst on the protocol. That is how I discovered QV Lotion. I ordered some but by the time it arrived my skin had become as smooth as a child’s thanks to the way my body had readjusted during the program. QV also do an excellent bath oil and a QV cream, both of which work beautifully on the hCG + Food Plan part of the program. Once you enter Consolidation you can use whatever you like. 

Provided they are over 18, yes. The program is not designed for anyone under the age of 18. They can do the program so long as they are genuinely motivated to do so. You must never try to press the program on anyone who is not absolutely committed to doing it. That would be an infringement of their personal freedom to choose. It would also lead to failure. 

Yes. People often feel great both during and after the program. They report that they don’t experience the irritability or weakness common to many weightloss diets. They look years younger. The majority of people sleep better, yet many people find that they need to sleep less. They feel more alive, and more in tune with themselves. Cura Romana appears to regenerate the body’s essential fat tissues — the structural fat around organs and fat deposits — and other fat stores which are essential for health but which never distort the shape of the body and help protect us in times of famine. This makes your skin, face, neck and hands look renewed and glowing. Most conventional weightloss diets take away structural fat as well as inessential fat. It is this which creates the sunken, hollow appearance and the deep fatigue common with yo-yo dieters. On Cura Romana people report having more energy, a decreased appetite and fewer food cravings than ever before. 

Not when it is used correctly. The injections of hCG used by Simeons were in minute doses – 125 IU per day compared with as much as 1 million IU per day excreted in the urine of a pregnant woman. As far as the Essential Spray – a vibrational essence – is concerned, there have been no complications reported by anyone using it. 

The Essential Spray vibrational essence used in Cura Romana is a safe and very stable compound. People who have used both the Essential Spray and injectable hCG report that there is no difference between them in terms of the weightloss. The advantages of the Essential Spray are many. They include not having to have injections and being able to carry your Essential Spray around with you so that you can use it four times a day, even if you are out and about. Perhaps the most interesting and valuable advantage of all is that the Essential Spray brings a tremendous sense of lightness and transformation to people mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Many tell us that it not only helps reshape their bodies, it reshapes their whole lives. Again and again we hear that they have never felt as well physically or as good about themselves as after Cura Romana. 

This varies from person to person. Women usually lose between 15 and 20 pounds on the nine week program, while men often lose more. One of the remarkable things about the program is that even when weightloss slows down temporarily, you continue to lose inches, so that after a while you experience a drop on the scales and/or your clothes fit better. 

No, it is not. Cura Romana can only do its work if you are willing to work with it to make sure that you follow the protocol exactly right through the program. It is the partnership that is formed between you and the program that makes permanent weightloss happen. 

No. Weightloss on Cura Romana does not depend on exercise. It takes place because of shifts in metabolic functions whether or not you exercise. 

On Cura Romana abnormal fat deposits diminish. The program does not deplete structural and essential tissue necessary to maintain healthy body function, as do many ordinary weightloss diets. The body rejuvenates itself both inside and out, giving people on the program a fresh, glowing appearance. Skin seems to become more toned through the process. 

The good news is that these minor ailments tend to be less virulent while on Cura Romana. My way of dealing with them is to increase the frequency of the vitamin C you are taking as part of your program from once a day to three or four times a day until two days after all symptoms have cleared. Most important: get some extra rest and take Epsom salts baths. 

Yes. It is important that you consult with your doctor or health care practitioner before discontinuing any medication. That being said, if you are on medication for diabetes, depression, cholesterol, high blood pressure etc, it is essential that your health care professional monitors the changes in the medical parameters on which the dosages of your drugs have been based. The improvements in these areas that take place on Cura Romana can happen rapidly. Your doctor will not want you to be taking more of any medication than you need.  

Simeons says, “Those not uncommon patients who feel that even so little food is too much for them, can omit anything they wish.” That being said, it is my experience that it is important for everyone to eat their protein foods and green vegetables twice a day. Weightloss is better when you do. You can certainly eliminate the grissini with no problem. And, if you are genuinely not hungry and feeling well, you can certainly skip the odd meal if you like. What you must not ever do is stop eating for a couple of days or more in the belief that this will help you lose weight faster. It won’t. That could make you unwell. 

No. If you know your body does not handle wheat or other cereals and grains well you should avoid them altogether. You do not have to replace them with anything — just leave them out. For people who respond poorly to starchy foods or gluten, breadsticks can trigger cravings and slow weight loss. 

By the end of the first week on Cura Romana your body may begin to reveal a new sleek, toned appearance and feel. By then, you are likely also to sense a new balance in your emotions and the beginnings of a new outlook on your body and your life. 

It’s often best to say nothing. If you tell them you are on a “diet” they are going to ask things like “what do you eat for breakfast?” Wait until you are well into the program and your body and face are so transformed that people start to remark on it. Then you can refer them to the Cura Romana website or The Cura Romana Weightloss Book if they are genuinely interested. Otherwise thank them and reply, “Yes I’ve been feeling very well lately.” 

Yes. Simeons found it impossible to deal with vegetarians on Cura Romana, but happily things have changed a lot in the last 50 years. I have worked with many vegetarians and find that they do well on Cura Romana. We now have foods – such as micro-filtered whey – which Simeons could not have dreamed of. If, even as a vegetarian, you are able to include fish and/or shellfish in your menus, this is ideal. It gives a lot of variety and fish is an excellent source of easily digested top-quality protein. 

If you have struggled with your weight in the past you probably have four things in common with the rest of us: Your metabolic processes are sluggish; you are often hungry; you eat when you are not hungry; you worry about losing fat from the wrong places. The goal of Cura Romana is to help your body restore good metabolic processes. If you follow the protocol to the letter, trust your body and let go, your body can begin to rebalance itself. Then you will not feel abnormal hunger, food cravings will begin to melt away, and your system will steadily burn the fat you don’t want. 

Many weightloss diets result in a loss of muscle tissue and a consequent lowering of metabolic rate. With each failed diet this meant that it took fewer and fewer calories for you to regain the weight you lost. In effect your metabolic chemistry went into ‘conservation mode’ making it harder and harder to lose weight. Cura Romana does not cause a loss of muscle tissue. Instead, it helps your body to shift its metabolic functioning into a dynamic mode where your body is burning stored fat and producing energy. Once your body has restored its natural ability to turn the food you eat into energy you will not be in danger of putting the weight back on – so long as you eat the things your body loves and not the things it hates. Cura Romana’s unique Consolidation process is all about you finding out what your body thrives on.