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This just seems like an unhealthy approach to weight loss; why would you inject your body with a hormone instead of choosing to eat better and exercise? I just tend to think about what you are going to be able to keep up for life, assuming you want to keep the weight off. I wish you luck, but hope you can incorporate eating better, healthier foods in your life plan.
And I have researched this topic:
"Regardless, once a person stops the hCG diet, he or she will have to adopt a normal and healthy lifestyle, or the weight's just coming back. Proponents of the hCG diet maintain that the purpose of the diet is to break food addictions and abnormal eating behaviors, and that the month or so of treatment allows a person to do so. In this sense, the diet hopes to achieve short-term weight loss with long-term behavioral modification.
Of course, eating well-proportioned meals is much easier when you're injecting stimulants and hunger-suppressing hormones. If you gain weight again, the doctor or clinic -- upon the follow-up visit -- may recommend you start the treatment over again. Therefore, you may just scrap real attempts to change eating habits and sign on to long-term use of chemicals without fixing the real problem: your diet and exercise habits.
A month-long course of hCG injections and crash dieting will likely help you lose weight, but a key question is: Is this the best way to permanently modify poor eating habits?
In addition to the reliability of a new diet fad popping up to replace the one before it, there's another constant when it comes to dieting -- no matter what you do, maintaining a healthy weight depends on eating right and exercising."0 -
This just seems like an unhealthy approach to weight loss; why would you inject your body with a hormone instead of choosing to eat better and exercise? I just tend to think about what you are going to be able to keep up for life, assuming you want to keep the weight off. I wish you luck, but hope you can incorporate eating better, healthier foods in your life plan.
And I have researched this topic:
"Regardless, once a person stops the hCG diet, he or she will have to adopt a normal and healthy lifestyle, or the weight's just coming back. Proponents of the hCG diet maintain that the purpose of the diet is to break food addictions and abnormal eating behaviors, and that the month or so of treatment allows a person to do so. In this sense, the diet hopes to achieve short-term weight loss with long-term behavioral modification.
Of course, eating well-proportioned meals is much easier when you're injecting stimulants and hunger-suppressing hormones. If you gain weight again, the doctor or clinic -- upon the follow-up visit -- may recommend you start the treatment over again. Therefore, you may just scrap real attempts to change eating habits and sign on to long-term use of chemicals without fixing the real problem: your diet and exercise habits.
A month-long course of hCG injections and crash dieting will likely help you lose weight, but a key question is: Is this the best way to permanently modify poor eating habits?
In addition to the reliability of a new diet fad popping up to replace the one before it, there's another constant when it comes to dieting -- no matter what you do, maintaining a healthy weight depends on eating right and exercising."0 -
You don't need to work out 3 times a day... or at all really to lose weight 'the healthy way'. A person that is obese (unless they have a severe metabolic problem) burns more calories than someone who is a healthy weight. So even if you ate as many calories as you at a healthy weight should be eating you would still lose weight with no exercise. Sure it would be slow but it would still happen.
Now I can't help but defend some people on here that I only ever usually hear positive things from who have had great success on their weight loss journeys.
It was mentioned earlier that you aren't only getting 500cal/day but rather thousands from your fat stores... well, yes but this would happen if you ate nothing at all as well... does that make that healthier? Also, your body doesn't store fat with the nutrients that came in the food you ate to put it there. I don't think people have a problem with the amount of calories you are having perse but rather with the amount of nutrition you are having by eating so few calories.
Also... 'if slow and steady wins the race, why is America the fattest nation on earth?'... seriously? You think they got that way by gradually working toward a healthy lifestyle? You truly think that people worked hard to find what was sustainable for them and ate this way for the rest of their life and got fat? I personally think it's more that people started a strict diet, failed and went back to eating whatever rubbish they want when they want or perhaps they just never started in the first place. I don't really understand how that would disprove the 'slow and steady wins the race' argument.
For the record, as I have said before I do think VLCDs can be a beneficial weight loss program in some situations as a last resort. I also think that HCG is very much a fad and that you would get the same results on a VLCD without the actual HCG.0 -
At 230 I don't think I could have run, not with the arthritis in my knees - and I had ACL reconstruction on my left knee 18 years ago. Now - under 190 - I really enjoy running. I have completed two 5ks, a mini-triathlon and a 10K (1hr 3 minutes ?secs) this summer with another 5K and a half marathon to go.
Yes, I do feel that this is the best way to permanently modify my eating habits - it was exactly the eating discipline that I lacked. You may not understand it, but I have such a feeling of control with this eating plan, when previously I always felt out of control.
I have the energy to continue running 3 days a week if I want, but have chosen not to during this phase, besides with 4 kids under 5 and summer here, we are finding lots to do and stay active.
I really feel that the real key is what you learn on your journey, regardless of how you get there.0
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