HCG Diet? Thoughts?

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  • fivefatcats
    fivefatcats Posts: 368
    Regardless which side of the issue one chooses to take, my opinion is this:

    I choose HCG and am still learning how to eat/exercise properly. I have been maintaining for 53 days. I cannot tell you what will happen two years from now and neither can anyone else.

    It matters, not how you get where you are going, but what you do when you get there.

    Lose it fast. Lose it slow. If we don't learn to eat/exercise properly, we end up right where we started.

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  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    I would like to add my .02 also...............

    First of all, the HCG plan is far from being a fad diet. Dr Simeons started researching this plan way back in the 1940's and then starting implementing in clinics in Italy in the 1950's. It is probably one of the best and most thought out plans I have ever read about and I have ready plenty of plans..............

    I am on Round 2 and I was able to maintain my weight with little or no effort prior to staring this round. The diet industry and Big Pharma companies are all out to make money from anyone they can get it from.

    Since HCG is a natural occurring hormone, none of the companies can patent it, so of course the FDA won't endorse it............

    The MDs could probably do well with prescribing HCG to their patients. There's plenty of interest in successful weight loss programs. It's the pharmaceutical companies that wouldn't. It's a natural product and thus not patentable. They can't make a profit from it. From what I understand, the studies that the FDA used to determine that the protocol didn't work were rigged to fail. They did not follow the protocol exactly. Since there's no profit in HCG, there is little motivation to do the fancy studies that the FDA requires for approval of a treatment. There is plenty of motivation to create a study that will show that it is not effective. I suspect that is what was done. I will be publishing my results in my blog and will begin shortly. Even though my experience is really anecdotal since it is not part of some double-blind study, it does show that the diet has been phenomenally effective for me. I wanted others to be able to see that this can indeed work for them.
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