HGC Drops, Anyone tried and results GOOD OR BAD ?

NicoleJones81

I was wondering if anyone here has tried the HGC drops, and what results/side effects you had. Good or bad choice. Please help me decided what to do.

ering

I know one person who tried this. Besides the fact that she gained ALL of the weight she lost back, she said it was horrible to only be able to eat a tiny bit of food a day.
Some will tell you it works but I don't see how it could long term.
Good luck

ambermichon

search HCG topics on this site. I dont know that the drops really do anything. this diet is bad for your metabolism :-(

beccarockslife

*dons tin hat and waits for the explosion*

JDRBT

You'll lose weight - fast. But odds are you won't be able to keep it off. This diet is based on a hormone that tricks your body into processing at a high rate - as if you were pregnant. It's not, IMHO, a maintanable lifestyle though. 500 calories/day is dangerously low. It took a long time to put the weight on. To get it off and keep it off there is no "quick fix" - at least, no healthy one. Even controlled calorie diets, like Medifast, for example, takes time to get the weight off.

dayzeerock

Yeah, they're great. If you wanna end up in a hospital bed while you gain all the weight back that you lost starving yourself.

Shweedog

*dons tin hat and waits for the explosion*

HAHAHAHA

bereal75

Sorry for not supporting your ideas.
The best "cure" for being fat are 2 things:
- eat healthy (lots of vegs, fruits etc.)
- exercise

The only thing i did to loose weight were these 2 countermeasures.
Try to avoid all processed carbs, work out and eat reasonable and you will be fine.

Heather75

*sigh*

Jorra

The FDA and BBB say it's a fraud. You lose weight because you are starving yourself on 500 calories a day, not because you're taking a pill made from pregnant women's pee.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/hcg-weight-loss-bbb-alert-aug-3-2011

savlyon

BAD. BAD. BAD. My friend ended up in the hospital. 500 calories a day is insanity.

NicoleJones81

Wow , Thank you ladies all so much. I'm just not losing weight and I've really been watching what I've been eating and exercising everyday. I used to just eat anything I wanted and how much I wanted of it. Now i'm weighing food and counting calories and watching the sugar in food, and when I am using a sugar is Truvia, or Stevia raw, I just though the weight would come off faster with such drastic measures. But I guess atleast it's not another pound gained.

taso42_DELETED

FFS the other HCG thread is still in the recent topics!

tamawama77

Both my son and I tried HCG and it worked wonderfully. However, you have to be very disciplined about the food protocol and drink lots and lots of water. Before I started them, I was on a 1,200 calorie diet tracking it here and after watching my son lose 30 pounds in a relatively short amount of time, I decided to try it just to get off a good amount and then got off and went back to a low calorie, healthy diet. During HCG, I would lose 1-2 pounds per day and would have some days with nothing at all, which was fine. With any kind of diet, you can and will gain back weight if you don't continue with a healthy life style. With HCG I never counted calories, I just followed a food protocol my son gave me. So for breakfast, I had 1/2 cup of cherrios and 1/2 cup of non-fat milk OR 1 egg and 50 calorie piece of bread. Then for both lunch and dinner it was 5 oz of protein, 1 cup of veggies, and 1 cup of fruit. There is a list of acceptable foods for these categories. We got pretty creative with seasonings and the food was actually great and I would feel full. I just missed things like chips and cookies, etc. etc. I LOVE chips and salsa and cheese and chocolate. I still avoid eating too many empty foods and just allow myself cheats every so often and in smaller quantities.

Bottom line - there are going to be critics with many weight loss choices so you have to make the decision for yourself but it really does work without any side effects at all. I can tell you that many people scoffed at me for trying it but it's just a short term thing and you wouldn't want to follow it for too long, but it helps sometimes to see a bit of immediate results but for it to last, obvious life style changes including good diet and exercise and the key for the long haul. I hope that helps.....

sweebum

*Sigh*. Look, we all got here because of poor eating habits, eating the wrong food, or eating too much of them, and/or not getting off the couch.

Your behavior towards food HAS TO change for this to be a successful lifestyle change for you.

HCG consists of eating 500 calories for the first phase. The drops are not what they say they are (they can't be, as the FDA does not allow HCG in drops). And even if they were- are you really that desperate? How awful would it be to lose 50 lbs and then gain 70 back because you can never eat a realistic calorie level again?

Losing weight isn't the hard part. Keeping it off is. And part of the process is doing it properly- so you can maintain it forever.

It all comes down to eating sensibly and exercising moderately for the rest of your life. The rest is BS. "When you change the way you look at thing, the things you look at change".

Good luck.

dayzeerock

Bottom line - there are going to be critics with many weight loss choices so you have to make the decision for yourself but it really does work without any side effects at all.

No side effects at all? Wow, why don't you come down to the hospital I work at and tell the girl dying in one of my hospital beds because of the stuff that there's no side effects. As if destroying your metabolism permanently isn't bad enough, DEATH is a possible side effect as well.

bobbybdoe

Inb4 desperate HCG fanatics with 0% muscle mass -- oh wait... ^^^

eventgal

I was on HCG as recent as last week! A personal trainer friend came by and set me straight. Nature is nature, and as she explained it, HCG burns both fat and muscle. Those who sell HCG don't know or won't admit that.

Anyway, the net effect -- it LOWERS your metabolism. I had an "OMG moment" and decided that I had been a stupid fool. The doc that I went thru recommended that I limit my exercise. I noticed when I did a simple Walk Away the Pounds video (one stinkin' mile!!!), my muscles burned and ached. That in mind, my friend's comments made perfect sense. I have mended my ways and that's why I am here with MFP.

NicoleJones81

Thank You all soooo Much for the advice and laughs.

graysmom2005

I was on HCG as recent as last week! A personal trainer friend came by and set me straight. Nature is nature, and as she explained it, HCG burns both fat and muscle. Those who sell HCG don't know or won't admit that.

Anyway, the net effect -- it LOWERS your metabolism. I had an "OMG moment" and decided that I had been a stupid fool. The doc that I went thru recommended that I limit my exercise. I noticed when I did a simple Walk Away the Pounds video (one stinkin' mile!!!), my muscles burned and ached. That in mind, my friend's comments made perfect sense. I have mended my ways and that's why I am here with MFP.

*Stands and claps!*

cathynicolette

I have a few friends who have tried this (he is REALLY good at maintaining his weight and not good at actually getting it off) who loves it and he looks amazing. He and his wife keep their weight on the bathroom mirror with dry erase and they lose a pound a day it looks like.

Other friends hated it and couldn't get past the first few days of only eating 500 cals a day.

I looked into it and it does NOT look healthy to me. it scared me just reading the website and I've never even considered it again.
I agree with less intake, more output. be patient, this didn't happen to us over night and it's not going to be fixed overnight.

LisaKyle11

really....? again?

NicoleJones81

OKAY are the women or men that are getting sick or dying from this HGC diet already skinny and need to lose 10-30 lbs or are they large size ppl that need to lose more then 50 lbs. I could see how on a regular/small size person this could be dangerous, but when your very heavy (obese) I'm thinking the weight might be more of a health risk than the drops. I'm just wondering if the being obese overweighs the side effects as far as health wise? Does anyone know of a Heavy person having bad side effects from the drops that did continue the 1200 calorie and exercise after the drops? I've been exercising and dieting on 1200 calories a day and barely losing 1-2 lbs a month I mean what else can I do?

dayzeerock

Alright, here's the deal. IDEALLY, your body should be about 40% muscle, 25% bone, and about 15-25% liquid mass (blood, water, etc.). This 15-25 percent differs if you're male or female. The remaining percentage is fat...healthy fats like the fat your brain is made up of, etc. When you starve yourself, regardless of whether you're morbidly obese or emaciatedly underweight, your body feeds off of itself. It doesn't matter if you're "supplementing" with a drop or injection or whatever else, the point is, your body needs those calories regardless. Did you realize that you need AT LEAST 600 calories a day just to keep your heart functioning at a healthy rate? That's 600 calories for your heart ALONE, not to mention the calories it takes to keep the rest of your body functioning. When you starve, your body has to feed off of something, and it doesn't discriminate between fat and muscle. Especially in someone who is overweight, where there is more fat than muscle, you're at an even HIGHER risk of losing even MORE muscle mass because your muscles require more calories to survive. So yes, it is JUST as dangerous for an overweight person as a thin person to use this stupid crap.

NicoleJones81

Thank You Dayzeerock. I'm just getting frustrated with little weight loss. any goood tips I can try then?

taso42_DELETED

Thank You Dayzeerock. I'm just getting frustrated with little weight loss. any goood tips I can try then?

you can open your diary for a start and we can take a look. you posted earlier that you're on a 1200 calorie diet - the bare minimum. is that 1200 net?

bobbybdoe

Btw, does anyone else HATE the word "abnormal fat"? Fat is fat -- I don't understand why these people can't use common sense. I learned all about fats and different kinds macronutrients last year. That "abnormal fat" HCG fanatics talk about doesn't exist.

AlsDonkBoxSquat

Thank You Dayzeerock. I'm just getting frustrated with little weight loss. any goood tips I can try then?

You're not going to get biggest loser numbers. I love TBL, love it, but it has the side effect of giving everyone the idea that 1 pound or more per day weight loss is normal. The top end of normal is 2 pounds per week, that's why mfp doesn't give you the option of 10#/wk. Look at the size of the people on tbl that can manage to lose that much weight in a week, the next week or 2 after a huge loss they tend to have a seeze on the scale and sometimes increases. The only thing anyone ever remembers is those large numbers, but what really counts is the finish line. Slow and stead wins this race, slow and stead establishes a healthy base line for a healthy lifestyle. We're not here to win $1m, this isn't a game show, this is life.

AlsDonkBoxSquat

Btw, does anyone else HATE the word "abnormal fat"? Fat is fat -- I don't understand why these people can't use common sense. I learned all about fats and different kinds macronutrients last year. That "abnormal fat" HCG fanatics talk about doesn't exist.

abnormal fat? I don't even know what that is . . . I must have put on my bs blinders for that one.

psuLemon

Below are 3 good links that have a ton of information. Essentially, you have to eat to lose weight. More than likely, 1200 calories isn't enough for you to lose properly. So if you can open up your food diary and then second, let us know what you do for exercise, then we can expand. If you really want to lose weight fast and build muscle so you can eat more and burn more, look into a program like p90x or insanity. Keep in mind though, you really need to eat a lot of food to get the results.


http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/

http://www.shapefit.com/basal-metabolic-rate.html

http://www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm

dayzeerock

Go to a grocery store. If it comes in a box, or a bag, can, or in the freezer section, it probably shouldn't be in your cart. Stick to "real" food...food that doesn't need an ingredient list on it. Produce - Fruits and Vegetables. Whole Grains - brown rice, barley, quinoa, millet, oats. Proteins: Lean Meats, not deli meats (if you eat meat), dried beans, lentils. Not only will your grocery bill go down considerably if you just cut the crap out, but your waistline will thank you as well.