HCG diet drops - any information?

powter

A friend has lost 20 pounds using these drops along with a 500 calorie diet. It seems unsafe but I am so sick of losing my last 10 pounds over and over again. Any information from people who have used this?

happyfeetrebel1

I've heard that HCG isn't safe.

I've heard that a 500 calorie diet isn't safe.

I'd not recommend either of them. I'm glad your friend had success, but it could end up with a world of mess.

Try eating in moderation..and not using pills

dad106

HCG is a complete and utter farce... Don't waste your money on it. The reason why you lose the weight, is not do to the drops.. it's do to the fact that you are eating 500 calories a day.. and any Tom, **** or Harry Could lose weight on 500 calories a day.

I hope your friend has really changed her ways.. otherwise she's looking at re-gaining that weight and possibly more. There are some real horror stories on here about HCG.

My suggestion, eat at the deficit MFP gives you.. and exercise(both cardio and strength) and see what happens.

sleepytexan

pregnant pee. did you know that? now you do.

brush your teeth now that you have purged that mess.

Health_Gal

Good luck with your weight loss, but the HCG diet has done nothing but HARM to people I know that used it.

The only reason people lose weight on that plan is you are only allowed to eat 500 calories a day. HCG has been scientifically proven to do NOTHING to help with weight loss or to make it safe to eat only 500 calories a day. It will not protect muscle, reset your metabolism or do anything else the snake oil salesmen that sell it claim. Dr. Simeons was a quack doctor. His "HCG protocol" has absolutely NO scientific backing and is not worth risking your health on.

Any doctor that pushes the HCG diet plan should be stripped of their license to practice medicine because they are being totally unethical and giving advice that goes against the conclusions of all reliable scientific research on the subject.

The HCG diet has been studied by many scientific organizations, and they all concluded that HCG, even the "real" injectable version, is no more effective than a placebo, and eating only 500 calories a day for weeks, as recommended by that plan, can cause more health problems than it solves.

I know some people that put their faith in the HCG diet, and became very ill from malnutrition as a result. Then they regained more weight than they lost. Now they wish they never heard of HCG.

The Government is now in the process of getting all that fraudulent stuff off the market, and it's about time!

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm281333.htm

http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/hcg-diet-dangerous-1428

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hcg-diet/AN02091

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-about-hcg-for-weight-loss

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/weight-loss-cure-dont-want-you-to-know

http://www.dietscam.org/reports/hcg.shtml

catcrazy

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Thank you all for your concern. We're definitely looking closely at this issue.