Hcg

you could "barely eat " on any diet and lose weight.

Extremely unhealthy. If you want lose weight and dont care if its fat or muscle and dont care about health then its ok, but if you want to be healthy and change your lifestyle I dont recommend it. I tried it 2 years ago and wound up with very serious health issues due to the hcg diet

My mom did it, gained it all back right away, and had SURGERY to remove a growth on her ovaries because of the hcg. Read the fine print about the potential risks.

Why did you feel the need to post this in 2 different message boards. There are sooooo many posts on this subject already and if you did a "search" on the forums you would see that. ...Just saying.

There are much healthier ways. But. I understand the desperation. I've been there. So, maybe you just need a hug and to hear this: You are too valuable, too important, too precious...to risk harming yourself! You're strong. You can do it in better ways. *hugs*

Shenanigans - if you stick to entering what you are eating and the recommended calories for your weight on this site you will be golden. I'm not a typical woman that "forgets to eat" when stressed out - I'm the opposite and eat like a hog! I'm surprised I made it to this site before hitting 200lbs! (Thank goodness!) I can guarantee you that those folks at Del Taco probably thought I was always ordering for three... lol....

Anyway back to you... if I can go to the grocery store and shop the perimeter instead of the packaged bad stuff, anyone can. Don't resort to stuff like HcG - nothing will get you results other than hard work and sticking with it. You can do it.

The thing with hcg is that, yes it is extremely low calories, but the injections or drops (depending on how you take it) work to trigger the hypothalamus to release the stored fat in your body and use it as calories...so while you are only consuming 500 calories while on hcg and then 1000 calories when on your breaks (and this increases as you reach your goal and go into maintainence stages) but your body is actually using your stored fat as calories too. So, while this is not for everyone, it is something you should really research for yourself and see if it is a program you can stick to or would even want to try. The best thing is always eating healthy, water water water, and exercise, but I do not criticize anyone for choices that they may feel works for them.

The thing with hcg is that, yes it is extremely low calories, but the injections or drops (depending on how you take it) work to trigger the hypothalamus to release the stored fat in your body and use it as calories...so while you are only consuming 500 calories while on hcg and then 1000 calories when on your breaks (and this increases as you reach your goal and go into maintainence stages) but your body is actually using your stored fat as calories too. So, while this is not for everyone, it is something you should really research for yourself and see if it is a program you can stick to or would even want to try. The best thing is always eating healthy, water water water, and exercise, but I do not criticize anyone for choices that they may feel works for them.

I would like to see the peer-reviewed medical article where you got this information.

Because it just isn't true. Yes, your body is burning fat because you are STARVING it. It will eat whatever it can, including lean muscle mass. So, while you may lose a ton of weight, it's from the low calories only. And, since you consumed a ton of lean mass, your body will have a lower BMR than when you started, restricting the number of calories you can eat to maintain your new loss.

Bottom line: You will seriously *kitten* up your metabolism with this nonsense.

Just to add to this - HCG is not legal for sale as a weight loss supplement in Canada or US. It has not be proven as a weight loss drug. The sale of it is regulated here in Canada by Health Canada. You can have a doctor prescribe it for off label use but the over the counter ones are not really HCG or not legal.
So a lot of the HcG people buy online and stuff isn't actually HCG. They are simply starving themselves on 500 calories a day. Of course you will lose weight that way.

To be honest, I did HCG back in April of this year and went from 225 to 188 in 2 months. It's an amazing feeling to lose weight, but I am now paying for it because it's been harder for me to lose weight after it. Throughout the whole diet, I was so hungry and it was insane that you had to only eat 500 calories. Of course I lost weight, but my body didn't like how few of calories I was eating. I am now at 201.2 pounds and I have struggled to continue losing. My body is sensitive to certain foods and I gain a pound if I don't eat something healthy right away. I don't recommend this diet to anyone because it truly messes up your metabolism and makes it SO much harder to lose weight. Just eat healthy for a while and see how it works for you. Your friend may have lost weight, but trust me when I say that it's going to be harder for her to lose more once she's not taking HCG anymore. Good luck

don't do it...

I tried it. You literally are starving yourself. I lost 8 lbs in 2 weeks and then immediately gained it back.

I've now lost 10 lbs in 4 weeks and I'm much more HEALTHY and HAPPY. And so is everyone around me!!

It's all hype, dangerous and stupid!!!!

My cousin works for a clinic that does HCG and she and I have fought relentlessly over this. She and my mom have spent $thousands on several rounds and keep gaining and losing the same weight, plus some. My mom actually ended up in the hospital and had lost vision for over 24 hours because of dehydration and malnutrition.

Point is, the 'doctors' who prescribe this are quacks, and preying on low self esteem to get rich. The people who use it want quick results and and too pathetic and lazy to work out and eat like a normal person.

Its funny to me that GNC and all of these other health food stores are making a mint from people who dont actually know that you cant buy authentic HCG without a doctor script. Its a hormone and must be screened for disease just as blood must before it is given as a transfusion or such.

I have known people who did the HCG diet with legit injections..they would also get B-12 injections as well and it really did make them lose an astonishing amount of weight very quickly but as soon as they stopped taking it the weight came back on almost as quickly. Just not worth it in my opinion..and I think it was quite costly as well to boot.

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Its funny to me that GNC and all of these other health food stores are making a mint from people who dont actually know that you cant buy authentic HCG without a doctor script. Its a hormone and must be screened for disease just as blood must before it is given as a transfusion or such.

Yep, the synthetic is actually illegal. The pure kind is legal for hormone therapy and as a fertility drug, not for weightloss.

My cousin argues that with me by saying, "then when we prescribe it, why do we code it for weightloss?" I say, "Because your clinic is a scam and your doctor is a quack."

They will probably be on the news for some kind of medical fraud.

I'm shocked that the FDA doesn't crack down on this as a form of fraud.

Good point about the over-the-counter HCG stuff too.