hcg diet?

Looked into it, as soon as she mentioned 700 cals a day I thought Hell no, get me out of here. I did some research after that (yes should have done it before) But there doesn't seem to be any real research showing any effectiveness. Anyone who eats 700 cals a day is going to lose weight, how can they attribute it to the hcg? I would steer clear.

So it's all on discipline? Gosh a 500-600 calorie is hard.

25 years old, Male, 7 pounds to lose, and this is how you want to do it? TDEE-10-15% and lift heavy. Not that you're going to listen.

Rigger

Looked into it, as soon as she mentioned 700 cals a day I thought Hell no, get me out of here. I did some research after that (yes should have done it before) But there doesn't seem to be any real research showing any effectiveness. Anyone who eats 700 cals a day is going to lose weight, how can they attribute it to the hcg? I would steer clear.

The hormone "theoretically" is supposed to help surpress appetite and do something else for the fat burning (I can't remember, it's been awhile since I bothered ot read about it). But as I said earlier, this failed to be proven in lab trials which is why it is not allowed to be labelled as a weight loss drug.
But yeah, it's the 500-700 calories that attribute the weight loss.

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OP:

I tried it for a week. Yes, I lost 10 pounds, but I had scary heart arrhythmias and severe agitation. I don't know if it was the starvation or the HCG drops. Either way, no thank you. I read somewhere that part of the reason you need fat in your diet is because it helps regulate your central nervous system, which of course helps keep your heart beating smoothly. I think I'd rather be alive, eat with moderation and lose slowly than be dead.

Yep, this gets my vote for the win.

Its a money maker scam. I have known several people to do it. They lose weight and gain it all right back. Recently my husbands aunt paid her MD $600 for the "diet plan" & drops. I guess this also covers her having to go back to him every 2 weeks as well. She doesn't even need to lose weight is the scary part, but there are people out there looking to make a quick buck.

Has anyone tried it and has it worked? It seems interesting? But I want to know reviews and side effects.

http://keysnews.com/node/39708 Just say no to the pregnant lady pee diet.

I'm kinda surprised this is still here, but since it is I'll tell you what my family went through with it.

My father-in-law started on it. He needed to lose 100 lbs so he went to one of those "weight loss clinics" and they started him on the injections and the diet. He was losing about 1-2 lbs per day. So my mother-in-law started it too and got all excited about it, and soon the whole family was on it-- mother and father-in-law, 4 sisters-in-law, my husband, my brother-in-law, and a few more distant relations. Everyone had success the first go around. My mother-in-law lost 40 lbs. The others lost varying amounts of weight. Within a month or two of quitting all of them had gained back their weight so some of them started a second round. That's when the hair loss started. They started to look sickly. They didn't lose as much that round so they started a third round. And it went on like that. My husband went straight to boot camp so he kept his off for awhile. But eventually he gained it back too, and after that it was 2 years before he could lose weight with calorie counting.

They all lost a ton of muscle. My mother-in-law lost her 40 lbs three times in the same amount of time it took me to lose mine once. But years later she's bigger than she ever was and I've maintained. HCG doesn't teach you any good habits. At the beginning you eat all this extremely caloric food (called loading days) and then you starve yourself for the next month. It's a very unhealthy mindset.

The worst part though is my father-in-law. He couldn't sustain his loss and each time he went back on the diet he lost muscle, which includes his heart. So now he has a lot of heart issues that weren't there before (they told him it was from the diet) and he's heavier than before but without the skeletal muscle required to be as mobile as he was.

All around it was a very bad deal. Generally when I tell people they say "well then they didn't do maintenance properly" but that isn't true. They followed the book they were given to the letter. They gradually reintroduced calories and carbs. It just wasn't enough.

I'd urge you to run, not walk, away from this diet. It's nothing but bad news.