New Here and New to "Supercharged HCG"

I would say just keep youself busy. That always helps me....I'm a boredom eater...so if I keep myself constantly occupied I am not tempted to snack. Also, try to get in some exercise. Sometimes the mental "high" of exercise will replace that temporary "high" we get from food.

Hi,
Did you go through a clinic for HCG or git it online. I am struggling with perimenopause and have gained 25 lbs over the last 3 years. Almost 50 I want to stay healthy and in shape. I walk 2-5 miles 5 days a week and am now addicted to it. When I called a clinic they told me I would have to slow my exercise down in order to do this diet. I dropped my calories down to 1100 and on a 5 mile fast pace walk the other day I almost passed out. I wanna lose too!!

I would say just keep youself busy. That always helps me....I'm a boredom eater...so if I keep myself constantly occupied I am not tempted to snack. Also, try to get in some exercise. Sometimes the mental "high" of exercise will replace that temporary "high" we get from food.

I don't believe they allow exercising on the HCG diet last others shared that are on it. You're only allowed to eat 500 cals a day I don't know how you could begin to workout on that many cals .

ETA: To the OP with only 35 lbs to lose (according to your ticker) it doesn't seem worth the risk. Many on here have shared it's for the extremely obese not for those that could lose it by eating healthier and working daily. It just seems such a risk ppl take to lose weight when there is the tried and true method (check out the Success section of MFP) of losing that actually works and keeps the weight off. Simply change up our eating habits, add in exercise. Plus it'll even save money by not buying the drops and doc visits.

I have done a lot of research on this diet plan. Please be careful. Are you restricting your calorie count to 500 calories? Anyone (hCG or not) would lose massive amounts of weight by restricting the diet to such a low intake. This is well below the minimum recommendation of 1200 calories for your body to function properly.

You could be setting yourself up for the worst yoyo yet.

Be careful!

All of the research I have done on this diet shows that people who follow the plan exactly do not regain the weight... as long as they commit to learning new cooking/eating styles to go forward with. Also, anyone doing this plan without the HCG would be hungry and miserable and dizzy for most of the day... the premise of HCG is that it causes your body to consume its own fat stores for energy and sustenance, hence the quick loss with limited to no hunger/misery/dizziness.

The HCG diet is very dangerous. I know people that did it, and they were suffering the whole time they were on 500 calories. They were so tired that they could barely get through the day, and were hungry most of the time. Anc once they finished the diet, the weight they went to all that trouble to lose came right back. In over 50 years, no scientific proof has been found to support the theory behind the HCG diet.

If you already invested your money in the homeopathic drops, they probably wouldn't do any harm if you use them with a safe eating plan of at least 1,200 calories. But eating 500 calories a day and putting your trust in the HCG weight loss theory is just NOT worth the risk.

When people do manage to lose weight on this diet and keep it off, it's probably just because they eliminated a food from their diet they had a sensitivity to that was making them fat, and did not reintroduce it once they were finished. But you could do that on an elimination diet or a clean eating diet without have to torture yourself with a 500 calorie diet or risk your health on unproven, unscientific theories

.The website below has some good links to why the HCG diet is a very bad idea and dangerous to your health.
http://www.tucsonmedical.com/pages/hcg.php

If you chose to do the HCG diet, you are using your body as an experimental lab. Losing weight as quickly as you have been on the HCG diet is neither safe or healthy.

The percentage of medical doctors that will prescribe HCG for weight loss is very small because is has not been proven effective, is not approved by the FDA as a weight loss drug, and some people have experienced some pretty nasty side effects.

If you did not experience these problems, you should consider yourself lucky. But all the hype over how much weight people can drop on the HCG diet needs to be counterbalanced with the facts that both the eating plan and the HCG itself can be dangerous, there is no scientific evidence that it works, a large percentage of people are hungry and tired and experience other negative side effects while they are on the diet, and most people regain much of the weight they lost on the diet within several months to a year - and sometimes a lot sooner.

HCG is by no means the weight loss miracle that promoters and fans of this diet claim, and in many cases, doing the HCG diet does more harm than good. Even if the HCG diet "works as advertised" it does not seem like a good idea to me to try and fool your body into believing that you are pregnant and starving!

I have close friends that damaged their health by doing the HCG diet, and I have a very personal interest in educating people about it's downsides -- the things people that promote the HCG diet don't want you to know.

I'm on my second round of 15 day drops I lost 8 pounds the first time around, went out of town at what I wanted when I wanted and alot of fast food since I was staying in a motel for 5 days, I only gained back 2 of those pounds. I have several friends that have went back to eating normally 1200-1500 cals a day and haven't gained the weight back.

I've not had any side effects. Other than my period started back, which I'm only 30 so that should be normal. But I went over 8 months without one. So I look at it as a plus.

Exercising, I do exercise on it b/c I want to tone and help myself not have excess skin (my mom had gastric bypass coming up on 3 years ago and that was alot of extra skin) . The drops I'm doing said working out was fine but you just had to eat back 50% of your burnt off calories, with the foods on the protocol.

I am on day 7 VLCD of my first round of intranasal HCG under a doctor's supervision. According to my scale (official weigh-in is tomorrow), I am down 10 pounds. The first day was a little brutal...and the weekend has been tough. Smelling peanut butter while I was making my daughter a sandwich caused me to have an out of body experience...lol. Otherwise, I can't believe how great I feel.

It wasn't an easy decision to go this route, but I needed a jump start. I couldn't help but recall how much weight I lost during my first trimester of pregnancy and that I only gained that much back. That is right...no net weight gain with an average size baby. I lost my cravings for almost all sweets for most of the 37.5 weeks I was pregnant. I had several phone calls with the clinic before I committed...I think they were ready to stop taking my calls!

Just like any other eating plan, it isn't going to work for everyone. It has risks, but we can all do our research and make an educated decision for ourselves. In the end, I figured that I did a lot more harm to my body during my roaring 20s than I would on 40 days of eating smaller portions of healthy foods.

Hello Jill. I wish you would stop sending me messages. I do not know what your problem is....but keep away from me.

Thank you