HCG drops?

I had never even heard of homeopathy prior to that (it was 1992) and I have since learned to STFU about things I know nothing about, lol.

LOL!!!

this diet works because you're eating at a very low calorie deficit for these rounds. nothing more.

Crystal, I respectfully disagree...you are misinformed. It's just not that simple. Eating that low of calories without taking the drops would actually stall your weight loss as your body would go into starvation mode.

this diet works because you're eating at a very low calorie deficit for these rounds. nothing more.

Crystal, I respectfully disagree...you are misinformed. It's just not that simple. Eating that low of calories without taking the drops would actually stall your weight loss as your body would go into starvation mode.

This statement is explicitly false. Would your body go into starvation mode? Probably, or more likely the response from full blown starvation (the beginning stages of organ failure, vitamin deficiencies, immune system problems, skin/hair/nail problems...etc.) but it would NOT stall weight loss. It would ALTER weight loss, and much more would come from lean tissue canabalization, but weight loss would not stop.

FYI, after years of studies, the results of multiple studies done on the HCG diet, and copius research into the human metabolism, I conclude the same thing as the original quote here, this diet works through placebo effect and the analogue of a VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) which is a clinical term used to describe a mostly liquid diet of between 500 and 800 calories for a 2 to 3 week period that doctors assign to patients who are not only morbidly obese, but also in real danger of immanent death from that weight. FYI in those situations, the patient is generally monitored either daily or weekly for blood nutrient levels and other signs that the diet can be causing harm.

16 WHOLE days? :huh:

You do not need to ingest preggo piss to lose weight effectively. Check out my ticker. All I used was MFP, with 99% of the losses coming from food choices and truly only 1% exercising.
MFP is free, safe, effective, and SAFE.

Nuff said.

Let me clarify...16 days THIS ROUND...I have done the proctocol and earlier round and lost 18lbs in 21day...kept it off for 40 days...and am now doing my second round to get to my goal weight...

I'm not here to start a "fight" with you...it's just another viewpoint I'm offering.

I don't think 16 days or even 40 days qualifies as "living proof". Come back & tell us about your success after at least a year.

16 WHOLE days? :huh:

You do not need to ingest preggo piss to lose weight effectively. Check out my ticker. All I used was MFP, with 99% of the losses coming from food choices and truly only 1% exercising.
MFP is free, safe, effective, and SAFE.

Nuff said.

Let me clarify...16 days THIS ROUND...I have done the proctocol and earlier round and lost 18lbs in 21day...kept it off for 40 days...and am now doing my second round to get to my goal weight...

I'm not here to start a "fight" with you...it's just another viewpoint I'm offering.

I don't think 16 days or even 40 days qualifies as "living proof". Come back & tell us about your success after at least a year.

Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth!!!

I would venture to bet that a year from now, most of the people on MFP will have regained some, if not all of their weight. Statistically, that is what happens, no matter how you lose it. People have the best of intentions to never regain the weight and slowly, ever so slowly, it creeps back. Look at the number of people on here who say that they lost last year and that they are back and are really going to keep it off this time, etc.

I've lost throught weight watchers and exercise and gained it back over the years.

So HCG is certainly not unique in this regard.

16 WHOLE days? :huh:

You do not need to ingest preggo piss to lose weight effectively. Check out my ticker. All I used was MFP, with 99% of the losses coming from food choices and truly only 1% exercising.
MFP is free, safe, effective, and SAFE.

Nuff said.

I don't think 16 days or even 40 days qualifies as "living proof". Come back & tell us about your success after at least a year.

Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth!!!

I would venture to bet that a year from now, most of the people on MFP will have regained some, if not all of their weight.

I have been on MFP since December 2008. I lost my first 37 lbs very quickly and in 9/09, I stopped losing weight due to bereavement. I restarted MFP in 9/10, and I had not gained back anything during my year off. I have continued to lose, very successfully. The way I eat now is the way I will always eat. MFP has educated me about the caloric value of foods, and that knowledge isn't going to vanish from my brain.

Anyone who stops choosing wisely and starts choosing poorly will regain weight. But the method they used to lose weight is not the reason they regain, it's the fact that they stopped making good choices.

We have hundreds of members who have been successfully maintaining their goal weight for years now.

Blanket statements that sound like "you're all just going to fail" sound very discouraging. And it's not true.

I would venture to bet that a year from now, most of the people on MFP will have regained some, if not all of their weight. Statistically, that is what happens, no matter how you lose it. People have the best of intentions to never regain the weight and slowly, ever so slowly, it creeps back. Look at the number of people on here who say that they lost last year and that they are back and are really going to keep it off this time, etc.

I've lost throught weight watchers and exercise and gained it back over the years.

So HCG is certainly not unique in this regard.

16 WHOLE days? :huh:

You do not need to ingest preggo piss to lose weight effectively. Check out my ticker. All I used was MFP, with 99% of the losses coming from food choices and truly only 1% exercising.
MFP is free, safe, effective, and SAFE.

Nuff said.

I don't think 16 days or even 40 days qualifies as "living proof". Come back & tell us about your success after at least a year.

Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth!!!

Well, that is lovely.

Actually, studies show that people that lose weight in a healthy way are much more likely to keep it off long term. But what do I know, I apparently am just going to gain it all back anyway.

I would venture to bet that a year from now, most of the people on MFP will have regained some, if not all of their weight. Statistically, that is what happens, no matter how you lose it. People have the best of intentions to never regain the weight and slowly, ever so slowly, it creeps back. Look at the number of people on here who say that they lost last year and that they are back and are really going to keep it off this time, etc.

I've lost throught weight watchers and exercise and gained it back over the years.

So HCG is certainly not unique in this regard.

16 WHOLE days? :huh:

You do not need to ingest preggo piss to lose weight effectively. Check out my ticker. All I used was MFP, with 99% of the losses coming from food choices and truly only 1% exercising.
MFP is free, safe, effective, and SAFE.

Nuff said.

I don't think 16 days or even 40 days qualifies as "living proof". Come back & tell us about your success after at least a year.

Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth!!!

Well, I originally took some weight off about 2.5 years ago. Since that time I not only have kept it off but have made my goals more lofty and am getting close to those. Lifestyle change is definitely the way to go.

In the back of my mind I kind of wonder if I'll ever go back to the way I was before, but I don't think so. It's just my lifestyle now. It's not that difficult for me anymore - to watch the weight anyway, not necessarily gaining muscle mass.

So why is everybody jumping on the HCG bandwagon? Because everybody wants a quick fix. The diet promises 40 pounds of weight loss in six weeks. People will do anything to feel more beautiful, more valuable, more desired, more socially acceptable.

Don’t be tempted, my friends. The HCG diet is unsafe, it doesn’t work, and it’s little more than beautifully packaged snake oil. So do your body and your pocketbook a favor and steer clear.
Instead, if you need to lose weight to be healthy, do it the good old fashioned way that really works. I know everyone wants a quick fix, but real, sustainable weight loss comes from eating less, focus more on wholesome foods, and EXERCISE.


What is HCG?
Human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) is a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women. More than 50 years ago, Dr. Albert T. Simeons, a British-born physician, contended that HCG injections would enable dieters to subsist comfortably on a 500-calorie-a-day diet. He claimed that HCG would mobilize stored fat; suppress appetite; and redistribute fat from the waist, hips, and thighs . There is no scientific evidence to support these claims.Moreover, a 500-calorie (semi-starvation) diet is likely to result in loss of protein from vital organs, and HCG can cause other adverse effects. Gabe Mirkin, M.D., has noted.

Keep in mind that HCG is a hormone most commonly used in fertility treatments and to aid adolescents with endocrine problems during puberty. It is not — and never had been — a weight loss drug.

Dr. Simeon did a study to “prove” his claims, but no other researchers were ever able to reproduce his work. After the HCG diet was discredited by the scientific community, the diet mostly disappeared until 2007, when infomercial king Kevin Trudeau began promoting it as the secret diet your doctor isn’t telling you about. And suddenly, products appeared all over the internet and doctors at integrative and alternative medicine centers started jumping on the bandwagon, causing the diet to experience an unfortunate resurgence. Variations of the diet exist, but most require daily HCG injections, drops, or sublingual dosing, and costs can run you up to $1500/month (padding the pockets of many a doc). The pregnancy hormone is combined with a highly restricted, low calorie diet of 500 calories/day.

The pregnancy hormone tricks the body into believing that you’re pregnant, and because you’re starving the body, it starts eating away at fat — and you get no hunger pangs! Sounds good, right? To bad it eats away muscle first!
The only reason why anyone loses weight off this diet is because they’re eating 500 calories a day. While calorie intakes are different from person to person, most nutrition information at the grocery store is based off a 2,000-calorie diet. For healthy weight loss, a daily intake of 1,200 to 1,800 calories is generally acceptable. While calorie intakes are different from person to person, most nutrition information at the grocery store is based off a 2,000-calorie diet. For healthy weight loss, a daily intake of 1,200 to 1,800 calories is generally acceptable. When a body is subsiding off 500 calories a day, the body leeches protein from the muscle in the heart, and that makes the heart muscle irritable, which can lead to ventricular tachycardia and sudden cardiac death.

Being a fitness trainer, I can’t beileve I’m writing an article about a 500 calorie diet. If you’re a teenager or an adult, 500 calories for anyone is way too little. If you heard from a friend or anyone who suggested that you consume 500 calories a day to lose fat, then you have been provided with bad advice. Sure, at first you will lose weight which is obviously the goal, however your health will deteriorate and you will also lose a lot of muscle which is a bad thing.

A 500 calorie diet deprives the body from not only the much needed nutrients, but also from sufficient energy it needs to operate. Your body alone burns approximately 900 to 2000 calories on it’s own. Take that number and add on the calories required for your daily activities and you will find it is generally above 1,200 calories. The bare minimum is 1,200 to 1,300 calories a day to maintain a healthy lifestyle but also lose fat.
If you chose to only consume 500 calories a day, you would notice a few changes. You would feel completely without energy during much of the day, your body will feel depleted and sluggish. You will also notice weight loss which is exciting, but you will also notice strength loss from the loss of muscle tissue. When you realize a 500 calorie diet is unhealthy and decide to quit, you will gain all the weight back plus MORE. Why? Because the loss of muscle tissue creates way for more fat gain. In order to build that muscle back up, you will have to perform resistance training with either freeweights or machines.