HGC Drops, Anyone tried and results GOOD OR BAD ?

I know one person who tried this. Besides the fact that she gained ALL of the weight she lost back, she said it was horrible to only be able to eat a tiny bit of food a day.
Some will tell you it works but I don't see how it could long term.
Good luck

*dons tin hat and waits for the explosion*

Yeah, they're great. If you wanna end up in a hospital bed while you gain all the weight back that you lost starving yourself.

Sorry for not supporting your ideas.
The best "cure" for being fat are 2 things:
- eat healthy (lots of vegs, fruits etc.)
- exercise

The only thing i did to loose weight were these 2 countermeasures.
Try to avoid all processed carbs, work out and eat reasonable and you will be fine.

The FDA and BBB say it's a fraud. You lose weight because you are starving yourself on 500 calories a day, not because you're taking a pill made from pregnant women's pee.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/hcg-weight-loss-bbb-alert-aug-3-2011

Both my son and I tried HCG and it worked wonderfully. However, you have to be very disciplined about the food protocol and drink lots and lots of water. Before I started them, I was on a 1,200 calorie diet tracking it here and after watching my son lose 30 pounds in a relatively short amount of time, I decided to try it just to get off a good amount and then got off and went back to a low calorie, healthy diet. During HCG, I would lose 1-2 pounds per day and would have some days with nothing at all, which was fine. With any kind of diet, you can and will gain back weight if you don't continue with a healthy life style. With HCG I never counted calories, I just followed a food protocol my son gave me. So for breakfast, I had 1/2 cup of cherrios and 1/2 cup of non-fat milk OR 1 egg and 50 calorie piece of bread. Then for both lunch and dinner it was 5 oz of protein, 1 cup of veggies, and 1 cup of fruit. There is a list of acceptable foods for these categories. We got pretty creative with seasonings and the food was actually great and I would feel full. I just missed things like chips and cookies, etc. etc. I LOVE chips and salsa and cheese and chocolate. I still avoid eating too many empty foods and just allow myself cheats every so often and in smaller quantities.

Bottom line - there are going to be critics with many weight loss choices so you have to make the decision for yourself but it really does work without any side effects at all. I can tell you that many people scoffed at me for trying it but it's just a short term thing and you wouldn't want to follow it for too long, but it helps sometimes to see a bit of immediate results but for it to last, obvious life style changes including good diet and exercise and the key for the long haul. I hope that helps.....

Bottom line - there are going to be critics with many weight loss choices so you have to make the decision for yourself but it really does work without any side effects at all.

No side effects at all? Wow, why don't you come down to the hospital I work at and tell the girl dying in one of my hospital beds because of the stuff that there's no side effects. As if destroying your metabolism permanently isn't bad enough, DEATH is a possible side effect as well.

I was on HCG as recent as last week! A personal trainer friend came by and set me straight. Nature is nature, and as she explained it, HCG burns both fat and muscle. Those who sell HCG don't know or won't admit that.

Anyway, the net effect -- it LOWERS your metabolism. I had an "OMG moment" and decided that I had been a stupid fool. The doc that I went thru recommended that I limit my exercise. I noticed when I did a simple Walk Away the Pounds video (one stinkin' mile!!!), my muscles burned and ached. That in mind, my friend's comments made perfect sense. I have mended my ways and that's why I am here with MFP.

I was on HCG as recent as last week! A personal trainer friend came by and set me straight. Nature is nature, and as she explained it, HCG burns both fat and muscle. Those who sell HCG don't know or won't admit that.

Anyway, the net effect -- it LOWERS your metabolism. I had an "OMG moment" and decided that I had been a stupid fool. The doc that I went thru recommended that I limit my exercise. I noticed when I did a simple Walk Away the Pounds video (one stinkin' mile!!!), my muscles burned and ached. That in mind, my friend's comments made perfect sense. I have mended my ways and that's why I am here with MFP.

*Stands and claps!*

really....? again?

Alright, here's the deal. IDEALLY, your body should be about 40% muscle, 25% bone, and about 15-25% liquid mass (blood, water, etc.). This 15-25 percent differs if you're male or female. The remaining percentage is fat...healthy fats like the fat your brain is made up of, etc. When you starve yourself, regardless of whether you're morbidly obese or emaciatedly underweight, your body feeds off of itself. It doesn't matter if you're "supplementing" with a drop or injection or whatever else, the point is, your body needs those calories regardless. Did you realize that you need AT LEAST 600 calories a day just to keep your heart functioning at a healthy rate? That's 600 calories for your heart ALONE, not to mention the calories it takes to keep the rest of your body functioning. When you starve, your body has to feed off of something, and it doesn't discriminate between fat and muscle. Especially in someone who is overweight, where there is more fat than muscle, you're at an even HIGHER risk of losing even MORE muscle mass because your muscles require more calories to survive. So yes, it is JUST as dangerous for an overweight person as a thin person to use this stupid crap.

Thank You Dayzeerock. I'm just getting frustrated with little weight loss. any goood tips I can try then?

you can open your diary for a start and we can take a look. you posted earlier that you're on a 1200 calorie diet - the bare minimum. is that 1200 net?

Thank You Dayzeerock. I'm just getting frustrated with little weight loss. any goood tips I can try then?

You're not going to get biggest loser numbers. I love TBL, love it, but it has the side effect of giving everyone the idea that 1 pound or more per day weight loss is normal. The top end of normal is 2 pounds per week, that's why mfp doesn't give you the option of 10#/wk. Look at the size of the people on tbl that can manage to lose that much weight in a week, the next week or 2 after a huge loss they tend to have a seeze on the scale and sometimes increases. The only thing anyone ever remembers is those large numbers, but what really counts is the finish line. Slow and stead wins this race, slow and stead establishes a healthy base line for a healthy lifestyle. We're not here to win $1m, this isn't a game show, this is life.

Below are 3 good links that have a ton of information. Essentially, you have to eat to lose weight. More than likely, 1200 calories isn't enough for you to lose properly. So if you can open up your food diary and then second, let us know what you do for exercise, then we can expand. If you really want to lose weight fast and build muscle so you can eat more and burn more, look into a program like p90x or insanity. Keep in mind though, you really need to eat a lot of food to get the results.


http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/

http://www.shapefit.com/basal-metabolic-rate.html

http://www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm