HCG...what do you think?!

I don't have much of an appetite. I thought this might be a good way to jumpstart my weight loss. Do one or two rounds so that exercise is not so hard on my joints since I will weigh less. I am NEVER hungry for breakfast and I usually have to talk myself into eating lunch and if I do, I am normally not very hungry for dinner.
Any suggestions/advice?!?!

Do NOT take this the wrong way, but on your profile you said you wanted to loe 50 pounds. If you really eat the way you say you do, and have gained weight from it, perhaps you should try eating 5 tiny meals a day. If you are eating that small and not losing weight, taking a pregnancy hormone won't help you to lose weight either, since you are on 500 cals a day.

edit: eating so few of calories WILL put your body in starvation mode, so everything you eat gets stored and doesn't burn off. So people who wait til the afternoon or dinner to eat, most that food just gets stored as fat

And here we go...

My boss lost 20 lbs in a month with those drops. I lost 20 lbs in 2 months the "right" way and feel great about it...with hard work a healthy diet and determination you can loos the weight with out the drops!!! Good luck with your weight loss!

I don't have much of an appetite. I thought this might be a good way to jumpstart my weight loss. Do one or two rounds so that exercise is not so hard on my joints since I will weigh less. I am NEVER hungry for breakfast and I usually have to talk myself into eating lunch and if I do, I am normally not very hungry for dinner.

Any suggestions/advice?!?!

FYI...I currently weigh 191 pounds and am aiming towards a healthy weight of somewhere between 125-145.

Are you already taking drops? I have been on them since July 25 and lost 21 lbs... so far...

My sister did that and lost 12 lbs. Within a month after going back to regular eating, she gained back 9. I agree with others that you should have at least 1200 calories a day and more if you exercise.

You don't have much of an appetite because you don't know how to feed your body properly, and it is responding to what you have trained it to expect. If you want weight loss to be permanent you're going to have to forget about jump-starting your diet and start thinking about how to become healthier overall - the weight loss will follow. Good luck.

I don't have much of an appetite. I thought this might be a good way to jumpstart my weight loss. Do one or two rounds so that exercise is not so hard on my joints since I will weigh less. I am NEVER hungry for breakfast and I usually have to talk myself into eating lunch and if I do, I am normally not very hungry for dinner.

Any suggestions/advice?!?!

FYI...I currently weigh 191 pounds and am aiming towards a healthy weight of somewhere between 125-145.

Are you already taking drops? I have been on them since July 25 and lost 21 lbs... so far...

Can people posting negative thoughts please stop. It looks like she is trying to start a support thread.
Thanks!

It looks like she's asking for advice on this horrid fad diet. People are giving it. If you have to do weird things that you can't sustain over time for weight loss...it's destined to fail MOST times.

I don't have much of an appetite. I thought this might be a good way to jumpstart my weight loss. Do one or two rounds so that exercise is not so hard on my joints since I will weigh less. I am NEVER hungry for breakfast and I usually have to talk myself into eating lunch and if I do, I am normally not very hungry for dinner.

Any suggestions/advice?!?!

FYI...I currently weigh 191 pounds and am aiming towards a healthy weight of somewhere between 125-145.

Are you already taking drops? I have been on them since July 25 and lost 21 lbs... so far...

Can people posting negative thoughts please stop. It looks like she is trying to start a support thread.
Thanks!

Its not negative it is the truth. Its unhealthy. I am glad you have lost weight but you will gain it all back the second you eat more than 500 calories. There is not a quick fix that will last forever. You need to eat healthy and exercise and do a lifestyle change. Best of luck to both of you.

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You probably feel like you're 'forcing' yourself to eat because your body doesn't know when to signal hunger, or expect that it will be fed. Just think about basic psychological conditioning.

As someone who formerly suffered from an eating disorder, I can relate to disordered patterns of eating - however before you even consider doing any form of 'fad' diet, I'd start by trying to get your eating in check. Just take baby steps - even starting to have a pot of yogurt in the morning is better than nothing. Pretty soon you'll be wanting more than that. Then why not step it up to a banana and a yogurt... your body needs the calcium and the nutrients to function properly.

As for lunch, you don't have to eat a whole big meal in one go - I break my meals down into 5 smaller ones usually (time dictates otherwise sometimes). Say if you make a sandwich have half, and then have the other half a few hours later. You'll find you actually mentally and physically feel much better as your blood sugar isn't having major peaks and troughs.

I guess try not to make a mental block about eating, and don't obsess about calories or weight loss at first. Take the time to get into regular eating and then work on specifically what it is you're eating, and what you'd like to change within those meals.

I'd stay away from things like the HCG and other fad diets as there really is no quick fix. It's not healthy to lose weight that quickly. You'll probably find you'll lose weight really quickly anyway just be reorganising your eating patterns and eating wholesome, 'clean' foods.

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If you havent lost weight eating nothing already I dont think trying HCG will help. Not being hungry is a sign of an already slowed metabolism. When I first started I couldnt eat breakfast either....but slowly I added a little until now, I cant live without it. It may be a challenge for you to eat 1200 cals a day but weight loss is always challenging. Wouldnt you rather actually eat and do it the healthy way? Plus exercise is good for you...there are many you can do that are easy on your joints. You dont have to wait to lose weight to exercise.

Rapid weight loss IS NOT BAD! There are many advantages including incredibly improved glide times when you jump off the house!

btw it doesnt kill your metabolism it makes it faster like it did to mine and you learn so much from this diet

What, exactly, did you learn? How to starve?
And please tell me how eating so little doesn't kill your metabolism.
Sorry if I'm being harsh, but I strongly oppose fad diets.

I never used to eat breakfast or lunch sometimes, most days I would be hungry by about 3 or 4 in the afternoon and would binge. For the past couple of months I have forced myself into eating both breakfast and lunch and the weight has started to come off, nothing fancy,complicated or expensive, just eating. Who would have thought it. I have retrained my body into needing food in the morning now and am feeling hungry if I have been up for half an hour and not had my breakfast yet.

there is a real and distinct probablity that this will not work for you, if you're already eating low calories I would suspect that continuing to eat low calories will continue your issue. My mom has been overweight for as long as I can remember, no appetite. I started making her log and reach 1200 calories per day. Since then she's lost 5 pounds, I'm very proud of her. Her metabolism was so low from eating so little. There are many theories about how much time it takes to hit starvation mode, and no matter what resource you look at she'd been eating like that for so long that there is little doubt in my mind that was her issue. If this has been the state of your food plan for a long time I would suggest trying to slowly up those calories and see if you can't get that metabolism kicked into high gear.