Any other HCG users out there???

and votes for how many pages this one will get too? 25? :grumble: :grumble: :grumble: :grumble: :explode: :mad: :sick:

Oh no there is rachel !!!!!!!!!!!! the MFP stalker !!!!!!!!

You should leave with your HCG nonsense and find a group of people as gullible and misinformed as yourself.

What you are doing is stupid and damaging. You should realize this now and stop. There is a lot of good advice and inspirational, intelligent people here. Listen to them and lose weight the healthy, right way.

Do you really intend on following HCG for your entire life? How do you plan on keeping the weight off when you're done?

We haven't proven the world is round in the last 30 years either. Careful not to fall off the next time you travel overseas.

hahahahahahahaha.

You know I started writing this wholeeeee explanation down here why and how and so on, but wait a minute, I dont have to explain myself to anybody, YOU do what you think is best for you , and I do what I think is best for me , case closed

Long story short: "I didn't have a valid argument so I'm taking my ball and going home."

Usually what happens when you poke holes in arguments not based on fact. But emotional reasons

I know people who are walking time bombs (obese) and went on a very low calorie diet under a doctor's care. While on the diet they went to the doctor once a week and weekly meetings to learn how to eat better, cook, read labels, exercise, etc. Some were very successful and kept the weight off and others did not succeed.
So give them the information and resources you know and don't slam people its not very respectful.
Treat people as you would want to be treated!!

I know people who are walking time bombs (obese) and went on a very low calorie diet under a doctor's care. While on the diet they went to the doctor once a week and weekly meetings to learn how to eat better, cook, read labels, exercise, etc. Some were very successful and kept the weight off and others did not succeed.
So give them the information and resources you know and don't slam people its not very respectful.
Treat people as you would want to be treated!!

Yet the majority of people doing the HCG diet are not in that category and actually using some homeopathic garbage they found at Wal-Mart or GNC or some other retail store.

I wish MFP would kick off anyone that gets on the message boards and tries to make people think the HCG diet works. I know people that did that diet, and guess what -- they gained back more weight than they lost! And they did it by the "rules" too. It's nothing more than a scam yo yo diet, and HCG does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help you lose weight or make it safe to eat so few calories. The Simeons guy that came up with that theory was a CRAZY QUACK DOCTOR, and it's too bad his "work" on telling people to starve like that was ever even published.

Any diet that tells you to eat less than 1,200 calories a day is dangerous. Any doctor that encourages or helps patients do the HCG diet should be turned into the state medical board for malpractice.

My mother-in-law was on a 800 caloried diet. I think it was called Optifast and you have to be under a doctor's care and go to weekly meetings at the hospital. To qualified you have to be 100 pounds overweight. This program does work just look it up.

Oh and the websites slandering hcg...have you looked at those dates ?? tststs..... kinda outdated huh

I'm not even sure what this means?

I know nothing of the HCG diet, but I have had several friends and family members who have done Dr. Bernstein. It seems the same thing -- roughly 500 calories (except I want to say Bernstein was 800), no carbs, injections of some kind, etc.

Everyone lost weight FAST. All but one gained it all back even faster, plus more. The one person who DID maintain her weight loss changed her diet VERY slowly afterward, but encountered so many problems.

For starters, she had no muscle. On only 800 or so calories a day, any lean muscle mass she had was metabolized by her body. She was skinny, sure, but she looked like she had a terminal illness (she was asked if she had cancer all the time.). Muscle mass is HUGELY important for maintaining long-term health and fitness. The more lean muscle mass you have, the more calories your body burns naturally -- even while sleeping. It also LOOKS faaaaar more attractive than "terminal illness skinny."

One year of absolute starvation meant her hair was falling out, her skin was dry and cracked (not enough fat), she was lethargic all the time, etc. Basically, it was controlled anorexia. It took her over a year to put muscle back on her body, hours in the gym, watching every single thing she ate, etc.

She said she'd NEVER do something as strict and limited as Bernstein again. Had she done the healthier, albeit slower method, she would have reached her goals within that one year without suffering, without the hair loss, dizziness, etc. and without having to rebuild her body after totally screwing over her metabolism.

To each their own, but I hate to see good people set themselves up for certain failure.