Any other HCG users out there???

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  • sloew
    sloew Posts: 106 Member
    For people who think that this is a lifestyle or something to do year round its NOT lifestyle its a good Kick in the *kitten* to get you started and hopefully after the diet you would be on the right path and make better food choices. it was never intended to be a lifestyle.

    I just wanted to give you some encouragement. My nutritionist and I are trying to figure out why I'm not losing and after we try this last thing she has actually given me permission (with dr. supervision) to do it if what we are tryign now doesn't work! I agree it is a 'fad diet' but you know, each to their own and some work for some and don't for others. you have to find what works best for you! I've had friends hcg didn't work for and I have friends who it has worked!
  • Becca_007
    Becca_007 Posts: 596 Member
    Pro-HCG threads are discouraged in the main forums. This diet is unhealthy, unsustainable, and not promoted by MFP.

    Like I said everyone is entilited to their opnion
    3. No Promotion of Unsafe Weight-Loss Techniques or Eating Disorders

    a) Posts intended to promote potentially unsafe or controversial weight loss products or procedures, including non-medically prescribed supplements or MLM products will be removed without warning.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/welcome/guidelines
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    I have lost 8lbs

    8 lbs of what? (hint: it wasn't fat)
  • Kathy077
    Kathy077 Posts: 58
    My husband did the HCG diet, he was miserable...yes he lost 20lbs, and even with eating healthier after he got off it, he gained the weight within a few weeks. Even without the HCG, ANYONE would lose weight eating only 500 calories a day.
  • tataliciousd89
    tataliciousd89 Posts: 465
    Why, oh why do we have to go through this on a daily basis? I will say that yes I have done the diet. I lost a lot of weight and kept it off, but that is really not what this site is about and I am tired of reading the same damn thing over and over. Just do a search on HCG and read all of the other hundreds of threads about the exact same thing. :ohwell:
  • chicago_dad
    chicago_dad Posts: 357
    I love these threads.

    For HCG-haters, you are crazy. For HCG-lovers, here's the best way to supplement the diet. HCG might work quickly, but to make sure it lasts, Dr. N. Riviera strongly recommends vigorous apotemnophilia.

    dr-nick-riviera-billboard-the-simpsons.jpg
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    I love these threads.

    For HCG-haters, you are crazy. For HCG-lovers, here's the best way to supplement the diet. HCG might work quickly, but to make sure it lasts, Dr. N. Riviera strongly recommends vigorous apotemnophilia.

    dr-nick-riviera-billboard-the-simpsons.jpg

    LOL I had to google "apotemnophilia" hehe... pic makes sense now :smile:
  • peachprl
    peachprl Posts: 119 Member
    This topic just gives me a headache. I work in healthcare. I have seen many people go on it. I have seen many people think they are seeing a miracle. I have seen many people then get sick and lose their hair, have skin issues, end up needing surgery, etc. due to HCG. I agree that any doctor that tells a patient it is okay to use HCG needs to seriously have their credibility re-examined. There is no research that shows HCG itself works. It is dangerous and it really saddens me to see so many people putting their faith in something I have seen do damage to so many people's health. I truly am concerned for those of you that are trying this approach and urge you to please try safer methods of weight loss. I promise that there is another way.
  • thin150
    thin150 Posts: 48 Member
    I am not taking any HCG but my friend is and she has lost 19 lbs in 21 days! I have asked her if she gets hunger pains and she says she doesn't but she has had some hair loss. Also she looks sickly thin which creeps me out. At what cost is she losing weight and will she gain it back? I don't know. It doesnt seem like the program to go for. Be safe.
  • WandaVonDunajew
    WandaVonDunajew Posts: 183 Member
    Why do people insist putting so many foreign things in their bodies? Why is eating healthy and exercising so hard? Why is discipline always a problem?

    I hate these damn excuses about the healthy way "not working for me". yes, there are slow metabolisms, yes there are people that lose weight slower, but at the end of the day, to lose weight, calories int < calories out and that's it. 500 cal a day is going to make you lose weight, no matter who you are. It's unhealthy because it is way too little (been there done that) and at some point you will get sick, no doubt about it. But yes, it is working. Ravaging your body and working. Getting you thin and working. But not sustaining you to actually live and enjoy life. just weight loss.

    Why the hell would anyone want to add HCG to this? You dont produce HCG except when you are pregnant (human CORIONIC gonadotrophin people!) therefore why need it when you are not? Hormone treatments are sketchy as it is, it's really difficult to balance them out even if you are supplementing something that is missing, let alone something that you dont need at all...

    I mentioned it earlier, but if you are going to lose weight at any cost, why not just take crystal meth or heroin or something, because that "helps" too...:grumble:
  • calliope_music
    calliope_music Posts: 1,242 Member
    *eats popcorn, waits for lock*
  • Avalonis
    Avalonis Posts: 1,540 Member
    Everyone has their own methods and believes, and everyone does what works for them right ? Why attack people?

    Yea, so if using Meth makes me lose weight, everyone should just back off because "It works for me" right?

    Lets even go less extreme - Should we support eating disorders like Bulemia and Anorexia because "It works for me"?

    Come on, we'll be supportive of anything that is HEALTHY that works for you. Asking for us to be supportive things that put your life and health at risk is asinine.
  • MissFit0101
    MissFit0101 Posts: 2,382
    I would rather keep my muscle, thanks. HCG is crap. Well, actually it's more like, PEE! lol
  • simoriah_angel
    simoriah_angel Posts: 72
    Pro-HCG threads are discouraged in the main forums. This diet is unhealthy, unsustainable, and not promoted by MFP.

    Like I said everyone is entilited to their opnion

    It's not an opinion. It's a fact.

    HCG (the hormone) is ineffective for weight loss and eating 500 calories per day is tantamount to starvation. You may not have symptoms now because you just started, but this is a really poor decision on your part.

    Please read the following:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405506
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/786001
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/595585
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3609673

    Oh yeah, and the FDA has already declared it illegal to use for weight loss:
    http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm281333.htm

    HAHAHA!!! Yeah, I don't buy the FDA bull**** argument either. They have banned and controlled other substances in the name of greed. If anything, you have made me WANT to try this diet.

    I have met a lot of coworkers who did lose the weight and keep the weight off. There is no sagging skin because the HCG is supposed to make your skin conform to a new shape, much like a pregnant woman's body would.

    The only reason that people DO gain back the weight is if they go back to the crappy American diet and don't stick to an all natural, all organic, hormone free diet.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    HAHAHA!!! Yeah, I don't buy the FDA bull**** argument either. They have banned and controlled other substances in the name of greed. If anything, you have made me WANT to try this diet.

    I have met a lot of coworkers who did lose the weight and keep the weight off. There is no sagging skin because the HCG is supposed to make your skin conform to a new shape, much like a pregnant woman's body would.

    The only reason that people DO gain back the weight is if they go back to the crappy American diet and don't stick to an all natural, all organic, hormone free diet.

    Paranoid much?

    Also, if you are so certain of your assertions, please provide a single scientific peer-reviewed article that demonstrates that HCG assists in weight loss and causes skin tightening. I dare you to find a single one.
  • Avalonis
    Avalonis Posts: 1,540 Member
    I have met a lot of coworkers who did lose the weight and keep the weight off. There is no sagging skin because the HCG is supposed to make your skin conform to a new shape, much like a pregnant woman's body would.

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH

    *Gasps for air*
    Here, does this look like this pregnant womans body "conformed" and didnt cause stretch marks?

    stretchmark.jpg
  • simoriah_angel
    simoriah_angel Posts: 72
    Why do people insist putting so many foreign things in their bodies? Why is eating healthy and exercising so hard? Why is discipline always a problem?

    I hate these damn excuses about the healthy way "not working for me". yes, there are slow metabolisms, yes there are people that lose weight slower, but at the end of the day, to lose weight, calories int < calories out and that's it. 500 cal a day is going to make you lose weight, no matter who you are. It's unhealthy because it is way too little (been there done that) and at some point you will get sick, no doubt about it. But yes, it is working. Ravaging your body and working. Getting you thin and working. But not sustaining you to actually live and enjoy life. just weight loss.

    Why the hell would anyone want to add HCG to this? You dont produce HCG except when you are pregnant (human CORIONIC gonadotrophin people!) therefore why need it when you are not? Hormone treatments are sketchy as it is, it's really difficult to balance them out even if you are supplementing something that is missing, let alone something that you dont need at all...

    I mentioned it earlier, but if you are going to lose weight at any cost, why not just take crystal meth or heroin or something, because that "helps" too...:grumble:
    I can tell you why.

    People like me are addicts. Just like a meth user and a heroin user. So a "healthy" way will not do. I have to totally abstain from all sugars.....which works until someone shoves a trigger food in your face (like, at my job) and says, "C'mon, have just one.".

    The only difference between my addiction and a heroin addict is, you don't need heroin to live. But we do have to eat.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Why do people insist putting so many foreign things in their bodies? Why is eating healthy and exercising so hard? Why is discipline always a problem?

    I hate these damn excuses about the healthy way "not working for me". yes, there are slow metabolisms, yes there are people that lose weight slower, but at the end of the day, to lose weight, calories int < calories out and that's it. 500 cal a day is going to make you lose weight, no matter who you are. It's unhealthy because it is way too little (been there done that) and at some point you will get sick, no doubt about it. But yes, it is working. Ravaging your body and working. Getting you thin and working. But not sustaining you to actually live and enjoy life. just weight loss.

    Why the hell would anyone want to add HCG to this? You dont produce HCG except when you are pregnant (human CORIONIC gonadotrophin people!) therefore why need it when you are not? Hormone treatments are sketchy as it is, it's really difficult to balance them out even if you are supplementing something that is missing, let alone something that you dont need at all...

    I mentioned it earlier, but if you are going to lose weight at any cost, why not just take crystal meth or heroin or something, because that "helps" too...:grumble:
    I can tell you why.

    People like me are addicts. Just like a meth user and a heroin user. So a "healthy" way will not do. I have to totally abstain from all sugars.....which works until someone shoves a trigger food in your face (like, at my job) and says, "C'mon, have just one.".

    The only difference between my addiction and a heroin addict is, you don't need heroin to live. But we do have to eat.

    So you turned to HCG because you have no self control and blame the FDA for that?
  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    I don't understand how HCG threads are any different than pro-ana threads.
    They should all be banned.
    Or better yet - someone start a site called myskinnynomatterwhatthecost.pal and they can all move there.
  • MDWilliams1857
    MDWilliams1857 Posts: 315 Member
    To the OP. This site is full of food and diet Nazis. If you dont do things the way they do things they will attack you. If HCG works for you and you like it, then go for it.
  • trixirn
    trixirn Posts: 130 Member
    Pro-HCG threads are discouraged in the main forums. This diet is unhealthy, unsustainable, and not promoted by MFP.

    Like I said everyone is entilited to their opnion

    It's not an opinion. It's a fact.

    HCG (the hormone) is ineffective for weight loss and eating 500 calories per day is tantamount to starvation. You may not have symptoms now because you just started, but this is a really poor decision on your part.

    Please read the following:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405506
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/786001
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/595585
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3609673

    Oh yeah, and the FDA has already declared it illegal to use for weight loss:
    http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm281333.htm

    HAHAHA!!! Yeah, I don't buy the FDA bull**** argument either. They have banned and controlled other substances in the name of greed. If anything, you have made me WANT to try this diet.

    I have met a lot of coworkers who did lose the weight and keep the weight off. There is no sagging skin because the HCG is supposed to make your skin conform to a new shape, much like a pregnant woman's body would.

    The only reason that people DO gain back the weight is if they go back to the crappy American diet and don't stick to an all natural, all organic, hormone free diet.
    Why would you advocate hormone free diet and hcg in the same breath?
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    To the OP. This site is full of food and diet Nazis. If you dont do things the way they do things they will attack you. If HCG works for you and you like it, then go for it.

    Dear OP, if you want to risk organ damage and muscle wastage, go for it.
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
    To the OP. This site is full of food and diet Nazis. If you dont do things the way they do things they will attack you. If HCG works for you and you like it, then go for it.

    Yup, go for it.

    Be sure to stay a member though, you'll need it when you regain it all again and want to try it in a healthy manner. :)
  • kludgood
    kludgood Posts: 147 Member
    *eats popcorn, waits for lock*

    Haha^^ agreed
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    To the OP. This site is full of food and diet Nazis. If you dont do things the way they do things they will attack you. If HCG works for you and you like it, then go for it.

    Actually, if we were Nazi's, we would be more inclined to push it on people as a form of torture.

    Thanks for Godwining the thread.
  • seehawkmomma
    seehawkmomma Posts: 815
    Everyone has their own methods and believes, and everyone does what works for them right ? Why attack people?

    Yea, so if using Meth makes me lose weight, everyone should just back off because "It works for me" right?

    Lets even go less extreme - Should we support eating disorders like Bulemia and Anorexia because "It works for me"?

    Come on, we'll be supportive of anything that is HEALTHY that works for you. Asking for us to be supportive things that put your life and health at risk is asinine.


    Personally I make a mean meth and crack cocktail lost 5lbs in one day!!!! :))
  • onedayillbamilf
    onedayillbamilf Posts: 662 Member
    I tried it a few years ago. I lasted 1 week. I was starving, but every time I would eat it would make me vomit. I lost 15lbs. but had to get off it. I gained back 30lbs in three weeks. Its been about three years and I am still trying to get back to pre hcg weight.
  • 2hungariangirls
    2hungariangirls Posts: 220
    I don't know how to quote from another thread but this was posted by a moderator, catcrazy


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  • kstep88
    kstep88 Posts: 403 Member
    The FDA has declared the use of HCG in that manner as illegal.

    http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm281333.htm

    If you want to lose weight so badly, do it the right way not resort to gimmics and other fads that do not work.


    Quote from above link:

    "HCG is a hormone that is produced by the human placenta during pregnancy." HAVE FUN WITH THAT!
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Pro-HCG threads are discouraged in the main forums. This diet is unhealthy, unsustainable, and not promoted by MFP.

    Like I said everyone is entilited to their opnion

    And your opinion is wrong. Good day ma'am.

    This
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