the HCG diet

Ew, pee.

Just had a look at it. Do you feel hungry on it, or energised?

Interesting concept.

This will not end well.

Let's see how long it takes for them to lock this thread.

urine? LOL! I would run miles for days before I inject urine into my body... just sayin. Have a great day!

Hello,

Good luck with your weight loss goals, but the HCG diet is not a safe way to jump start the process.

The only reason people lose weight on that plan is you are only allowed to eat 500 calories a day. HCG has been scientifically proven to do NOTHING to help with weight loss or to make it safe to eat only 500 calories a day. It will not protect muscle, reset your metabolism or do anything else the snake oil salesmen that sell it claim. Dr. Simeons was a quack doctor. His "HCG protocol" has absolutely NO scientific backing and is not worth risking your health on.

The HCG diet has been studied by many scientific organizations, and they all concluded that HCG, even the "real" injectable version, is no more effective than a placebo, and eating only 500 calories a day for weeks, as recommended by that plan, can cause more health problems than it solves.

The MFP moderators have been cautioning members against attempting that diet because it is so dangerous.

Please read the articles on these websites before you try HCG. I know some people that put their faith in the HCG diet, and became very ill from malnutrition as a result. Then they regained more weight than they lost. Now they wish they never heard of HCG.

The Government is now in the process of getting all that fraudulent stuff off the market, and it's about time!

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

http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/hcg-diet-dangerous-1428

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hcg-diet/AN02091

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-about-hcg-for-weight-loss

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/weight-loss-cure-dont-want-you-to-know

http://www.dietscam.org/reports/hcg.shtml

http://www.tucsonmedical.com/pages/hcg.php

Haters are gonna hate, when you are morbidly obese what is the difference in HCG and gastric. Both restrict calorie intake dramatically. I have lost 110 lbs on HHCG since June 12th. I have gotten off 7 different medications, was borderline diabetic, but not no more. As far as hunger, its a mind game, more mental then physical. I can tell you I was less hungry taking my hcg then I was doing a 1500 calorie a day diet and working out. I am in the best shape of my life at the moment, and smallest I have been since 6th grade. I have about 40 more lbs to go. Good luck hope this helps you, BRING ON YOUR STONES!!!!!!

Well, since you were morbidly obese it would've been alot easier for you to lose weight at 500 calories a day and not experience many of the health issues associated with such a diet seeing as you had plenty of resources for your body to work with. Not only that, it was your highly restrictive calorie diet that made you lose weight... not HCG. HCG is essentially useless as a fatloss aid. Basically a placebo. Whatever feelings you were experiencing were likely psychosomatic.

However in other situations, such a diet is far too dangerous for the average person to lose weight. All it takes is proper nutritian and maintain a SAFE calorie deficit, NOT starvation to lose weight. Why must people fall for stupid fads?

Eat right, and move more. It cannot get any more complicated than that. If you have a medical condition that complicates things.. go see a doctor.

The primary danger of a very low calorie diet (with or without HCG) is that of nutrient deficiency- on 500 calories a day, you've got to eat perfectly or you won't have the amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and so forth that you need to function optimally.

Where does gastric bypass fall in to this?

Gastric bypass forces people onto a very low calorie diet, and yes, the primary danger of such a diet even with a gastric bypass surgery is nutrient deficiency. That's why gastric bypass patients are monitored closely by a physician. The one individual I know that had gastric bypass surgery was required to carefully document her food intake and was asked to drink a vitamin/mineral enriched protein drink regularly in the beginning. Once she'd lost a substantial amount of weight, she began training herself (with the doctor's help) to eat many small meals a day that were well balanced nutritionally. She eventually was able to eat mostly like a normal person (though smaller portion sizes), but by that time, she was no longer on a very low calorie diet and was instead just on a low calorie diet.

I'm sure the experience is different for each gastric bypass patient... but the point is, it's medically supervised to minimize the risks.