hcg diet?

jeckyb
jeckyb Posts: 60
in Health and Weight Loss
anybody doing the hcg diet? :)

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  • sassychass80
    sassychass80 Posts: 3
    I did a round of HCg last summer. Will be starting another round here this week (waiting for my drops to get in. Today or tomorrow)
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,432 MFP Moderator
    This thread is going to get locked as it isn't supported by this site. But it isn't good for you. Your body can't get it's proper nutrition and 50% of your weight loss is muscle so you gain weight back. Also, if that picture is current, why you trying to lose weight?


    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/356410-hcg-diet
  • moe5474
    moe5474 Posts: 162
    Please don't do it. I tried it (the injections overseen by an MD)....I lost a lot of weight but gained it right back.

    Fad diets don't work and any weight you lose will be water weight and precious muscle.
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    "HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) is authorized in Canada only for treatment of women with infertility, and only in an injectable form. There is no scientific evidence that the use of HCG either by mouth (as drops under the tongue, as advertised on the Internet) or as a self-administered injection, could promote weight loss.

    When used to treat a condition for which it is not indicated, such as weight loss, Human Chorionic Gonatrophin could cause serious side-effects. In women this could include painful cysts occurring as the result of over-stimulation of the ovaries."

    Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110411/hcg-110411/#ixzz1tYs1kqSa
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    HCG is not supported here because it is dangerous and dumb. Don't do it.
  • cherrybomb_77
    cherrybomb_77 Posts: 411 Member
    If HCG worked, you'd think pregnant women would have a difficult time gaining weight and wouldn't be starving all the time. Which is totally not my experience, having had 4 kids :) It isn't the HCG that makes you lose weight; it's the 500 calories starvation diet that goes along with it! Eat healthy, control your portions, and exercise regularly, instead!
  • Health_Gal
    Health_Gal Posts: 715 Member
    Good luck with your weight loss, but the HCG diet has done nothing but HARM to people I know that used it.

    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.

    Any doctor that pushes the HCG diet plan should be stripped of their license to practice medicine because they are being totally unethical and giving advice that goes against the conclusions of all reliable scientific research on the subject.

    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.

    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
  • onedayillbeamilf
    onedayillbeamilf Posts: 966 Member
    I'm not.
  • emrys1976
    emrys1976 Posts: 213 Member
    Not a very healthy diet. My own personal experience with it - triggered an old eating disorder. Has not been an easy road since.
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    One word: No
  • catcrazy
    catcrazy Posts: 1,740 Member
    Dear Posters,

    MyFitnessPal strongly recommends that our users follow the calorie guidelines automatically assigned by our site, unless they are under the direct supervision of a doctor. We are currently reviewing the medical literature on the HCG/500 calorie diet and reserve the right to moderate against discussions of this diet at any time in the future.

    For the time being, HCG discussions remain an option for members in private Groups. Please remember that even in Groups, all site wide rules must be correctly moderated, or the Group runs the risk of deletion. Specifically, endorsement of purchasing prescription supplements or medications without a prescription is in violation of the MyFitnessPal posting guidelines, which can be reviewed here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/welcome/guidelines

    Thank you all for your concern. We're definitely looking closely at this issue.
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