I am going on maintenance from the HCG diet

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1craftyyankee
1craftyyankee Posts: 1 Member
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Hi,

My name is Gayle, this is my first post. I just joined. I was looking for a calorie counter for my phone and saw there was more to offer here. I recently lost 33 pounds with 30 more to go. I did the HCG diet and was the best decision I ever made. I feel so healthy !
I have not had any sugar or salt for 45 days.

So now I need to stay on a 1200 calorie a day diet with no starches or sugars for the first 3 weeks. I will also be starting my excercise.

Glad to be here and hope to join in some conversation~

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  • Myradin
    Myradin Posts: 6
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    Impressive weight loss! Some helpful hints for your maintenance diet:

    Eat Whole Grains, soo important. They are a natural source of your B-vitamins, some protein, and crucial CLA. CLA promotes fat burning and also does wonderful things for your hormones. I suggest a little research into CLA online, Barley is very high in natural CLA and there are some delicious recipes out there for cold Barley salad as well as soups.

    Whole grains which are high in protein, fiber, and fat-burning would be:
    Quinoa
    Barley
    Whole Steel Cut Oats
    Red Winter Wheat Berries (makes delicious tabouli salad)

    Whole grains will help to detox your liver and keep bile flowing for excellent digestion, a must when experiencing rapid fat loss! The body has a tendency to develop gall stones when there is rapid fat loss occuring on low carb adn low sugar diets.

    At your local Whole Foods store or health food store you can buy organic whole grains from companies like Bob's Red Mill and the Now company as well as in Bulk.

    I hope this helps!
  • Health_Gal
    Health_Gal Posts: 718 Member
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    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.

    You will most likely get that weight back, as that is what happens to almost everyone that does that dangerous HCG starvation diet

    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.

    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
  • Scott
    Scott Posts: 204 MFP Staff
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    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.

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

    Sincerely,
    Scott
    MyFitnessPal Staff
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