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I've taken the HCG without reducing to anything near 500 calories and lost 10 pounds. I added the HCG because nothing else was helping me get the last 10 pregnancy pounds off. I don't skip meals, and still eat what I want. The HCG makes me a little full so I don't eat as much, but when I reduced calories on my own, it wasn't working. Something is in the actual HCG drops that does something.
I would never do the injections, but I'm not a "big" person with that much to lose.
I've taken the HCG without reducing to anything near 500 calories and lost 10 pounds. I added the HCG because nothing else was helping me get the last 10 pregnancy pounds off. I don't skip meals, and still eat what I want. The HCG makes me a little full so I don't eat as much, but when I reduced calories on my own, it wasn't working. Something is in the actual HCG drops that does something.
I would never do the injections, but I'm not a "big" person with that much to lose.
I am pretty sure what you are experiencing is the placebo effect.
Actually HcG increases progesterone production and increases the function of T3, one of the thyroids. This is very helpful for people who have an abundance of estrogen (that makes women and men hold onto and gain excessive weight, plus our foods are inundated with estrogen like soy proteins), also many people have thyroid issues that are very tricky to diagnose. The correction of T3 while on the plan allows you to loose weight along with other scientific facts. You are not starving in this diet. HcG is naturally produces in a pregnant woman. Part of its function is to allow her fat stores to be used in case of a time of famine.
As far as you're worry about hard work and HcG, that is my question as well. I will continue to research. I wanted to respond because I wanted to give you some faith in this diet plan.
To the critics I will also add, any diet or workout plan that works while you're on it is subject to fail when you stop. This is no different. It's what you learn and adapt into your life when said plan is over. HcG forces you to cook for yourself and eat healthy. Adding more calories back when it's "over" is fine, adding back all the crap is not. Just like any diet.
As far as you're worry about hard work and HcG, that is my question as well. I will continue to research. I wanted to respond because I wanted to give you some faith in this diet plan.
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Well, that's good, I'm sure the OP will be back three years later to check...
MurielS: You are implying that everyone who takes HCG to lose weight has a thyroid problem. Here's a hint: You don't get your thyroid checked by these doctors when you go in hoping to get HCG. They just tell you all that gobblediegook about what HCG does, and let you come to your own conclusions that of course your T3 is bad and needs fixing. The truth: most people don't have an improperly functioning thyroid gland, AND if they did, the way to treat that would be thyroid medicine - not growth hormone for fertility problems.
Trumphhcg (interesting name for a new member in the HCG forum...)
1. The HCG program is not for anyone, because a 500-cal/day diet is unhealthy for all adults. It is also unhealthy because it is designed to attract suckers into believing it's the HCG that's working, and they get unneccessary injections from doctors of dubious reputation/ability/knowledge, which increases their risk for blood-related disease (if these doctors don't care that they're injecting useless crap into peoples' veins, how much do they care about the needle sterilization process?)
2. Calorie intake is proportional to your current body weight/type/metabolization and physical expenditure. If you do nothing but sit on the couch all day and never exercise, and you are in your mid-50's and are short and weigh around 150 pounds, you will need 1816 calories to maintain that lifestyle. Every day. 1816 calories will keep you there until your age, height, movement habits, and food intake change. If you add moderate daily activity plus 30 minutes on a stationary bike every day, your minimal maintenance caloric intake will be 2355 per day.
So - if you do nothing all day, and you fit the description: short, 50-something, inactive; then you will lose weight by consuming less than 1800 calories per day. 1700 will lose less than 1500. If you're moderately active plus you add exercise 30 minutes daily, you will need to eat less than 2300 calories per day in order to lose weight. So a 2000 calorie diet will cause weight loss. A 1700 calorie diet will cause more weight loss. That's whether the diet includes pizza or not.
3. HCG is not urine. HCG is produced by the placenta. What's known as an "analogue" (something that's just like something else, but isn't that something else) is produced in the pituitary gland. If you want to see the health of sedentary people who eat a 500 calorie diet, look in some of the 3rd world countries. You won't see many old people, or babies. Babies can't live very long if they're feeding off a mother who only eats 500 calories per day. And adults don't live very long if they subsist on 500 calories per day.
4. HCG has no function in weight loss. None. The 500 calorie diet does - but it also functions to put someone in the hospital for starvation and malnutrition if they try to keep it up for too long.
Save your money and your health and reduce your caloric intake, eat a variety whole, fresh foods, stay away from sugar and simple carbs as much as you can, drink lots of water. And exercise.
If people would take this post to heart, this forum wouldn't exist. This is healthy living in a nutshell.
The only person I know who did HCG lost a ton of weight really fast, then gained nearly twice the amount back on. Shes now heavier than ever and is talking about going back on HCG!!!
It seems that some people have this mindset that unless you pay big bucks for a diet it won't work. Eat fewer calories than you burn, exercise and you will lose weight.
A group of ladies did this in my office a few years ago. Claimed they lost weight, but I swear I couldn't tell... Now they're doing those drinks that a friend of a friend sells.
a group of ladies did this in my office a few years ago. Claimed they lost weight, but i swear i couldn't tell... Now they're doing those drinks that a friend of a friend sells.
lol.
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