Mark asks…
Thinking about the HCG diet any suggestions, reviews, or advice about the diet?
Thinking about trying the 20 day HCG diet drops with my husband. Anybody know of any good sites to buy the drops from? Advice on the diet? Or reviews?
admin answers:
Hi there..
I am confidence this article will help a lot. It is an insights based on Dr. Simeons writing on original HCG diet protocol in Pounds and Inches.
Good luck on your hcg diets 
Joseph asks…
Whats up with the HCG diet?
So… I made a status of mine on facebook stating that I wanted to lose weight & that I was in search of some diet/exercise partners to follow a 6wk plan with me.
I received a comment from my cousin (that I hardly ever talk to or see) & she began to tell me that her & a friend of hers is doing a 6wk program themselves and she called it the HCG Organic diet.
Now never before this have I ever even heard of this diet until she told me.
She told me that she has done this diet before & lost 40lbs in 6wks.
After searching this diet & reading reviews on it I must say that I am still a skeptic.
The diet consist of HCG injections or taking drops daily in addition to a 500 calorie a day organic diet & you don’t have to exercise.
For the record… HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropins: The major hormone secreted by the placenta. In the early stages of pregnancy.
As I have told her… It sounds like a starvation diet to me & I am very awear of the starvation diet & the consequences because I’ve did this diet for 15 days before & I lost 25lbs in that short amount of time then after the 15 days I began to slowly introduce foods back to my body but the end result was that my tummy seemed to be the place on me where it began to store fat for it didn’t know if it would ever be starved again.
I ended up gaining all of that weight back plus more.
I explained this to my cousin & she stated & I quote… After you complete the 6 weeks you continue to eat the organic foods for another 6 weeks and you slowly introduce other foods back into your diet. If you jump back into eating regular foods after the 6 weeks of course you will gain the weight back. You are (in simple form) resetting your metabolism in the 2nd six weeks to keep the weight off.
So I said to her… So is the diet actually a 12wk program? Tell me cuz? Are you hungry on this diet? Do you get dizzy? & why do a diet that would make you have to reset your metabolism afterwards just as you would need to do after a starvation diet? Im sorry but it’s pretty much sounding like a starvation diet to me except you get 500 calories more than you actually would on a starvation diet. Why not just do a organic diet, not combining it with the HCG injections that you are doing because there is no scientific evidence that the HCG even helps with the weight loss process & instead just exercise?
She says… When you eat a low calorie diet without the hcg you lose structural fat instead of the abnormal fat and your body needs the structural fat.
Yet I read a review that stated that this is not true & although this person did lose an excessive amount of weight he also lost muscle. & in his exact words he says… In my opinion, the HCG Diet is just like any other starvation diet out there today, as far as end results. Only 59% of my weight loss was actual fat. Included in that fat loss was a drop in my visceral fat– this is needed structural fat, the kind that HCG is supposed to prevent. I am here to tell you that it most certainly DID NOT protect me from losing vital fat. And it certainly didn’t protect me from losing vital muscle.
Also I read where some of the sellers are not selling you exactly what you think you are buying. The HCG is not cheap & you could be getting scammed. Wouldn’t it upset you if you found out after you spent hundreds of dollars that it really wasn’t HCG in the bottle & it was something else like maybe saline???
So of course I’d love to lose 40lbs in 6wks but I am asking all that has done this diet & it has been well over 12wks since to give me your review on it because as I said I am still skeptical???
admin answers:
“Krazg,” unless her body fat is less than 10 percent, she’s no where NEAR risk of starvation. Ignorance
George asks…
Anyone tried HCG for weight loss?
A friend at work was telling me his mother-in-law and wife both went on the HCG diet, taking drops and following a specific meal plan and they were both wildly successful. I have been doing some online research and finding conflicting reviews so I was just looking for some thoughts from people who have tried it themselves.
I am not here to be lectured, I’m not stupid. If you violate any guidelines, I will report you immediately.
admin answers:
I tried the diet and lost 30 lbs in less than a month and I kept it off for a while but eventually went back to my old ways of eating and gained every single pound back. If you have very bad eating habits the diet will be very difficult at first but if you have the will power to stick to a strict 500 calorie diet and are determined to make some changes in your eating habits (after the diet) then you will be successful! After your first two days (the gorging/fat days) the first couple days on the diet are hard and you will feel hungry and your stomach will hurt but after that you will get used to it and eating 500 calories becomes easy and as you see the pounds and inches come off- you will be so proud of yourself and see that your hard work as paid off.
That’s not to say that you won’t be able to eat sweets, breads and pastas after the diet but your eating habits will have to be very different and your portions (for starches and sweets) will be much smaller. My mother did the hcg diet as well and has kept off 25 pounds for several months now- she looks and feels great. I tried to do the diet again and it was difficult because i knew what I was getting into and just wasn’t ready to commit. So, try it out and stay committed the first time. If you do the homeopathic drops you can stay on it for up to 44 days (I believe). The diet was developed several decades ago and so some of the information and food allowed (and not allowed) is a little outdated. So do some more research and don’t pay a lot of money to do the diet through a clinic. You can order drops (or shots if you really want…) online and just use the information you’ve researched for under $20, where some clinics will charge several hundred dollars. Good luck!
Helen asks…
Are HCG drops safe? Are there long term effects? Whats the safest brand and the best place to buy them?
Im thinking about trying this diet but I am very skeptical to any side effects and if this will mess with my hormones in the long run when im trying to get pregnant etc. I would like to lose the weight and quickly and i have read so many reviews and gone through so many websites researching but I want to be thorough. Its a pretty new diet so how do we know what the side effects are.. maybe its soon to see any?
Help, please
let me know what you think
Thanks!!
admin answers:
I’m 26 years old and the hcg diet from prohcgdiet.com worked amazing for me! I didn’t necessarily need to lose much weight, but this diet was definitely a lifestyle change for me. Following the diet was definitely the most challenging part, but if you tough it out the results really are life-changing. I lost 19 pounds and 34 inches total in 6 weeks and am on my fourth week of the 6 weeks of maintining my weight. My mom and younger sister, who is 15, also did this diet and for all three of us the results were amazing! After doing this diet, you are much more aware of the things you ate before and all of the bad things that are in the food that most people consider healthy. I would strongly encourage anyone to do this diet; it will change your weight as well as your lifestyle
Steven asks…
skeptical about this diet…….help?
i am kinda skeptical about the hcg diet protocol. ive heard alot of good things about it. ive got a good 30 to 35 pounds i want to lose. i have been gaining this since my sophomore year of high school and now im almost 20. im not fat, but im definately getting sick of not having my flat stomach anymore. i have tried exercises and diet galore. and yes ill admit i tried a crash diet once and i will NEVER try that again. i really really really want to try the hcg diet i saw some homeopathic drops on amazon. there were alot of good customer reviews. i was also drawn to these cause they werent so expensive as others. they were like 20 bucks. i just want to know from PEOPLE WHO HAE TRIED THIS DIET…what do you think??
thanks i hope i get some good advice!
admin answers:
There are really no magic diets or diet pills. The issue, as with any diet, is your ability to STICK TO THE DIET. PERMANENTLY. Research shows that as long as a diet induces some type of calorie deficit, none are more effective than others in the long term (2 years and onward).
The reason why most people fail when they try to lose weight because they try to radically change their eating patterns…which are not so easily changed. The recommendation has always been to cut calories wherever you are able to, a bit at a time. That way, the transition is gradual and you are less likely to fall off the wagon.
Don’t even get me started on that homeopathy nonsense. It’s all unsupported snake oil, like the majority of “alternative” medicine that never stands the test of science (or time).
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