With so many people trying to lose extra pounds in the world today there
is no shortage of weight loss programs, fad diets, and outright scams.
One truly promising diet type that was started nearly sixty years ago
and continues in full force today is the HCG diet.
The diet itself is an intense program, but it is also simple and one of
the few guaranteed forms to lose weight. Human Choriogonadotropin (HCG)
is a hormone generated by pregnant women to help make certain that the
growing fetus gains the incredible amount of calories required to
continue to grow swiftly and with strength and health.
This diet requires a series of injections, once a day for roughly a
month, combined with a very low calorie diet. The HCG breaks up long
standing fat deposits in the body and makes it possibly to rapidly lose
weight, generally one or two pounds a day. Even at the low end of the
spectrum that's a safe weight loss of around thirty pounds in one month.
The body grows less sensitive to the hormone after around forty days of
treatment, and this is the maximum stopping point for a single treatment
cycle. Six months later the treatment can begin again with similar
results.
All of this is a proven medical fact. However, there are many
individuals that have been working feverishly to scam the weight loss
interested populace with fad's that borrow the HCG name to sell products
that are poor quality, inefficient, or outright scams.
Typically these HCG product scams will run the gamut from "All you want
to eat" style diets that break the calorie limit rule, or they claim to
be products that work just as well as HCG without having to starve
yourself. The thing about the HCG diet is that there is no starvation
involved. The released fat from those ancient deposits within the body
is converted into useable energy for daily activities. The body is not
starving during this process. It is in fact gaining a great deal of
calories to live off of by using what is already there more efficiently.
Any company with a product that claims to be better than HCG because the
user of the product won't have to starve themselves either does not
know what they are talking about, are playing on your emotions and
fears, or have a blatantly fraudulent product that might do anything
from be completely useless to actually damaging your body.
A true HCG diet will focus primarily on eating necessary protein to
almost the exclusion of everything else. Sugar, starch, and fatty foods
are all highly restricted. Alcohol, for instance, is a definite
blacklist item during this time period. Any HCG diet that will work will
stay to a heavily restricted dietary calorie intake because the body
rapidly gains resistance to the hormone. A caloric intake higher than
this will only retard the weight loss process and in effect waste the
time and money of everyone involved in attempting to help that person
lose weight.
An individual on a true HCG diet can already lose anywhere from a
hundred to three hundred pounds in half a year. Any product that claims
to have a better solution than that is most likely a complete scam that
wants to defraud the public and blacken the good name of this procedure.
Comments
2010-09-29 4:24pm PDT
Great article that I definitely enjoyed reading! Keep ‘em coming!
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2015-03-25 5:32pm PDT
There is so much misinformation about the HCG Diet. There is definitely nothing faster.