‘Survive on 500 calories a day’ - HCG diet
August 26th, 2008 - 7:07 pm ICT by Bupha Ravirot
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HCG diet is a new way of dieting , quite a lot of celebrities use it, one of them is Britney Spears, announced last week which made people become more curious about HCG diet.
“The HCG diet consists of a very low calorie diet and treatments of HCG that is administered through oral suspension or injections. It has been said that the diet actually helps people to understand the consumption of food and why it is important to only consume proportion sizes. HCG is what women produce in the placenta during pregnancy”
Some people might wonder whether it will have dangerous effects on our health later, regarding it’s website “The HCG diet does not take away from your muscles or vitamins in the body but instead it strips away the fat that has been stored in your body”. It is said to help clients to loss 3 pounds per day.
How is it possible for a person to survive on only 500 calories ( 0.5 Kcal) a day, the HCG diet experts claimed that for the first few days on diet you will feel hungry, after the first two weeks of being on the diet, hunger will sustain and you will get full after consuming very less amount of food.
Before considering to take the drug, some might think if the drug really works, people will no more bother about food for health and exercises and is that the best way for diet.
of course it might not, since we all have learn from we were born that exercise is the best medicine.
However, since the weight loss is virtually guaranteed. Sure, it is unhealthy and you will not be able to keep it up, but you will lose weight if you starve yourself.
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August 27th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I didn’t know that Britney Spears did the diet!! Wow. I did the diet. My neice, brother, aunt and many friends have also completed the protocol. It works. Sure you eat a 500 calorie diet but you lose weight in all of the right places and are never hungry or tired. It is the best!!
Hundreds of thousands of people have completed the protocol since the ’50’s. It is very safe.
Paul
http://www.hcgdiettips.com
August 28th, 2008 at 11:08 am
The man who promoted this fad diet, Kevin Trudeau, was recently put in jail for fraud, and all of his books are quackery.
The “HCG diet” is a load of BS. Anyone who restricts their diet to 500 calories a day is obviously going to lose a lot of weight, and become accustomed to lower food intake after a couple of weeks, same as without the drug. The drug is also very expensive (about $500 for a month supply).
There are people who actually NEED this medicine for actual medical conditions who cannot get it due to the shortage caused by this stupid fad.
My husband gets very ill if he cannot get HCG and we are in a panic because he is about to run out, and none of the pharmacies have it in stock.
This drug will not help you lose weight. Please, if you do not have a medical need for HCG, be very kind and leave it for the people who do.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:11 am
The FDA has not approved HCG Therapy to lose weight.
HCG HAS NOT BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE EFFECTIVE ADJUNCTIVE THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY. THERE IS NO SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT IT INCREASES WEIGHT LOSS BEYOND THAT RESULTING FROM CALORIC RESTRICTION, THAT IT CAUSES A MORE ATTRACTIVE OR “NORMAL” DISTRIBUTION OF FAT, OR THAT IT DECREASES THE HUNGER AND DISCOMFORT ASSOCIATED WITH CALORIE-RESTRICTED DIETS.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Katie, I am SO sorry to hear that about your husband. I think a lot of internet drug companies carry it and there are many doctors, mostly holistic ones that can get it for him too. It should also be said that hCG is NOT for the typical person who just wants to lose weight but has the ability to do so with a low cal diet and exercise. It is more for the WEIGHT -LOSS RESISTANT people who cannot lose the old fashioned, calories in/calories out way. Nutrition is a science and science is not always accurate and definitely does not always apply to everyone. I urge you to seek a doctors approval before trying this diet. It is not a fad (its been around for over 60 yrs) but it is very severe and works fast. I believe it should be used as a last resort, before surgery that is…
November 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am
I am also sorry to hear about Katie and her husband’s delimma with the hcg shortage. I hope things work out for you both. I recently started the hcg diet for reasons that Amy explained. My metabolism was no longer. I could not lose weight no matter how hard I worked out or how healthy or little I ate. My doctor says that it is probably because of all the dieting I did before. I have been on the diet since Sat 11/1/08 and I have lost 8 lbs so far. It is really hard to eat only 500 calories a day but you really dont feel that hungry because the hcg actually processes 2000 calories per day so you actually feel almost full. I just knew if I didnt do something drastic very soon my weight would just keep creeping up until I started having more health problems than what I started with. I researched the diet, I read Dr. Simeon’s Pounds & Inches and it was very impressive and made sense. If I could have lost my weight the natural way with healthy eating and exercize I would have, my body just wouldn’t respond anymore. This is def my last resort!
November 5th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I do also want to say that without the hcg my body would actually hold onto the 500 calories and I might lose a little bit of weight but not half as much and certainly not as fast as I would without the hcg. It def plays a part. I dont know about this other guy Kevin T. but its pretty obvious he was just trying to make some money off of Dr. Simeon’s very precise, articulate and genius research. The manuscript is online and downloadable for those who are interested in where this diet originated from.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Katie,
Hello there!
First off, you say that it’s a fad diet. It’s been around since the ’50s. How is that fad? Have you done the diet? Do you know of anyone that did it? Everyone that I know raves about it. Why promote it so badly? It saves people’s lives that are obese. It offers a higher quality of life for so many people. Why take that away from them?
As far as the price, get it from overseas, guarantee, you can get enough supply for less than $100/month!
Good luck!
December 7th, 2008 at 8:05 am
You don’t starve yourself as your body is living off the stored fat via the HcG injections which ARE ONLY AVAILABLE VIA INJECTION. Anything referred to as oral HcG is a diluted gimmick and you should only do this diet under the watch of a doctor or wellness clinic. Why do you people think that people with LEGITIMATE metabolism issues haven’t tried starvation diets???????? IT IS NOT A STARVATION DIET FOR THE REASON I MENTIONED ABOVE!!!!!
December 8th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Releana is a patented, sublingual form of hCG, not an injectable. It works, I have used it and I am healthier for it.
My weight is way down, my blood sugar is stable and my cravings have vanished. I live ‘off the land’ with much smaller portions. And now that my hypothalumus has been reset I am increasing my metabolism with exercise while maintaining a lower carb diet.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I have lost nine pounds in three days - for all of you, who say, sure anyone can lose weight on a five hundred calorie diet - well it is not true. My metabolism had basically stopped, so much ( as I did the five hundred calorie diet for over a month before trying HCG) I am not kidding you, I would lose .4 pounds and then gain a pound in water weight, it was up and down and I always heard my stomach gurgling at me, making me light headed etc. It is not true that five hundred calorie diets work. Like most of you I was and still am extremely skeptical - but I gotta be honest here, I am losing weight quicker then when I ran two miles UPHILL ever day. I am so tickled. And, it doesn’t cost five hundred a month, AND TO THE PERSON STATING THERE IS A SHORTAGE, well that’s not true either, it is all over the internet for sale, and for the person that said it is a fad diet, well fads typically go out after a while but tried and true diets tend to stick around.
I have read these blogs for months before I decided to do this. I have read both sides. I have done my own research about the hypothalamus gland and how it affects my body and I have nothing and I mean NOTHING to gain by even submitting this post - but I am a 38 year old semi active housewife that has tried the HCG diet for a few days and am ecstatic. the food is easy and delicious - and soooo soooo filling - if you are not filling full after about three bites your doing something wrong, using the wrong kind of lotion, using mascara, using the wrong shampoo or toothpaste- something is wrong because on day four (my first very low calorie day) I took two bites of chicken one big bite of celery and I was stuffed- not even kidding.
To reiterate, I have nothing to gain but I have forty pounds to lose and I am well on my way. I am tickled that I found this diet and I heard NO media hype about the stars, I saw it on a flyer at my doctor’s office. For me, I am completely supervised and happy and I wish all of you the best in whatever choice you do decide to make.
I was deathly afraid of the shot, so so so afraid of the shot, I have had a needle phobia for ever – you know my vanity took over and I tried it the first time ( with my doctor) and it really didn’t hurt, I would tell you if it did. I wipe with alcohol, the put an ice bag on my thigh, then wipe again fast, air dry, pinch the fat, and shot – I don’t even feel it, the second time I had to look down to see if the needle was even all the way in there.
It’s not a human growth hormone as some say and I think if more people spent the time doing the research, I think their opinions would change – By the way to the women whose husband needs HCG, I am curious as to what he is using it for medically – a woman’s pregnancy hormone? What are the other medical benefits? And if it has other medical benefits then how can you possible criticize the side effect of weight loss for an otherwise medically beneficial item which is sold without prescription. It would be synonymous with someone criticizing me for taking a daily vitamin?
June 8th, 2009 at 6:45 am
For the lady who can’t get HCG for her husband; this stuff is all over the internet - how could it possibly be hard to get???
I have approx. 10 days left on my first round of the protocol (45 day protocol) and have lost nearly 50 lbs and looking to 60 lbs by protocol’s end.
If the HCG weren’t doing what they said it was, there is NO WAY I could get by on 500 calories a day. If I had been starving myelf the last 5 weeks I would be sallow faced, ashen and emaciated looking.. such is not the case. I look nothing like I did when trying to loose weight previously by reducing calories.
I am hungry and lethargic at times, but nothing extreme or unbearable like when dieting traditionally.
I watch constantly to hear if there are negative health affects being discovered about the use of HCG. Before I went on the protocol I had to carefully measure the risks of obesity on my health versus any perceived health affects using HCG… so far, the benefits far out weigh any “undocumented” adverse affects of using HCG.
You’ll have to research and decide for yourself.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Well i have just ordered and can not wait to receive it. Really want to get started and look wonderful again. I do have a few questions if anyone can answer them I would appreciate it.
1. Once mixed how long does solution last as I have seen conflicting answers?
2. I was told i can still take shots during my period, is this true?
3. Does it really make you feel full? The 500 calories worries me a little.
Let me know and much success hcg users.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Depending on the potency of your HCG is how long it will stay that way. You can mix up portions and freeze the rest so as to not run the risk over an extended period.
No, you are not supposed to do injections while on your period. Have you read the Simeon’s Protocol in “Pounds and Inches”? This is a MUST READ before you start. Many if not all of your questions will be answered there. DO NOT skip it!
I’m a big guy (6′3″) and altho I was lethargic and felt a little weak sometimes, with the HCG the 500 calories is not an issue.
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