What the Hell is the hCG Diet?

[RickO'Shea]

Look at the title

 

[-SD-]

you eat like a pregnant woman since you have HCG in you just like a pregnant woman

 

[doublebicep]

Claims of losing 1 to 3 lbs per day:
HCG Diet Dangers: Is Using HCG Worth The Risks? | Exploring Human Potential

In 1954, A.T.W. Simeons, a British physician, introduced this new method of dieting in which a reduced-calorie diet was coupled with injections of a pregnancy hormone – HCG. Simeons himself said that patients would not lose more weight with HCG than without it; he simply indicated that the HCG could help dieters sustain the diet and possibly cause the weight-loss to target specific areas (e.g. hips, belly, and thighs). In studies conducted since the introduction of this approach, all weight-loss has been attributed to the 500-kCal/day diet; and no difference in weight-loss or body proportion has been evident between those using HCG and those not using HCG. Thus, HCG has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective for increasing weight-loss and is “largely rejected,” by authors of these studies, for administration for weight-loss. The bottom-line is that HCG should not be used for weight-loss.

 

[RickO'Shea]

Thanks Guys! I have it in writing now. My sister who is very obese is thinking of doing this, regardless of the fact that I've told her over and over again you could inject wax and tar on a 500cal diet and still loose weight. You'd think she would listen to her big brother who makes his living as a proffessional trainer, and hardcore researcher, but no! I'm sick of doctors thinking only of money with the comfort of having weekly return visits...

 

[Piper25]

is that the Hard Core Gear Diet or the Human Chorionic Gonandropin Diet.

 

[Burpees]

you shoot 500iu of hCG eod, you eat 500 calories a day.. its for fat people who aren't very horny, or for fat women who want to trick their men into thinking they are pregnant.

 

[-SD-]

you shoot 500iu of hCG eod, you eat 500 calories a day.. its for fat people who aren't very horny, or for fat women who want to trick their men into thinking they are pregnant.

LOL @ thinking any woman is smart enough to think of that trick.