Losing A Pound A Day With The HCG Diet And Keeping It Off
December 5th, 2011
Wouldnt it be great to lose a pound to 3 pounds per day for all month? And then possibly repeat the whole thing again with the same results soon thereafter? And now the biggest question of all-don’t you want to lose all this weight and then keep off the weight loss?
The HCG weight loss program can do this for you, and it is not an exceptionally difficult program. The diet was originated back in the 1950′s by a British endocrinologist who took HCG from pregnant women’s urine and injected it into people for weight loss. That’s the best source of the hormone actually.
It worked, and the patients would lose 1 to 3 pounds daily. The doctor actually repeated the program multiple times on patients, and the weight loss continued each time. The diet program faded away, and over the past decade has enjoyed a humongous resurgence in the US.
The FDA has not approved HCG for weight loss, so it is used off-label by doctors. It has only been approved for fertility usage. Considerable research needs to be done on this, but so far it appears to be effective without considerable risk.
Although the hCG diet looks to be extremely onerous, it really is not. Dieters need to maintain a calorie restriction of as low as 500 cal per day. However the new modified calorie hCG diet increases the calories allowing up to 800 to 1200, and it is still maintained effectiveness for the amount of weight lost.
With the severe calorie restrictions in place at 500 cal per day people have not been allowed to exercise while on the hCG diet plan. Really, a diet plan that does not allow for healthy exercise? Yes it is true, and the hCG diet action works great without exercising. One of the primary goals that physicians were after with modifying the calories allowed is so that exercise can be allowed, which allows for a much healthier long-term benefit when the diet is completed.
Interestingly, patients just do not get super hungry while on the diet, and are able to go into ketosis and lose fat over muscle due to the HCG hormone being able to target fat reserves. Critics of the diet see 500 calories as being too low, but when a person is in ketosis they are receiving calories from the fats being utilized from the body. Isn’t that the point, to burn fat and lose weight? Instead of only receiving 500 calories per day (or 800-1200 with the modified version) patients are actually receiving 2 to 3 times that amount by being in ketosis and burning the body’s existing fat for energy.
The hCG diet recipe calls for a liquid breakfast, and also a certain type of tea is allowed to be consumed throughout the day. There are no processed foods permitted on the hCG diet, so persons eating habits changed to being more healthy and also the metabolism changes to a new rate and gets locked then in preparation for long-term success.
The next 2 meals of the day, lunch and dinner, may consist of solid foods with up to 100 g of protein allowed along with one type of vegetable and fruit, or the protein can be one type of seafood.
The HCG diet is not super difficult, the weight loss is impressive, and it teaches people how to eat differently and lock in a new metabolism.
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