The HCG Diet

[horsepwr]

My wife has a friend that's doing this diet. The girl did it before and it worked very well, but like any "diet", she put back on a few pounds afterwards. (over a few months). So, my wife told me last week that her friend is doing "that expensive diet" again. I told my wife to ask her friend what it was her doctor has her doing. Well my wife answered that it's some kind of shot that she takes, which really made me wonder. Then she called me the next morning to let me know that it's called the "HCG diet". She's obviously taking shots of HCG. She said she takes one everyday, and can't eat more than 500 calories.

Anybody ever heard of this diet? and if you know about it, what's HCG's part in losing weight, or in the diet period?

[horsepwr]

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^and 500cals a day is flat out like an anorexic, isn't it? Even though she works in a call center, very low activity, a person still burns 500calories very easily throughout the day, correct?
That 500 calorie/day is bad. I've always thought 1000-1200 at the lowest.

And no-one has heard of, or knows anything about, this HCG Diet. Her doctor put her on it. I'm wondering what the hell HCG would do for someone needing to loose fat.
I'm wondering if the HCG has almost an anabolic effect helping her not loose muscle tissue because of the whole 500cal bs.???

[daved150]

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mofo knows about this...pm him!!!! he told me it works great!!

[trip]

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weird, imho, a doctor would do that, recommending 500 cals, he's either a maverick or does not care about lawsuits, plus, even though docs can use any drug for other purposes than what developed, it's very out of norm, my guess it would push up the womens t levels?

[daved150]

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i dont know what the program is. i remember mofo telling me about it and the low cal thing was for a short amount of time (i think it was 1300 cals for his wife)...i just know that he was pretty high on it and told me it worked great. he was even trying to find some extra around so he could do it....

[FUZO]

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Yeah I cant see a doc saying eat only 500 calories

[horsepwr]

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i dont know what the program is. i remember mofo telling me about it and the low cal thing was for a short amount of time (i think it was 1300 cals for his wife)...i just know that he was pretty high on it and told me it worked great. he was even trying to find some extra around so he could do it....

yes, it does work great. The girl has done it before and dropped allot of weight. Well over 50lbs. She's doing it again because, like anything like that, when it's over, back comes a few pounds.

[horsepwr]

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Yeah I cant see a doc saying eat only 500 calories

That's what's crazy to me too.
...but her doc damn sure has her doing that. No more than 500cals/day.

[horsepwr]

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weird, imho, a doctor would do that, recommending 500 cals, he's either a maverick or does not care about lawsuits, plus, even though docs can use any drug for other purposes than what developed, it's very out of norm, my guess it would push up the womens t levels?

That's what I was thinking.

[horsepwr]

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...so Mofo is all over the HCG diet, huh? He needs to be less awol. I wanna know more about it.

[trip]

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50 lbs is alot.............how much did she put back on

[horsepwr]

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50 lbs is alot.............how much did she put back on

it was a decent bit over 50lbs.
She hasn't put that much back on though. I haven't seen her, but my wife says she hasn't put much on, probably like 15-20lbs. I really have no idea. My wife said she's still nothing like she used to be. as in fat.

[pigmeat]

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do a google on it..there is tons of info on it, and clinics with dr giving this diet in every town in america...somehow the hcg releases the fat in your body.....thats why only 500 calories...your body lives off the fat that is released.....i cant explain it very good, as i have only read on it a couple times, but i know a few chicks on it and they say after the first week there is no hunger issues

[horsepwr]

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do a google on it..there is tons of info on it, and clinics with dr giving this diet in every town in america...somehow the hcg releases the fat in your body.....thats why only 500 calories...your body lives off the fat that is released.....i cant explain it very good, as i have only read on it a couple times, but i know a few chicks on it and they say after the first week there is no hunger issues

hmm. that makes sense. It must create the effect of starving. Cause that's when the body begins to live off stored fat. Which leads me back to the 500cals...that's not too far from starvation. nah, starvation is completely going without food.

I need to read up on it. I'm interested in how it works. I did google it when I started this thread, but got interrupted before i could read anything about it.

[pigmeat]

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your body lives off the fat in your body...somehow the hcg releases the fat and makes it readily available for nutrients.....everyone i seen on it has had amazing results with no major weight gain when off...my wife says she is doing it, but she only trying to lose 15 pounds....all i read on it says 1-5 pounds a day is the norm, most losing 1 pound