Posted on 02/13/2011 6:23:55 PM PST by Perdogg
Lifts your spirits? I am on a ton of hcg, naturally due to actual pregnancy, and my spirits are nauseous and bone tired, 24/7! Hcg does not have great side effects, people. But anyone who wants me to provide them with hcg pee for their diet, just show up every two hours and there will be a new supply. Special deal for all FReepers. :)
Giggity!
Years and years ago my doctor told me that humans can survive on just a can of tuna daily.
Yes, it is a common treatment for low Testosterone for men that do not produce enough naturally. It is also used to increase fertility in women.
By all means, please keep us posted! I could use that if it works!!!
I looked at the site and the diet is the same as the acquaintance that gets the shots. She gives them to herself. ouch. I’ll have to find out how much she’s lost. She ought to be on cycle 2 or 3 by now.
Maybe you can explain this to me. I skimmed the site. Why is it with this diet that you can’t mix vegetables to create a “handful”? Is it calories or theory about certain foods mixing together?
I like WW because they inform you of the right foods to eat, something that you CAN do forever.
I lost 60 lbs and have kept it off for five years. So I am indeed a fan of Weight Watchers.
1) I’d like to know how it is she can sell a DEA scheduled medication without a license and for diet purposes.
2) Anyone would lose weight on a 500 calorie diet.
3) You WILL lose muscle mass if you only eat 500 calories a day... which will lower your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate) making it very difficult to maintain your weight.
BTTT
Sounds good.
I think it is the starches. Many of our favorite veggies are chock full of them.
Eat Less and Exercise.
Best wishes to you! Please keep us posted.
Add some flavoring, caffeine and artificial sweetener ....
OOPS. Already done. Back to the drawing board.
could be. i was wondering, if you stayed to the list, what would be the harm in a 1/2 handful of lettuce and 1/2 handful of cucumber.
the fruit. i really don’t like to each much fruit anymore. i’d prefer to eat applesauce (no sugar, skin on, or cook the apple) rather than eat it raw. hurts the jaw, to eat it raw. (rhyming totally intentional)
Well I found this thread (I just KNEW FreeRepublic.com would have content on this diet) and wanted to report my experiences in case other folks are researching what it’s about.
First off, there sure are a lot of knee-jerk reactions to the diet on the thread. Let me first say, yes, this diet works because it limits you to 500 calories. However, one should ask, how can someone stay on a 500 calorie diet for weeks? The answer has to be something in addition to personal willpower.
Yes, if you’re marooned on a desert isle, you’ll lose weight in the same manner. However, any similarities end there. On a desert island, you don’t have any options. You’d eat what you could scavenge, and you’d be lucky to get whatever calories you could find. On this diet, you eat from a very restricted list of proteins and vegetables, and add only a couple fruits from a selective list as well.
It is not a “made up” diet. It was invented or discovered 50+ years ago by a doctor who, while treating a class of young boys for a hormone deficiency, found that almost all of the treatment group lost weight while on the medicine. It was from this discovery that he investigated how he could apply that to obese women. He came up with a very unique, but highly effective routine that saw 1 pound per day losses.
A fundamental difference between this diet and simply crashing at 500 cals per day is that the hormone, HCG, signals the body to use fat stores for additional energy and not lean muscle mass. I think rational people would expect a starved body to burn whatever metabolically it could during times of starvation. This does not happen if the hormone is taken at the correct dose.
There are many followers of this diet who have monitored their BMI during the course of the diet and found that the weight loss is almost entirely attributable to reduced body fat. A very modest amount of muscle mass is lost too, but this is expected as the body is suddenly not carrying 5-10-15% of the weight it was.
Ok, so that said, my experience on this diet was highly successful. I indeed lost 1 pound per day, just like the protocol said could happen. I was extremely rigorous in my adherence to the diet, not cheating once during the 30 day effort. What’s more, I have lost more than 4” off my waistline. Even more interestingly, in the post-diet regimen, I followed the recommended procedures and lost even more from my waistline, even while not technically dieting. I was certainly not limiting myself to 500 calories!
If you’ve read this thread, you might have seen a nurse tell of a patient who was admitted to the ER and has permanent brain damage due to heart failure, all because of this diet. Come on now. Claiming someone had a heart attack because of a single factor is, well, asinine. Just like Hank Gathers didn’t die because of basketball, someone does not end up having a heart attack because of a single, external influence, except in the most rare of instances. There is always a laundry list of contributing factors. It’s not like they had a broken bone, and you can point at a bicycle and say they fell off it onto that pavement.
I wanted to add one additional feature that this hormone seems to have. When taken in the proper dosage for the subject, the typical hunger feelings are not experienced even though you are limiting yourself to a calorie amount akin to a single, small meal for an entire day, I can report that this was certainly the case for me, as I never felt the hunger one would expect with such a small caloric intake during the entire diet regimen.
I encourage anyone interested to visit the forum: http://hcgdietinfo.com/hcgdietforums/forum.php and read up on what hundreds of people are doing. That site is terrific.
Gunthor, I would love to hear what kind of experience you had if you followed through on this diet.
“I could package tap water and sell it as a miracle drug that would help people lose a pound per day (as long as they only ate 500 calories each day). “
So when are you starting? Sounds like a plan to me.
“The best diet in the world and one that YOU CAN LIVE WITH forever is the ELE diet. “
No, the best diet in the world is to be 22 years old again.
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