HCG Diet

If you want to lose weight without any hassles then you should try the HCG Diet. In this diet program, heavy exercise is discouraged, there are no required purchases of frozen meals and results are promised to be felt on its first week.

About HCGHCG stands for Human Chorio Gonadotropin and works directly with the hypothalamus gland. This is important since the gland controls emotions, the development of reproductive organs and body fat. Although the body has its own supply of HCG, most food are overloaded with chemicals and they help remove HCG from the body. The loss of HCG can also be attributed to an imbalance in the digestive system.

The HCG Diet is penned by Dr Simeons in his book “Pounds & Inches - A New Approach to Obesity”.

How it WorksIt is a very low calorie diet and is supplemented with treatments of HCG that is taken by way of injections. These injections are said to help relieve hunger pangs that the very low calorie HCG Diet causes. In addition to the shots, you are supposed to limit your daily intake of calories to 500 a day.

HCG lets the fat be extracted from the cells where in the fatty tissue. When the cells become empty they have no purpose and the body breaks down its structure to absorb it. The breakage usually follows the fat extraction process which makes the body replace the fat with water. It is in this case that you may not be able to see a loss in weight in the weighing scale since water is heavier than fat. It is only when the water weight is loss through urination that you get to notice the weight loss. The retention and elimination of water in the body plays a big role when it comes to the diet. Through this you can expect a loss of .5 to 2 pounds of fat each day.

How long should it take?Each round of treatment lasts for a minimum of 26 days and 23 days of that period would require you to take an HCG injection everyday. The treatment can last for 43 days in which 40 daily injections will be needed.

You are not supposed to receive HCG injections during the last three days of the treatment so that it can cycle out of your body completely before you can resume to your normal diet.

You can not go beyond 40 days since you can develop immunity to HCG after 40 days. You will need a six week break in between treatment periods. It is recommended to have a total of only four treatments.

HCG Diet
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