Thursday, December 8, 2011

Keeping Off Weight Loss With The HCG Program

By Richard Greene


Want to lose a pound a day for a month? And then do it again with the same results? And now the bigger question - want to lose all this weight and then keep it off?

The hCG diet plan can make this happen, and the program itself is not truly very difficult. The origination of the hCG diet was back in the 1950s by a British endocrinologist utilized urine from pregnant women and injected it with the purpose for patients to lose weight. The urine of pregnant woman is actually the best source of the hCG hormone.

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 the hormone specifically for weight loss, so it is used in an off label fashion by physicians. It is truly only been approved for fertility treatment. A lot of research still needs to be done on HCG, but so far it looks like it maintains effectiveness without harm.

The diet appears horrifying, but it is actually not that hard. Dieters have to initiate calorie restrictions of as low as 500 calories daily. A lot of doctors have modified the calorie restriction upwards to 800 to 1200 calories per day which has not affected the insanely good results.

With the severe calorie restrictions as low as 500 per day, individuals were not allowed to exercise while on the diet program. Can you imagine a diet that prohibits a vital part of being healthy and losing weight? It is true and interestingly enough the hCG diet works great without exercise. One of the main reasons that physicians often use the modified calorie diet so that exercise can be permitted, just truly what an effective long-term success plan should consist of.

Interesting enough, people simply do not get very hungry while being on the hCG weight loss program. They're still able to go into ketosis and drop fat while keeping muscle due to the hCG hormone targeting the body's fat reserves. Critics of the hCG diet see 500 calories as simply being too little. However once a person goes in the ketosis they were actually getting a lot more calories on the fat that's being targeted. Isn't that the point though to burn fat while maintaining muscle mass? Rather than simply receiving below 5 cal per day per person is truly receiving 2 to 3 times that amount by being in ketosis and targeting the body's fat for energy.

The recipe for the diet is for a liquid breakfast, and there is a certain type of tea allowed through the day. No processed foods are allowed on the diet, and eating so healthy changes the person's eating habits and metabolism 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 program is not ridiculously hard, and the weight loss is significant, with people being taught how to eat healthier and lacking in a new metabolic rate for better long-term weight loss success.




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