HCG Diet Overview

Physician-Supervised HCG Diet

The presence of the HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) hormone in small, but inflated, amounts can have a significant effect on how your body metabolizes food and fat. The HCG diet exploits the hormone’s role in regulating metabolism to help people lose weight.

HCG is present in men and women, but is found in huge quantities in pregnant women where its sole purpose is to release the calories, or energy, stored in fat for the benefit of the fetus. This evolutionary mechanism has positive implications for weight loss.

The HCG Diet

When starting the HCG diet, HCG is injected into the body to imitate pregnancy. The brain then starts to behave as if the dieter is pregnant and reacts to a very low calorie diet by drawing on fat reserves and speeding up weight loss.

The HCG diet not only causes you to lose inches of fat, it also protects your muscle mass. When undergoing diets without the HCG hormone, a very low calorie diet would result in your body drawing on all energy reserves, including muscle. The HCG diet targets fat deposits only, and protects this lean muscle.

Preventing Yo-Yo Dieting

For frequent dieters the cycle of failure and weight gain is well known. The HCG diet helps protect against this destructive cycle in a number of ways.

• A very low calorie diet is easier to maintain and appetite is suppressed. Side effects such as irritability, physical weakness and headaches aren’t experienced by dieters.
• Your body doesn’t go into starvation mode on the HCG diet. The presence of the hormone prevents your metabolism from slowing down to protect its fat stores. Instead the HCG diet encourages your body to deplete fat stores more rapidly.
• When the HCG diet cycle is complete, as your metabolism hasn’t slowed down, you can return to eating normally without the usual effect of weight gain.

Encouraging a Better Lifestyle

The HCG diet has a significant role in helping people gain control over their weight and make a strong start to losing the pounds. For long term success, lifestyle changes are recommended, and patients are often advised to participate in education and counselling to maintain their weight loss.

How HCG Works

How Does the HCG Diet Work?

The HCG hormone is present in both men and women but it serves a very important function in pregnant women, which is exploited by the HCG diet to help you lose weight. During pregnancy, HCG is found in abundance in the mother’s body as it helps make use of body fat to feed the fetus. HCG diet doctor practitioners make use of these properties to encourage rapid weight loss.

Why the HCG Diet Works

HCG releases energy to the fetus from body fat when calorie intake is low (such as during starvation) to help protect the fetus in the womb. The HCG diet mimics this rapid release of energy for weight loss.

Your HCG diet doctor will only administer a small amount of HCG into your body, sufficient to artificially induce your brain to change your metabolism and burn fat more rapidly.

The Need for a Very Low Calorie Diet

Your HCG diet doctor will also advise you to restrict your calorie intake to around 500 calories a day for the period you are receiving HCG treatment. The HCG diet relies on creating the environment necessary to encourage your brain to draw on fat reserves quickly. It only does so when it believes it needs to; the HCG diet ‘tricks’ your brain into entering starvation mode, and making use of body fat.

An HCG diet doctor will be on hand to monitor your calorie intake and your injections.

During treatment your body will draw on the fat reserves in your body, causing you to lose body fat rapidly.

The Benefits of an HCG Diet

When you restrict your calories drastically, your body will usually do everything it can to conserve energy, such as slowing your metabolism (and also your weight loss) down. An HCG diet doctor injects the hormone into your body to prevent it going into conservation mode, and slowing down your metabolism.

This also means, when you are no longer on the HCG diet, your metabolism won’t be affected and you are less likely to regain the weight you’ve lost. Your HCG diet doctor has ensured your metabolism has been unaffected by the very low calorie diet, so you don’t experience weight gain when you return to eating normally.

HCG Injections

Doctor-Prescribed HCG Injections

Weight loss programs often rely on willpower alone, without the necessary support for the dieter. As a result, modern diets frequently fail to have the desired effect. We provide a medically assisted program, combining HCG injections and a special HCG diet adapted to suit the individual patient.

Our HCG program can help dieters to reduce their weight, even when other programs haven’t been effective.

What Is HCG?

HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) is a hormone found in both men and women. Large concentrations of HCG is commonly found in pregnant women and it helps to increase metabolism. It has a vital role in helping burn calories stored as fat in all of us.

How Do HCG Injections Work?

HCG injections are administered in a medical environment to help patients lose weight quickly. The HCG injections are used in conjunction with a HCG diet to get the best results.

One of the greatest benefits of HCG injections is that medical evidence suggests the hormone not only helps people lose weight quickly, it also helps them lose weight well.

The HCG hormone helps to break down fat, so the patient loses inches and protects muscle. The HCG injections protect the dieter from the kind of problems usually seen in quick weight loss such as muscle loss and sagging skin.

The Role of the HCG Diet

HCG injections are most effective when used in conjunction with a HCG diet. A HCG diet is specifically formulated to help the dieter lose weight quickly and safely. It is administered by a medical professional and the HCG diet can come in a number of forms:

• Your HCG diet may involve eating meal replacements only
• You may need to eat one balanced meal a day on your HCG diet and eat meal replacements for your remaining meals
• You may be prescribed an appetite suppressant as part of your HCG diet and will need to make balanced food choices throughout the day

Your diet will be tailored to your needs and you will be monitored regularly.

The Benefits of HCG

Combining HCG injections and a HCG diet can help you lose weight quickly. But it can also help you lose weight effectively. Often rapid weight loss results in muscle loss, but HCG protects against this happening. HCG also helps improve your mood and sleep during weight loss, which in turn helps you stay on track.

History of the HCG Diet

The History of the HCG Diet

The HCG diet was first ‘discovered’ by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, a British Doctor, in 1954. In a medical paper he reported observing patients who successfully lost weight through a program of combined HCG injections and a very low calorie diet.  He concluded the HCG diet, as it has become known, had avoided many of the unfavorable side effects of a very low calorie diet such as irritability, low mood, headaches, physical weakness, and hunger pangs.

Interestingly the HCG diet also had the effect of drawing on fat deposits in adipose tissue, which preserved muscle mass and the dieter retained a natural body shape.

An Effective Approach

Dr. Simeons researched obesity over many years and observed through his work the effect the HCG hormone has on appetite. Testing the effect of the HCG hormone led to the HCG diet as we know it today.

The ability of the body to maintain a very low calorie diet was found to be assisted by the HCG hormone. Not being subjected to the usual side effects of sustaining a very low calorie diet whilst on the HCG diet, meant dieters were more likely to be able to maintain such as restrictive way of eating. As a result the HCG diet was more effective than other diets.

The Role of HCG Hormone in Weight Loss

The HCG hormone is commonly found in pregnant women where it ensures the fetus is able to grow by drawing on the mother’s fat deposits.

Dr. Simeons observed the HCG hormone was very effective in enabling the fetus to thrive, even in situations when pregnant women weren’t able to take in sufficient calories. This environment was replicated in weight loss patients, with a combination of a very low fat diet and a HCG injection.

The HCG diet could encourage the brain to believe it was in ‘starvation mode’ by following a very low calorie diet, and, with the presence of HCG in the dieter’s bloodstream, fat reserves would be used up. In short, the HCG diet enabled people to lose weight rapidly.

HCG and Tackling Obesity

By drawing on decades of research and observation, Dr. Simeons was able to identify the benefits of the HCG diet and how it could help tackle the difficulties many people face when trying to lose weight.

When we restrict calories our bodies are constantly trying to maintain the fat stores; the HCG diet can help tackle the body’s protective mechanisms and help people lose the fat stores rapidly.