Article: The HCG Diet Is Junk
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aj power
Member
Interesting and nice timing as I have just been reading up about this one. Now I except that the people getting the placebo shot got the same weight loss results and its possible all placebo the people claiming they didn't feel hungry. What I think would really put the diet to rest is the facts behind the long term results? I.e Who put the most weight on after ceasing the diet? people getting the real HCG shots? the people getting the placebo shots? or was it the same? To my mind this is the most important aspect and the knockers haven't commented on this point yet even tho its the major selling point of the sellers!
OrganicShadow
Well-known member
I imagine there wouldn't be much difference. Anyone on a 500 cal diet is gonna drop weight and fast. That's like starvation. Especially if these people are trying to exercise. This is a ludicrous idea- I would never.
MidwestBeast
Legend
I still say it works. You can't convince me that 10 days in, at 500 calories a day, with no hunger (other than the obvious psychological cravings) that there is any way I should have been able to hit a PR on deadlifts (for reps, at that). If my thyroid wasn't screwed up during that time, I believe I could have ran it for the duration and been successful.
I don't think it's a solution that many should seek, but I do think that in certain cases it's not the worst idea out there.
I don't think it's a solution that many should seek, but I do think that in certain cases it's not the worst idea out there.
aj power
Member
Thats what I would think but one of the big selling points / claim is the HCG hormone resets your body so when you stop taking it and dieting that is your new base weight. There are dozens of sites and blogs around with people claiming they only put a pound or two back on after returning to a normal diet. Most people that have weight trouble know that after a starvation diet your weight is coming back ... the selling point/claim is that it doesn't. Hence the double blind studies should have continued to monitor the weight of participants and report back what the weight was on a monthly basis for at least 12 months after ceasing the diet.
GuyverX
Well-known member
If it works for some people then more success to them.
Have done a little research on it but not enough to have a real strong opinion one way or the other.
Scifit Ecdy worked wonders for me in terms of endurance, leaning out, and even sleep when a lot of people were dismissing ecdy as a waste.
(Just should be marketed as the adaptogen it is rather than a miracle bodybuilding supplement.)
With 10 hour workdays and my 6 day exercise schedule I'd fall out on 500 calories a day unless that HCG stuff is green lantern juice or something.
DGSky
Member
What kind of fat loss did you have over that 10 day period?
MidwestBeast
Legend
I was losing about a pound a day in that time. But on days 9 and 10 or whatever, my weight started spiking like a pound a day going up lol. I was already on T4 for thyroid therapy at the time and I just axed it there because I didn't feel like investing another 30 days just to see nothing happen. Whatever is wrong with me is so deep rooted that even this wasn't going to work.
I don't think it's something for everyone and it certainly shouldn't be a first resort. Manipulating nutrition and training should provide the results someone needs/wants, but in my case, where nothing else had worked, I was willing to try it. So I don't feel that it has NO place.
mytwocents
New member
I did hcg diet after christmas, I gained 15 pounds, and i was trying to start my diet and just cant. so i started the diet at 176 pound, at the end of the diet i was 153, about two weeks later i was 158. After diet started workout and my 3 protein shakes a day, Iam now 164, feel more harder than after hcg.