[MauroDarudo]

Now I am only 22 and a male. so that might have to do with my success. At first I did 800 calories and ate what I wanted within that, but stoped losing weight after 15lbs.

So for a month I have been on 500 calories under the diet guidlines, and I lost 35lbs. Been tracking everything I eat on fitness pal, take supplements like superfood, b complex, ect ect. And muscle definition has improved, my overall resistance trianing has increased by double, I get about 60 grams of protien. Suposed to have 70. My hair, skin, and energy levels have increased greatly and I stoped snoring.

Reason I didnt use hcg is one I couldnt afford it and 2 I am scared to buy it over the internet. I do get bloodwork done monthly but thats a result of the painkillers and injuries from a previos job.

Not hungry, cant stop thinking about food, ESP when I live in a house full of junkfood. I weigh everything and over exaggerate, so I am prolly under 500 Cal.

I was 285 6ft, at 243.

Now I am not get trying to say hcg doesnt work, but saying if you cant afford it or get a perscription, this can be done and effectively.

At first it was hard, but after 2 Weeks, was easier.

Srry first post messed up title.

[WapSaibian]

This is a really bad idea so don't recommend it to anyone else. You will have trouble keeping this weight off once you start eating again. NOT RECOMMENDED for anyone. it's not the diet that resets your metabolism and helps you lose the right kind of weight--it's the hcg.

[sicheAscems]

You are NOT doing "this diet". You are on a starvation diet. Please do not give hcg a bad rep.

You are starving. You are telling your body that it is a time of famine. Meaning you aren't losing the fat you should, but normal fat, muscle, and even organ tissue. Your metabolims has slowed considerably, to preserve energy. The seond you eat again, your body will store every bit of fat it can - just because it is trying to hoard for the next famine.

Any weight you have lost will be back, plus more. Your metabolism will be even more f.u. than before.

Again, what was the reason for not taking hcg?

[jurnalkduo]

Actually doctors perscribe 800 calorie diets all the time, and are you saying gastic bypass people go into starvation mode? They are on a strict diet and eat even less. Hcg is suposed to protect muscles and help absorb fat. Simple. How is it dangerous. And if you wiki startvation mode or ask a doctor, it doesnt happen until 5% body fat.

Dont bash me.

I am not starving, nor is my body, doesnt make a difference if I eat 1500 calories and burn a thousand exercise vs creating a defict by eating less.

Your basicly saying hcg makes a starvation diet safe. Omg in britian doctors put people on 100 day fast, of course supervised.

Crazy, and I have bought hcg once a while back, and was fake. Sucked, but meh.

Anyways, my doctor says I am fine, and as for keeping the wait off, hcg doesnt cliam to prevent that from happening, you have to change your life style. Forever to keep it off.

[zbckFNlW]

And matabolism doesnt drop until you reach that point where your body resorts to muscles and bone at 5% body fat. And it dops by 40% at that point, according to the Cambridge reseach were the idea of bodys matabolism and catabolism of the body occurs.

Ask a doctor before and during the diet of course. But please dont bash my sucess.

[Snocioncilm]

You aren't on hcg to protect your muscles. That's what is dangerous. You simply don't understand the protocol. Read Pounds and Inches. What you are doing is a very bad idea. I've seen everything there is to see on hcg in the past nearly 4 years. People who go on starvation diets regain the weight, period. That's why gastric surgery doesn't work. It works for a while then the person rebounds and gains again, even on the tiny amount they eat. Their metabolism is even more messed up.

I am moving this thread to the boxing ring because this is the wrong thing to do.

[Evoryboypoto]

What you have done is very dangerous, & continuing this way will most likely wreck your metabolism. Be prepared to gain it back + some more. The"diet" you are on has nothing to do with the protocol. You claim that what you have done is "effective", but we really won't be able to tell, until some time has passed, can we?

Are you asking for advice here? Or validation of what you are doing?

If you ever get serious about doing The HCG protocol, it is available through several sources at a reasonable cost. I just
paid $54 + $20 shipping at reliablerx.com, & got my syringes & b-water for about $20 at amazon.com. For under $100, I got everything I need for a 42-day round. During my 1st round, I saved at least $100 a week on groceries, so I can't see mathematicaly how this costs too much.

I don't ever try and talk anyone into following the HCG protocol, but for the sake of your health, I implore you to stop starving yourself.

[Pippoles]

I wouldn't call this bashing - but you are posting on a HCG forum, without doing HCG. Makes no sense.

And of course you are in starvation mode. Your base caloric need even now is something like 2600... so 2100 calories aren't coming from food, they have to come from your body. Well, they don't, because by now your body doesn't need that much anymore - it has limited the metabolism to the most essential functions. At the same time, it burns the extra energy from the stores most easily available - mainly muscle and normal, structural fat. And when you eat more again, it will store whatever it can get... into more abnormal fat stores.

Which is one of the reasons why people on starvation diets not only gain more weight back than they lost, but look more and more flabby and obese - the fat doesn't go back to where it came from, but to the unwanted abnormal stores.

HCG causes a hormonal shift in your body. It doesn't make a starvation diet safe, it makes sure that starvation is never an issue - your metabolism stays active, is even activated when that was a problem. The hypothalamus is reset. And the body is tricked into mobilizing the abnormal fat stores first and formost.

[lidya-sggf]

You are not understanding the protocol as laid out in Pounds and Inches. People can lose weight on 500 cal, but keeping it off and resetting your hypothalamus and thus your metabolism only happens with hcg. After a round of hcg, I could eat between 2,000 and 2,500 cal or more and not gain weight, as long as the foods I ate did not inflame me. Who wants to stay on a 500 cal forever????
Good luck to you.

[retyopj]

Not looking for validation, I will read the book as suggested, and no my matabolism wont slow, because my body isnt in starvation mode.

As I said in my post, read again, if you cant afford it or get it perscribed and you need to lose weight you can do it. And I wish I could afford to buy it or get it perscribed but I cant, I am basicly saying if I can do it without it, you can most definitely do it with it.

Again hcg helps protect muscle and asorb fat. Thats it. My muscle weight has increase, but I do weight trianing so I am not losing muscle faster than gaining, and thats usually what causes matabolism to slow.

My intentions are to encourage hcg users, not to say the product doesnt work.

Please stop with the cliam that my body will go into starvation mode and ill gain the weight back, I might if I go back to old eating habits.

Doctor said I would die at the age of 25, which was BS, so losing the weight right now is more important then chosing to wait or delay it.