The HCG Diet is next in my weight loss tips articles. I am amazed at how gullible people are and how they will talk about 'diets' without really understanding what they are. The Atkins Diet is one: although it works in the short term, if you continue with a high carbohydrate diet over the longer term you will suffer bad breath (halitosis) due to ketosis, constipation due to a lack of fiber and potentially serious damage to your cardiovascular system due to a lack of phytochemicals and antioxidants.
In order to avoid these you must take the supplements recommended by Dr. Atkins: up to 63 of them if my mind is correct, and many that he marketed himself. That would appear to remove 'impartiality' as one of the terms relating to Dr Atkins.
However, the point I am making is that diets such as Atkins and HCG are rarely properly researched by their adherents before they use them. That would be one of my major weight loss tips: check out the diet before you blindly take it. Take HCG: it isn't even a diet!!
The HCG Diet: What is it?
The HCG Diet is nothing more than a course of injections pumped into your muscle tissue. HCG is correctly known as Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, a substance produced by the placenta of pregnant women. It converts the fat in the mother's fat cells to be metabolised to glucose and then energy for the developing fetus.
Fat is a carbohydrate, and can be used by your metabolism to generate energy once the carbohydrate in your diet has been used up. By being injected straight into your muscles HCG can covert fat into energy. At least it was believed so until recently.
It is now believed that HCG tells your brain that you are full, and need eat no more. In doing that, your metabolism will rapidly use up your carbohydrate stores, and when no more are available because you are not eating as much as normal, your metabolism turns to your fat stores for energy. What that means is that HCG is not a diet but a medical treatment that has the function of suppressing your appetite.
Now you might think it doesn't matter how it works so long as you lose weight, and frequently this assertion is correct. In fact, there have been no significant side effects of the so-called HCG diet reported, so there appears to be no reason why it should not be used. So should I include it among my weight loss tips? If not, what would be the reasons?
I can think of one reason being that if your appetite is artificially suppressed before you have eaten sufficient healthy nutrition, then you will only be short of vitamins and minerals, but also of antioxidants and other essential biochemicals and so reducing your nutritional intake could damage your cardiovascular system - not uncommon when your diet is low on nutrients, particularly antioxidants. Still, there have been no significant side-effects reported, although these can often be tied up with a treatment only after a few years usage.
Quite frankly, I would not take these injections myself because using a hypodermic needle to lose weight seems extreme to me. I could not realistically include hypodermic treatment as one of my weight loss tips.
It is claimed to make it possible for you to lose up to 5 pounds of fat a day - this is an unhealthy rate of weight loss, and your weight is one example of fastest isn't best. up to maybe 5 pounds a week may be acceptable or perhaps even a pound a day, but 5 pounds - that is equivalent to 20 sticks of margarine. Is it genuinely possible to lose that much weight each day without creating any health problems - 140 a week?
Absolutely not, as far as I am concerned. Because the HCG diet appears to produce the desired result, then it should likely be included in my list of weight loss tips. Perhaps it should be, but I cannot possibly look upon a series of injections as being a diet and a valid weight loss program. Decide for yourself.
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