I have lot 16 pounds in 20 days!

[Bianca]

Originally Posted by Yorkiedaze

I'm a vegan and also can't eat nightshade veggies because of my arthritis, so this diet wouldn't work. Also for anyone wanting to eat like that, you should first check with your doctor. Diets like this is only good if you never eat any other way, because you will just gain it all back plus more.
The best way to eat healthy and lose weight is to become a vegan or vegetarian. All healthy foods that take fat off and keep it off.

[DerbyLayne]

500 calories?

your body is in starvation mode, and although you're losing weight now? you will put it back on. Your body can not live on 500 calories a day no matter what "supplement" you are adding to it. A quick fix for those that last few pounds is a no carb diet, but even then- it should be diet/nutitrionist/trainer monitored and that's only good for about 1-2 weeks. It's not healthy to do it longer than that.

You can lose weight eating healthy and exercising the old fashioned way. A healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds a week. Maybe 3-5 the first week if you have a bit more to lose, but it's water weight you're losing anyway and it won't be that way every week.

Your body needs fuel to survive, and that's definitely more than 500 calories a day.

this diet scares me. I do no recommend anyone to do it.

[DerbyLayne]

Originally Posted by Yorkiedaze

The best way to eat healthy and lose weight is to become a vegan or vegetarian. All healthy foods that take fat off and keep it off.

It's called "Eating Clean" and you can do it if you are a meat eater, as well.

Cut the crap, and get back to basic healthy eating.

[WalnutHill]

Thanks for all the advice guys! My primary is definitely in the loop (I am a diabetes risk, so gotta drop the weight). We actually heard about it from a doctor friend of ours who did it himself and lost 75 pounds. We did a BUNCH of research, etc. before you say anything about it, you have to read the book: Dr. ATW Simeons "Pounds and Inches"

I know there are a lot of nay-sayers, and that's fine with me. I feel great!

And, the HCG helps your body burn it's OWN fat to give you vitamins, minerals, etc - so, I am not starving.

It is certainly a lifestyle change, but without the HCG I never would have done it, that's for sure.

[Bianca]

Originally Posted by WalnutHill

Thanks for all the advice guys! My primary is definitely in the loop (I am a diabetes risk, so gotta drop the weight). We actually heard about it from a doctor friend of ours who did it himself and lost 75 pounds. We did a BUNCH of research, etc. before you say anything about it, you have to read the book: Dr. ATW Simeons "Pounds and Inches"

I know there are a lot of nay-sayers, and that's fine with me. I feel great!

And, the HCG helps your body burn it's OWN fat to give you vitamins, minerals, etc - so, I am not starving.

It is certainly a lifestyle change, but without the HCG I never would have done it, that's for sure.

I understand what you are saying, I think it's great you lost the weight and I know it feels great.
But you need to understand this is only temporary, you can't live on 500 calories a day, it's not healthy .
You will gain it back, the only sure way is a change of eating habits and exercise . I don't mean to sound like your accomplishment isn't a big deal it is, but the reality of it is, it isn't safe and eventually you will come to see this.

Good Luck

[WalnutHill]

Like I said, read the book. There is a whole maintenance plan. My sister in law has kept it off for 6 months eating a normal 2000 calorie diet.

[SassyAnn101]

A friend of mine has been on this diet for about six months and lost over 100 lbs. I think he said that he does a rotation now. I really do not know what that means, but he said that he feels better now than he has in years. His blood pressure and sugar levels have came down. He was stroke level before starting this diet. Good luck! You do look great!

[WalnutHill]

Originally Posted by SassyAnn101

A friend of mine has been on this diet for about six months and lost over 100 lbs. I think he said that he does a rotation now. I really do not know what that means, but he said that he feels better now than he has in years. His blood pressure and sugar levels have came down. He was stroke level before starting this diet. Good luck! You do look great!

Yeah, you can only do the hcg for 23 - 40 days, no less, no more, but somewhere in there. Then, you have to go on a maintenance phase and can't go on the hcg again for at least 6 weeks. I have heard of some people who do multiple rounds - 4 or even 6 times to lose their weight. I only have 25 - 30 pounds to lose, and I have lost 16, so I am almost to my goal! I don't think I'll have to do it again. My doctor friend did it 3 times I think to get down to his goal weight.

[Yorkiedaze]

Originally Posted by DerbyLayne

It's called "Eating Clean" and you can do it if you are a meat eater, as well.

Cut the crap, and get back to basic healthy eating.

Crap??? Well I am 68 years old, I've never been sick in my entire life, never the flu, or colds, never taken any kind of medications and never had any health problems at all! Hopefully you can say the same thing at my age.

[Bianca]

Originally Posted by WalnutHill

Like I said, read the book. There is a whole maintenance plan. My sister in law has kept it off for 6 months eating a normal 2000 calorie diet.

2000 is more realistic than 500. So anyway, I wish you much luck

[DerbyLayne]

Originally Posted by Yorkiedaze

Crap??? Well I am 68 years old, I've never been sick in my entire life, never the flu, or colds, never taken any kind of medications and never had any health problems at all! Hopefully you can say the same thing at my age.

I meant crap as in CRAP FOOD, and I didn't mean it towards you. I meant in general.

[Britster]

Originally Posted by Yorkiedaze

The best way to eat healthy and lose weight is to become a vegan or vegetarian. All healthy foods that take fat off and keep it off.

You most certainly DON'T need to be a vegan or vegetarian to be healthy.

I'm by no means at the weight I want to be at (I probably need to lose about 20lbs) but I don't believe being vegan makes ANY one healthier, in fact, I think quite the opposite. I believe we need meat. But that's a whole 'nother discussion.

PS - Walnut Hill-- congrats!!!

[DerbyLayne]

I'm sorry for this dude is promoting EATING DISORDERS.

I don't care how much weight you lost (congrats btw, but you could have done it other ways) this is NOt healthy habits/behaviour/way of life to lose weight.

The doctor is helping you lose weight by inducing FEAR into you.

It's very restrictive, let alone the 500 calorie diet.

No medicines or cosmetics other than lipstick, eyebrow pencil and powder may be used without special permission.

what the.... In this webpage claim that any contact to creams (including face creams, moisturizers for the skin etc) can affect your weight in a negative way simply because you TOUCHED it and ABSORBED it in your skin??

Way to make you fear getting "fat" because it is absorbed my merely touching something?

The most tiresome patients are those who start counting Calories and then come up with all manner of ingenious variations which they compile from their little books. When one has spent years of weary research trying to make a diet as attractive as possible without jeopardizing the loss of weight, culinary geniuses who are out to improve their unhappy lot are hard to take.

People want variety in their foods. This guy is feeding you a monotonous, anorexic diet. If he says you can eat 500 calories? then you should be able to eat 500 calories, not the anorexic-approved diet.

Some patients unwittingly take chewing gum, throat pastilles, vitamin pills, cough syrups etc., without realizing that the sugar or fats they contain may interfere with a regular loss of weight. Sex hormones or cortisone in its various modern forms must be avoided, though oral contraceptives are permitted. In fact the only self-medication we allow is aspirin for a headache, though headaches almost invariably disappear after a week of treatment, particularly if of the migraine type.

You can get sugar free medication, and if you're sick? You can't just sit there and starve yourself & not help yourself get well. Even if you're hollistic, you can take vitamins- and he won't even allow THAT!

Towards the end of a full course, when a good deal of fat has been rapidly lost, some patients complain that lifting a weight or climbing stairs requires a greater muscular effort than before. They feel neither breathlessness nor exhaustion but simply that their muscles have to work harder. This phenomenon, which disappears soon after the end of the treatment, is caused by the removal of abnormal fat deposited between, in, and around the muscles. The removal of this fat makes the muscles too long, and so in order to achieve a certain skeletal movement - say the bending of an arm - the muscles have to perform greater contraction than before. Within a short while the muscle adjusts itself perfectly to the new situation, but under HCG the loss of fat is so rapid that this adjustment cannot keep up with it. Patients often have to be reassured that this does not mean that they are “getting weak”. This phenomenon does not occur in patients who regularly take vigorous exercise and continue to do so during treatment.

Because it's NOT healthy!

In the course of treatment the possibility of such an attack (LOW BLOOD SUGAR) is explained to those patients who are in a phase in which a drop in blood sugar may occur. They are instructed to keep sugar or glucose sweets handy, particularly when driving a car.

Great so you risk having low blood sugar when you're not even diabetic? Awesome.

This rule is that they must have their own portable bathroom-scale always at hand,

Eating Disorder central. creating obsession about a number on a scale!

[quote]The moment the scale goes beyond two pounds, even if this is only a few ounces, they must on that same day entirely skip breakfast and lunch but take plenty to drink. In the evening they must eat a huge steak with only an apple or a raw tomato[/quote]


RED ALERT! RED ALERT!


You should never skip meals over 2 pounds.

[DerbyLayne]

I'm sorry for this dude is promoting EATING DISORDERS.

I don't care how much weight you lost (congrats btw, but you could have done it other ways) this is NOt healthy habits/behaviour/way of life to lose weight.

The doctor is helping you lose weight by inducing FEAR into you.

It's very restrictive, let alone the 500 calorie diet.

No medicines or cosmetics other than lipstick, eyebrow pencil and powder may be used without special permission.

what the.... In this webpage claim that any contact to creams (including face creams, moisturizers for the skin etc) can affect your weight in a negative way simply because you TOUCHED it and ABSORBED it in your skin??

Way to make you fear getting "fat" because it is absorbed my merely touching something?

The most tiresome patients are those who start counting Calories and then come up with all manner of ingenious variations which they compile from their little books. When one has spent years of weary research trying to make a diet as attractive as possible without jeopardizing the loss of weight, culinary geniuses who are out to improve their unhappy lot are hard to take.

People want variety in their foods. This guy is feeding you a monotonous, anorexic diet. If he says you can eat 500 calories? then you should be able to eat 500 calories, not the anorexic-approved diet.

Some patients unwittingly take chewing gum, throat pastilles, vitamin pills, cough syrups etc., without realizing that the sugar or fats they contain may interfere with a regular loss of weight. Sex hormones or cortisone in its various modern forms must be avoided, though oral contraceptives are permitted. In fact the only self-medication we allow is aspirin for a headache, though headaches almost invariably disappear after a week of treatment, particularly if of the migraine type.

You can get sugar free medication, and if you're sick? You can't just sit there and starve yourself & not help yourself get well. Even if you're hollistic, you can take vitamins- and he won't even allow THAT!

Towards the end of a full course, when a good deal of fat has been rapidly lost, some patients complain that lifting a weight or climbing stairs requires a greater muscular effort than before. They feel neither breathlessness nor exhaustion but simply that their muscles have to work harder. This phenomenon, which disappears soon after the end of the treatment, is caused by the removal of abnormal fat deposited between, in, and around the muscles. The removal of this fat makes the muscles too long, and so in order to achieve a certain skeletal movement - say the bending of an arm - the muscles have to perform greater contraction than before. Within a short while the muscle adjusts itself perfectly to the new situation, but under HCG the loss of fat is so rapid that this adjustment cannot keep up with it. Patients often have to be reassured that this does not mean that they are “getting weak”. This phenomenon does not occur in patients who regularly take vigorous exercise and continue to do so during treatment.

Because it's NOT healthy!

In the course of treatment the possibility of such an attack (LOW BLOOD SUGAR) is explained to those patients who are in a phase in which a drop in blood sugar may occur. They are instructed to keep sugar or glucose sweets handy, particularly when driving a car.

Great so you risk having low blood sugar when you're not even diabetic? Awesome.

This rule is that they must have their own portable bathroom-scale always at hand,

Eating Disorder central. creating obsession about a number on a scale!

[quote]The moment the scale goes beyond two pounds, even if this is only a few ounces, they must on that same day entirely skip breakfast and lunch but take plenty to drink. In the evening they must eat a huge steak with only an apple or a raw tomato[/quote]


RED ALERT! RED ALERT!


You should never skip meals over 2 pounds.

[DerbyLayne]

Sorry about the double post, it wouldn't let me edit it.

The patient at once begins to feel much more hungry and even weak. In spite of repeated warnings, some over-enthusiastic patients do not report this. However, in about two days the fact that they are being undernourished becomes visible in their faces, and treatment is then stopped at once. In such cases - and only in such cases - we allow a very slight increase in the diet, such as an extra apple, 150 grams of meat or two or three extra breadsticks during the three days of dieting after the last injection.

During treatment the patient has been only just above the verge of protein deficiency and has had the advantage of protein being fed back into his system from the breakdown of fatty tissue

As a general rule one can say that 60%-70% of our cases experience little or no difficulty in holding their weight permanently. Relapses may be due to negligence in the basic rule of daily weighing

I hate this guy, and I feel very sorry for those of you that feel that eating disorders are the way to lose weight.

Eating disorders are a VERY SERIOUS issue, and those that deal with it- would not like to see it promoted as a fad diet. It's an illness and it can kill you.

I would not be surprised if more people with eating disorders come out of this kind of "diet" plan.

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to do this diet.