The fact that HCG diets won’t make you starve, literally or figuratively, is a pretty big deal. A diet consisting of only a low-calorie meal plan—especially one in conjunction with lots of exercise—can actually cause you to lose muscle and bone before you lose fat. This does no good whatsoever.
A low-calorie diet used with HCG, on the other hand, will prevent your body from perceiving itself as being starved and beginning to compulsively hoard fat. HCG is a hormone that helps to regulate the storage of fat, so by taking supplements of it, you are basically providing your cells with a coach in the game of metabolism, a coach that instructs, “No, it’s okay: go ahead and use the fat as energy—you don’t have to save it.”
At the same time, while you’ve drastically cut back on the amount of food you’re eating in a day, you won’t feel desperately hungry because the message being sent to your brain is not one of starvation; your fat is being converted into energy to replace what you’re not eating. You might feel some minor hunger pains the first few days, but your body quickly begins to perceive your new portions as satisfactory.
Another reason for the body’s level of satisfaction with fewer calories is that you will be eating only nutritious food, full of vitamins and minerals. A sad fact of our world today is how many people are actually overweight and yet malnourished. Your body just can’t get the nutrition it needs from fast food. And even a lot of the vegetables you buy from the grocery store don’t have the nutritional value that they did even 50 years ago, because the soil they grow in has been depleted.
That’s another tangent, however, so let’s just take from that information the fact that it’s a good idea to take supplements of the necessary vitamins that you may not be able to get from even the right types of food, especially, with the HCG diet, vitamin B-12.
If you do all that, I promise you: you won’t starve with HCG!
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