The HCG diet plan is based on science, not magic – and HCG itself is not a “magic bullet.” The hormone is only part of the overall HCG treatment, which requires that Dr. Simeons’ protocols be followed closely. Otherwise, you are not likely to get the kind of results you want.
We’ll begin with an explanation of how HCG works during the diet itself.
HCG, Fat and Your Metabolism
If you have ever tried “regular” diets, you know the routine. The moment you reduce your calories, your body responds by slowing down your metabolic rate. You exercise strenuously, cut down on your food even more, and the stubborn pounds refuse to come off. Instead of getting stronger, you become weaker as your body starts feeding on muscle mass instead of the fat you’re trying to burn off.
After a few weeks of this, you throw your hands up and walk away from it.
The problem is, you are fighting your own biological tendencies. The fat you are trying to get rid of is not ordinary fat. It has a special biochemical makeup that makes it an ideal reserve fuel – after everything else has been used up. Otherwise, it is virtually inaccessible. In many ways, it’s similar to gasoline that has solidified. Highly volatile, but useless as a motor fuel.
In addition, your body is programmed to conserve energy when there are fuel shortages (as in times of famine). It will do this by slowing down your metabolic rate, making it even more difficult to burn fat.
The HCG Difference
Adding HCG to a low calorie diet changes the equation – first by turning that stubborn fat (technically known as adipose) into a form that is more readily burned, and second by revving up the metabolism so that these fat reserves actually get used. However, this only works when the right protocols are followed.
Before starting in on the HCG diet plan, it’s important to gain some metabolic momentum. For this reason, you are to chow down on as much high-fat food as you can possibly consume for two days before you begin. This is what gets your metabolic rate up and going.
Next, you are going to drop your food intake to starvation levels of weight loss a day. In addition, you will avoid fat in every form, including certain soaps and skin moisturizers. The reason is that the body needs fat and will obtain it from the most accessible source. You are going to limit your body’s choices to your adipose deposits.
It is true that nobody can possible survive for long on a mere weight loss a day – and the deficit is going to have to be made up somehow. Since the normal human body requires between 1,800 and 2,weight loss a day for basic needs and you will only be furnishing 500 of those calories, virtually none of which is from fat, you’ll be burning between 1,300 and 2,000 calories a day. This translates into a pound or more a day.
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