It’s probably more accurate, when talking about the HCG diet plan, to refer to “HCG fat loss” rather than “HCG weight loss.” Don’t get me wrong, you’ll definitely lose weight—but it’s all about what kind of weight you lose. Not all weight is bad—muscle and bone, for example. HCG is about making you lose the not-good kind: the fat.
The specific concept behind the HCG diet plan as developed 50 years ago by Dr. Simeons is retraining your metabolism to burn fat rather than storing it. Your body decides to store fat for several reasons. One might be that you don’t snack between meals.
Wait—but snacking is bad, right? No, not if you have healthy, reasonable snacks in between healthy, reasonable, and smaller meals. Starving yourself between meals only signals to your body that it needs to store up the fat consumed at meals to dole out in those in-between times when it’s so hungry and you won’t feed it. This actually slows down your metabolism in the long run.
Also, in the event that you aren’t getting enough calories in your meals for energy, your body will store whatever fat it can, because as a stored energy source, fat keeps the best—and then start to burn muscle and bone for energy. You’ll lose weight, sure—but at what cost? Weak, depleted muscles and thin, easily broken bones? All the better to support all that fat?
The HCG plan, when executed properly, ensures that your body burns fat, keeps muscle and bone, and is set on a new metabolic course of action. At the same time, on the conscious level, it ensures that your mind learns what foods to eat and when by providing instruction in those matters.
With HCG, the mind-body connection will never have been better; your mind will know what to eat, and your body will know exactly how to use it to best benefit your whole self.
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