People tend to think of obesity as a condition that is brought on by laziness; a lack of motivation to live a healthy lifestyle. But research suggests—and Dr. Simeons, who created the HCG diet, believed this—that obesity is actually a disease, a genetic predisposition of the body that can have little to do with lifestyle choices and that will continuously challenge the people who have it until they are too exhausted to fight it anymore. However, Dr. Simeons provided a reason to not despair: the HCG weight loss cure.
The HCG works differently from other diets because it actually resets body chemistry, thus altering bodily predispositions to process food in a detrimental way. Dr. Simeons cited examples of people who were statistically underweight but had specific bodily characteristics that showed them to be at risk for obesity. It was not that they were currently obese but that their bodies used and distributed their fat in such a way that would eventually, without intervention, lead to obesity.
The story of one woman in particular sticks with me. When Dr. Simeons, whose specialty was working with people who needed to lose weight, saw this woman sitting behind his desk, he nearly kicked her out of his office, because from the waist up, she appeared as emaciated as a skeleton. When she told him she was there because she wanted to lose weight, he was dumbfounded—until she stood up.
From the waist up, the woman was skeletal; from the waist down, she was gigantic. In her efforts up until then to lose weight, her fat had simply redistributed itself to the lower part of her body.
Dr. Simeons put her on the HCG diet. A couple of months later, she had filled out from the waist up and was proportionate from the waist down.
In her case, it wasn’t about laziness or an inability to diet; it was about the need to retrain her body’s metabolic processes. I would hazard a guess that this is the case for the majority of people who suffer from obesity or potential obesity; if you think it might be the case for you, please look into the HCG diet—it could be your cure, too.
