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HCG Dieting And Dessert…Can The Two Go Hand In Hand?

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

On a 500 calorie diet? That’s definitely what they call a very low calorie diet (VLCD). Do you love dessert? Don’t think you can’t still feed that sweet tooth.

But there are tools out there to make sure dieters and potential dieters get the tips they need to navigate the diet. That includes potential dieters that are wary of depriving themselves of sweets. Following the diet protocol exactly can leave dieters feeling satisfied. It’s just very important to take advantage of every tool.

To prove that dessert is possible while on the HCG diet…check out a few treats outlined in the HCG Diet Direct cookbook:

Strawberry Shortcake, 1 serving

The ingredients listed are: 2 drops of Stevia (vanilla creme is best), sliced strawberries, and plain Melba Toast

Instructions: take the melba toast and add one drop of stevia. Slice up a few strawberries and place them along the toast in a layer. Then add one more drop of stevia. And you’re finished. Don’t form an opinion until you’ve tried it.

Strawberries and Cream, 1 serving

Ingredients: strawberries, 1 tablespoon milk, 2-4 drops of vanilla creme stevia, 1 packet of dry stevia

How to make it: Slice the strawberries. Place the strawberries in a bowl. Add 1 tablespoon of milk and both the Vanilla Creme Stevia and dry Stevia. Toss the ingredients together and serve the dessert.

The Strawberry and Orange Smoothie recipe serves one

You’ll need to have 1/2 and orange (1/3 cup orange juice as a substitute if necessary), 1 cup strawberries (fresh is always best, but frozen is fine), 3/4 cup crushed ice, 1/2 dropper any flavor Stevia (or you can use dry Stevia), you can also add a handful of frozen spinach.

How to make it: Put all the ingredients in the blender together and turn it on until it’s smooth. Pour and serve immediately.

Looking into the homeopathic HCG diet can leave potential dieters feeling wary of the lack of sugar and fat. But after trying a few of the dessert/treat recipes most will change their mind. It’s not nearly as difficult as many potential dieters make it out to be.

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Having a Hard Time with HCG?

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Any low calorie diet is hard, but the very low calorie diet as required by the homeopathic HCG diet is more than hard. And on top of the actual dieting requirements homeopathic HCG dieters are required to follow the oral HCG drop rules (3x daily with no food or drink 15 minutes before or after). And that’s still not all! Dieters are also expected to stick to a very short list of approved foods while on the diet.

That’s really asking a lot. Considering how tough the diet is…it surprises many that the majority of dieters are successful in completing the diet. Why are so many successful when the diet is so tough?

There are countless success stories because the diet results in drastic weight loss. Weight begins to drop off in the very first week of dieting in most cases. The weight loss keeps almost all dieters from veering off plan. They see the weight coming off and they’re so excited about the drastic weight loss that they are able to stick to the requirements.

But no one can deny that the diet is tough and has really, really difficult moments. Some dieters have made note that they tend to have difficult moments in certain locations.

1. At home. Sometimes dieters find that they have the hardest time in their own environments. This isn’t that surprising considering that most of us do a majority of our eating in our own homes. And most of us have developed a large number of our bad eating habits in our own home. Our own homes (and our own pantries) typically carry the most tempting food items when we are attempting to diet. Fix it by getting rid of items that you can’t have. Your family can eat healthy for a month or two.

2. At work: Many dieters note that they don’t know what to do with themselves at work because their normal procedure is to eat. For instance, one dieter noted that they worked in a call center and it drove them crazy to realize that all the employees sat and snacked ALL DAY long every day. Once on the diet there is not freebie snacking…ever. This is something that will just have to become a habit.

3. Parties/Social Settings. These are tough for most dieters. You can’t be sure what’s going to be served. There are a few options. Dieters can eat before attending a party and then stick to water. Or dieters can not eat before they go and then stick to approved foods that they find at the party (raw veggies and/or small amounts of grilled steak).

Regardless of where the hard times occur; the easiest way to make it through is to remember that the weight loss or gain of the next morning’s weigh in will depend upon the decisions being made in the moment. It’s a very successful distraction on homeopathic HCG because dieters typically see weight loss everyday if they are sticking to the rules. And when they don’t stick to the rules…they might not get the weight loss they want.

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Basic Shopping Tips For The Homeopathic HCG Diet

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Taking on the homeopathic diet can be scary. It’s a very low calorie diet (500 calories per day). That’s a severe limit. Dieters who have never been on a very low calorie diet before have a hard time actually imaging the strict nature of the caloric limit.

The strict nature of the diet makes any tips or tools even more vital. Experts suggest that dieters recognize the merits of the tools and tips that are offered by reputable outlets. Sticking to the rules exactly maximizes weight loss result. One very helpful tool is the homeopathic HCG shopping list.

HCG Diet Direct provides very helpful shopping lists. For instance, try the HCG Diet Direct’s health food store shopping list:

-Herbal tea, Stash brand, pomegranate, raspberry and mangosteen are all very good flavors.

-Liquid Stevia (popular flavors are plain, vanilla creme, apricot nectar and orange).

-Daily Multi-vitamin. Everyone should take a daily multi-vitamin, but dieters should take even more notice of the benefits.

-B6 or B12 B complex

-na-pca moisturizer spray (lotion is not allowed on the homeopathic HCG diet; the spray replaces it).

-Unfiltered apple cider vinegar (it’s very handy during the homeopathic HCG diet to make sauces, etc.)

-Sea salt. Sea salt has a more distinct flavor and enables dieters to use less salt without severely limiting the flavor.

The shopping list above is strictly for the health food store. There are additional lists to be used for the traditional grocery store. And when you’re on a 500 calorie diet it’s important to use everything you’ve got access to in order to make it as easy on yourself as possible.

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What About Eggs?

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Using the low calorie diet successfully is tough. But the homeopathic HCG weight loss program manages to do it successfully; it’s one of the few that does. In this particular instance low calorie diet means 500 calories per day. Very low calorie diets tend to lead to disaster when not handled correctly. But in combination with the homeopathic HCG weight loss formula and proper diet guidance, dieters average 1 to 2 pounds of weight loss per day throughout the length of the diet.

The reason the homeopathic HCG diet offers such amazing results is in the nature of the weight loss formula. But that alone isn’t enough. Success is also dependent upon the diet itself. The list of approved foods is very short. There are certain vegetables that are approved. There are certain proteins that are approved. And there are certain fruits that are approved. And there are only two starches that are approved.

Many say that the list of approved foods is too short and unnecessarily demanding. But it was created for a reason. Every item that is approved has specific qualities that make them eligible for the list. Every food not on the list does not make the list for a reason. The list is there to ensure that weight loss success is maximized for each and every dieter.

One major fallout that many dieters have with the homeopathic HCG diet’s approved food list is the lack of eggs. Eggs seem like an appropriate protein while dieting, right? But they’re not on the list.

Program coordinators continue to hear the question, “What about eggs?” And they continue to give the same response, “Look at your list of approved proteins. There are no eggs on it. That means eggs are not an approved protein.”

There are, of course, those dieters who take it upon themselves to alter the dieting rules. They might add in a vegetable here or a fruit there that isn’t on the approved food list. And they might still lose weight. But the list of approved foods is there to maximize weight loss so adjusting your eating off plan only means that you could have lost more. And if you’re working hard to stick to the diet you might as well actually STICK to the diet!

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Why Muscle Mass Is Preserved on the HCG Diet

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Picture anyone starving and you have pictured the effects of an extremely low calorie diet. These images give one a good idea of how a 500-calorie-a-day diet affects the human body. Knowing that, why would anyone in their right mind purposely restrict his or herself to such low levels called for by the HCG diet?

If you know anything about how HCG works, you understand that such a low calorie diet is necessary. But you also know that the presence of this remarkable hormone prevents one from wasting away, preserving muscle mass and good health despite the starvation level of calories.

Not only that but those who follow Dr. Simeons’ protocols carefully, normally feel very little in the way of hunger or deprivation.

Dr. Simeons’ Research and What It Revealed

Dr. Albert T.W. Simeons was an endocrinologist. This is the branch of medicine that deals with the system of “ductless” glands that among other functions produce hormones, proteins that are involved with intercellular communications and therefore control many of our physiological processes.

The primary function of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or HCG, is to protect the developing fetus during gestation. It accomplishes this in two ways:

(1) HCG prevents the mother’s body from stealing nutrients or feeding off the fetus
(2) it suppresses the mother’s immune system, preventing rejection

The second possibility stems from the fact that that the presence of the father’s DNA could trigger an immune response from the mother.

In pregnant women, the hormone plays a large part in maintaining the health of the fetus. While working in India during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Simeons determined that HCG helped prevent the mother’s system from robbing the fetus of nutrients in the event she was experiencing starvation.

While studying thyroid patients in India during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Simeons found that treatment with HCG injections could actually result in weight loss in these patients. He then came to some startling conclusions about the nature of obesity and fat.

The Real Causes

Dr. Simeons finally realized that there is no one single cause of obesity; rather, excess fat is the result of a number of different factors, all of which were related to genetics and evolutionary tendencies as well as the impact of agriculture on the human diet.

Agriculture changed the human diet in two ways: it introduced new foods into the human diet that had not been available previously, and the labor demands of the farm forced humans into new, unnatural patterns of eating. In the first place, humans began eating grains, legumes and dairy products that would not have been available in nature. In the second, humans were forced to abandon their earlier pattern of nibbling small amounts over the course of a day and take in large amounts at set times.

HCG, when combined with a low calorie diet, resets and restores metabolic balance, which in turn causes unwanted pounds to disappear almost effortlessly. To learn more about the physiological mechanisms involved, use the search function to find articles and posts on how HCG works with your own body’s natural tendencies instead of fighting them.

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How The HCG Treatment Resets Your Metabolism

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey) was a contemporary of Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, though it is doubtful that the two men ever met or even knew of each other. Nonetheless, Clarke might have been talking about the HCG treatment when he said, “Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.”

Although it may seem to be magic (dropping one to two pounds a day can certainly seem miraculous), Dr. Simeons’ weight loss method is based on solid science.

Origins of HCG

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG for short) is a natural by-product of gestation. It is secreted by the fetus during its development and protects the fetus in two ways:

should the mother be undernourished, it prevents her system from leeching nutrients

it prevents the mother’s immune system from mistaking the father’s DNA for a “foreign” pathogen (like a transplanted organ)

Dr. Simeons used the hormone on patients who were morbidly obese due to a dysfunctional thyroid. He discovered that small amounts of this hormone could actually cause weight loss.

How It Works

To one’s bodily systems, which are controlled by the brain but have no consciousness of their own, there is no difference between a deliberate reduction in calories through a low-calorie diet and a genuine famine caused by external factors (such as drought or pestilence). In either case, these systems will adjust themselves in such a way as to conserve fat reserves.

This is all very well and good in a state of nature, but it makes most forms of dieting exceptionally difficult. The mechanism by which bodily systems and their function are fueled is controlled by a small gland in our brains, called the hypothalamus. It is like a combination fuel switch and throttle. It determines which fuel sources are used and the rate at which these are utilized.

So, imagine you are driving a car with two reserve fuel tanks – one which holds lubricating oil and the other jellied gasoline. You are out in the desert and the primary tank is almost empty. You can run the motor on lubricating oil for awhile, but it won’t run very well, and that oil is really needed to protect the engine components. The jellied gasoline is extremely volatile – but because it is in jelled form, the fuel injectors cannot use it. Therefore, the fuel switch automatically goes to the oil tank, then cuts way back on the accelerator so that the car is barely moving.

This is essentially what happens in your body on a low-calorie diet. The fat deposits (adipose) are like jellied gasoline – they are rich in energy, but in a form that the body cannot readily use.

What HCG does is: (A) breaks up these adipose deposits, turning them into a liquid that the body can burn, and (B) reprograms the hypothalamus to access the adipose first rather than turning to muscle tissue and viscera.

The result is that normal metabolism is maintained, even when calories are in short supply.

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HCG Diets: The History and Science

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

HCG Diets have been much in the news in recent years, but in fact, they have been around since the 1950s, when endocrinologist and HCG weight loss pioneer Dr. A.T.W. Simeons began publishing his startling research on the nature of obesity.

The Making of an Endocrinologist

Dr. Simeons was a graduate of the University of Heidelberg Medical School in the 1920s. He chose endocrinology as his specialty, which in turn led to a fascination with tropical diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and leprosy.

Simeons spent several years working at a hospital in Hamburg where the diagnosis and treatment of such diseases were the focus. In 1928, Simeons went to central Africa in order to study these diseases in their own environment. Following this, he accepted a post in India, where he spent most of the next two decades.

During his time working in a Mumbai hospital, Dr. Simeons was able to do intensive research into the effects of undernourishment on pregnant women as well as patients who because of a defective thyroid gland had gained a great deal of weight. While these might not seem to have any connection, Dr. Simeons came to two startling conclusions:

The primary function of HCG was to protect the fetus, preventing the starving mother’s system from leeching nutrients

Administering low doses of this hormone to morbidly obese patients caused them to actually lose their excess fat.

Dr. Simeons believed that this excess fat, known as adipose, was a kind of “fuel reserve” that was locked up in a usable form should the person experience a “nutritional emergency.” What happens instead, he wrote in 1954, “is that someone suffering from obesity who attempts weight loss through a low calorie diet will first lose lean muscle tissue, followed by protective visceral fat.” That “…only as a last resort will the Body yield its abnormal reserves,” adding that “by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned.”

This is the tragedy of those who repeatedly attempt low calorie diets that invariably fail

The Role of HCG

Dr. Simeons concluded that when HCG is reintroduced into the adult system, it recalibrates the hypothalamus gland – the part of the brain than regulates metabolic processes. It helps to unlock adipose deposits, making them available as a fuel source when calories are not otherwise available – as when eating a low calorie diet.

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With HCG, Dr. Simeons’ Diet Preserves Muscle Mass

Friday, February 5th, 2010

You have probably heard about major concerns regarding HCG, Dr. Simeons’ diet and health. This low calorie diet allows you to eat no more than 500 calories a day, which is risky at best After all, most humans in normal health require at least 1,500 calories a day, and some require as much as 2,000-2,500. Under normal circumstances, someone attempting weight loss by restricting themselves to such a low calorie diet would waste away, losing muscle mass before they would burn fat.

This does not happen on the HCG program however. The key lies in how HCG changes your metabolic processes, forcing your body to burn excess fat from the beginning instead of muscle tissue.

It’s Unnatural

Contrary to popular judgmental wisdom, fat is not about laziness or lack of “will power.”

In fact, virtually nobody chooses to be fat, any more than they choose to be white or black, gay or straight, short or tall. According to Dr. Simeons’ research, obesity is the result of many complex variables. Some of these are genetic in nature; others are due to the modern lifestyle, including food choices and eating patterns imposed upon us by agriculture.

For example, did you know that hunting-gathering peoples do not normally eat grains and legumes or dairy products? These are plants that normally must be cultivated. For the first 90,000 years or so, they did not exist in the human diet. Like their simian relatives (chimpanzees and gorillas), Stone Age humans ate tree fruit, wild root vegetables, eggs and meat. The human digestive system was simply not designed for many agricultural products we take for granted today.

This said, there is archaeological evidence to suggest that larger women were considered desirable in later Stone Age cultures. This is still true in many parts of Africa and Polynesia. Such women are viewed as more fertile and able to bear strong offspring. Such genetic traits would naturally be passed on to children.

Finally, there is the subject of eating patterns. In nature, all primates (including humans) are browsers who nibble on small amounts of food over the course of the day. This kind of eating is not possible in an agricultural society due to the intensive labor demands. Humans were forced to eat occasional meals at set times, ingesting more calories that they required for immediate metabolic needs. Those extra calories wind up being stored around the abdomen and on the hips as adipose.

HCG Unlocks The Energy

Adipose is a rich source of energy and nutrients, much like whale blubber that sustains Inuit people in Arctic regions. However, adipose is not readily available to humans as an energy source when calories are reduced. This is why humans normally “waste away” on a low calorie diet. With HCG, Dr. Simeons’ diet makes adipose readily available for metabolism by reprogramming the hypothalamus. On the HCG program, when you restrict yourself to Dr. Simeons’ low calorie diet, the hypothalamus obtains the extra calories from adipose, not lean muscle tissue. It’s that simple!

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Keep Muscle Mass While Losing Fat With the HCG Diet Plan

Friday, February 5th, 2010

The HCG diet plan is a vast improvement over other kinds of low calorie diet plans. Why should this be? The primary reason is that under Dr. Simeons’ protocols using HCG, you hold on to your lean muscle tissue and protective visceral fat while getting rid of the unsightly excess fat deposits around the belly and hips – an unnatural and normally difficult to get rid of form of fat known as adipose.

The secret lies in how HCG works.

Where Adipose Comes From

Dr. A.T.W. Simeons came to the conclusion that adipose was an unnatural phenomenon that was due largely to a combination of genetics and the dramatic change that agriculture brought to the natural human lifestyle. Adipose deposits are the result of three major causes:

evolution (as a survival mechanism)
genetics (a trait passed on from parent to offspring)
agriculture (eating patterns and new foods)

Let’s take a look at these one at a time.

Darwin Had a Point

While it may seem counter-intuitive that Nature would come up with a survival technique that ultimately undermines our health, keep in mind that Nature does not always select the best solution. She will go with virtually any solution.

When early proto-humans and apes went their separate ways some 4-8 million years ago, this split was largely due to geologic events that cut them off from the rainforest and confined them to a hot, dry savannah where food sources were unreliable. The humans most likely to survive were those who could store life-giving fat against lean times.

Big Girls Rule, Skinny Chicks Drool

If prehistoric statues of full-breasted, large hipped women are any indication, it is likely that fat women were considered desirable mates during the Stone Age. This is still true in many parts of Africa and the South Pacific islands. When such women are preferred mates, guess what happens with their children and grandchildren?

New Foods, New Demands

Agriculture is a relatively recent phenomenon – and it not only introduced many new foods into the human diet, it changed our normal eating patterns. It forced us to “chow down” at widely-spaced intervals, instead of nibbling as we needed to.

The body has to do something with those excess calories.

Here at this site, you’ll learn much more about how Dr. Simeons’ protocols and how the HCG diet plan can help you lose weight while keeping muscle mass.

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Why You Don’t Lose Muscle Mass on the Low Calorie HCG Diet

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Normally, on a 500 calorie diet, the human body begins to waste away. Generally, the body needs 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day to survive. Otherwise, malnutrition sets in. However, this does not happen on the HCG diet, even though Dr. Simeons’ protocols require a diet of only 500 calories a day – starvation under normal circumstance. The fact that people on HCG remain healthy and active and feel very little deprivation (if any) has to do with how HCG works.

What Dr. Simeons Learned

A.T.W. Simeons was a medical researcher of the early 20th Century. His specialty was endocrinology, the sub-field of medicine that deals with the body’s “ductless” glands that secrete a wide variety of hormones. In case you have forgotten your high school biology, hormones are biochemical substances that regulate a large number of metabolic processes.

In pregnant women, the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or HCG, plays a large part in maintaining the health of the fetus. While working in India during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Simeons determined that HCG helped prevent the mother’s system from robbing the fetus of nutrients in the event she was experiencing starvation.

Dr. Simeons also studied patients who suffered from morbid obesity due to pituitary gland dysfunction. Interestingly, these patients did not necessarily overeat, but when Dr. Simeons began treating them with HCG, they began to experience weight loss. This led to some very interesting conclusions about the nature of obesity and weight loss.

Why We Get Fat

Dr. Simeons realized that obesity was not due to any one cause, but a number of complex variables, all of which were related to genetics and the changes wrought by the introduction of agriculture – which changed our natural diet and eating patterns dramatically.

Because of these variables, combined with certain evolutionary tendencies, humans have developed the trait of storing excess fat, known as adipose, around their abdominal regions (in men) and hips and thighs (in women). Adipose is a form of fat that contains many nutrients and high caloric content – but is literally “locked up” in a form that cannot be readily utilized. On a normal low calorie diet, the body first starts to cannibalize itself by feeding on muscle mass. Once that has gone, it turns to fat deposits that we need – the fat that surrounds our internal organs, providing lubrication and protection. Only then will it start to use adipose to maintain life processes.

The HCG Diet To The Rescue

HCG, taken in conjunction with Dr. Simeons’ protocols, causes weight loss to happen quickly and naturally by reversing this process. The gland in our brains, known as the hypothalamus, gets “reprogrammed” when HCG is replaced in our bodies; instead of starting off with muscle tissue, it is forced to unlock the calories stored in adipose first. This is how good health is maintained while eating a very low calorie diet and taking HCG.

How The HCG Diet Can Help You

You’ll find a wealth of material here on this site about HCG, Dr. Simeons’ protocols and how these can help you in achieving your weight-loss goals.

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*Disclaimer: HCG Diet Direct is a distribution company only and offers no medical advice. We are not and do not profess to be medical licensed doctors or medical professionals. Advice offered on this website is merely the recommendations of 3rd party professionals. This diet is solely based off Dr. A.T.W. Simeons original protocol called “Pounds and Inches”. All products offered on www.hcgdietdirect.com are from certified 3rd party manufactures and are not manufactured by HCG Diet Direct. The Phrase "lose 26 pounds in 26 days" is only a likely and common result when sticking strictly to the instructions and Dr. A.T.W. Simeons’ protocol, average weight lose is from a half a pound to one pound a day. Even though our lab is FDA certified, the FDA does not recognize HCG as a weight loss drug, therefore it has not been established as a weight loss drug or supplement. Currently there are no known or defined side effects to homeopathic remedies and medicines but as with any diet we recommend that you consult with a doctor before starting this diet. If you have any swelling, shortness of breath, dizziness or heavy redness consult a doctor or medical professional immediately. The products and claims contained on this website have not been evaluated by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.