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Is there any way this hcg can be legit? My dad takes hcg for his hormone replacement therapy but he has a has a prescription. I wonder what people are really shooting into their stomachs?
So these stores with posterboards in their Windows that say hcg diet is here! Is actually legit? Awesome! Guess I won't be using the board sponsors to get hcg anymore
Have you actually looked into the diet? It's not the HCG that does anything, it's the diet. They put you on a PSMF, protein sparing modified fast. Basically 600-800 calories per day. That's it, that's how people lose 20-30lbs in a month. It has nothing to do with HCG, they attach HCG to the diet to give it some type of medical mystique and make people think it's the HCG letting them lose the weight when in reality it's the ultra low calorie diet.
Total scam diet saying it's the HCG. Yeah it works but you don't need the HCG for it.
Once you check into prices you may change your mind
And where do you think these "clinics" or shops get it? Id say they order it.
Correct...I have a female friend doing this HCG diet and she said she can only take in 500 calories a day, no alcohol, no exercise and the program is for a couple months for a couple hundreds of dollars (don't remember the cost, it was around $400-$500). I almost fell over when she told me this.
Mostly, I agree with you, but HCG could also prevent the lowered testosterone production inherent with VLC diets. Not saying that this effect would necessarily be significant enough to show a further result than diet alone, but there's potential for study I suppose. Recall looking into this before and there were a handful of studies on each side of the debate.
The main thing the HCG does at 125-175IUs ED is heighten the leptin response. So basically you're starving and don't feel it.
I've put a couple of dozen women on it. And have enjoyed an excellent success rate. The diet, if done properly, is legit. The problem is not that the diet doesn't get the weight off. It's that it doesn't address the issue of how to keep it off. So you have to be careful to work on increasing LBM post diet instead of focusing on cardio to keep the weight off. Or it turns into 'just another yo-yo diet'.