HCG Diet...a GO or a NO Go?

Yesterday I asked on FB.... who done the HCG diet? Did you do shots or drops? Do you think it a scam or did you have success? I mean 500 calories a day REALLY?? OK peeps, let me have it. 

Here is some of the post I received on this issue. Note at the bottom I have posted the research I found on the diet and my opinion as to why I will or will not be doing the program.  




Person 1: 


I did it. I lost 35lbs and a ton of inches in 3 rounds of drops. I was really good in the first round and lost 21lbs and the other two rounds my heart was not in it and only lost 10 to 12 lbs. It worked for me . The only real down side I see is the hair loss. Not sure why but if your afraid of losing some hair don't do it.

Person 2:

I have heard good testimonies about HCG but when I asked my doctor he told me that 500 calories a day is not enough to support healthy brain function. Yes you will lose weight but he considered it not safe outside of a medically supervised plan.

Person 3:

I did hcg.... You MUST do it through a dr. Loved it lost it got side tracked.... I wasn't hungry but since I did it one round I was able to reprogram my body and now I am loosing weight with weight watchers However before hcg I couldn't loose weight for nothing!!!!! My mom and a friend did it through my holistic dr and my mom is as skinny as she was in HS ... It resets and blended your system... However my dr naked you read the book two times before you do it. WW NEVER worked for me until now... I don't know if it is because of the new system or because I did one round of HCG and it reset... Either way I did the math ...6 weeks on hcg then 6 weeks off I lost 25 in the first six weeks.... On WW I lost 5 the first week and 1 the next then 2 the third.... By the end of 12 weeks I will have lost the same ( more or less) with WW compared to hcg.... Also just love the WW app and it is 3 months for 53 dollars can't beat it!!!!

Person 4:

I know several people that have done this. They All lost weight. From my biological background (I have taught A&P and Human Nutrition for years), this is Not safe. As stated before, it's not enough to support healthy brain function. 1000 cals are required, and that is why they eat that on BL. If you do it, Jeanette is right, Read the book first! There are Many dos and don'ts. You Will lose weight. On 500 cals a day, who wouldn't!?

Person 5:

Hey Girl!! I gained a lot of weight between '06-'07, and regular diet and excersise was barely helping me. I lost 30 lbs 2 years ago on the HCG diet! And lost another 7 lbs a year ago in another wave. The more weight you have to lose the... easier it is to lose it quickly on the HCG. I did the original 30 lbs loss in waves. With drops & then shots It toned me up too. Even after the holiday weight gain, 2 years later, I am only 2 lbs more than what I was when I originally lost the 30. You have to be disciplined. I recommend it to anyone whom is healthy enough to do it and does it under doctor supervision.

Here is what Wikipedia had to say about Hcg the hormone......  


Controversy about and shortages[19] of injected hCG for weight loss have led to substantial internet promotion of "homeopathic hCG" for weight control. The ingredients in these products are often obscure, but if prepared from true hCG via homeopathic dilution, they contain either no hCG at all or only trace amounts. Proponents of homeopathic HCG claim the solution bears the "energetic imprint" of HCG. There is no scientific evidence that this "energetic imprint" exists or that homeopathic hCG has any effect. According to Dr Dennis Clark at Diets In Review, "Homeopathic HCG does not fit the classical criteria for a homeopathic treatment. Published results are all based on testimonials. No scientific research has been published on homeopathic HCG in any of the homeopathic or mainstream medical research journals."[20]
On January 24, 2011 the FDA deemed this drug fraudulent and ineffective for weight loss. It is also not protected as a homeopathic drug and has been deemed an illegal substance.

Needless to say there is one truth here to be sceen from my questions here adn around. I have not heard of anyone who needs to loose more then 40lbs be successful. One your body starts to build immunities to the hcg. Two, the diet restriction of 500 calories for 4 weeks is just not real life and too hard to follow and live a real life.
 A for me, until I see significant changes to the protocol of the diet and where they get the hormone.....this diet choice is a BIG NO GO!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 8 of the Fast Food in a year.

Well I decided to change up my plan a bit. I did my first test on the Fast Food in air tight containers to see what would grow or change. Shocked at how much mold was on the fries but very little change in any of the burgers. There was NO mold on the Chick-fil-a fries..hmmmm? And almost NO mold on the KFC chicken leg...ewww! And absolutely zero effect on the string cheese...yuck! And worst of all... NOT ONE bun had mold...I have no words...heehee.  Check out the mold on the Sonic tater tots man oh man. Catchup anyone? :)
So now to put a spin on the food experiment. We are going to watch what happens to these same kinds of food in open air. I fully expect these to stay more preserved and have little to NO mold. But we will see.

Here is to educated health. Be blessed, Tage

Amazed at my vast knowledge but lack of use...lol

It is 1-11-11 on our calander today. This could be called the ultimate day to start at diet with all those first..lol

I catch myself staring at facebook reading everyone's post about what they are doing for weightloss and wonder, just how many will actually accomplish their goal, how many will truly stick with it. What is the best diet to go on, what is the easiest for most? I wonder what the percentage is of the US that actually decided to change and actually changes FOR LIFE! I know they say that only 1% of the WORLD ever completes a marathon. That is amazing to me. 1% wow. So what is the percentage of the actual human race that is fat and overweight and decides to get well and actually DOES IT!

Kinda crazy how many diet options are out there adn how totally conflicting they can be against one another. You have basic eat right and work out/fuel in- fuel out.
You have low carb
You have points/calorie counting
You have the Belly Fat Cure (low sugar/high complex carb)
You have all raw
You have Juice everything
You have prepackaged Meals
You have meals brought to your door (for a small fortune)
You have the SCARY HCG pregnancy hormone injection/drops starvation diet
and so on and so on......

How cool would it be to run some test on your body and answer some questions to find out which way of eating is BEST  for YOUR body? We know to avoid chemicals and tainted water. We know red meat is the hardest thing to digest for the human body(takes 2 days). We know some fats our bodys need. We know that our veggies are tainted with chemicals and have almost zero enzymes so our gut is on over load/overworked and everyone has acid reflux or constipation.

So her would be MY bodys diagnosis:
0+ blood type....Atkins/Eat Right for Your Blood Type
In need of major hormone overhaul......Dr. Burg Hormone Diet
With a liver who is over stressed....Dr. Burg Liver Enhancer/Dr. Colbert Liver Detox program
Candida to kill.....Body Ecology Diet/Dr. Colbert Anti-Candida Diet
Stressed and over strung emotional state....Aggressive exercise
NOW TO JUST SET UP A PLAN AND WALK IT OUT...heehee!

Amazing how much I know and yet I do not follow it. I would love to help others figure out this kind of stuff. Get symptoms and help come up with a plan then motivate to follow through. What a great life that would be. I have over 17 yrs of knowledge and reading and some trial and error in health and weightloss and diet. Crazy really how much I know.  I will even be taking a class on HCG from a homeopathic Dr. on Jan 28th, 2011 so that will be interesting. I look forward to posting ALL the info here and sharing my option...not that I ever dont tell it how it is.

Well here is to another day of processing and zero action...I dont suggest this long term..heehee!

How and Why am I a fat person.

Today I sit here 38 days away from my 38th birthday. I am in a strange place because I am waiting on the Lord to direct me to what I need and should do for my health and weight this year. This is a VERY BIG DEAL and here is why.

Two years ago I was once again depressed and fretting over how fat and unhealthy I was. And how I dont eat like a fat obese person but yet I am huge. While walking in my room I just decided to pick up an OLD journal. I journal everything and have consistently since i was 18. So this day I open one of these journals and on the page it has.." today I weight ___ and by this day I want to weight____. I am going to eat __,__,___ for the next ___ days." So I flipped two or three pages ahead and I see...." I failed already. I ate sugar today and I have not lost anything."  Then I skip a year in my book and what do I see..." Today I weigh ___ and by this day I want to weigh_____. I spent time with the Lord and He told me to eat______ for the next ___ days." I flip a few pages and what does it say..."I could not keep on my diet. I had soda and pop corn. I failed again!!!" So I decided to go get my very first diary and look back to see when it started. I was beside myself. On the second page it started. Here is what it said...."Monday 12/31/1984 (new years eve). It is the last day for me to eat sweats." WHAT? I am like 12 and I think I am going to stop eating sweets for my life? Sad. Fast forward five years 2/25/1990 it says.."I am still fat"....and so on and so on. So, in 2008 after reading yrs of journals full of this sadness I had had it. I did not want my kids to read yrs of books to only find out I was obsessed with myself, food, diets and weight. I mean year after year it was some kind of new "DIET" I just "KNEW" I was supposed to be on, all to find 3 pages later I could not stick to it. I was crushed. Totally crushed because my purpose in keeping a journal is so if something ever happens to me my children and family can read about me and my life. I wanted them to see my walk with the Lord and my growth in Him and the things I have accomplished. Instead all my kids will read about is how obsessed i was about being fat and my looks..........THAT WAS NOT OK!
I was DONE! So I told the Lord that day I will no longer have a regiment or diet plan. No longer will I ever write about my plan and progress. I WILL NOT HAVE A DIET REGIMENT that defines my life ever again. I knew however that there is a better me under this fat body suit. It has not been my season in years to care about my weight or size. The Lord freed me from so much of my care about my looks and insecurities over the last 3 yrs. What a freedom to walk in a room and actually not have one single thought about how fat I think I look or do my cloths make me look fat. It started at 12 yrs old, that is a long time of self condemnation. FREEDOM..Thank you Lord. That does not mean I want to stay the size of a fat person nor do I want the health risk attached to it. So for the first time in years I can feel that this year is a season of change in this area for me.

BLUE PRINTS:
So now I wait on the Lord. In 2008 I had a realization that when the Lord made me He had a BLUE PRINT for me. He had designed what I was going to look like and what I was going to do in this earth suit. So I decided right then I was going to ask the Lord, "What is my blue print. What size should I be and what is my designed weight?" So here I sit in this new season waiting on the Lord to show me HIS blue print for me. And the way THIS body needs to be fed and exercised. We all have blue prints and I will blog about this soon. Until then I HIGHLY recommend a book called "YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU WEIGH" It does not talk about blue prints but there is some great info in there I believe the Lord would tell us to our faces if He was sitting beside us...lol

So here is to waiting on the Lord..not the easiest thing to do...but I will do it. And until then I would like to blog about the things I do know about in health, the things the Lord has shown me and things I learned in school. Hopefully someday I can maybe write a book but for now I would love to help change some lives....starting with MINE!

Be blessed and fruitful today, Tage

Fast Food in a Year.

Today I finally start an experiment I have wanted to do for months now. I saw a clip on Youtube about a 4 yr old McDonalds hamburger and I thought "I wonder what the others do that I feed my kids?". So here we have it. Day one of our little experiment. I will post every 8 days for the first month, then each month for a year. I look forward to seeing who molds and who does not. So here is to grossing us all out...lol!

SEE PHOTOS BELOW AT END OF PAGE!!!! :0)

Biggest Loser

As I sit here this afternoon watching the new season of Biggest Loser (while eating a hershey bar) I got 30 min. into it and thought to myself...."Why am I once again watching all these fat peoples stories as to how they got fat, how sad they are and how they are going to finally do something about it and I am just as fat as them?"

I do not have any expectation that I should be skinny but my gosh I dont need to be eating a Hershey bar while sitting down watching a weightloss show. I should be walking on a treadmill watching the show at the least.

I dont know what is next but my accomplishment for today is I turned off the show and will be getting up off my butt to move (while cooking dinner and eating again..lol) What are ya gana do???

I am no longer a Blog Virgin...lol

Well they say with the new year brings new things...well here you have it. I am officially starting a blog. Who knows what this will bring other than one more thing for me to waist my time on and ignore my kids with. I do need to put a HUGE disclaimer out right from the get go... I CAN NOT SPELL...I mean for real...I can not spell and I have no intention of putting in the extra efforts of correcting my spelling either seeing as how the only one that is going to be reading this is me. And since I wont know any better then who cares.

Ok I am very excited about my idea for this blog. I look forward to seeing the progress. 2011 is going to be a fantastic year. I just know the Lord has something up His sleeve.

So here we go people. Lets change some lives, shall we?????????