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Apple Day on hCG Diet

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Occasionally while on phase 2 of the hCG diet, some dieters may reach a plateau for a few days.  A plateau is 4 consecutive days without inch or weight loss. While the body will normally work itself through this stage, it can cause unnecessary worry and stress during an hCG diet stall.  In those cases there is an alternative that you can use for one day called the “Apple Day”.    You will follow this for 24 hours, eating only 6 apples and a minimal amount of water – no other fluids are allowed.

All dieters will have a plateau sooner or later. A hCG diet plateau always corrects itself, but many dieters who have become accustomed to a regular daily loss get unnecessarily worried and begin to fret. Nothing will convince them that a plateau does not mean that they are no longer responding normally to treatment.  Often, even though the weight loss is not showing on the scales, they are still losing inches.  Your body is being restructured, though you may think the scales are telling you otherwise.

It is permissable, to break up the plateau by having an “apple day”.  An apple-day begins at lunch and continues until just before lunch of the following day. Dieters can have six large apples and may eat one whenever they feel the desire though six apples is the maximum allowed. During an apple day no other food or liquids except plain water are allowed and of water they may only drink just enough to quench an uncomfortable thirst if eating an apple still leaves them thirsty. Most feel no need for water and are quite happy with their six apples. Needless to say, on apple day you will still do your hCG drops or injections. The apple day produces a gratifying loss of weight on the following day, mainly due to the elimination of water. This water is not regained when they then resume their normal 500 calorie diet at lunch, and on the following days you should continue to lose weight satisfactorily.

Top 9 hCG Diet Tips

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The hCG Diet Plan Maximum Fat Loss Tips

Dr. Simeons Pounds and Inches gives you a very effective way to lose weight. The hCG Diet plan consists of following a VLCD of 500 daily calories, daily hCG injections, oral hCG drops or hCG diet pills and sticking to the meal plan in precise amounts. Losing weight quickly and easily without exercise.

However, there are a few tips you can utlize while following the hCG diet plan to ensure maximum fat and inch loss.

Top 9 hCG Diet Tips

hCG Diet Tip #1

Adding Fiber. Fiber will help you feel full and aid in digestion. The best source of fiber is Miracle Noodles. You can add bulk without adding calories.

hCG Diet Tip #2

Water. Often overlooked, water is essential to losing weight. Water helps burn fat, flushes your system, aids in digestion, hydrates your body and most importantly can quench hunger.

hCG Diet Tip #3

Organic foods. Eating organically on the hCG diet goes to help further your overall health. New studies have found that pesticides used on fruits and vegetables contribute to ADHD in kids and adults. With the worst offenders being strawberries and apples, two of the hCG diet food on the hCG diet plan to eat.

hCG Diet Tip #4

Fat. On your hCG diet loading days, ditch the junk carbs and increase your fat intake. During the hCG diet 2-day load, you want to ease into the drastic calorie reduction on the 3rd day. The more fat you intake the less headaches you may have and the less hunger you may feel with the calorie reduction.

hCG Diet Tip #5

Meals. Plan your meals ahead of time. Take your hCG diet food list to the grocery store, come home and pre-cut, and weight your foods out. Place meats in bags and make salads ahead of time. You can even cook a few days ahead of time.

hCG Diet Tip #6

Cookbooks. Having a good hCG diet recipe book will help you know what to eat, what you can have and stay on the hCG diet plan longer because you will not be bored with your food choices.

hCG Diet Tip #7

Exercise. Exercising on the hCG diet is not necessary but exercise overall is healthy for your mind, body, and soul. Exercise helps to diminish hunger and helps you lose fat faster.

hCG Diet Tip #8

Scales & Measuring. Weighing your food with a good scale will help you eat exactly what the hCG diet plan calls for 100 grams of meat. In addition, weighting yourself and measuring your body fat while on the hCG diet will help you know if you are in a true stall (no weight loss for 4 days) or your body is shifting to inch lose for a few days

hCG Diet Tip #9

Your Plan. The hCG diet plan has morphed into several protocols. The key to maximum fat loss is know your hCG diet protocol and stick to it. Not mixing a clinical versions, which may give you less units hCG and more food choices and greater calories or Dr. Simeons original manuscript Pounds and Inches which has a strict list of hCG diet foods, a specific range of units of hCG and 500 calories. Mixing plans may cause hCG diet failure.

HCG Diet – Direct Benefits and Effects on Dieters

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The hCG diet Direct Benefits and Effects on Dieters, if followed correctly, will influence your body in many ways. Your physical health will improve as a result of not carrying around the added weight and even more importantly, your mind and body will be retrained- this won’t just be a diet for you – you’ll learn to change your eating habits, making this a long term fix for obesity, not merely a short term band-aid.

hCG is a hormone found in pregnant women.  Its purpose with this diet is to help your metabolism to burn fats more efficiently, drawing from the preferred fats, rather than muscle. Fat is lost at an amazing rate, often one to two pounds per day. There is no other weight loss method that is known to produce those kinds of results.

There are many reasons people gain weight: poor eating habits, lack of exercise and malfunctioning metabolism. The hCG diet will benefit your eating habits for the better and work significantly on your metabolism to draw your energy from the right fat reserves. Exercise is not a requirement when following the hCG diet, which alone sets it apart from most diet regimens.

The diet requires that you follow a VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) in conjunction with the daily hCG injections or real oral hCG drops. The caloric intake is 500 per day, which may seem impossible, but here’s the good part: people following the diet will tell you that it works!  With hCG in their system they rarely feel any sort of hunger pangs at all.  if they do they up the dosage and it’s gone! The diet recommends proteins and fiber foods like Miracle Noodles, whole foods you buy in the grocery store, as your main menu along with a lot of liquids. You are allowed to splurge on your favorite foods for the first 2 days, refereed to as hCG diet loading days, before starting this diet – those additional fats will help to provide you with energy, help reduce any carb withdrawal headache and kick start the program.

The direct effects and benefits of the hCG diet are two-fold. Physically your health will improve and perhaps more importantly, your mind will retrain itself with your healthier eating habits bringing you lasting results.

HCG Diet Is It Safe?

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Whenever a person is considering a weight loss plan, one of the most important considerations is safety.   It is extremely important that any diet plan a person decides to follow is safe. Losing a substantial amount of weight is not worth it if it requires that an individual risk their health. It’s impossible to enjoy a slim, new body if the individual becomes unhealthy during the process, or in a worse case scenario dies.

As the hCG gets more press, one of the debates raging – The hCG Diet – Is It Safe? There are proponents of the plan who believe that it is and detractors that do not. In this article, we will take a closer look at the hCG diet plan, specifically whether or not it is safe.

The HGC diet protocol is lawful in every state. Physicians throughout the United States are permitted to assist those who wish to utilize the hCG diet protocol to lose weight. This mainly concerns the hCG shots which are a standard part of the plan. It is of course up to the doctor’s discretion whether or not the diet plan is appropriate for you based on your health and at times the doctors individual judgments about the diet.

The hCG diet plan is a bit controversial. It involves that individuals follow a very low calorie diet and receive injections of hCG or use real hCG drops. HCG is the hormone, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin.  Pregnant women naturally have the highest amounts in there system during the early months of pregnancy to release fat and nourish the fetus.  Using the hCG hormone for dieting, there is some research that suggests injections or sublingal of  drops of the hCG hormone can help speed up the metabolism and cause the body to release abnormal fat then it would normally on its own.

The issues of safety concerning the hCG diet revolve around the two biggest components of the diet, the calorie restriction and the injections of hormones. The hCG diet only allows individuals who follow the plan to consume 500 calories today. This is an incredibly low figure, especially considering that many plans allow individuals to eat up to 1200 calories a day. The inability to eat no more then 500 calories is worrisome for some health professionals for a number of reasons, one of the mains ones being the potential that an individual will not get the nutrients they need when consuming so few calories.

In defense of the plan, some individuals claim that though individuals are only allowed to consume 500 calories, the body makes up for this deficit by dipping into the fat stores which the hCG hormone is releasing thus pushing the number of calories it receives up to between 1500 and 2500, a pretty decent amount.

Another concern is the daily hCG injections that those on the plan receive. There is some debate about whether or not they are safe and effective. The evidence of their effectiveness is considered anecdotal by some. These individuals believe that more research needs to be done on this hormone and its effect (or not) on weight loss.

The best way to determine whether or not the hCG diet is safe for you is to speak with your doctor or talk to an online hCG diet clinic.

Is the hCG Diet Dangerous?

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The hCG Diet seems to be everywhere in the news these days – people from all walks of life are trying it and achieving the results they have always hoped for.  But is it safe?   You will find conflicting reports all across the internet, but what you won’t find is confirmation of any of these risks or that the data comes from sources that followed the hCG diet protocol as set out by Dr. Simeons, the creator of the system, back in the 1950’s. 

Most of us know that hCG is the hormone produced in pregnant women.  The actual amount used in the diet is very low levels (125-200 IU) – these levels are followed along with a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) -this is key in achieving the results you want, and a factor that many of the studies that detractors use are guilty of not following. 

People everywhere are claiming that they have finally found the cure to weight loss instead of the dozens of bandaids they had been trying for so many years, only to regain the weight, and then some, after stopping the diet.  They claim that following the diet has gone so far as to retrain their brain in the correct way to eat and look at food.  A miracle?  Absolutely if it works!

Dr. Simeons maintained that when followed correctly, your body will learn to metabolise fat correctly, thus eliminating the bad effects that many of us have seen from past diet attempts (ie: sagging skin, no energy, constant hunger pangs).  He maintained that there are three types of body fat:  structural, normal, and abnormal.

In short, Structural fat is the tissue surrounding our internal organs and is critical to our health and body functioning normally.  Normal fat is what our body stores as energy reserves for the times when it is not having its needs met and needs to draw from us to fuel our body from our metabolism when energy is needed. Abnormal fat are those areas that form around our mid-sections, thighs and hips, that it seems no amount of exercising or dieting can remove. 

When one’s metabolism is functioning correctly, diet and exercise can effectively draw from the correct areas –but people who suffer from excess weight, even when correctly following diet plans, often have metabolisms that are hopelessly out of whack and no amount of diet or exercise ever seems to access those abnormal fat areas.   Most of us know the basics of how the body functions, drawing fats from muscles in a low calorie diet or excessive exercise, instead of from the abnormal fat that we need to be losing.  Our bodies feel the stress in our bones and joints because it is our structural (critical to us!) fat that we are losing.   Dr. Simeons protocol causes our bodies to utilize fat efficiently, using hCG in very low doses to burn them in the way that pregnant women are able to burn them while supplying their baby with the needed nutrients.  For the abnormal fat to be burned in our bodies, a Very Low Calorie Diet must be followed along with the hCG injections.

One wonders of course, how people can survive on such a low calorie intake (500-600 per day), wouldn’t the body have no energy and the hunger pangs be unbearable?  Here’s the amazing part!   The people following the diet correctly have found that the calories entering the bloodstream from burning the abnormal fat actually prevent you from feeling hunger pangs! And even more amazing, people claim that its better not to exercise when following this diet because the exercise actually makes them more hungry and less likely to follow the diet! 

Now for the interesting part- the dangers of hCG:

There is NO evidence, that when followed correctly, the low dosages of hCG(125-200 IU) in Dr. Simeons Protocol is dangerous.  Yes, you read that right.  NO evidence.  The claims that you may read of dangers refer to studies that did not follow his protocol and used large doses.  Of the studies that claim to prove the hCG diet doesn’t work, NONE of them adhered to the original diet protocol set out  by Dr. Simeons.  Both the low dosages of hCG and the VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) must be used in conjunction to achieve the amazing results that are showing up everywhere.

Be aware this is no easy fix, but if you’ve tried it all and feel that your weight problem is hopeless, this is worth giving a try, but willpower and discipline are key, and medical supervision, as with any diet, is always needed.

hCG Injections

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hCG Injections are the Gold Standard form of hCG and considered superior to sublingual drops or pellets. Though there are proponents of all forms of hCG including raving fans of sublingual hCG, hCG injections were the original protocol recommended by Dr. Simeons in Pounds & Inches. Some physicians require patients to visit their office to receive the injections. However, DIY hCG injections are common place.

Preparing the Solution

If you are doing self injections your pharmacy will provide hCG in a powdered form in a small glass vial with a rubber cap. A second similar vial is provided which contains a solvent for the powdered hCG. This solvent is essentially a medical grade sterile saline solution.

While the powder and solvent are kept in separate vials the mix is considered unconstituted and is stable, which means the vials do not need to be refrigerated. However, after the powdered hCG is mixed with the solvent the mixture is thus constituted. After constitution the hCG is far less stable and may only be kept at room temperature for two or three days. Therefore it is important to keep the hCG refrigerated after it has been constituted (with the powder and solvent mixed together in a single vial). As with any medication it’s important to confirm that your pharmacy has provided hCG with a clear expiration date.

Self Injections

If hCG injections are administered properly they can be completely painless and with little or no tissue reaction. As with any injection it is possible to experience bruising, tingling, redness, pain on injection.

When administering the self injection it is important to avoid leaving a vacuum in the vial of hCG. Otherwise it’s possible that that the alcohol from the wipe used to sterilize the rubber cap can be drawn into the solution. To avoid creating a vacuum simply draw air into the syringe before inserting the needle into the vial, then depress the plunger on the syringe to inject the air into the vial. Then remove that same amount of hCG solution from the vial. For example, draw 25 cc of air into the syringe, then injection 25 cc of air into the vial before withdrawing 25 cc of hCG solution from the vial.

You might see small specks of sediment in the vial. This is usually a small piece of the vial’s rubber cap that was punched through by the needle. These specks will settle to the bottom of the vial and are easy to avoid when withdrawing the hCG solution into the syringe.

There are hardly any contraindications to the HCG injection method. In Dr. Simeons Pounds & Inches he details a variety of pre-existing conditions that are not affected by the treatment and also documents several conditions that were actually improved as a positive side effect of the hCG injections.

Treatment can be continued in the presence of abscesses, suppuration, large infected wounds and major fractures. Even major medical procedures such as surgery and general anesthesia are usually no reason to stop as long as a Dr. has been consulted and assured the patient they may continue the hCG injections. Acne or boils are no contraindication. In fact acne often clears up with the continued use of hCG injections, and boils comes to an end. Vein inflammation is no contraindication; several obese patients with phlebitis have seen improvements in the condition during their course of hCG. This also applies to patients suffering from varicose ulcers which have been reported to heal rapidly with the use of hCG injections.

For more information on self injections visit hCG Injections – Tips on How and Where.

Please remember that hCG injections for weight loss should only be taken after consulting a physician. Your physician will determine if the hCG injection protocol is the proper weight loss solution for you, and they will also provide the necessary instructions on the proper method of injecting yourself at home.