I am so confused!!! I just read an article on the hCG diet. Apparently, people are injecting themselves with a pregnancy hormone derived from the urine of pregnant women and expecting the weight to melt off. Here is where I am confused. How many skinny pregnant women have you seen? How many of them complain about the difficulty in losing the "baby-weight"?
Oh, I guess I should have read a bit more of the article. What you have to do is eat only about 500 calories a day, and THEN the weight drops. 500 calories a day, huh? Well, that's equivalent to about a half of a Schlotzsky's sandwich, no potato chips, and unsweetened iced tea. Hey, if you can live on a half-sandwich every day, I say go for it. However, does anyone give any thought to what will happen when the dieter goes back to a regular meal routine, especially after a long period of starving the body? Well, the answer is easy. It will return to the original weight and then some, just like with all calorie restricted diets. If people don't change how they use food, they won't change the number on the scale, not permanently.
I also read where some people are paying up to $1000 for a consult to get on this diet. Fascinating what people will do to lose weight, albeit temporarily, isn't it?
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