Kevin Trudeau’s Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About is the HCG diet. The book is a hoot, taking about how this diet that allows you to lose weight quicckly and keep it off is being surpressed by the food companies that put ingrediants into their food to make you crave more food and increase their profits
After you reach goal weight, Trudeau claims “You can eat whatever you want in any quantities you want from now on, with some exceptions.”
needscoffee:
I have a friend who is currently doing this diet with his wife. They’ve lost a bunch of weight. It’s basically a low-fat, calorie-restricted version of the Atkins diet, with them eating one portion of meat and a low-cal vegetable for each of three daily meals, keeping it under a certain number of calories per day, I think 800 calories. They take drops of the HCG, which cost them $120. They believe that the drops 1) help keep their bodies from burning their own muscle protein (which isn’t the case, the body won’t cannibalize its own protein as long as sufficient protein is ingested) and 2) that the drops keep them from feeling hunger on such a light diet (which is actually due to eating protein).
I figure they’re probably not hurting themselves any by taking the drops, and if it makes them feel like they’re taking magic drops which will enable them to stick to the diet, fine. My husband asked me not to burst their bubble, because they’re losing a lot of weight that they needed to lose. A low-fat version of an Atkins diet won’t hurt them any in the short run, and as they add fat back in, they’ll be fine. 800 calories a day doesn’t sound like enough to get by, but it is, and they’ll be fine.
The diet appears to have been dreamed up many years ago by a doctor who was way off base in his thoughts on HCG and its benefits to pregnant women, but the diet works fine without the HCG drops. Injections are certainly where I’d draw the line between not bursting their bubble and telling them they’re idiots, though.
If your friend is already taking 800 calorie a day, why to take HCG drops?
Let me know your thoughts.
needscoffee:
I have a friend who is currently doing this diet with his wife. They’ve lost a bunch of weight. It’s basically a low-fat, calorie-restricted version of the Atkins diet, with them eating one portion of meat and a low-cal vegetable for each of three daily meals, keeping it under a certain number of calories per day, I think 800 calories. They take drops of the HCG, which cost them $120. They believe that the drops 1) help keep their bodies from burning their own muscle protein (which isn’t the case, the body won’t cannibalize its own protein as long as sufficient protein is ingested) and 2) that the drops keep them from feeling hunger on such a light diet (which is actually due to eating protein).
I figure they’re probably not hurting themselves any by taking the drops, and if it makes them feel like they’re taking magic drops which will enable them to stick to the diet, fine. My husband asked me not to burst their bubble, because they’re losing a lot of weight that they needed to lose. A low-fat version of an Atkins diet won’t hurt them any in the short run, and as they add fat back in, they’ll be fine. 800 calories a day doesn’t sound like enough to get by, but it is, and they’ll be fine.
The diet appears to have been dreamed up many years ago by a doctor who was way off base in his thoughts on HCG and its benefits to pregnant women, but the diet works fine without the HCG drops. Injections are certainly where I’d draw the line between not bursting their bubble and telling them they’re idiots, though.
How many pounds does he and wife lost?