Russell Dawkins asks, Yeah I'm looking at doing the HCG Diet to try and "lean out"......it's where you inject yourself with something nefarious like cat urine or something another and eat like a max of 500 kcal of food per day. It seems to work for weight loss of up to 1lb of body fat per day (for some unknown reason?) -and- is getting rave reviews on the web lately!!! Does it actually work and is it healthier than the recently discredited "Twinkie Diet"??? I was so waiting for an "Ask Steve" section!!!
Nefarious. Such a good word.
Nefarious. Such a good word.
Not being from this planet, I worry about this planet. Not wanting to waste an hour and a half of my life that I will never get back, I will instead give you an article to read and some brief thoughts on it.
The hCG diet that Russell is referring to consists basically of using hCG along with a 500 calorie per day diet. hCG is Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. Pull it up on Wikipedia and it will give you a good basic description.
The gullibility of the average person on the planet continues to amaze me.
Remember what I said in the last post about people thinking 2+2=5?!
Any "diet" of 500 calories per day will make you use weight,...for a while. As soon as your body gets used to that calorie amount your metabolism will slow. Also, after a while in order to feed itself the body will use the most complete protein on the planet. Your lean muscle mass. As you lose lean muscle mass your body will burn even less calories. And most importantly after your willpower or the chemical you are taking to suppress your appetite gives out (wasn't hoodia all the rage a short time ago) you will gain back all the weight you lost and then some if you continue to eat the same way you did before. This is why pretty much all the major companies who had diet plans had MAJOR lawsuits against them, because they are nothing more than starvation diets. If you like those I have a cheaper diet that works for you. It's called the "chain yourself to a pole in the basement diet".
Here is an article written by Dan Gwartney MD (http://www.
"When one considers all the various hormones, drugs, enzymes, etc., involved in fat storage/breakdown, it becomes clear why one drug could never circumvent all the regulatory pathways".
Daniel Gwartney, M.D.
Board Certified Physician
World Renowned Fitness Authority
National Columnist - Muscular Development Magazine
Natural Bodybuilder
Board Certified Physician
World Renowned Fitness Authority
National Columnist - Muscular Development Magazine
Natural Bodybuilder
The only other use I've heard of for hCG is for bodybuilders who use it when they are coming off of a heavy steroid cycle to help stabilize their hormones. Let me ask you this. If this diet actually did what it claims to do, wouldn't every single bodybuilder on the planet use it to get down to 2% bodyfat without training?!!!!!
It truly amazes me how far people will go to avoid actual effort and discipline.
Here's a diet that actually works: The diet I outlined in the last post and exercise. Yep, that's the secret.
Steve
