How long the hcg diet lasts

By John D Greene


A natural question for dieters is, how long do I have to be on the hCG diet? The hCG diet, causes your body top go through metabolic changes. When a dieter learns proper nutrition and applies it to their life, the hCG diet becomes an indefinite part of their lifestyle. As far as the amount of time taking the injections, the initial protocol lasts 23 days, depending on the amount of weight the dieter needs to lose.

The hCG Injection diet generally covers a period of 4 to 12 weeks. This determination of the length of period is depends on the amount of weight the subject needs or desires to lose. There have been patients who have recorded as much as 96 pounds of weight loss. In other words, if one has more weight to lose, they can stay on longer.

Before we focus on the numbers, one should understand what the hCG diet protocol is. The original hCG diet was established in the early 1950 by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, who observed that expectant mothers who suffered from malnutrition, gave birth to babies that were healthy.

This phenomenon led Dr. Simeons to conclude that the reason these babies were born healthy, despite their mothers' poor condition was the workings of a hormone identified as human chorionic gonadotropin. This hormone allowed the fetus to draw nutrition from the stored fats in the mothers' own systems. This way the children received the nourishment they needed without depleting the muscle mass of the mother.

The hormone, was human chorionic gonadotropin or hCG. The hCG Injection Diet consists of small amounts of the hormone administered daily, while the patient is placed on a diet of 500 calories daily. It is not sufficient to simply cut back on the calories, the intake of calories must be nutritional, as well as starch, fat, and sugar free for the initial 3 weeks. In addition, the injections lighten the side effects related to low calorie consumption, aids in the body's chemical changes that speed up metabolism, and most importantly, allows the body to release stored fats for energy, instead of the exhaustion of muscle tissue,

During these first 3 weeks, the patient experiences impressive loss of weight. Many patients report losses of 1 to 3 pounds per day. This will vary, based upon the total amount of weight the patient has to lose. Generally, the benefits of the hCG diet is hCG helps to ease side effect from low caloric intake, the hormone helps the patient, by aiding in decreased appetite, and finally, the hCG injections helps the body to release nutrients from fat cells, and halts the body's tendency to get stored energy from muscle mass.

The nutrients that are let loose from the excess fat cells, is released into the bloodstream and utilized as nutrients. Thus, even thought the patient's caloric intake is only 500 calories, the nutrient from these stored fats can be as high as 2000 calories a day, hence, the rapid loss of weight. The patients generally report a loss of appetite. The net result is that weight loss happens because of the depletion and absorption of the fat cells. If the patient adheres to the protocol, the results are a significant drop in weight over the three week period.

Without hCG, one can assume a low calorie diet, however, such dieting will cause a change in the body's metabolic rate, but it will slow down the metabolism, not speed it up, thus causing the body to store fat cells instead of burn them, causing weight loss to stop.

In conclusion, the hCG injection diet is highly customizable, depending on the dieter's weight. The diet protocol requires 4 phases of dieting. The first 2 phases cover a minimum of 23 days of injections. Phases 3 and 4 require no injections, but are for the systematic increase of calories as well as the re introduction of sugars and starches into the diet. Phases 3 and 4 are two consecutive 3-week periods for a total of 6 weeks. Then, for dieters who need to lose more weight, they may start the process over again.




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