i need to know if anyone has had truly, positive results on the HCg diet??? i have several friends who are having incredible luck on the plan! one has lost 10 lbs in 10 days another 18 lbs in 20 days and another lost 7 lbs in 6 days! i am wondering if it has more to do witht the little amount of calories...for me when i limit my caloric intake it is harder to lose weight, so i wam debating the hcg plan, and i actually took my first dose today!!! again, anyone have success with it?

This thread will be closed. MFP does not allow talk of HCG on the forums.

Good luck with your weight loss, but the HCG diet has done nothing but HARM to people I know that used it.

The only reason people lose weight on that plan is you are only allowed to eat 500 calories a day. HCG has been scientifically proven to do NOTHING to help with weight loss or to make it safe to eat only 500 calories a day. It will not protect muscle, reset your metabolism or do anything else the snake oil salesmen that sell it claim. Dr. Simeons was a quack doctor. His "HCG protocol" has absolutely NO scientific backing and is not worth risking your health on.

Any doctor that pushes the HCG diet plan should be stripped of their license to practice medicine because they are being totally unethical and giving advice that goes against the conclusions of all reliable scientific research on the subject.

The HCG diet has been studied by many scientific organizations, and they all concluded that HCG, even the "real" injectable version, is no more effective than a placebo, and eating only 500 calories a day for weeks, as recommended by that plan, can cause more health problems than it solves.

I know some people that put their faith in the HCG diet, and became very ill from malnutrition as a result. Then they regained more weight than they lost. Now they wish they never heard of HCG.

The Government is now in the process of getting all that fraudulent stuff off the market, and it's about time!

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm281333.htm

http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/hcg-diet-dangerous-1428

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hcg-diet/AN02091

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-about-hcg-for-weight-loss

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/weight-loss-cure-dont-want-you-to-know

http://www.dietscam.org/reports/hcg.shtml

Your friends might be losing weight fast on that HCG starvation diet, but they are putting their health at risk, as HCG has been scientifically proven to do NOTHING for weight loss or to make it safe to eat so few calories.

Most people that do HCG or other extreme diets regain pretty rapidly once they are no longer on the diet. So your friends' "victory over fat" will most likely be short lived.

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Thank you all for your concern. We're definitely looking closely at this issue.