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Even now, in 2009, people STILL think weight loss is the way to judge the effectiveness of a diet or other weight loss program.
“I lost 25 pounds on Homeopathic HCG, and I lost the same amount of weight on HCG Injections”
But did you really?
Because if you didn’t have a pair of Body Fat Calipers to measure your lean mass to body fat ratio both before and after you completed the protocol, you have NO IDEA what just happened.
Studies done on the effectiveness of HCG for weight loss (all of these studies were done pre-1991) concluded there was no difference in WEIGHT LOST on HCG versus the placebo control group.
DUH!
What HCG does that no other program or product does is RETAIN YOUR MUSCLE and SHED FAT. (Don’t believe me? See my post here: HCG Muscle Before And After Video and Pics)
This is the holy grail of weight loss – to NOT lose active tissue (muscle) while losing unwanted fat.
If you go on a 500-calorie VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) and take a placebo, OF COURSE you will lose weight – your body needs 10 calories per pound to maintain its weight, so unless you only weight 50 pounds, your body HAS TO ADAPT by shedding tissue.
Guess which tissue is the first to go when your body is in a ’starvation state’?
ANSWER: Muscle. Because MUSCLE is the ACTIVE tissue that uses most of the calories in your body, so your body adapts to this starvation state by getting rid of the one thing that is needing most of the calories you don’t have – MUSCLE!
All the matters when doing ANY kind of diet is how much FAT you lose and what your body composition numbers look like when you’re done. Muscle weighs A LOT MORE than fat, so a little muscle lost is going to move the scale a lot more than fat lost.
So, people taking Homeopathic HCG claiming they lose just as much weight as those doing the REAL DEAL are simply fooling themselves. Do a skin-fold test with a pair of fat calipers and see how much MUSCLE you’ve lost.
Then we’ll talk.
Yeah Yeah – Homeopathic HCG works as well as other forms of HCG. If you believe that, I have a ‘Hope and Change’ Presidential Candidate to sell you.
Do you know HOW MUCH HCG is in a bottle of Homeopathic HCG?
ZERO.
Oh, but the “resonance frequencies” are in there – BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! ROFL.
You think you are losing the same amount of FAT on Homeopathic HCG? PROVE IT and I’ll shut up.
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7 responses so far ↓
hcgdietinfo // April 5, 2009 at 3:38 pm
A great article on proving to yourself that Homeopathic HCG doesn’t work:
http://www.hcgdietfacts.com/blog/hcg-diet-info/homeopathic-hcg-proof-its-a-scam-look-at-the-keto-strips/
hawk // May 7, 2009 at 7:16 am
Ok You can shut up now. I have been in the fitness and MMA business for years and I have used homeopathic HCG. It works I have the keto sticks to prove it and the fat caliper measurements. I los 35 pounds of fat in 5 weeks. People are getting the same results as with the shots.
I was skeptical of homeopathic remedies myself but am now a believer. There are some folks selling homeopathic stuff that is fake however Mediral is the real deal.
If it did not work the same as the shots people would be so weak on a 500 calorie diet in a week or less they could not maintain the diet. It reshapes the body just like the shots.
I am also an herbalist and allopathic medicine is not the be all end all it has it place but the same power the created the body has the power to healing and reshape it etc.
hcgdietinfo // May 7, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Hmmm, that’s very interesting, because I went on the same Homeopathic HCG and tested MY urine with Keto Strips and did NOT see the fat being metabolized like on real HCG, so if you have pictures of your Keto Strips while on Homeopathic HCG you can share, send them to me and I’ll post them. I have pictures of MY Keto Strips while on Homeopathic HCG, and they are on the far left end of the scale, in the ‘trace’ to ’small’ amount.
While on REAL HCG, the Keto Strips will show a very dark color (the far RIGHT end of the scale – maximum fat metabolism), so anything less than that means you are NOT burning fat like on real HCG and if you test with Albustix, you will see it is actually muscle loss that is responsible for your weight dropping.
You can test your urine with Albustix to determine if the weight you are losing is MUSCLE because Albustix will show protein being excreted in your urine. Pregnant women sometimes use them to tell if they are consuming enough protein for the fetus’s development.
hawk // June 7, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Sorry I just got back to this. I will try to remember to get a pic of the Keto stick next time I use one.
I have Reli ON Ketone test strips.
I made another post to one of your other comments giving more detail
Christina // July 10, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I bought some Ketostix yesterday as I became curious if I was just loosing fat or muscle on the homeopathic HCG diet, my stick turned brick brown, so I was in full ketosis,..I even did Dr. Bernstein a few times and my stix at their office hardly ever even turned mocha (tracing) I have lost 15 lounds and now hit a plateau.
Anyways I just wanted to put my 2 cents in as I fell homeopathis HCG does work…maybe not AS good as the real stuff,..but I rather have it work a bit and not have side effects then the real stuff and then have side effects down the road.
Christina Calgary Canada
David // November 6, 2009 at 3:01 am
Hi Christina
I have been exploring diet options as I need to shed the Kgs for health reasons. It is really hard to know from the range of opinions on the internet if Homoeopathic HCG really works.
So my question to you is, does Homoeopathic HCG work. Sorry for being so blunt, but it would be great to know from someone who as tried it as opposed to someone trying to sell it.
I would appreciate your feedback.
kind regards
David
hcgdietinfo // November 15, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Hi David,
I know the homeotherapeutic HCG works because almost 1000 people now have ALL lost a ton of fat with it (the one available at myfatcure.com).