HCG Diet

The HCG diet has certainly gotten a lot of press in recent years as it tends to be at the forefront of controversy. This diet promises quick and effective weight loss, and to that affect there has been marked success experienced by many people who have participated in this diet. The main area of controversy lies in the fact that a person on the HCG diet takes an injection of the HCG hormone which spurs rapid weight loss ranging between one pound and three pounds per day.

The diet is a purely scientific one and as such there is a particular method that an individual must abide by when they are on this diet. There is a limited intake of calories, about five hundred calories a day. The five hundred calories a day that a person is allotted is further restricted by which foods must make up those five hundred calories as there is a meal plan with a few options for a person to pick from in regard to what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Many people might initially think that this is not a sustainable diet, and that is in fact true, but the thing with the HCG diet is that it stimulates rapid weight loss for a person and then a person eases out of it and slowly ushers in a healthier lifestyle. This is the way by which a person maintains lasting weight loss success.

The hormone that a person takes itself is completely safe and there are various ways in which a person can take it, either an injection, a drop or a pellet, depending on which option an individual is most comfortable with.

The diet does have a high success rate as it is very effective, but a person must follow it very closely to see optimal results as it is a highly scientifically based diet.