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By John D Greene


One of the most prevalent questions for those who inquire about the hCG diet is, "How long do I have to be on this diet?" The hCG diet can last on average, 28 to 40 days depending on the individual. The important thing to remember is that during this time, the client will learn appropriate nutritional habits that will last a lifetime and allow you to maintain the weight lost indefinitely

To be succinct, the diet usually continues for four to twelve weeks. Again, this number varies, based upon one's personal goals. Those who have considerable weight to lose will opt to stay on longer. There have been patients on the diet for longer periods reporting as much as a 96-pound loss of weight.

If you need ask the question as to how long one should be on the diet, you may want to know more about the diet to begin with. Instituted in the 1950s by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, the diet is based upon scientific principle. The foundation for his study was based upon the observation that poorly nourished mothers, consistently gave birth to healthy infants.

His studies led him to conclude that a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin, increased in presence during pregnancy, and allowed the fetus to feed off the mother's stored fat, carbohydrates and sugars, without depleting the mother's muscle mass.

Dr. Simeons formulated a diet that consisted of 500 calories consumed daily, accompanied by injections of the hormone. A natural question is what will happen if someone limits his or her caloric intake to 500 calories a day without the assistance of the hormone. First, simply limiting calories is not enough. The diet must be nutritious, with sugars and starches removed. After a period, it is important to add sugars and starches back to the regular diet.

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.

In overweight people, hCG causes fat cells to release stored nutrients. These nutrients are released into the bloodstream, thus supplying energy to the body. It is estimated that as many as 2,000 calories per day, are released. The burning of this energy causes the body's vigor level increases, while desire for food decreases. The fat cells that emptied, are absorbed and excreted. Therefore, inches, as well as pounds are lost on the diet.

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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