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 short clinical answer is that the diet usually lasts from 4 to 12 weeks, depending on your weight loss goals. If you have, a lot to lose you can stay on it longer. There are patients were on it for up to 12 weeks, losing 96 pounds of fat.
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.
He thus concluded that a hormone found to be prevalent in the placenta, increased levels during pregnancy, triggering the mother's stored fat nutrients, carbohydrates, and sugars to nourish the baby during gestation. Furthermore, he observed no marked loss of the mother's muscle tissue.
Thus, the hCG injection diet consists of daily injections of small amounts of the hormone accompanied by a very low intake of calories (500 daily). However, it cannot simply be a low caloric consumption, the calories consumed, must contain specific nutrients and the absence of certain fats, sugars, and starches for the first 24 days. Then starches and sugars are slowly reintroduced into the diet, by which time the dieter has been educated on proper nutrition and lifestyle to support and maintain the lost weight.
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.
The result is remarkable, and rapid loss of weight. Diets that do not afford enough nutrition or calories cause a decrease of the body's metabolism. In such diets, there will be some initial weight loss; however, inadequate calories will cause body weight loss to stop.
In summary, there are 23 injections over the first 23 days of the diet. Then there is a six-week period, in which there are no more injections. During this six week period, starches and sugars are once again, slowly introduced to the diet. Depending on what you and your Doctor decide, if you choose to lose more weight, you can start the process over again.
The short clinical answer is that the diet usually lasts from 4 to 12 weeks, depending on your weight loss goals. If you have, a lot to lose you can stay on it longer. There are patients were on it for up to 12 weeks, losing 96 pounds of fat.
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.
He thus concluded that a hormone found to be prevalent in the placenta, increased levels during pregnancy, triggering the mother's stored fat nutrients, carbohydrates, and sugars to nourish the baby during gestation. Furthermore, he observed no marked loss of the mother's muscle tissue.
Thus, the hCG injection diet consists of daily injections of small amounts of the hormone accompanied by a very low intake of calories (500 daily). However, it cannot simply be a low caloric consumption, the calories consumed, must contain specific nutrients and the absence of certain fats, sugars, and starches for the first 24 days. Then starches and sugars are slowly reintroduced into the diet, by which time the dieter has been educated on proper nutrition and lifestyle to support and maintain the lost weight.
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.
The result is remarkable, and rapid loss of weight. Diets that do not afford enough nutrition or calories cause a decrease of the body's metabolism. In such diets, there will be some initial weight loss; however, inadequate calories will cause body weight loss to stop.
In summary, there are 23 injections over the first 23 days of the diet. Then there is a six-week period, in which there are no more injections. During this six week period, starches and sugars are once again, slowly introduced to the diet. Depending on what you and your Doctor decide, if you choose to lose more weight, you can start the process over again.
