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Nowadays the biggest and perhaps the longest fad to take people by storm appears to be being conscious about one’s health.  In seriously looking at their physical condition, people are setting standards on food they eat and are counting calories, and exercising more and more to bring down their excess weight. A significant number of women –and men—are turning to HCG dieting to at least reduce their extra fat.

In this dieting method, the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG, found normally in all persons but more in pregnant women, is used to reduce weight. It is detectable in the bloodstream beginning 11 days after conception, and in the urine from the 12th to 14th days. The hormone is created by the body cells that also produce the placenta. The hormone stimulates the hypothalamus, the third brain, to utilize the body’s fatty deposits in feeding the fetus, so that the fat volume of the body is reduced as a result.

Ordinarily, the HCG dieting program consists of daily HCG diet injections of the hormone and a regimen of food intake equal or less than 500 calories a day, called VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet). Anything over 500 calories and the dieter may gain weight again, negating whatever previous positive effects that were obtained. It is this strict calorie-counting aspect that most HCG dieters find truly difficult: the urge to eat is just too powerful for them. Thinking that cheating a little will not affect the outcome, most failures break the dieting rules because they get cross and cantankerous when hungry. So they turn to eating both as solution to hunger pangs, and a way out of the negative mood.

Many also find intolerable the total abstention from sugar and carbohydrates for several weeks, preferring to defer it, and thus fail in the dieting plan.  Others, on the other hand, cannot tolerate the daily injections for a specified number of days, finding it too painful for the desired reward of weight loss.

Yet HCG diet help support and encouragement may be accessed online anytime via advices and anecdotal stories of success. For instance, to avoid an eating binge and yet satisfy the hunger, eating vegetables is advised. By wrapping lettuce around some cold chicken part one can fill the stomach and yet avoid the starch and sweets. One just needs to reduce the meat or fish intake later to compensate. At any rate, sticking to a mainly vegetable diet will be very helpful in keeping the hunger pangs at bay while maintaining the below-500 calories restrictions.

Then there is the alternative HCG diet help method of sublingual –below the tongue—drops for those allergic to syringes. These are liquid HCG taken by drops under the tongue where substance absorption into the body is quicker than through the stomach. It is much less painful than using injections to below the skin or into the muscles.

Every dieting plan is difficult if one has that mindset. Dieting is contrary to most body urges as well as many present-time lifestyles, so it is a hard uphill fight, at least in the beginning. But for those who consider dieting as something other than a hardship –as a challenge, perhaps–, it can even be a fun way of finding techniques on how to get slim without pain. Victory is not in the potion, exercise or object; it is all in the mind.

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