A diet is basically a change in lifestyle for a certain period of time. Most people define it as temporary, maybe a few months, maybe a little over a year. But basically you make the adjustments to lose weight, and then after that you can go back to certain other ways, because you have lost that weight and achieved your general goal. This leads to many fad diets, because frankly to really lose weight, you have to be able to sustain that diet for the rest of your life. This is why the HCG diet doesn’t work. I met with my dad’s friend the other day, and he looks amazing. He looks tired to say the least, but he looks really skinny, and he basically told me he is within 10 pounds of his goal weight, which I told him is great. But it basically requires a 500 calorie diet, which we discussed is obviously something that would help you to lose weight anyway, and realistically it should actually be helping you to lose more than a pound a day, while it’s not particularly healthy. He said the idea was that you wouldn’t be hungry while you were doing it. But I thought about it, and honestly they also put in the stipulation that you basically only eat certain nutrient dense foods. So if you are following the diet they recommend, you wouldn’t actually be hungry, because the ones they recommend are extremely filling while being extremely low in calories. It’s a scam, and frankly the HCG hormone slows down the weight loss they really should be achieving. But my biggest worry is what happens when he stop using the diet. I mean he’s a smart guy, a lot of people using the HCG diet are smart, that’s what blows my mind, that they can’t think about this for themselves.
