HCG diet, I'm getting a headache!

I have no clue what the hoolabaloola with this whole HCG is, but seeing like umpteen threads bumped up on the "recent posts since your last visit index", I'm getting a headache!

What's this all about? Hanukah Chanukah Gelt or what?
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I counted 16 threads about it on the home page!! I seriously think they need a closed forum for it.

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based on your title I thought you were saying that you started the diet and its giving you a headache...so my first reaction was YEH YOU NEED TO EAT MORE THAN 500 CALORIES A DAY....I guess I am not pro this diet Rolling Eyes

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So here is something I really don't get. When I posted that lots of ladies in my circle eat very little, exercise a lot and keep great figures and I wrote that they eat somewhere around 1000 calories a day depending on height, I got so bashed by some posters who still remember it and bring it up.

And here, posters are advocating a FIVE HUNDRED CALORIE DIET as a norm and they think that this is NORMAL? Why aren't they getting bashed just for such a number??!!!
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A diet is a diet. A lifestyle of not eating is different to me.
The difference is also WHY the women eat 500/1000 etc.
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Homeopathic Chanuka gelt is like one microgram of chocolate in a 2L bottle of water

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Yeah well I would also say it depends on your height. Most of the women I know are between five feet and five five and to say that if they are trying to be slim (like 50 to 55 kilo) they are eating between 1200 to 1000 calories a day while also exercizing around 40 minutes to an hour a day (cardio, weights, yoga, whatever).

If we are talking about the really tall ones - five eight to six feet, they aren't weighing 50 kilo (lol!) but between 60 and 65 I would say and they are certainly eating more than 1000 calories a day - how can one compare a woman of five feet to one of five ten?!

Anyhow I don't know, people with health issues usually end up cutting out what is bad for their particular health problem, some decide to go vegetarian, others macrobiotic, whatever works for them. But none of the really healthy diets completely cut out a full category of food unless one has a serious health issue in that direction (diabetics - cut sugars; celiac - cut gluten; people with bile problems - cut fat, etc.) But otherwise? This HCG sounds to me like something out of the Atkins days with high fat and protein and no carbs. Big tzurris it sounds like to me, unless you are eating complex carbs like whole rice, buckwheat etc...the non gluten ones. And all that fat? Oy.

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I just skip all of those threads.

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HCG=Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, a hormone of pregnancy that is also used in some fertility treatments. Some study supposedly showed that very small doses of HCG coupled with superlow calorie diets lead to weight loss. Duh. 500 calories a day is approximately what was allowed in concentration camps. That and a nickel will get you on the subway. You don't even need the nickel or the HCG to lose weight. Millions of people across the globe can attest to that. It's called "starvation".