Educate Yourself About HCG Weight Loss
HCG weight loss is a fairly new weight loss regime that claims to boost your metabolism and help you to lose weight quickly. Most people who use HCG for weight loss claim to lose 1 to 2 pounds per day. HCG is administered through injection and paired with a very low calorie diet of 500 calories. This diet not only limits your caloric intake, but helps you to learn to eat less and eat healthier foods. When combined with exercise most people report that they feel better and lose weight much quicker than with diet alone. People on the diet also report that they are more adapted to eating less after the diet and this helps them to keep the weight off after they have completed the diet.
HCG is a hormone, Human Choriogonadotropin, produced by pregnant women early in their pregnancy, and is indeed the hormone detected in a pregnancy test. It is thought to assist the hypothalamus gland to boost your metabolism and release excess fat from your body. The low calorie diet of 500 calories keeps your body from reabsorbing the released fat and a substantial weight loss is the result.
The diet is based on a healthy eating program that stresses fresh vegetables and fresh fruits. One of the premises of the diet is to consume foods that have negative calories. These are foods that require more calories for your body to digest than they contain. For example a piece of fresh broccoli, 100 grams, contains 25 calories but uses 80 calories of energy to digest. Other foods considered negative calorie foods include celery, carrots, apples, beets, berries and many more. While much of the HCG weight loss may be from strict calorie control and exercise, the HCG may also aid in the release and metabolism of stored fat in your body leading to quick weight loss.