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Diet-bashing
Maybe I will start that diet-bashing blog I mentioned a few weeks ago. That Paleo-crazy cousin I was talking about (the one who was The Zone-crazy cousin before that and many other diets-crazy)? She's now on the HCG diet. Look it up. 500 cal plus hcg drops for 1.5 months.
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Re: Diet-bashing
Where in the hell does one get hcg drops? And she only eats 500 calories a day? With hcg in her system?
I'd rather just be fat.
I know someone who did it. She did it under a doctors care and looks fantastic. The hcg is like an appetite killer so she was never hungry and basically all she ate for the diet what's healthy food like grilled chicken, veggies, and apples.
Yeah, she's allowed 4oz of meat and 4oz of veggies for lunch and dinner (each meal), and then fruit for breakfast and snacks. That's it. She says her doctor researched it and approved it for her, but I keep thinking that a 500cal diet is probably what's going to make you lose the weight, not the hcg drops. According to said cousin, the benefit of the hcg drops is that they "tell your body to get the extra calories it needs to survive from its fat reserves." I must admit that I'm not convinced and think it's just another fad diet with a much greater potential for harm than Paleo or Atkins or the like.
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<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI did the HCG (modified) at the beginning of the year and dropped 20lbs on it. It was hard, but it reset my system so I once I went back on a normal diet I didn't have a voracious appetite. I did the HCG alternative which is not the actual HCG hormone but mimics the way HCG works with different herbs and minerals.
I'm on the Primal Diet right now because of my Celiac Disease and it suits my body very well as I'm considered a "super sensitive"
To me, this is a completely different thing than going on Paleo because that's what's trendy right now and you think it's going to be the miracle cure. I'm not going to roll my eyes at someone who's going on a dairy-free diet because they're lactose intolerant, either, or even just because it makes them feel better (more energy or whatever). What bothers me are people like my cousin who jump on every new fad diet train that comes by and then she tries to talk me into doing it, too.
I'm really curious now ... did it make you feel sick? I threw up so much in both of my pregnancies, and I always thought the nausea was caused in part by the hcg.
I don't get hating life or yourself so much that you would deny yourself normal food on a regular basis. I get trying to eat well overall or avoiding certain triggers, but FFS, 500 cal/day does not sound healthy at all. And I have no idea what those drops are. Can't your cousin just go see a nutritional counselor and figure out how to make overall reforms? It seems like that would take far less effort than jumping on every fad diet bandwagon.
I know. The thing is, she's obese even though she works out at a gym (serious workouts with trainers) 3x / week, trains for and rides in long bike rides (100miles), runs, used to be a rickshaw bike driver in Raleigh, etc, etc, etc, and still doesn't lose weight. If I exercised 1/2 as much as she does, I would probably get rid of my excess 30lbs in about 2 months, so I understand that she's frustrated and wants to lose the weight, but still. This hcg diet takes the cake (or doesn't, actually, but you know what I mean).
OK but what does she eat??? If she eats 4,000 calories a day and works out to burn 1,000 calories, that's still too many calories. Some people on the biggest loser used to eat 8,000 calories a day! Yeah, losing 1,000 at the gym won't make you thin.
This is one of my pet peeves. I know people who are on a different fad diet at least twice a year. After several years, it gets annoying because it obviously doesn't work and I get tired of them complaining when I know they make poor food choices and don't exercise. I feel like all the time and money for yo-yo dieting could be used to hire a nutritionist and a personal trainer to make real changes that are sustainable.
I had someone try this one (below) and was attempting to tell me that they injected pellets into her buttocks, and that it will cure her anxiety, insomnia, mood swings, and make her lose weight and have more energy. I told her that eating healthy and exercising would probably have a similar effect, but the butt pellets had a more compelling argument.
http://www.midlife-passages.com/pellets.html
Totally agree with the bolded part. I am afraid to click on the butt pellets link. Seriously? I barely have it in me to regularly massage in the anti-cellulite cream I bought after seeing it advertised in one too many French magazines. Actual exercise is much more satisfying.
At the risk of sounding like an extreme hippy, I also think something as basic as drinking enough water can help with anxiety/mood swings/etc. I am not at all trying to discount the value of mood-regulating drugs, therapy, counseling and the like, but I honestly know way too many people who survive on Diet Coke alone and have a lot of these issues. MIL is one of them. She actually told me once she doesn't like the taste of water and tries to avoid it. Excuse me but, caffeine is dehydrating! How can you possibly have a good attitude about life if you're never, ever properly hydrated?
I've totally derailed this. Sorry, it was the notion of butt pellets that got to me.
This is exactly how I feel about every diet she's on. Whichever diet is the diet of the month, though, is "so much more natural" and "makes so much more sense" than just reducing calories. But to LOB - I rarely see her so I can't speak for her eating choices, but she has basically been on diets non-stop for the past 10 years, so I can't imagine that her calorie intake is out of control. On the other hand, with all the exercising she does, there has to be some cheating going on that she obviously doesn't tell me about.
And, um, I'm not going to tell her about the butt pellets...