I have tried a huge amount of different trendy diets throughout my life and I had gotten to the point where I was so sick of all of the yo-yo dieting that I just swore off diets altogether, and ignored all of the latest fad diets whenever I would see them pop up in magazines or on television, but when I heard about the hcg diet, it sounded so great I just couldn't resist giving it a try. Luckily, this story ends very happily and I was able to lose quite a bit of weight and found myself much healthier and extremely happy with my appearance, but it almost didn't happen because my sister was nervous about bringing one more diet to me!

This happened around a year ago when my sister, her husband, and her kids were in town for my mother's birthday and stayed at my place for the majority of their visit. One evening while my sister was there, we were talking about our weight and I went into a rant about how I was so upset about the different diets I had tried and how they were all just a huge waste of time and money.

My sister stayed silent for the moment, but the next day I began again to vent my frustrations with dieting and she told me pretty bluntly that I needed to stop talking and listen to her, as she had something to tell me that I needed to hear. I was astonished by her forcefulness and listened to her explain the details about the hcg diet without interrupting.

What I liked most about this diet was that it was not necessarily about what foods you did or did not eat, rather it was about teaching your body to burn fat in a better and more efficient way, which would eventually reduce the body's fat stores. One of the main components of this diet was something called hcg drops, which I discovered were actually based on a real hormone produced by the human body.

When I finished listening to what my sister had to say, I apologized for being such a pain in the neck and told her to let me know what I had to do to get started on this diet that I admitted sounded pretty good. My sister was just glad that I actually listened and she gave me the information I needed so I could get started with the diet, and before I knew it, I was thrilled to discover that I was losing weight and keeping it off!