Dr. Simeon's diet was developed half a century back and so far has actually helped lots of thousands of people to reduce their weight for life without undergoing surgical treatment or experiencing the nasty side-effects of fat burning medicines. It is based upon prescribing a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin to the patients and giving them with a very low calorie diet to do for specified amount of time.

The hcg hormone is a pregnancy hormone. Its levels begin rising as soon as the egg implants itself is the uterus and testing for HCG in the blood is typically used to check for pregnancy. The HCG, nevertheless does not cause pregnancy signs itself. Since they fear that they will begin bloating and having mood swings, individuals are frequently scared of using this weight loss technique. This will not happen. During maternity numerous hormones play a role; you have your estrogen, your endorphins, your progesterone and you oxytocin, which will all work together to develop a healthy environment for the fetus. The function of the HCG is to stimulate the hypothalamus so that it will accelerate the metabolism and burn fat really fast in case of a sugar shortage in the blood.

You will get rapid and efficient weight loss when you incorporate the stimulation of the metabolic process with a shortage in sugar. That is why, when on the HCG diet it is required to do a VLCD (very low calorie diet). It takes a bit of willpower but you will not feel hungry and you will be rewarded with very quick weight loss. The anticipated fat burning is of 1-3 lbs a day.

The diet plan can be done on rounds of twenty-six or forty days according to the amount of weight has to be lost. This is precisely the amount of time it will take for the hypothalamus to be reprogrammed and for the metabolism to be reset. The rounds can be repeated after a two week maintenance period in case the preferred weight has not yet been achieved. The reason it is not feasible to prolong the diet plan for more than forty days is that the body becomes accustomed to the hormone and so it ceases to be efficient.

He would ask the patient at exactly what age they had actually begun to put on weight and exactly what their maximum weight had actually been. By taking into account age, height, gender and beginning weight, he was able to fine tune his therapy to the patient's particular needs and obtain outstanding results.

In half a century of practice a lot has actually been learned and nowadays it is possible to do the diet alone as dosages have actually been standardized. Statistically there doesn't seem to be any particular advantage to doing injections instead of taking the sublingual drops. It is recommended to check out Dr. Simeon's publication "Pounds and Inches" to have a good understanding of exactly what the diet plan includes.