HCG and Atkins

[scarletakb]

Hi everyone,
Sorry to butt in here..
I had a quick question... Can HCG drops enhance your weight loss if you are following Atkins?

(I did try to search, but my search function isn't cooporating with me... )

[verbqueen]

I'm not a dietician or a doctor or anything, nor am I an hcg expert (although I've lost weight very successfully with hcg!)

But here's my take, for what it's worth: hcg requires very low calories to engage its amazing weight loss properties. Somehow, if you get your calories at 500 or lower, it accesses your fat, but not your lean tissue. This is what we want, to lose "abnormal fat," as Dr. Simeons put it, but not our muscles and organs, which is what would ordinarily happen with such low calories.

So, traditional Atkins with high calories and high fat probably would not work well with hcg.

With that said, many people do the hcg very low calorie diet in a low carb way--that is, they do not eat the fruit or the breadstick that Simeons' Protocol allows, but instead get all of their very low calories from protein and green veggies. And that seems to work very well for them.

So in a nutshell -- you can do it low carb, but you still have to keep the calories very low.

Hope that helped!

[dawnyama]

Exactly!!! This is a low fat AND low calorie plan. You can do this without the melba/grissini, but I would highly, highly recommend doing the fruit. And keeping your protein to the 7 oz total for the day. The reason this works so well is because you are eating just enough protein that you don't cannibalize your muscles, yet not enough that you are using that for energy. You want your fat stores gone and they get gone while following protocol as close as possible. I am an old Atkins girl at heart (have been lowcarbing for 12+ years) and I cannot tell you how great it is to finally have an apple and lose weight. It is fantastic!!!

[Violet_Dream]

Originally Posted by verbqueen

I'm not a dietician or a doctor or anything, nor am I an hcg expert (although I've lost weight very successfully with hcg!)

But here's my take, for what it's worth: hcg requires very low calories to engage its amazing weight loss properties. Somehow, if you get your calories at 500 or lower, it accesses your fat, but not your lean tissue. This is what we want, to lose "abnormal fat," as Dr. Simeons put it, but not our muscles and organs, which is what would ordinarily happen with such low calories.

So, traditional Atkins with high calories and high fat probably would not work well with hcg.

With that said, many people do the hcg very low calorie diet in a low carb way--that is, they do not eat the fruit or the breadstick that Simeons' Protocol allows, but instead get all of their very low calories from protein and green veggies. And that seems to work very well for them.

So in a nutshell -- you can do it low carb, but you still have to keep the calories very low.

Hope that helped!

[dawnyama]

Maybe this will help:

Former Atkins dieters, please chime in!