Diet: Weight Loss

Getting Weight Off and Keeping It Off

“Why can’t I lose weight?” is a question that many of us have asked ourselves. However, effective weight loss means dealing with several variables.

• Poor diet: Most of us eat ethnically or habitually, or follow the recommendations of the processed food and fast food industry who encourage us to eat much more than we need to and more poorly than we should. This also extends to the oversized food portions being served in the more popular restaurants.

• Lack of accountability: Successful weight loss is best accomplished by being accountable to someone.

• Lack of exercise: The purpose of food is to provide us with the energy that we require for activity. If we consume more calories per day than what we expend in activity, we store the excess calories as fat. As we increase exercise, we decrease fat.
• Failure to commit: Successful, healthy weight loss can require a commitment of six months to two years, with a LIFETIME commitment to a new healthy lifestyle to keep it off.

• Psychological make-up: Food as a reward mechanism is common in American culture.

• Genetic make-up: Research has found that some individuals possess a genetic profile which makes it difficult for them to lose weight. However, genes only indicate predisposition; they do not mandate outcome.

• Hormones: There are a number of hormones that can come into play in weight loss, including thyroid hormones, adrenal hormones and dopamine. Hormones can impact metabolic rate,weight gain and food craving.

Vitamins & Supplements Recommended for Weight Control/Weight Loss

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HCG

INJECTIONS

Important Things to Remember:

• You will administer an injection every morning as instructed.

If your physician instructs you to skip a day, you can administer an  injection every morning for 6 days, skipping the 7th day, and then repeating the cycle.

• Use a new syringe for each injection to avoid contamination and reduce the risk of infection.
• Rotate injection sites to reduce pain and avoid creating scar tissue.

“Rotate” means alternating the left and right leg or left or right side of abdomen to inject. This also means not injecting in the same spot in more than once (For example: move each injection ½ inch from the last injection in the respective legs or abdomen.

HCG DIET PROGRAM RESOURCE

Is HCG the Missing Link, an article by Larry Thorne, BScPharm, RPh, FACA, PCCA Pharmacy Consultant, reviews the utilization of The Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) Diet Program and its success in helping people living with obesity. “The HCG Diet Protocol has endured the test of time. There is no question that adherence to the HCG diet protocol will result in rapid weight loss.”