It seems like all the rage is this new “HCG Diet.” I have seen it talked about on several news stations, Dr. Oz and this very morning I saw it on Good Morning America. What is interesting to me is that when I lived in Wichita, I would hear about something being the new HOT thing and I was all, “Huh? What? I have never heard of that.” Oh how things have changed now that I live in the booming city of Denver.
Several weeks ago I got my weekly ad from my grocery store that I go to every week. They had HCG on sale and had this whole sidebar about how it can make you lose a pound a day and not re-gain it. I asked Pete about it and he said he almost took it years ago to assist his weight-lifting but didn’t because he had heard it could make your ears and nose grow really large. WHA?!
Anyway, I went to the store with the very intention of buying it just to try it for a week or so and lose those 7 pounds that somehow attached themselves to my butt (having absolutely nothing to do with the amount of desserts I have eaten over the past 6 months). So I was in the store with it in my hand, and I imagined how I would look with no butt and really large ears and nose, and put it back and decided to go home and do some more research. I sort of forgot about about it for a couple of weeks until I heard all over TV that it is the new rage, and so now I am thinking, “I am part of this rage! I had it in my hand! I know where I could purchase it!” Wow. OK, I lived in a smallish city too long.
SOOOOOO, here is the claim people: HCG makes you lose weight because it puts the pregnancy hormone in you and EVERYONE knows that when you are pregnant you burn lots of fat and not muscle. Can I get a “WHAT THE H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS?” from every woman who has ever been pregnant?! I mean have these researchers ever SEEN a pregnant woman? I guess there may be a few out there who burn insane amounts of fat while they are harboring an infant in their abdomen, but I would dare say that 99.9% of women would not agree with this research. I personally had to start wearing maternity clothes in month 3 BECAUSE MY BUTT WAS TOO LARGE FOR MY REGULAR PANTS. My belly? No signs of a little person living in there.
So, while I have not tried HCG, I have had the pleasure of being preggo twice. My experience is that not only will you not burn more fat, your body will save up everything you eat and store it in your face and butt.
Exhibit A: Storing of fat in the face. Also, I have no idea what is up with Pete’s eyes. He usually has a very hard time keeping his eyes open in pictures. In this one though, he did a VERY. GOOD. JOB. KEEPING. THEM. OPEN!
I also have a picture of my very large backside while having the HCG roar through my system. However, while it is a general rule that blog posts are better with a picture, trust me on this one, this blog post is WAY better without that picture.
From my experience, I would not recommend HCG for weight loss. For growing a new member of your family? Sure, why not. I for one will not be putting that into my body unnaturally for fear that the pregnancy butt will pounce on me again. Now the natural way? Well we will just have to see about that. I never know what God has planned for the Kleinsasser family. 🙂
