HCG: How to Recover from Holiday Weight Gain

HCG or Human Chorio Gonadotropin, is a naturally occurring hormone found in large quantities in pregnant women. In the 1950s, a British Endocrinologist, Dr. A.T.W. Simeon discovered that injecting small amounts of it causes fat loss in obese individuals.

It is now also available in a Homeopathic oral HCG preparation.  Oral HCG has been found to be just as effective as the injected form, but it's more cost effective and convenient to take the drops.

HCG and weight loss
The weight loss program, in addition to taking HCG drops each day, also involves following a very low 500-calorie diet. Dieters can get by on such a low number of calories because the hormone works in the body to liberate the stored abnormal fat and burns thousands of calories of it each day for energy and nutrition.

Let's take a look at how you can use the drops to help you to recover from that holiday weight gain and re-sculpt your body naturally.

How to Mess Up Your Weight Loss Plan
You attended a few festive gatherings during the holiday season. You were ravenously hungry and everything looked so good and smelled even better. Before you knew it, you had eaten a plate full of hors d'oeuvres and then you found yourself heading for the dessert table.

You had to skip going to the gym because of an early meeting and then later in the week, the weather was bad and before you know it, you haven't been to the gym in almost three weeks.

You had been preparing healthy meals at home and making extra portions that you could bring with you to work. But lately, you’ve been eating lunch out at local restaurants, and soon enough it has been about ten days since you followed your eating plan.

How to Get it Back on Track
Always eat something healthy and drink plenty of water before you attend a food-related special event. If you show up hungry, you will not have as much self-control.

Decide in advance to take only tiny portions of those rich, heavy foods and either stay away from the dessert table completely, or plan to indulge in a very small portion of dessert.

Do not punish yourself for getting out of your fitness routine. Simply get back on track and make sure that your exercise times are not negotiable. One of the good things about this weight loss program is that it does not rely on heavy exercise to burn off fat. So, you can get away with going for a 15 minute walk, or a couple of five-ten minute walks throughout the day.

The HCG diet is very strict about the number of calories you can take in and the kinds of foods you can eat. You'll have to weigh your portions. In addition, there are a limited number of foods that you can eat making it simple to stick to the plan.

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