The HCG diet was developed originally by Dr. A.T.W Simeons, MD, a British endocrinologist. His protocol and medical findings were published in his manuscript “Pounds & Inches.” He established a clinic in Rome, Italy in the 1950’s where he developed a reputation for safe and effective weight loss with his HCG diet protocol.
According to Dr. Simeons, obesity in all its many forms is due to an abnormal functioning of some part of the body and that every ounce of abnormally accumulated fat is always the result of the same disorder of certain regulatory mechanisms. He was ahead of his time when he described obesity as a disorder originating from the diencephalon, a part of the hypothalamus in the brain which regulates body weight.
Dr. Simeons observed that when patients were eating meals when they were not hungry, the food that was not being used by the body as fuel was stored as fat. He went on to describe three kinds of fat: The first is the structural fat which fills the gaps between various organs, a sort of packing material. Structural fat also performs such important functions as bedding the kidneys in soft elastic tissue, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin smooth and taut. It also provides the springy cushion of hard fat under the bones of the feet, without which we would be unable to walk.
The second type of fat is a normal reserve of fuel upon which the body can freely draw when the nutritional income from the intestinal tract is insufficient to meet the demand. Such normal reserves are localized all over the body. Fat is a substance which packs the highest caloric value into the smallest space so that normal reserves of fuel for muscular activity and the maintenance of body temperature can be most economically stored in this form. Both these types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks them to capacity this can never be called obesity, according to Dr. Simeons.
The third type of fat described by Dr. Simeons is a type of fat which is entirely abnormal. He concluded that it is the accumulation of such fat, and of such fat only, from which the overweight patient suffers. This abnormal fat is also a potential reserve of fuel, but unlike the normal reserves it is not available to the body in a nutritional emergency. It is, so to speak, locked away in a fixed deposit and is not kept in a current account, as are the normal reserves.
Dr. Simeons observed that when an obese patient tries to reduce by starving him or herself, they will first lose his normal fat reserves. When these are exhausted he begins to burn up structural fat, and only as a last resort will the body yield its abnormal reserves, though by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned. It is just for this reason that obese patients complain that when they diet they lose the wrong fat. They feel famished and tired and their face becomes drawn and haggard, but their belly, hips, thighs and upper arms show little improvement. The fat they have come to detest stays on, and their skin wrinkles.
Dr. Simeons discovered that the cause of obesity was due to one very specific diencephalic deficiency, and that the only way to cure obesity was to correct this deficiency. He found that by using HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone present in all humans, and in higher levels in pregnant women, along with a very low calorie diet, kept the structural fat and muscle intact while only breaking down abnormal, toxic fat.
Dr. Simeons’ research revealed that HCG maximizes the functional capacity of the hypothalamus, including the diencephalon, or what he called “the fat center”, making it possible for fat to be released from abnormal fat deposits and to become a source of fuel for the body. The HCG Diet has become very popular in recent years, due to its safety and effectiveness in helping men and women lose weight and keep it off.
An HCG weight loss program is designed for easy application in your everyday life. It isn’t about points, prepared foods or starvation – just simple, healthy alternatives that can shape you for life. Factors such as stress, adrenal fatigue, depression, emotional eating, high levels of toxins in the body, eating the wrong diet, insomnia, thyroid imbalances, metabolic imbalances, and food allergies are only some of the reasons why you could have previously been unsuccessful in keeping the lost weight off.
An HCG program will help:
- Define personal behavioral patterns necessary in facilitating permanent lifestyle changes.
- Provide you with personal coaching for optimal weight loss success – helping you off that proverbial fence to an awareness of your relationship with food both physically and mentally.
- Give you continued support through our long-term maintenance program.
- Boost your self image. The way you value yourself (not how others value you) is important – if you don’t do for your self, it doesn’t get done. You will understand this more as we move through your weight loss journey.
- Makeover your Metabolism – allowing you to burn more calories and lose more weight.
Along with your commitment to your self and the assistance of homeopathic Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG), a natural hormone that aides in increasing energy, suppression of appetite, and break down of difficult to lose fat storages you can lose a healthy 30-40 pounds in a 7 week program, although individual results vary.
Dr. Helene Pulnik, ND and our Certified Life Coach and Weight Loss Assistant, Teena Tautkus, have guided hundreds of male and female patients ranging in age from teens to seniors in attaining their goal of a healthier, happier, lighter self. Call (860) 657-4105 now and “Get Started” – a new you for Life! If you need additional motivation and have a competitive spirit, you will want to join us on January 4, 2012 when we start our own version of the Biggest Loser with our Smallest Winner Program. Do the program yourself or with a friend – it doesn’t matter. Just come on out and have some fun getting healthier, happier and getting into your own Little Black Dress (Black Tux for the guys!) As an additional incentive for losing the most will be a $100 gift certificate to Macy’s so you can get your own Little Black Dress/ Black Tux and wear it proudly.