Who's Monitoring Your Weight Loss?

Who’s monitoring your weight loss?  If you are doing any kind of intense program, it better be someone qualified to diagnose and predict issues that may develop.  In my office, I promote homeopathic HCG, a product you can now find just about anywhere.  So, why not buy it from the health food store?  It costs less, and if you google it, you will find the diet and thousands of message boards with all kinds of information…you don’t need a doctor, its all there.  Wrong, and dangerous. 

You need a doctor because you are taking on a program in which your body is going to change dramatically.  You are lowering your caloric intake to a specific 500 calories and since every person is unique and no one experience is that same as another, things happen that cannot be predicted.  In my practice, I take questions from patients doing the diet even on the weekends, and it is not uncommon for someone to email asking questions daily.  Why?  Because they get symptoms they have never had before, their digestive system may change, their energy and sleep patterns may change, they might not be loosing as fast as is ideal, and if they were on medications at the start of the program, they may reach a point where they need to come off of those. 

If you purchase your HCG at a health food store, and issues develop, who are you going to call?  Your primary care doctor will have little idea how to help, and most likely will tell you to stop the diet immediately, the health food store is not staffed by a medical professionals, and I do not suggest taking the advice of a store clerk just because they did the diet.  Online chat rooms are rife with people who think they are experts because they have completed the process, and I have seen dangerous suggestions on most sites I have visited.  As a result, very often, people who buy the bottle because it is cheaper than following a doctor end up quitting, cheating, harming themselves or having inadequate results.  All of which are common in the mainstream weight loss arena and which should not be common with HCG.

This diet works, but only when fine tuned to each individual.  This diet is a chance at great health, a new beginning, a launch point for future great health if applied correctly.  Do not underestimate the significance or sophistication of the HCG diet.  Every time some alternative medicine becomes commonplace, someone gets hurt because the assumption is, if it is natural, I can apply it myself.  However, we do not lightly apply pharmaceuticals ourselves and no one should apply a program of this magnitude themselves. 

If you truly desire to have weight loss success, work with someone who can guide, teach and hone the process for you, the individual.  The small price variance will save you frustration and will lead to better results.