Crazy weight loss plans come and go, but unfortunately some of the scammy or bad ones just don’t seem to go away. The HCG diet is one such case. HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin is a hormone produced during pregnancy but can be found in both men and women. During pregnancy HCG signals a woman’s body to metabolize fat thus bringing nutrients into the placenta and essentially feeding the baby and giving it the nutrition it needs to grow properly.
The natural hormone HCG has been taken and made into an injectable form and is supposed to act as an appetite suppressant. Along with taking these hormone injections, dieters are urged to go on a 500 calorie a day diet which is just plain dangerous and frankly, stupid. Your body was not designed to survive on 500 calories of food a day. This tiny amount of caloric intake is not even enough food energy to allow you body to function normally. Anyone can lose weight on a 500 calorie a day diet without the use of some injection. Honestly, consuming 500 calories a day is not dieting, it is starvation.
Dr Oz recently took a look at this diet and basically said that there is no validity to the claims that the HCG hormone is effective in helping you lose weight. He said that you can also find HCG drops on the Internet, but that they are actually illegal. You also have to watch out for scam artists selling HCG drops that don’t really have any of the hormone in them.
It is also interesting to not that HCG is a banned substance in major league baseball because the hormone supposedly helps steroid users lessen the side effects of coming off of steroid use. The hormone also has a long list of side effect itself that should make anyone want to stay away from it.
The HCG diet is a loser. Do yourself a favor and don’t get involved in it.
There are plenty of other diets on out blog we’ve reviewed such as Fat Loss 4 Idiots, The Truth About Abs and the FBF Diet Plan that are much more effective and don’t involve taking and potions that have not effect and may even turn out to be dangerous.
Okay, the new year is finally here and it’s time to do something about the excess eating that started when the first bag of candy was opened around Halloween and didn’t stop until sometime on January 2nd. New Years weight loss resolutions are always big on the list of priorities, but what are you really going to do about it? Are you going to stick with it or are you going to start a weight loss diet plan, do it for a few months and then be back in the same position at the end of 2011?
The best way to avoid the yo-yo diet deal is to eat a healthy diet that has all the nutrition in it you need. That way, your body is actually getting what it need nutritionally instead of dieting where you starve yourself. After you go off a diet like that what’s the first thing you want to do? That would be, eat like a pig because you’ve been starving yourself.
So, to avoid that, let’s look at the top 3 weight loss plans we recommend here at Weight Loss Diet Plans. They are:
Fat Loss 4 Idiots
This is one of the most popular diet plans sold on the internet today as some 2 million people have used it to lose weight. The plan lets you design your own diet based on the foods you like and comes with an online diet planner where you can put in your foods and then it will design a diet and menu plan that’s right for you. One of the nice things about this diet is that there aren’t any calorie counting routines to go through when using it.
The diet was formerly known as Weight Loss 4 Idiots and has been around since 2004. This diet is easy and quick to learn and boasts some members losing up to 9 pounds every 11 days. That may be a bit of a stretch for most people, but the diet is worth a try.
Fat Burning Furnace
The Fat Burning Furnace is also known as the FBF Diet Plan and is also a popular weight loss program for many people. The main principle of this diet is that it teaches you body how to lose weight. In other words, it trains your body to effectively raise your metabolism so your body will then burn fat at a faster rate than what you put in on at.
Through various short, but intense exercises and eating a variety of foods that help you burn fat, your body is transformed into a fat burning machine. There aren’t any real shortcuts to weight loss, you still have to do the hard work, but the FBF Diet Plan at least lays it all out for you in an easy to follow, step-by-step program.
The Truth About Abs
With the name of this diet it may make you think this one is only for exercise fanatics or jocks that go to the gym and want to work on getting those cut, six pack abs, but that isn’t really the case. This diet and exercise program is for anyone. Many people want to lose belly fat and this program shows you how to lose fat all over your body so it will eventually be burned off your stomach. It gives tips on metabolism, exercises that are a little different than you may have heard about before and how to correctly develop your ab muscles.
You can pay the full price for this program or you can try it out for only $4.95 for a month and then make one more payment of only $35 and there aren’t any rebills like some of the acai berry scams that are going around today.
Those are the top 3 programs we recommend for New Years weight loss. We wish you the best success with your weight loss goals in the coming year and hope you have a blessed 2011.
If you want to lose weight and stay healthy you simply can’t get around the fact that you need to exercise. The hard thing about exercise for most people though is that it takes time to see those all important results. Wouldn’t it be better if you could make your exercise program more effective for the same amount of exercise?
There’s a very interesting study done by Harvard University where they actually discovered a pretty powerful trick that doesn’t involve any more exercise than you would normally do in your routine. The study is chronicled in the book 59 Seconds and involved 80 hotel maids who get a lot of exercise in their routines at work every day. The group of 80 maids were split into 2 groups of 40 each and the results were quite amazing.
Read more about the startling discovery that makes any exercise program more effective…
Some interesting trends showed up in Google yesterday with the announced premier of TLC’s Extreme Couponing. Everybody loves to save money with coupons, but some people go extreme and get AMAZING deals on groceries and all kinds of other merchandise. However, the big savings most people are experiencing is from saving on your food bill at the grocery store.
Extreme Couponing premiered Dec 29th on TLC and featured a lady that uses up to 500, you read that right, 500, coupons a week when she goes to the grocery store. She is known as The Krazy Coupon Lady and actually goes dumpster diving to find flyers people have thrown away. I guess to clip some 500 coupons a week you have to go to the extreme. Her real name is Joanie Demer and her last trip to the grocery store totaled more than $600, but get this, it only cost her $2.64. She’s obviously pretty serious about her couponing.
But don’t think coupon clipping is just for women, TLC featured extreme male couponer Nathan Engels who love to save oney as well. But unfortunately Nathan has taken clipping food and other manufacturer coupons beyond extreme so much so that he has more than 1,100 boxes of cereal and 300 toothbrushes stashed away in his garage. Yes, he may be saving some initial money during his shopping trips, but he isn’t saving money in the long run when he probably has some $4,000 worth of cereal and toothbrushes stashed away.
If you want to save money on groceries that’s great and when you go on a diet to lose weight, you can save that extra money to buy higher quality, more nutritious food, but when you go nuts and collect groceries just because you have an obsession, you aren’t really saving anything.
If you are into couponing, check out this deal on free samples of healthy products for your diet.
Who doesn’t love saving money on groceries? With the cost of everything skyrocketing lately, especially food, wouldn’t it be great to score some nice deals on food with a few printable grocery coupons? Whether you want to get coupons and save on groceries for your diet and weight loss needs or you need to save money on all your paper, plastic and cleaning products, money saving coupons are worth having.
You can spend the time to get your local grocery store flyers and cut out all those coupons or you can get your free printable grocery coupons by email and just print them out and take them to the store with you. Nothing hard about that, right? I guess you can’t completely avoid the grocery store flyer because not every coupon comes by email and maybe your specific store has specials that are just good in your area, but I’d rather get most of my discount coupons by email. Everybody likes free printable grocery coupons.
If you haven’t ever used coupons before, now is the time. You can save a ton of money on everything you buy at the grocery including bread, milk, soy milk, eggs, your favorite healthy cereals (maybe you like Whole Grain Cheerios), ketchup, mustard, healthy snacks such as Wheat Thins crackers and all kinds of other things.
Of course since this is a diet blog, we hope you are using your coupons wisely to buy more healthy foods that are full of nutrition and minimally processed and not the high fat snacks that put on weight. Too bad you can’t use most coupons to buy produce such as lettuce, bananas, apples and other fruits and vegetables, because they are really the most nutritious foods you can buy and they will do the most for helping you lose weight.
However, you can save lots of money with coupons for all your packaged needs and then you will have planty of money left over for the most healthy foods.
Start the new year off right, download your free printable grocery coupons here.
