Is your Diet sustainable?

Recently several people we met have tried a miracle diet. This involves getting daily injections of a hormone and going on a starvation diet of 500 calories daily.

Supposedly the hormone relieves hunger pangs and causes the body to metabolize its fat rather than muscle. Some of these "miracle diets" use HCG which is a hormone produced during pregnancy. Others use HGH, human growth hormone.

Even if the diet works exactly as advertised you have to ask yourself is it sustainable? Can you continue to inject hormones and eat 500 calories daily for the rest of your life?

Of course not. Once you lose the desired amount of weight you need to eat enough food to stabilize your weight. It is unhealthy to lose too much weight. Is it healthy to get injected with hormones the daily the rest of your life? We doubt that.

So what will you do when the diet is over? Maybe you have lost a lot of weight. You have not learned how to eat a healthy diet so you will go back to your old ways and will gain back everything you lost. It will happen, it has to happen.

The only way to permanently lose weight is to make sustainable changes to your diet. Changes you can make forever...

A word on 500 calorie/day diets.

If your Basel Metabolic Rate is 2250 cal/day and you only eat 500 you will lose 1/2 a pound every day. This will happen without hormones.

500 calories per day is not much food. Given that limit it is hard to eat a balanced diet with healthy amounts of good fats, carbohydrates, essential proteins, vitamins and minerals. Don't starve your body of essential nutrients! If you insist on starving yourself please talk with a doctor, he may talk you out of it or prescribe supplements.

bon appetit!
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