Thread: HCG and Appetite Suppressant

I started the ECA Stack (there is a thread about it if you search). I need it to help me in P3. I wrestle with the urge to just overeat once I am here. It's almost noon and I have yet to eat. That is never the case in my reality. I don't plan to use it non-stop or for long periods of time but I totally understand the need.

I may not be actually hungry but for some reason my brain wants to me eat until I am uncomfortably full before I feel satisfied. What I am taking takes that away. Or at least it is so far.

Originally Posted by Twinma

I started the ECA Stack (there is a thread about it if you search). I need it to help me in P3. I wrestle with the urge to just overeat once I am here. It's almost noon and I have yet to eat. That is never the case in my reality. I don't plan to use it non-stop or for long periods of time but I totally understand the need.

I may not be actually hungry but for some reason my brain wants to me eat until I am uncomfortably full before I feel satisfied. What I am taking takes that away. Or at least it is so far.

I also struggle with being able to stop eating once I start. I'm hoping that this will help me reconfigure my relationship with food.

Twinma, I'm so impressed with your weightloss!! I would love to be at your weight! **Inspiration**

I have heard of many people on HCG through clinics , are given appetite suppressants its pretty common now.

Originally Posted by Sabina

Dr. S said combining with high calorie diet was worthless--he said hcg does nothing then. ( I read a letter he wrote responding to a negative research study that upped the calories.)

I did Atkins on Hcg and lost, so either the Hcg does nothing as I've said, or high calorie diet does work with Hcg.

My own personal experience has been this:

3 pregnancies. EACH and every single pregnancy- I DID NOT change my eating habits. Now remind you I started at over 300lbs- so I was obviously eating a Very high calorie diet to sustain that. Pregnancy = hcg in your body. EVERY single pregnancy- instead of gaining weight like most women- I LOST weight- and significant amounts of it. Obviously this doesn't represent causation- but in my mind I like to think it was because of the hcg- again, I didn't change my caloric intake or exercise more or less or anything. Aside from being pregnant- nothing in my lifestyle/daily routines changed. So in my opinion- hcg DOES and can work even on a higher calorie 'diet'. You obviously aren't going to get the huge losses as quickly as with VLCD- but you still should have losses (if my theory is correct LOL).

Originally Posted by PixieCat

I'm not doing VLCD diet either on the HCG. I am doing a normal diet near 1200 cal a day. I just noticed the combination for me works to actually allow me to lose the weight. I'm not in starvation.

Originally Posted by Sabina

Why even do the Hcg then, seriously? You're losing, and it's not because of the Hcg, so why put it in your body?

According to "Pounds and Inches" Dr. S stumbuled upon this treatment while treating some young men in Inda for Froehlich's dease. The side effects of the disorder made the young men fat. HCG was the treatment to correct the disorder. He noticed their appetites were supressed and they were loosing fat althought they were not on a calorie restricted diet. The VLCD was what he came up with later soley to encourage faster losses in obease patients. So, it will work on higher calorie diets. Obviously it will take longer to reach your goals. However, an supressent shouldn't be needed. If you are still hungry, likely your HCG dosage needs an adjustment.

You should never ever take an appetite suppressant with hcg if you want the weight to stay gone. Here's why: HUNGER is the signal that the dose is wrong. If you don't hear the signal and keep on the diet with the wrong dose, you will be losing the wrong kind of fat. When you get to goal and start eating again, your body will quickly try to replace the fat you lost. You will also lose muscle which is not good.

Hcg is not an appetite suppressant itself. I hear people mistakenly say that all the time and it's simply not true. The reason you aren't hungry is that when hcg is doing what it's supposed to, your body is releasing a great deal of fat that you are burning for calories instead of ingesting them. When it's not working, those calories aren't being released and you're hungry. So then we work to tweak the dose to get to the happy place. If you are weak and hungry and no dose adjustment fixes it, then I tell people to stop because it's not working for you. So you don't want to suppress what tells you if things are right or not.