The hCG weight loss story begins with Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, a British Endocrinologist, who worked in Rome during the 1950’s. Dr. Simeons discovered that hCG could help people to lose weight rapidly when combined with a very low calorie diet. He also found that, once patients had returned to a more normal way of eating, their bodies were better able to maintain the weight loss achieved using hCG while dieting. The origin of the hCG diet and Dr. Simeons’ discovery can be traced to the examinations he did on pregnant women who had calorie deficient diets.
Prior to his time in his Rome weight-loss clinic, Dr. Simeons worked in the slums of India. Dr. Simeons noticed that women who were under-nourished as a result of poverty and war-time food shortages still delivered healthy, full weight babies. Through further research, Dr. Simeons identified that hCG played a prominent role in this phenomenon. Dr. Simeons discovered the role of hCG was to induce the body to burn fats while sparing other (lean) tissues, when presented with a calorie deficit.
Later, Dr. Simeons tested his hCG finding by giving low dose hCG injections to otherwise healthy males and females as a weight loss supplement. Not only did the hCG injections seem to help his patients lose excess fat, but it also seemed to help them lose their unhealthy fat stores rather than targeting the “healthy fat” needed to cushion organs. In fact, Dr. Simeons discovered that hCG helped naturally reshape his patients’ bodies, even if they didn’t engage in strenuous exercise while on his diet program.
Dr. A.T.W. Simeons chronicled his work weight loss program in the book “ Pounds and Inches: A New Approach to Obesity“.
For a time during the 1950’s and 1960’s, following the publication of his findings, hCG was a popular and common diet, especially among Hollywood stars, and the Mediterranean jet-set . However, the expense and inconvenience of daily visits to a doctor to be injected with the diet aid caused the diet to fall into disuse.
Recently, the essence of hCG has been distilled into a sublingual tincture that can be dropped into the mouth 3 times daily, eliminating the pain and expense of doctor-supervised injections. These hcg diet drops are available as a nutritional supplement, avoiding the prescription drug stigma of the injected version.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that an hCG diet consisting of 3X daily hCG drops, and a very low calorie diet (”vlcd”) menu can result in the loss of as much as 1 to 2 pounds of fat a day, without experiencing the irritability, hunger pains, headaches or weakness that are often associated with other vlcd’s.
Cheap hCG drops when combined with easy to follow, delicious very low calorie diet recipes for 40 days can result in 20 – 30 pounds of permanent weight loss!