Atkins diet vs hcg diet

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Any one who can stick on this diet will lose weight - with or with out the HCG. 100%. If the HCG helps release stored fat, FANTASTIC. If it helps you feel better when you are dieting - FANTASTIC. If it really helps you maitain weight loss and change your body make-up - FANTASTIC. If all's it does is help you stay with the diet because you "think" good things are happening, that's okay too. After everything I've read, I don't see any negatives.
I have been on the Simeons diet but am not taking hcg injections but have used Releana, an HCG oral dosage. It only requires about one dropper worth of liquid a day (1/2 in am and the remainder at night). I am also under a doctor's care for this diet). Since January I have lost 49 lbs, which along with a preceding diet started in late November has given me a total of a 82 lb loss. I got tired of being fat/obese and determined if I did not do it now I probably never would.
500 Calorie 'with' HCG and 500 calorie 'without' HCG. (Read my post about that from 6/15). Believe me - this is sooooooooo much easier to do this 500 Cal diet WITH HCG than it was without. Without, I was miserable, hungry constantly and couldn't stick with the diet. I'm on my 12th day dieting with HCG this time, and it's a breeze. The weight is coming off and I feel great. I've also fasted (on water only) for 14 days for medical reasons.
There is a clinic that recently opened in Ft Worth but they require they follow you through a 30 day Phase I 'pre-diet' cleanse and diet preparation before they will prescibe HCG. Can't email Transformations program because it's only 'hard copy'. Dr Simeon's original diet can be found at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HcgDieters/files/. There is a summary version and the full 64 page document written by Dr Simeon.
I've been off hcg for 5 days and the weight is coming back at almost the same rate (a lb a day) but I'm doing a version of the Atkins diet, avoiding carbs. Despite all this, I still believe in hcg and intend to do it again in 5 wks. I'm going to up my dosage to 200 units per shot and see if that does work any better. There must be something I've done that worked against me - I don't know what - but I'm going to keep researching and find out.
I do believe though, the B vitamin helped keep my nerves in check so I didn't feel 'spinny' or anything like that. I did the Atkins diet before and it really gave me the shakes and spins. Anyway, it's a year later and I did put half the weight back on. I still loved the Dr B diet and think it worked great for me. I just felt so great after that I didn't bother to do any maintenance what-so-ever. Pretty much ate what I wanted.
I was on that for seven years and finally got a sensitivity to it and it was no longer effective. With autoimmune urticaria vs. chronic idiopathic urticaria (which they said was what i had for eight of the ten years) I couldn't use antihistimines at all with effect, doxepin was the only one! Plaquenil is our next option. However using synthroid (synthetic thyroid) daily has done more for my hives than anything used thus far.
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