It. Works.

When I'm excited about something I want to share it.  Ever feel that way about something in your life??
I'm Troy Lown and I've lost 14 pounds in 12 days with little or no hunger.

  In my home alone, house spouse hours between vacuuming dog hair and deciding what gourmet specialty I'll make for dinner that night, I usually read up on the internet's daily news and see what's going on in the world.  One topic that I'd seen was about a substance called hCG which claimed some kind of drastic weight loss results, but I figured it was another fad crash diet which left me fully disinterested... until my in-laws told us that they had been doing this program with equally impressive results.  Suddenly I became a little interested.
  It's one thing to read fantastic claims over the internet, but it is another thing entirely to have people I know and trust validating those claims.
  But if you know me, I still need more convincing.  So I set off on the web to research this hCG thing to see what the fuss was about.  Here's a summary of what I discovered:
  HCG is a hormone called Human Chorionic Gondaotropin which is secreted during pregnancy.  Research begun in the 1950's by an Italian (Dr. Simeon) showed that patients given doses of hCG along with eating a specific very low calorie diet (VLCD) were able to lose an average of one pound of abnormal body fat per day... with zero or very low amounts of hunger and without being devoid of energy.
  The basic explanation behind the mechanism involved is that the hormone works in the human body (both male & female) to burn abnormal fat, while essentially leaving normal fat and muscle alone.  Just like a woman's body needs extra energy to support a growing fetus along with all the amazing efforts involved in such a feat, hCG enables the body's mechanisms to use it's "deep storage" (abnormal) fat to provide energy needed when a VLCD is in place.
  The amazing thing about this that while ingesting a daily caloric intake of only 500 calories seems excessively punishing, the hCG is telling one's body to burn between 1500-4000 calories DAILY and hunger is all but abated during the process!
  I'm telling you, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been experiencing it myself.
  So after doing some reading, and then reading some more... and then asking lots of questions, I decided to proceed with doing some more research.  :)
  Dr. Simeon's protocol involved doing daily injections of hCG.  Not being a needle fan, I was glad to see that there was an option of taking oral drops.  However, my temporary joy was muted by the thought that so often things don't work the same way they did when the mode of application is changed.  So my research focused on the effectiveness of drops versus shots.
  I must say that by this time, I had read enough to cause me to ask for the contact information of a reputable source for oral hCG (referred to as "Homeopathic HCG") and begin the process.  It was during this time that I began to read news stories of hCG and the FDA calling it "fraud, waste of money, and dangerous."  I was definitely interested in those stories because I had just spent a fairly good chunk of change on 2 bottles of this stuff and was off and running!  But just like "they" say that every story has 2 sides, here's another side of that story...
  The FDA (the United States'  Food and Drug Administration) is charged with ensuring that safe & accurately promoted food and drugs are marketed to the mass public.  This is a noble purpose if you think of snake oil salesmen from days gone by.  For the privilege of being "FDA approved" however, there is a long and VERY expensive process that prospective companies must pay for in order to get their products approved and on the market.  And as we all know, costs are then passed on to the eventual consumer... IF the product is allowed to pass scrutiny.
  A fairly recent trend has been the rise in popularity of homeopathics, or natural substances, to aid in health promotion.  Many of these items have been around for eons-- with reputations for helping treat or cure hosts of varied maladies and conditions (think of chinese or indian medicines that have worked for centuries before the advent of "modern medicine").  The point being, just because something isn't FDA approved, doesn't mean it doesn't work.  But it does mean that you aren't allowed to make ANY claims on something that has not been rigorously tested and told is okay to say by the FDA.
  I could go on, but I simply wanted to address that for a moment because the FDA articles became the reason I decided to write this.
  While I understand the FDA's purpose is ostensibly a good one, I have now personally seen how their overzealous warnings are misleading in themselves!  HCG works.  I am here to tell you.  The key is finding a reputable source in order not to get ripped off by a charlatan taking advantage of a product not subject to FDA rules and scrutiny.
  Regarding the specific claims of bona-fide hCG, I wouldn't say that I never had ANY hunger, but I have lost 14 pounds in 12 days and I have all this energy with not a shred of the hunger I would expect while losing over a pound a day.  Think about it: how hungry do you think you'd have to be to lose a pound a day were it not for some other mechanism at work?  BEYOND STARVING, I'd say!  And this bears repeating... "were it not for some other mechanism at work!"
  Here's another reason why I say hCG works:  Can you lose a pound a day by simply starving?  I would say "no" because the body would go into starvation mode in order to preserve itself for as long as possible.  Following the VLCD protocol, my wife and I began to lose weight INSTANTLY and wake up every morning to another pound or so gone from the scale.  I would say that it defies explanation to be losing so much weight so quickly were it not for the hormone working as described by Dr. Simeon in his work.
  One final thought I'd like to make abundantly clear is that I went into this program (for I hate the word "diet") full-well knowing the dangers of fads & crash diets.  To know me is to understand that I fully realize the medical warnings of nearly all diets are well-founded and fact-based.  However, when my wife (who is a doctor of psychology) has knowledge of other MD's recommending this to their patients, and these people are all experiencing similar results while KEEPING THE WEIGHT OFF LONG TERM, I fully opened my mind to the idea that perhaps there was something superbly effective and yet based on sound knowledge of body chemistry.
  They say that seeing is believing.  Every morning when I step on my scale and I see another full pound lower on the readout, I believe something amazing is at work in my body. I cannot wait to reach my goal of 34 pounds total lost when my program is complete in another 3 weeks.  And the best part is that I am also learning how to prepare completely fresh & healthy foods that we will be ravishing for years to come!

   For anyone interested in reading more, I have added a link from where I got my hCG.  The site is loaded with information for those with questions.  I bought from this person because her product worked for my in-laws, so I knew it was a good product.  There may be cheaper stuff, but if it's too cheap, it may not be real.
http://lose1Lbaday.com/

  Oh, and stay tuned for an "after" picture (by then I'll be able to stomach showing the "before" picture along side it).   ;)