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The hcg diet worked well for me. It's been 3 months and the weight has still stayed off. A lot of people like to argue about whether it is safe & effective & etc etc, so there are differing viewpoints. It has been around since the 1950s, and as someone who has done it I can say it has improved my metabolism and it has been a very positive experience. I did not lose much if any muscle during it and my body fat percentage decreased substantially. It stimulates your body to release your stored fat which your body uses for energy, so you are not hungry and tired during it. Because your stored fat is being released, you lose about 0.5 - 1 pound per day. Not all hcg is homeopathic. I found non-homeopathic drops online which worked well for me. If you were to eat only 500 calories a day without taking the drops, your metabolism would slow down and you would feel very hungry, and your body would then burn up your muscle. Anyway, the diet was safe and effective for me, and it helped me get rid of stubborn fat that I had a lot of trouble getting rid of through just diet and exercise alone. I highly recommend the diet, but it is a personal choice, and many people don't feel comfortable about it or don't understand how it works or hear incorrect facts about the diet. For those interested in how it works, you can google "Pounds and Inches" by Dr. Simeon. He is the man who developed it, and his original protocol and manuscript can be found very easily for free online.

My goal while taking PM and being on hcg wouldn't be to increase breast size, but to not lose breast size while on the diet. I was just hoping that someone would have had experience with this, but I think it is something that I will have to experiment with on my own in the future.

I have been taking Bella's beautiful bust for 3 months, and I have seen some growth which has been very encouraging. The only other supplement I was taking was a multivitamin and calcium. Her recommendations are to take it two weeks starting right after your period ends. However, I've been reading Ginie's program and it has been very inspiring and makes a lot of sense. This cycle I am going to try her method and the method of the Japanese girls. That is, start PM on the first day of my cycle until ovulation, and combine it with supplements that encourage growth, such as collagen, placenta, arginine, etc. I am also curious to try Sirporn PM and compare it with Bella's.

I guess everyone is different because I followed the protocol perfectly and exercised and ate well still after trying it and the weight came right back and now I have a harder time getting the weight off. Also in 3 weeks my bench press went from 110 pounds to 75 pounds, in 3 weeks I could lift about 32% less with my arms in only 3 weeks (and I lifted weights the whole time on the hcg diet) the only explaination? I lost fat and muscle... but again, that's just me, I wish you the best of success but I also warn you, you might end up like 90% of the people who do this diet by gaining the weight back, it might take up to a year, but almost everyone gains it back.

Also, the FDA disapproved the real HCG hormone to be in any online or over-the-counter products it is illegal to have the HCG hormone outside of a clinic or doctor's office. So the HCG diet you bought may not be homeopathic, perhaps it is a full-strength extract of the herbs that "mimic" HCG in your body but it still is not the real hormone, so the explaination: you lost the weight from eating 500 calories a day. You say weight loss is anywhere from 1/2 a pound to a pound right? Well 1/2 a pound is 1750 calories and then eating 500 calories you are at a net of 2250 calories and someone who is fat will burn about 2500 calories a day so that equals to 1/2 a pound lost that day, you didn't even need the hcg drops. Then if it is a pound, it is more than likely your body detoxing or your colon getting rid of and excess food it has because most people carry 10-15 pounds of waste in their color, built up carbs, fat, etc. So when you eat nothing but the lowest sugar fruits and vegetables and almost 0% meat fat you are getting hardly any carbs, fat, or salt which will make your body detox and get rid of stuff from your colon so 1/2 the pound is from actual weight loss, the other is water retention loss, detox, and build up from your colon

Not to argue, that is just what I think.