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Health consciousness is perhaps the biggest and most welcome preoccupation of many people today.  In seriously looking at their physical condition, people are setting standards on food they eat and are counting calories, and exercising more and more to bring down their excess weight. For women –plus a good number of men—the primary solution for managing body weight is dieting and the latest rage on this is HCG dieting.

In this dieting method, the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG, found normally in all persons but more in pregnant women, is used to reduce weight. It is detectable in the bloodstream beginning 11 days after conception, and in the urine from the 12th to 14th days. The hormone is created by the body cells that also produce the placenta. The hormone stimulates the hypothalamus, the third brain, to utilize the body’s fatty deposits in feeding the fetus, so that the fat volume of the body is reduced as a result.

Ordinarily, the HCG dieting program consists of daily HCG diet injections of the hormone and a regimen of food intake equal or less than 500 calories a day, called VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet). Anything over 500 calories and the dieter may gain weight again, negating whatever previous positive effects that were obtained. This aspect of the program is where many dieters fail: hunger dominates them. Thinking that cheating a little will not affect the outcome, most failures break the dieting rules because they get cross and cantankerous when hungry. Eating becomes the way out of hunger as well as their ill-tempered moods.

Those with sweet teeth hate going without sugar for a few weeks and ingests it surreptitiously, thus breaking the regimen.  Many failures simply find the hardships not worth the slimmer body, and just abandon the program.

Yet HCG diet help support and encouragement may be accessed online anytime via advices and anecdotal stories of success. For instance, to avoid an eating binge and yet satisfy the hunger, eating vegetables is advised. A leaf of lettuce around some chicken piece will sate hunger with very little carbohydrates or sugar. One just needs to reduce the meat or fish intake later to compensate. At any rate, sticking to a mainly vegetable diet will be very helpful in keeping the hunger pangs at bay while maintaining the below-500 calories restrictions.

Then there is the alternative HCG diet help method of sublingual –below the tongue—drops for those allergic to syringes. The under-the-tongue method allows the liquid medication to get absorbed into the body faster than more usual methods. It is a painless way of taking HCG compared to subcutaneous and intramuscular –under the skin and into the muscles—injections.

Every dieting plan is difficult if one has that mindset. Dieting is contrary to most body urges as well as many present-time lifestyles, so it is a hard uphill fight, at least in the beginning. But for those who consider dieting as something other than a hardship –as a challenge, perhaps–, it can even be a fun way of finding techniques on how to get slim without pain. Victory is not in the potion, exercise or object; it is all in the mind.