The HCG diet plan has actually been around for approximately 60 years after being developed by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons. It is completely safe to do with very little to no side effects. There are two ways to do the diet either by HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) injections that are administered by a health care professional or by using homeopathic drops that you can easily do yourself. The injections need a prescription while the drops do not. The injections are a much higher dose of HCG while the drops are a very minute amount compared to that. Therefore, with the injections you’re bound to have more side effects than with the drops. They do work as effective as one another and research has found you need very little of the HCG hormone to aid in this diet.

Some side effects that are most common are headaches, leg cramps and slight muscle aches. You may feel slightly week and light headed at times but most of these symptoms go away after your first week on the diet. The headaches are a result of your body detoxifying after eating years of junk food. As your abnormal fat cells are released so are those stored toxins in the fat cells that cause the detox effect. Some people will get a light rash while this is happening as well but it usually goes away quickly. All the side effects can be easily treated with mild over the counter medicine for the headaches and a potassium supplement for leg cramps if they continue. Most people never need the potassium supplement and you will experience more of the side effects with the injections versus the drops.

You would be wise to not listen to the media hype about this diet. They will try to sway you into thinking that it’s not safe, that no research has been done on the diet and other things. This diet is safe, many years of research has gone into it by Dr. Simeons and the media just tries to create a hype with their scare tactics because often times they are run by drug companies that would rather you take their diet drugs or have surgery to lose those unwanted excess pounds. In addition the media is reporting one side of the story and many times has not done its research itself on the safety and effectiveness of the diet. Most times they are reporting on the Injections and not the drops which vary greatly in side effects. They will say that the HCG used in the diet is not FDA approved. Well how many FDA approved drugs have you seen actually cause deaths? There are many out there and some that were FDA approved only later to be recalled due to deaths or life altering side effects. How many have had Bariatric Surgery, Gastric Bypass, or Lapband Surgery only to regain the weight lost or have even perished from the surgery? With this program you lose the weight and learn new habits of eating so that it is the last SAFE diet you’ll ever need to do.

Being overweight is more of a health risk than the HCG diet ever could be. You have the risk of Diabetes, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke or even heart attack if you remain over weight. That is if you’re not already having some of these symptoms. With this safe, proven effective diet you can decrease your chances of all those illnesses and maybe even reverse some of them. Several people have significantly reduced their cholesterol levels, triglyceride levels, and have decreased the amount of medications they are taking as a result of just losing weight and changing their eating habits. This is the safest and most effective way to do lose weight, improve your health and change your life forever.

In the last year that I’ve been involved with people doing this HCG diet with the drops I have seen people safely lose anywhere from fifteen pounds to nearly a hundred pounds. The only complaint of “side effects” I’ve heard of is a slight headache usually only in their first week on the diet, some feelings of weakness - again only in their first week on the diet and some mild muscle aches. Some people have said they feel cold throughout the diet and that is a result of losing weight so quickly but nothing a light sweater or long sleeve shirt won’t cure. I have seen people’s health greatly improve and many go off medications or significantly reduce the amounts they are taking. I would say the side effects are very minimal compared to the health benefits received by losing the weight.