eHarmony failure

Hmmm. I tried googling HCG weight loss. One article that I found was at: HCG Diet: Look Elsewhere for Weight Loss

A teaser quote:

I think I will continue with caloric restriction as a means of losing weight. Besides, the back pain provides a wonderful motivational feedback - eat and experience pain; stop eating (aka caloric restriction) and in a day or two the pain goes away and I have managed to lose around 5 lbs.
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HCG of all things ?! Ask pregnant women how the weight-loss is going.
Quackery will never end.

 

I agree. I wanted to point out that it's unlikely that your current weight is a significant barrier as you seek new personal relationships.

 

Ah, yes. The Funny Hat diet. Someday I'm going to make millions marketing the Funny Hat diet. Guaranteed to make you lose weight. All you do is eat a lot less, exercise more, and wear The Funny Hat (available for only $500.00!). Watch your weight go down!

 

Try Scienceconnection.com - for those that have some interest in science. Cost: $85

 

It's interesting to observe the parallel between eHarmony and the FDA.

eHarmony sells their service based on the impression that they have compatible people in their database. They make their money off of connecting these people. But there are also people who don't match up with anyone in their database. It's rather like the smoky bar. Some people probably meet the love of their life in such places. A few others score for the evening. But most just spend their money and time getting assaulted by noise, smoke, and intoxicating drinks.

The FDA's service is to provide judgment as to the truth of medical claims presented to them. They receive money from both taxes and fees from those who wish to have their claims approved. If nobody presents a claim and pays the required fees, then no approval is forthcoming. Lack of study is treated the same as having studied a claim and found it invalid.

The rejects from eHarmony and the FDA share a similar stamp of disapproval. If you aren't approved, then there must be something wrong with you. The problem is that maybe the person/product just wasn't available in their database.

Daniel, give up on eHarmony. It's just a smoky bar where people you would like wouldn't even visit.

As for HCG, obviously nobody has presented claims to the FDA, paid their fees, and gotten them approved. Lack of study hardly qualifies as scientific evidence.

As for the available evidence, there are thousands of people on YouTube and Yahoo Groups who have reported their experience with HCG. Many of these people have managed an end run around the vehement disapproval of authorities like the FDA. While there are doctors who use HCG in weight control programs, they generally charge thousands of dollars for their service. And there are lots of hucksters who maintain that HCG has to be accompanied with hundreds of dollars worth of their products. All for a product that is easily available on the internet for under $100.

I sifted through many of the stories, learned how to use HCG, and now my scale reads 25 pounds less. Happy customer.

 

I am not a physician, but I would be extremely wary of any diet claiming dramatic weight loss, especially in the lbs per day. That level of weight loss is simply not healthy for your body.

 

My wife tried one that would let her lose 150 pounds of dead weight in a day, but I wouldn't give her a divorce.

Tom

 

I *am* a physician, and I'll say it again: this is quackery.

 

What is quackery - the 'diet drug', or the statement by a_grey_prius?

It's not quackery if he says he isn't a doctor, is it?

As a veteran of (too) many years of weight loss "miracles", I'd like to tell you all that they are ALL bunkum.

Best thing you can do, is eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
[yes, that's a quote from someone else] Also, get out and use that body, every day. Nothing too strenuous for too long, but at least go for a walk, if you can.

 

^^ the diet drug. Sorry for the lack of clarity.

 

Sounds like Eskatrol is something to avoid. I never heard of it before.

As for regaining weight, the experience with HCG seems to be that the lower weight is maintained even after the HCG is stopped. Probably because the diet teaches people how to exist on less food. I know I buy a lot fewer bags of chips now than I did before the diet.

HCG is available as a prescription medicine. The Hucog brand that is available online is pharmaceutical quality.

Oh really. I lost 25 pounds in about 5 weeks. There are lots of similar reports on YouTube and the Yahoo Groups.

Bingo! The HCG mobilizes fat and other nutrients that would normally remain in storage. Since the mobilized fat is available for normal metabolism, it's not necessary to consume as much external food. So, calories in goes way down, and calories out stays about the same.

I expected to feel weak and irritable while on such a low calorie diet. But I was pleasantly surprised to experience increased stamina and none of the hunger pangs that CRON people seem to worship.

You can't use HCG continuously (the weight loss effect seems to wear out after about 6 weeks), but it would be nice if you could. Maybe the increased stamina and feeling of well being would continue even without the low calorie diet. I haven't seen any reports on that.

Women produce about 1000 times the dosage used for the diet. A thousand to one difference might produce different effects...

Yeah, it shows. The term "quack" is generally used by one doctor to disapprove of what another doctor does. It is simply name calling, and carries no information other than disapproval. I don't find name calling to be a very convincing argument.

 

I was thinking about producing a diet 'device' a while ago. It looks very similar to a dime. The user would be instructed to place the device on the tip of their tongue and as they experienced a desire for food, they would press the device up against the roof of their mouth. After a few days of just drinking water and pressing the device up against the roof of their mouth, they would be able to show close to 5 lbs. of weight loss.

My 'device' is certainly as effective as HCG but without the risks. I didn't pursue commercialization due to not being able to secure patent protection for the device. Something about 'obviousness'.

 

I'm sure it's popular among models and trust-fund-baby chicks at NYU for a reason.

 

Daniel, since eHarmony didn't work for you, how about going back to video dating:

Tom

 

Daniel, you may be thinking of phenylcyclidine aka 'angel dust' or PCP. The stories of what people did while under the influence of the drug induced paranoid psychosis were horrifying.

As for Rob, he like so many others is convinced that his problems are going away as soon as he finds the right pill. The irony is that their never-ending cycles of disappointment just lead to ever crazier chemical ingestions.

Dieting is nowhere near as simple as *just* keeping an energy balance, because though true, calorie regulation (like thermo-regulation) is really complicated and for the most part not well understood in scientific terms. It is analogous to saying "what's the big deal ? Just stay at 37 C."

Empirically we know that fat dense foods, calorie dense foods, sedentary lifestyles, and for lack of a better description, "depressed" feelings push the functional caloriestat higher. So the best (and it is not bad, considering the ignorance) medicine can say is: stay active and involved in life, exercise, and eat a diet of unprocessed foods with high water content. Think soup.