HCG gives you a sense of wellbeing and you do not get hungry (Roy Botterell) For a moment, everyone who was huddled outside a recent fashion show thought they had misheard her. Surely the style maven before us — who insists on keeping her name and her weight issues anonymous — hadn’t just said she’d lost 18lb in less than two weeks? It was no mistake, however, those were her very words. She looked glowing, ecstatic and, beneath her uniform of top-to-toe loose-fitting black, pretty svelte.
What was her secret? She was, she said, following the HCG diet, the latest craze to obsess New Yorkers. The basics are simple, even if they sound a tad draconian: a couple of drops of HCG hormone on the tongue a day (some inject it), combined with a daily intake of 500 calories (yes, you read that right). This must be followed strictly for four weeks, but thereafter you can eat a normal healthy diet with a short period of starch and sugar elimination. Wasn’t she starving? No, she beamed. Did she have enough energy to get through the day? She had never felt better, she said — on only an apple for breakfast and in the afternoon, some chicken and vegetables for lunch and again for dinner, and plenty of herbal tea. Besides, she said, she’d never known weight loss like it.
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