Shopping Time

There are many things you need if you want to go diy on the hCG diet. I was a little overwhelmed finding all the materials at first and sorting through what was real and fake. If you just google hCG diet a lot of link to “homeopathic hCG” drops will come up. unfortunately there is a night and day difference between homeopathic hCG and the true Pharmaceutical grade hCG hormone. Homeopathic hCG has been shown to contain scarce amounts of the hCG hormone. It is mostly water, plain and simple. True hCG will turn a pregnancy test positive, homeopathic hCG will not. The only way to get true hCG is with a prescription from your doctor or from an overseas vender.

Once you get your hCG, you will need materials to reconstitute and  inject the hCG with. There are many “kits” out there that contain everything you need (except the hCG), these are a good option if you are only doing a round or two and like anything else they will range in price. I want to do several rounds so I searched for places to buy what I needed at the most cost-effective prices. 

If you want to do the hCG diet you will need the following items. hCG, Alcohol wipes, Bacteriostatic water, sealed sterile vials, mixing syringes and needles, and finally Insulin syringes to give yourself the injections with.

Alcohol wipes are very important to keep everything sterile. You can buy them at almost any pharmacy and they shouldn’t cost very much. I bought 200 of them for $3.00.

When you get your hCG it will come in a powder form in which you will have to re-concentrate with Bacteriostatic water. This was by far the hardest product for me to find and I bought it at https://www.bodyinfluence.com/ it was $4.95 a bottle plus $5.95 shipping but if you bought two bottles you got a third free and shipping was the same price.

Once you reconstitue your hCG you will need to put it into a sealed sterile vials. I bought 10ml clear ones for $1.50 a peice plus shipping at www.gpzservices.com 

To draw the Bac. water and put it into the vial you will need a mixing syringe and needle. Really any syringe and needle will do, but normally the syringe is between 3-10 CC and the needles are about 1.5″. I bought 3 CC Syringe with 1.5″ needles. I found 25 of them for $5.50 plus shipping at www.gpzservices.com

Finally you needle Insulin syringes to inject your hCG with if you are doing subQ injections. These range from 5/8″ of an inch to 1/2″ inch, and .5CC to 1CC. I bought 1CC syringes with 1/2″ needle. The cheapest ones I found were at http://bpmedicalsupplies.net where they were 100 for $11.99 plus $11.00 shipping. I bought 200 of them so it was cheaper getting them from here vs. gpzservices.com, but if you needed 100 or less it would be cheaper buying them from there.

I also recomment a four legged friend. Shots are no fun, and you really just can’t beat having a furbaby’s love to make you feel better. I have a havanese and her name is Yves, but any one will do 🙂

I haven’t receive the hCG yet, but I bought it from http://www.pharmacyescrow.com/s47218-s-HCG-PREGNYL.aspx. From the research I did this seems to be the most reliable place to buy hCG from. I bought 5 vials of 5,000 IU hucog. This was to most expensive and with shipping it was 184.96. This will give me enough for 125 days @ 200 IUs a day though, obviously the less vials you get the price drops dramatically. Total I spend $265.39, upfront this is quite a bit, but per day it’s cheaper than most  “homeopathic” drops, cheaper than purchasing kits, and a heck of a lot cheaper than diet clinics.

hCG Say What??

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin or better know as hCG is a hormone produced in pregnant women. It’s the hormone that turns pregnancy tests positive. In the 1950s Dr. Albert Simeons discovered that if you injected the hormone it helps in the treatment of obesity. The Simeons’ Protocol is better known as the hCG diet. His book “Pounds and Inches” is basically the bible of the hCG protocol.

Normally if you restricted your body to only 500 calories a day you would probably lose weight, but you body would go into starvation mode, and your metabolism would shut down. It does this because your body doesn’t want to lose weight, it wants to stay at the weight that you are. hCG works by triggering the brain to release this extra fat that it would normally hold onto in a low calorie situation. It does this to nourish the fetus in the event that the women is not getting enough calories.  It’s basically a backup plan to support the fetus.

It should be know that the FDA did not approve hCG for weight loss, this is mostly do to a double cross blind 1976 study that found no noticeable difference in the amount of weight people loss on hCG vs. people not on hCG on a 500 calorie diet.  I don’t believe the study followed protocol exactly also I don’t believe that it took into account the hunger levels of the people. I would have to double check. Regardless, many doctors will prescribe hCG for the use of weight loss.