Hello all, anyone have any experience with the HCG diet? How safe for TYPE 1’s? I have several non D patients and one friend doing it and the results are amazing. It sounds close to Dr.Berstein BUT you either inject the HCG hormone or there are oral drops. My next endo appt is May 25th I will ask them then. Thanks in advance, Robin
Hi Robin,
Don’t know if you ever made it to the endo or not - did you start the HCG?
I am on HCG diet day 11. I had to stop my BP meds (due to my BP being at around 105/67 (YAY!!!) and had to stop Metformin due to my feeling weakish - when my BS were 97 fasting, and 2 hours post eating was 110. Once I get to the maintenance phase (pure Dr. Bernstein here) - will really have to watch my BS and and BP and see if the result of better BP and BS was due to HCG or simply eating so little. NOt hungry, not weakish - but do miss the fats and the eggs, and the much larger steaks I was used to. In the past few months, I gained weight when I added carbs to my proteins - lots of carbs. (ugh). So when my BS and Bp were getting too high, and my Dr. herself went on the HCG diet (she did a seminar for newbies) I thought I have got to try this. I have a scale that measures percent body fat, and I dropped from 44.5% body fat to 38.2 today. Also lost 8 lbs. so far, not counting the loading days weight.
Hope to hear from you or any other who has tried this.
I go to an MD who specializes in hormones and