It’s been pounded into your head ever since you started trying to lose weight; the only way to get rid of the pounds is to eat less and to get up and start exercising a lot. Then you find out the HCG diet plan that tells you to reduce your food intake, take the HCG injections or oral HCG drops, but refrain from strenuous exercise. It almost seems impossible to believe; how can a diet work without strenuous exercise? Is it really possible to drop pounds without doing some kind of rigorous workout three to four times every week? What about building muscle to burn fat or working off excess calories?
Dr. ATW Simeons clearly states not to exercise strenuously on HCG diet. Some people new to the HCG diet plan have trouble comprehending why exercise is not recommended on the HCG weight loss process. While it is true that a bit of moderate exercise such as walking won’t hurt you, a lot of exercise or strenuous exercise can backfire on you while on the HCG diet plan. It is because, despite the fact that taking HCG makes you feel full, even on a five hundred calorie per day diet, the low intake of food is not sufficient for strenuous exercise.
When you start exercising on a HCG diet, the body will perceive it doesn’t have enough energy sources to rely on and it will believe you are starving. This reduces the metabolic processes and severely slows, if not all together stalls the weight loss process. This is why it is so vital that you refrain from strenuous workouts until you have achieved your set weight loss goals while using an HCG diet plan. In addition, you are already burning abnormal fat with the very low calories diet while on hCG diet. Extra exercising will result in the loss of lean muscle tissues instead.
Does being on an HCG plan mean that you have to give up exercising forever? No. In fact, once you have lost the weight you set out to lose you can put yourself on an exercise regimen to keep the weight off permanently. Meanwhile, during the dieting process, limit your exercise to brief walks, stretching, and very low impact exercises. You will find that your dieting efforts will be far more successful because you maintain a fast metabolism with a low calorie intake.
by ProjectMe, on September 28 2011 @ 2:47 pm
I’ve been reading up on the ‘no exercise’ rule while on HCG. What I found was that (1) Dr. A.T.W. Simeon didn’t seem to have such a prohibition and (2) there is some valid debate on whether the “starvation mode” theory rightly applies. Have a look at the article and leave a comment. Is the exercise prohibition really time-tested no-no, or an overreach in theory that doesn’t stand up to facts? If you have any thoughts or experiences, I’d love to hear them!
by evelyn flynn, on November 8 2011 @ 8:28 pm
I started the diet almost 3 weeks ago. I love doing Zumba as a workout!! If I do Zumba 2-3 times a week, will that affect my weight loss on the HCG ultra drop diet? How much can I possibly hurt myself if its an hour class a couple days a week? I saw on another site to just make up the calories you burn after working out. Would eating some veggies or fruit after the workout to suppress my appetite hurt me or will it be ok??
by karen, on January 1 2012 @ 2:54 am
I am 8 days in to my first round and I could not resist a fun morning of surfing- now I am more tired than I have ever felt for such a moderate level of athleticism and am wondering just what happened physiologically, did I mess up my hcg metabolism? Did I digest muscle? hmmmm
by Sharon, on January 9 2012 @ 12:40 pm
A few weeks back I did the HCG diet, but on a 800 calorie plan.. what I can tell you is.. 1-yes it works.. within a week I did lose 5.3 pounds.. 2- DONT do any sort of heavy exercise.. I was boxing at home..speed walking up hills on the treadmill for an hour 3-4 days a week.. and by the end of my 2nd week on it.. I wanted to die in a corner. I couldn't sleep from the appetite suppressant pills I was given (I went to an actual weight loss clinic who provided me with all of this and told me the more I work out..the better)… at the end.. yes I did lose weight.. but I also lost all of my appetite.. to the point of I refused to eat even after the pills stopped.. everything disgusted me.. I didn't sleep for a week straight.. I'd get an hour or 2 in during the day.. my stool wasn't the same even.. headache's/earache's..you name it.. I had it. Bottom line is… DONT DO HEAVY/RIGOROUS EXERCISING.. it won't pay off during this diet…