What is Medical Weight Loss?

Medical Weight Loss is for people who have extremely slow metabolisms (from yo yo dieting, eating disorders, diet drugs or stimulants).

The program is nine weeks in total. The first 4 days you eat lots of fat. On the third "fat day" you start daily HCG injections (into the muscle of your thigh, or your tush if someone else is doing the injecting for you). You get a daily injection for a total of 26 days. From the 3rd to the 26th day, you eat a very strict diet - only 500 calories a day! That's two meals per day - 3oz of chicken breast, white fish or buffalo, plus an apple, orange or strawberries, one vegetable (spinach, asparagus, onion) and a serving of melba toast (not my favorite, but I'm sure I'll learn to love it).

Apparently you're never hungry, because the HCG injection controls your appetite and puts your body into ketosis - you're burning so much of your own body fat you're not hungry. And you're losing 1 to 2 pounds per day.

After the first 26 days, I'll be on a controlled diet (zero sugar, and no grains either). This is for three weeks. The final three weeks move me into the "maintenance" phase.