Fat For Life? Don't Think So.

Before - over 230 pounds After - 125 pounds

I have been fat all my life until a few years ago. I have been on hundreds of diets and have likely lost (and gained back) thousands of pounds. About ten years ago I had resigned myself to being fat for life. Then one morning, about three and a half years ago, I woke up and thought: "If I have to wake up one more morning in this pain and discomfort, I will kill myself.” So I went to my doctor and said: “I have to lose one hundred pounds. What should I do?”
She told me to go on the Atkins diet. I laughed at her.
“No, I’m serious, I really have to lose one hundred pounds. Tell me what to do.”
“I’m sorry, Ruth,” she smiled, “that’s all I can offer you. Go on the Atkins diet.”
So in typical fashion, I read everything I could get my hands on, studied it in great detail, and in a year and a half, lost over eighty pounds. But I still wanted to lose another ten or fifteen pounds, and no matter what I did, I could not get that weight off.
I had been reading with interest the “weight-cure” protocol – using HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) along with a VLCD (very low calorie diet) to reset ones metabolism. HCG works on the hypothalamus – that part of our brain that controls eating and how our bodies perceive signals relating to food. Frankly, it seemed too good to be true.
“You mean all I have to do is take this stuff, follow the protocol, and the weight will come off?” I asked my friend Susan who had been working with this protocol for several years.
“Yes,” she said. “I also thought it was too good to be true when I first heard about it, but now experience has shown me that it really works.”
So I tried it. In my usual compulsive manner. And I lost (and kept off) those extra fifteen pounds.
Now there are many people in my life whom I love dearly who are seriously obese. If I can help them in any way, it would be such a gift. So I decided to learn as much as I possibly could about HCG, the protocol, the different methods of administering it, everything I could. Susan was very helpful, and taught me a lot. There is a special research facility in Argentina that occasionally offers training sessions in the protocol for physicians. One starts in three days. I leave for Buenos Aires tomorrow morning.
Come along with me while I explore both Argentina and HCG. My ultimate idea is that when I return to Victoria, I will go back into medical practice and work with this protocol. Imagine, losing the weight, eating what you like when you like and keeping the weight off! What a novel idea! It might be too good to be true, but I think it’s real. And I’m going to find out for sure! Starting tomorrow morning.