Testimonials

Y C, Roberts Creek, British Columbia, Canada:

Thank you Susan for all your encouragement, useful advice and sonsistent support through the HcG diet program. I would never have believed the results were obtainable or that I could actually do it, but I have so much respect and trust in you that I decided to try it. With your advice I was also able to balance meals with my two boys and partner, as I ate much of what they did, though in smaller portions

Actually my results were even better than I expected. I lost 7 inches around my waist. I am back in clothes that I had stored for 5 years unwilling to let them go as I tried different exercise and diet programs.

In retrospect the program was easy to follow, and I did not feel hungry or experience mood swings (my partner has been worried!). I have had many people comment that I look really healthy and my skin seems to glow—no doubt a result of all that water!

As I slowly get used to seeing my "new" self in the mirror, I realize that the implications of this program have been manifold for me. I've learned a lot about food and my body's response to food. I have increased energy and positive self-image. I'm excited because I feel that I've gained tools, knowledge and habits that will serve me the rest of my live.

Thanks again for all your support.

A N, Oakland, CA:

When I started the HcG Diet I considered myself a total loser (not of weight)! A loser in the sense that I could not get it together to eat right, exercise, give up my chocolate addiction and general food addiction. I had really lost respect for myself because I could not get my behavior to conform with my intentions. Every day I woke up intending to do all the right things: Not eat sugar, not over eat, not not exercise. And every day I felt possessed by a powerful urge to do those very things and I did do them. I ate way too much at each meal, I obsessed on my chocolate stash and couldn't wait to tear into it, even 5 minutes after eating a huge lunch. I ate so much sugar and chocolate that I was hyper and shaky most of the day, alternating with brain fog and spacey-ness that made me irritable and moody. At night I was tired but wired and suffered from terrible bouts of insomnia caused not only by the sugar highs but generally from the havoc I was wreaking on my digestion. Add to that the physical roller coaster of hot flashes and hormonal instability. In short, I was a basket case. At 5'3" I weighed 173 pounds and was pushing toward wearing a size 16, a size and a weight I have never been before and could never have imagined I would reach. When I heard about the HcG Diet I was so desperate to change that I jumped at the chance to try it. Even though I had failed at Weight Watchers, OA, Cognitive Behavior Therapy and reading at least 100 weight loss books, I was still willing to try one more thing.

I kept telling Susan I was a compulsive over eater and that I had no control, so how could I possibly succeed on another diet? She said just give it a try, thats all you can do. I decided to go for it. I lost 11 pounds the first week and was just in shock. Over the next 5 weeks I lost another 19 pounds for a total of 30 pounds. I am in my third week of maintenance and have stabilized at the 30 pound loss very easily. The amazing part is that I now have choice and a sense of control over food. I recently attended a social event in which I sat at a table laden with every kind of delicious and fattening food, including a platter full of brownies and chocolate chip cookies. Much to my own amazement I turned them down as if they were made of papier mache. I had no urge to eat any of it. This is the reality of the hypothalmus being reset, as explained in the Simone article. I have been profoundly changed somewhere deep in my brain. My behavior now conforms with my intentions. It is nothing short of a miracle. But I did do my part too. I decided, I committed and I succeeded with the help of HcG.

C D, Oakland CA:

I have had difficulty losing weight all my life. It was not uncommon for me to gain 10 pounds or more in a very short period of time, even though my diet had remained relatively stable as well as my exercising. Being frustrated, I went to an MD who put me on thyroid medication as my thyroid was sluggish. It did nothing. I stopped eating pretty much altogether in my late twenties, early thirties which led to a few years of intense struggle as someone with anorexia. I was an outpatient at a local hospital for over a year before putting back enough weight to be let go.

The weight problem reappeared with gaining weight and not being able to lose it. I wasn’t permitted to have a scale and so my weight gains were measured by clothing sizes. All the exercise didn’t help much to stabilize my weight and I was feeling really, really bad in my body. Menopause made it all the worse.

I went to see Susan Brennan and we talked about my particular problem. Along with everything else, I have celiac which presents another challenge in the mix. Coming from this anorexic background made the HcG diet a little scary. But I was willing and Susan was willing to go through it with me – being available for me along the way.

I have to say that within a few days of starting this diet, I felt so much better in all ways – emotionally, physically. I didn’t experience much in the way of deprivation as what I was eating suited the needs my body had. Any thoughts of eating other than what the diet allows was quickly replaced by this feeling in my digestive track that indicated that I was doing something that felt right. Throughout the six weeks it kept getting better.

The weight loss for the first two weeks was amazing. I didn’t have a scale but I could see how much weight was evaporating from me – especially in the mid-section. I was delighted. After three weeks I decided that I wanted to try getting a scale and weighing myself. I made an oral promise to myself that if I felt the old scary thoughts coming up again, I would stop using it. So after a good three weeks I have started using a scale. By the end of the six-week protocol I had lost approximately 30 pounds.

Coming off the diet for me was difficult for a short while. Now that I had utmost choices, I felt a twinge of the anorexic mind whispering in my ear. It was a shock to me but because I recognized it, I also recognized that if I expressed what was happening to me out loud, that mindset lost its power. It was another huge step forward for me in a lifetime of having an eating disorder.

So I would have to say that the HcG diet has been an amazing experience. I think that before you start you may be apprehensive and wonder if you could possibly do this. Well, I find it entirely doable and have had a most positive experience.