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Do you have a friend or family member, who can eat a pint or more of Haagen-Dazs without gaining a pound while you gain weight after eating a spoonful or two? Why do some people seem to eat what they like and remain thin, while others limit their food, often drastically, yet struggle to shed their bulk? It’s all about metabolism, using food more efficiently and burning fat. Some people just burn fat faster and have a higher metabolism than others. Those are the very few lucky ones. For most of us, including myself, it’s a daily struggle.

During the course of the last 25 years, as an M.D. endocrinologist and weight loss specialist, I’ve treated more than 20,000 individuals with weight and metabolic problems. I have researched, and prescribed countless diet plans, specialty foods, exercise programs and even surgery, only to find some of my patients were very successful while others were not. I have seen people put themselves through countless diets, schemes and programs to try to lose the extra weight. Whether its calorie counting, low carbs, high protein, low fat, portion control or special exercises, the lists of schemes, programs, supplements and regimens are endless.

Six years ago, I began to recognize the failure of these food schemes, the increasing complexity of daily life, the inability to understand and remember complicated diet plans, the hardship of preparing special food recipes, or counting or measuring one food group or another. I began to understand that overweight individuals needed a much simpler way to approach their weight loss. They needed a simple way to speed up their metabolism and then make a few permanent changes for life long weight control.

I decided to review all of the patients I have treated that lost weight and kept it off to see if there were some common techniques that they used. When I tabulated the characteristics of my 1100 successful weight losers --their age, starting weight, weight loss and duration of their weight loss, there was no correlation with the type of foods they ate. (Except for the fact than almost none drank drinks with sugar or ate high sugar foods or ate regularly from fast food restaurants, nor was there much correlation with exercise). Some people counted calories, some watched their carbs others their fat. What they did do was to pay attention to their metabolism using secrets that often I had never heard about.

As I began to look at ways to increase metabolism, I looked back to 1954 and the hormone-HCG (HCG is the abbreviation for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) a naturally occurring hormone) produced by the placenta when a woman becomes pregnant and found in huge quantities in the pregnant women’s urine. In fact, it’s the hormone causing the positive pregnancy test

Although the HCG diet has been receiving a great deal of attention lately, it actually is not a new concept. In fact, using HCG for weight loss was first reported by British physician, Dr. A.T.W. Simeons in 1954. Dr. Simeons’ original work was in India with overweight boys with Froehlich Syndrome. These boys were obese with underdeveloped testes and penises. When given HCG for treatment of their underdeveloped sexual organs they lost their appetite and the fat around the belly and hips. He further noted in India, that pregnant women living in often semi-starvation conditions often delivered healthy, full term infants. He surmised that HCG might increase metabolism and fat burning—exactly what I was looking for.

I followed Dr. Simeons’ research to Rome, Italy in the early 1950’s. Dr. Simeons reported that small doses of HCG given to overweight individuals (men and women) decreased their appetite, and made them lose inches specifically around their hips, thighs, buttocks and stomachs and reset their hypothalamus (the area in the brain responsible for metabolism and appetite). He self published his findings in a booklet, Pounds and Inches. This monograph is free to download at http://tinyurl.com/simeons or can be viewed on my website, www.bestbuyhcg.com. Dr. Simeons noted that when HCG was used in conjunction with a very low calorie diet there appeared to be none of the hunger, craving, fatigue and weakness usually associated with a very low calorie diet. Dr. Simeons commented on the lack of appetite, irritability and headaches while taking HCG. Dr. Simeons began to treat very wealthy patients, member of the Royal families of Europe and Hollywood stars in his hospital in Rome. He treated his patients both as inpatients and outpatients in his hospital with a specially prepared diet and daily injections of HCG. (In later chapters you will see how important it is to note who were Dr. Simons' patients and how they were treated). Dr. Simeons reported in Pounds and Inches that everyone lost 1 lb. per day on his protocol independent of their starting weight, gender or age. However, in a letter to the editor in the British medical journal, the Lancet in 1954, Simeons wrote that that patients that followed his plan lost on the average of 250 to 600 grams a day ( 0.5 to 1.3 lb) per day, independent of how old they were, their gender or how much they weighed. Unfortunately, Dr. Simeons died unexpectedly in 1970 and had no time to verify his findings or submit it to review by other physicians.

As one might expect, physicians from all over the world began using HCG in their weight loss practices. It became the method of choice in the 1970’s for weight loss. However, in 1976, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered physicians treating overweight people with Dr. Simeons’ HCG protocol to stop claiming that HCG was safe or approved by the FDA for weight-control. The FDA ordered that obese patients seeking treatment with HCG be informed in writing:

“HCG has not been demonstrated to an effective adjunctive therapy in the treatment of obesity. There is no substantial evidence that it increases weight loss beyond that resulting from caloric restriction, that it causes a more attractive or “normal” distribution of fat or that it decreases the hunger and discomfort associated with calorie-restricted diets.”

More recently, as reported in USA Today in January 2011, Elizabeth Miller, the FDA’s leader for the Internet and health fraud team said, “There is no evidence the oral over-the-counter(my emphasis) products (HCG) are effective for weight loss. While they may not be dangerous, they're at least "economic fraud,"

About three years ago, I began to use HCG almost as exactly as Dr. Simeons wrote so many years ago—rigid diets and inject able HCG. I found that some of Dr. Simeons' observations were true: most of my patients were not hungry, had more energy and lost often an amazing amount of weight. Gradually, I began to hear questions from my patients, Why do I have to use injections? Why not drops? Do I really need to binge? Can I add a zero calorie, zero sugar soda? What about breakfast, you said it’s so important? What about those zero calorie desserts? To answer these and to see if I could make the HCG diet more palatable to many of my patients, I began my search into Dr. Simeons' reports including the original booklet, Pounds and Inches written in 1954. What I found led me to modify and update Dr. Simeons’ original protocol which forms the basis of this book.