DOES YOUR HCG BUSINESS LOOK LIKE A SCAM?

<div class="summary">If you sell or prescribe hCG you might want to rethink how you advertise it. The reason the hCG diet will eventually disappear like other "fad" diets is because there is very little emphasis placed on the behavioral change required to maintain weight that was lost. Without this fundamental lesson learned, participants will gain the weight back, just as all ignorant skeptics have predicted. <br /><br />It's as simple as making sure all participants know that no amount of weight lost will change emotional desires to eat. So until they change their desires to eat emotionally, they might as well accept the fact that their bodies will always have extra fat, no matter how much weight they temporarily lose. <br /><br />The entire diet industry needs a revolution. This revolution will only happen if we, the hCG protocol industry, make the protocol very different than any other diet. The difference: holding accountable the emotional changes that the participant must make to perminently end the mistreatment of their body with food. Fat is not a cancer, it is a force of creation cause by hormonal imbalance. For the majority, this imbalance is caused and self-inflicted by eating behavior. Until we hold our cultural emotional eating disorder accountable and stop blaming fat as the problem, no diet ever created will work perminently and nothing will heal the diseases caused by over-eating. <br /><br />If you sell or prescribe hCG, I highly suggest you stand out from the crowd and start advertising something other than 30 pounds lost in 40 days. Now when you look at that advirtiesment, you are no different than the rest of the short-term, quick-fix scams that have come and gone. Don't taint the most incredible hormonal therapy with your lack of integrity. Sell vaccuums instead.</div>

DOES YOUR HCG BUSINESS LOOK LIKE A SCAM?

If you sell or prescribe hCG you might want to rethink how you advertise it. The reason the hCG diet will eventually disappear like other "fad" diets is because there is very little emphasis placed on the behavioral change required to maintain weight…

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Weigh In Results

The scale told the tale this morning....<br /><br />After a week of eating foods like this:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jozh7cgsrlSXh5UGRVmhyphenhyphenwWlGec1PRyNiInSGlrNYw4eiDAL-v_0SbjaIfp-xsmoAA8ZK_G_iCPoE_6r8tu7J3Oe6An1NSSUWv9FvxIczeUY-TpT3MhNKoqEjgZo1YBbict2et2BjFw/s1600/Scale+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jozh7cgsrlSXh5UGRVmhyphenhyphenwWlGec1PRyNiInSGlrNYw4eiDAL-v_0SbjaIfp-xsmoAA8ZK_G_iCPoE_6r8tu7J3Oe6An1NSSUWv9FvxIczeUY-TpT3MhNKoqEjgZo1YBbict2et2BjFw/s400/Scale+014.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WW 5 Points+ Pumpkin Pie - found on Etools</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Several indulgences in Asti and beer..<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3O5mYaPagHTQ_gviboxr2FTc6np8hggHYjj_hRTEzqUXanUSd7RFyen17vaFJe6bARvq1Bkd2C7EYsnIILAu3IK4rVvrwwwADy_6ObxvxEZ0AKAHqtLM50qPtUW18q_z9JoFca15z74/s1600/Scale+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3O5mYaPagHTQ_gviboxr2FTc6np8hggHYjj_hRTEzqUXanUSd7RFyen17vaFJe6bARvq1Bkd2C7EYsnIILAu3IK4rVvrwwwADy_6ObxvxEZ0AKAHqtLM50qPtUW18q_z9JoFca15z74/s400/Scale+001.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br />And just generally enjoying a lot of food due to the holiday and TOM cravings...<br /><br />The verdict is in!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I gained 0.4 pounds this week.  </div><br />Uhm.  I will <i>take </i>it!  This was not my most stellar WW week ever, but I am still proud of how I <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2011/12/post-thanksgiving-week.html">combated</a> the big eating holiday that is Thanksgiving.  I am also proud that I managed to track every single thing I ate... even if it did put me into the <b><span style="color: red;">red</span></b>!<br /><br />I am looking forward to a fresh week of staying within my daily Points+ range.... and definitely staying within my Weekly.  <br /><br />I use both eTools and the paper tracker.  At the start of every week with the paper tracker (the book, not the individual pamphlets given out at meetings), it asks you to define any goals for the week, any potential challenges with solutions, and break out your planned exercise schedule.  Rarely do I ever write anything down in this section.  Well this week, I'm going to try something different:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPHHXZcGayhBxS9vC7YcoFq6_ZHzGYSWuOo-BlOdbMWpof09vHPM20Oa2UQfXqzy0bmBTUxveiaJW5X_APpzAfF_nB2GxclJGudMWazU-Mg7SUXmA6CUvvFRcVYsiloZLUl2ZEVaEQ0A/s1600/weight-watchers-diet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPHHXZcGayhBxS9vC7YcoFq6_ZHzGYSWuOo-BlOdbMWpof09vHPM20Oa2UQfXqzy0bmBTUxveiaJW5X_APpzAfF_nB2GxclJGudMWazU-Mg7SUXmA6CUvvFRcVYsiloZLUl2ZEVaEQ0A/s1600/weight-watchers-diet.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Goals for the week:</span></b><br />Stay within daily Points+ allowance for 5 of the 7 days.<br /><br /><b style="color: blue;">Potential Challenges + Solutions:</b><br /><ol><li>First up is a lunch date with some friends on Saturday. Lord knows <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-do-you-track.html">I struggle with eating out</a> and counting Points+. This time, I'm going to look up the menu ahead of time, have my selections already mapped out, and then I won't be tempted to order something less Points+ friendly if I would have waited until doing so at the restaurant.<br /></li><li>Then, there is a cookie exchange on Sunday with another group of friends. I've already informed the host that I will not be taking any cookies home this year because of our commitment to WW and getting in shape for the wedding. She was totally cool with it :).</li></ol><b style="color: blue;">Planned Activity: </b><br />I have not been consistently active since the beginning of October. Joel and I did finish the first "set" of the <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Rules%20of%20Lifting%20for%20Women">New Rules of Lifting for Women</a>, but we never moved on to the other weeks, and I would like to get back to doing that. Weight lifting provided some variety that I enjoyed. So, to keep my goals attainable and expectations low, I'm going to plan to do just 2 days of activity this week. If I do more, so be it. But I want to ease back in to regular activity.<br /><br />What are your weekend plans?

Gain Weekly Weight Watchers Goals Weigh In Results

The scale told the tale this morning....After a week of eating foods like this:WW 5 Points+ Pumpkin Pie - found on EtoolsSeveral indulgences in Asti and beer..And just generally enjoying a lot of food due to the holiday and TOM cravings...The verdict…

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