Mentally Challenged

I know a little about nutrition. I know a little about exercise. Practicing poor habits in both is also a specialty of mine. However, because I neglect the aforementioned, does not make me gullible enough to fall for the magic pill.

The HCG diet is the newest craze I overheard something about this weekend. It is similar to the Hollywood diet, POW camps and general neglect for your well-being. I am not sure what is worse, justifying the diet, or actually DOING the diet. To me, both show a lack of knowledge when it comes to how the body works.

When Atkins came out, the principle was pretty simple. If you subtract the main fuel source of your body (carbohydrates), your body will burn the reserve source (fat) for energy. It is like being diabetic. Without the ability to burn simple sugars, or complex sugars for that matter, the body will go to emergency mode and begin burning fat. In a normal person, this process occurs after all other sources have been depleted (glucose, glycogen, etc.). However, cutting out an entire food group is insanity, and BAD for you being that your nervous system functions on carbohydrates ONLY. If you take those away, you get dumber....which explains a lot about a few people.

The HCG diet requires you eat only 530 calories and take a shot of God knows what. WTF?!?!?!?! Doing that ALONE will cause you to lose weight, not to mention atrophy from the lack of protein. People may begin to inquire, not that you are losing weight, but whether or not things are metastasizing in your body. It blows my mind that people spend so much money on the newest and greatest thing in diets. I swear, I need to write a book on why people should go back to kindergarten and learn math. My 6-year old can figure out calorie balance and weight loss/gain.

A (calories in) - B (calories out) = weight loss or gain. Period. End of story. Not sure who would publish it....but that's really all it is.

So why suffer through the turmoil of daily shots in the abdomen? STOP THE INSANITY! It doesn't make any sense to me. If someone has a valid explanation for why this is a good thing, by all means, save it. It won't sell me on what has been a proven fact for a long time. Math doesn't lie. Dare question Nostradamus about it, however, because there is study upon study about why this HCG thig is a great diet. It almost came to blows, at least in my mind. I wanted to pull out the deed to my moon property and see if they would buy it on the spot. I also said I had a stake to a plot in Tombstone to sell. Almost had a bite.

So please, if you are a believer in this diet, I feel for you. I am sorry you are more gullible than a 4-year old at Christmas time. I could put together many things against being retarded. Studies have shown that dumb people die faster. Look at the Darwin Awards. Enough said. I am sure all had signed up for the HCG information seminar. DON'T BE A FOOL! Stay in scho.....wait. Eat right, exercise, die anywa....nope...ummm.....just use some common sense. Balanced diet, plus a walk in the morning and maybe one at night equals a healthy lifestyle. Not the $60 a month you pay to inject sugar water in your adipose and watch the weight melt away.