Margo Toms N.P. – Denver HCG Diet Specialist
Margo Toms N.P. has ample experience with the HCG Diet, and she has helped patients for years to lose weight on HCG and a VLCD (very low calorie diet). HCG is a wonderful way to eat healthy, gluten free, fruits, vegetables, and lean protein while not feeling hungry.
The HCG Diet is a great option if patients aren’t sure where to start or are just exhausted with the weight loss battle. It provides great structure in helping to make the decision about what to eat, less of an obstacle.
While on the program, its main focus is to metabolize one’s own fat for energy. So not only is it rewarding to see patients losing weight, patients often lose weight from their abdomen that they have been wanting to shed.
The HCG Diet Protocol
The HCG Diet has been in use for over 60 years, and a doctor discovered the HCG Diet protocol upon travelling to India in the 1950’s. While in India, he noticed that malnourished Indian women were giving birth to healthy babies, and after doing ample amounts of research, he discovered that the HCG hormone allowed the body to use fat stores to feed a growing fetus. Soon after this discovery, he found that the HCG hormone worked the same way in the body of a person that is not pregnant.
The HCG hormone, which is human chorionic gonadotropin, tells the body to burn fat for energy and nutrition in the event of a nutrient deficiency. For this reason, it can provide rapid weight loss for both men and women when the protocol is followed correctly. While on the HCG Diet, patients must only consume around 500 calories per day, and they can only eat specific lean meats, low sugar fruits, and fresh vegetables. Usually, men and women on the diet lose around one pound per day, and most people lose around thirty pounds on one course of the HCG Diet.
Because a few thousand calories of fat are being released on the HCG Diet, most people do not feel hungry. Some people have argued that the low calorie diet is the reason for the dramatic weight loss; however, if this were the case, a person would be miserable with hunger on a diet with so few calories. Without the HCG hormone, the body would consume lean muscle instead of fat, and several side effects, such as hair loss, mood swings, and food cravings would occur.
The HCG Diet has several unique benefits, some of which include:
- Rapid Weight Loss
- Relearned Eating Habits
- Burning of Pure Fat
- Retaining Lean Muscle
- Permanent Weight Loss
- Reduced Appetite
- Fewer Food Cravings
- Drastic Weight Loss
- Reduced Problem Areas
- No Vigorous Exercise Required
After finishing the HCG Diet, most people are able to maintain their weight loss, provided they continue to eat a healthy diet and get regular amounts of exercise. People that do regain the weight are those that attempt to eat the same low calorie diet they were eating while on the HCG diet, which causes their bodies to go into starvation mode, hold onto everything taken in, and store it away as fat. Other people that regain their weight are those that make unhealthy food choices and do not implement an exercise program.
In Margo Toms experience with HCG, the most challenging transition is phase 3 and re-introducing a regular, healthy, and balanced diet. As a provider, this phase is one that she focuses heavily on. It is extremely important to stabilize once the weight has come off and maintain those accomplishments. Margo Toms enjoys helping patients through their weight loss journey and has had great success with HCG.