HCG for Foodies: Clever Cooking and Smart Science for the HCG Diet

HCG for Foodies provides the gritty details readers need to be highly effective on the HCG diet protocol. The HCG hormone uses ketosis to mobilize stored fat, thus it's an unusually strong jump start to the ketogenic diet. Written by a Physician who specializes in obesity and a Psychologist who specializes in adult change, HCG for Foodies offers a deeper, more rigorous look at strategies for the HCG Diet than is typical. The original HCG protocol, written by Dr. Simeons in 1954, demands rigid food choices that are quite limited. Drs. Falk and Klausmeyer invite readers to make decisions based on ketogenic science, which enables far more diverse eating in HCG Phase 2. Readers will learn detailed preparations that make HCG easier and more effective; how to calculate which foods will facilitate weight loss; cooking to maximize flavor; inventive recipes, the science underlying fat metabolism; how to utilize elements of personality useful for behavior change; practical strategies for the social and interpersonal challenges the diet poses. HCG for Foodies is designed to help readers make well-informed, independent decisions, but those who prefer concrete instructions for the diet will find what they need, too: ingredient lists, formulas, step-by-step instructions for all phases of the diet. Pragmatic and humorous, the text offers insight and challenge, not shallow cheerleading. Unique to HCG for Foodies is the Psychology book within the diet book. Readers learn skills for any adult transition, not just for weight loss: they examine ambivalence, identify cognitive distortions and assess their personality with regard to behavior change. They take a deep dive into their priorities and learn to defend against the people and places that pose a threat to their success. Readers are assumed perfectly capable of digesting the research on behavior change and endocrinology. The authors empower readers with scientific insights that illuminate why their food choices matter on this diet. From their vantage points of mental and physical health, Drs. Falk and Klausmeyer know what can interfere with patient goals. Here they offer an unusually diverse menu of strategies to increase reader success and creativity on the HCG Diet.…