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Losing Weight if You Can’t Lose Weight
or What That Pregnancy Test Really Tests
Are you like me? One of those women who can’t lose weight despite severe caloric restriction?
Have you shamed yourself enough yet? Have you double shamed yourself not only for the extra weight but also for buying into the fat-phobic society we live in?
Despite your feminist positions on body acceptance, do you feel better lighter?Do you need to resolve your eating and weight issues for your own health and happiness?
Have you, like me, really and truly tried every diet? Have you gained and lost the same 20 pounds more than ten times?
I lost 32 pounds over the last several months. Those pounds slowly found me again after my last big weight loss six years ago.
That brings me to hCG, or the only way I can lose weight.
It stands for human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone produced early in pregnancy to sustain the embryo until the placenta is formed. HCG takes between one to two weeks after conception to show up in the blood and urine, which is what a pregnancy test is actually measuring. Additionally, hCG is normally produced by the pituitary gland in minute amounts by both men and women to support good reproductive health.
