Books

Pounds and Inches: A New Approach to Obesity by A.T.W. Simeons, M.D. This is the original book about the HCG Diet. It was written sometime around 1970. It was self-published and sent only to other physicians. It details the protocol for physicians and patients. It explains the rationale for the method and describes what results can be expected. Anyone considering the HCG Diet should read this document.

The HCG Dieter Gourmet Cookbook: Over 200 “Low Calorie” Recipes for the “HCG Phase” by Tammy Skye There are recipes for soups, salads, dressings, marinades, vegetables, beef, chicken, seafood, beverages, and desserts. I used this book when planning and preparing almost all of my meals while following the very low calorie phase of the diet. It had a wide range of recipes utilizing the limited palette of the HCG Diet. I could have had something different at every single meal, and I came close to doing exactly that. I ended up using maybe half of the recipes in the book. The results were fabulous. The book went a long way toward making a potentially boring diet into an exciting and even adventurous one.

HCG Diet Made Simple: Your Step-By-Step Guide Beyond Pounds and Inches by Harmony Clearwater Grace The HCG Diet is the only one that allowed her to lose weight in almost ten years of obesity, after the majority of her life was spent naturally underweight. After finding this hCG miracle, she is devoted to helping all of the overweight and obese to a normal healthy weight, either for the first time, or once again. Her vision is to be a catalyst to a complete turnaround of the current obesity epidemic through her work. The author is moderator of a 12,000-member hCG dieters support group. In the book, she provides knowledge gained by the experience of those on her message board. She gives reliably researched answers to 113 HCG Diet questions. She also has a good section on hCG research, and she gives advice on how to avoid scams.

The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau This is the book that revived interest in the hCG diet in recent years. Kevin Trudeau discovered the HCG Diet when it was offered to him at an alternative clinic in Germany. He explains the history of the HCG Diet and Dr. Simeon’s manuscripts. He also provides information about clean eating and nutrition that can help you better maintain your goal weight once achieved. He reveals how the food industry intentionally manipulates the food supply with additives to increase appetite, sales, and consequently, obesity.

Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins, M.D. Dr. Atkins believed that the widespread dissemination of misinformation about what constitutes a healthy diet has caused the epidemic of weight gain in this country. Dr. Atkins’s diet is extremely low in carbohydrates. Consequently, this book is a great source of ideas about how to plan no sugar no starch meals for the stabilization phase of the HCG Diet. It includes advice on shopping, tips on how to make low-carbohydrate dieting easier at home and elsewhere, menus, and recipes. The book also details how to go about adding carbohydrates back into the diet once one’s goal is achieved.

The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston, M.D. This book provides another good option for the stabilization phase of the HCG Diet. The approach is more moderate than Atkins’.