Hi Alva, I don't do HCG - is there a customer support number on your HCG package information? I would call the customer support number if there is one. Good luck with this. Do post back and let us know how you are doing. Cheers, McPeg

Pammy, You almost certainly didn't lose a pound of fat a day. Most of what you lost is water. Do the math. A pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories and if you are eating 500 calories a day, you would have to be burning 4000 calories a day. I doubt that's the case. I thought the idea of the HCG diet was you could go on a very low calorie diet without getting hungry. If you are getting headaches and "starving" maybe you should start wondering if that diet is all it's cracked up to be.

Actually, I have not been very hungry on the 500cal diet and doing the hcg shots. Usually I would be starving on a 1200 cal diet. Even diet pills didn't work very well for me. I wouldn't say its all in my head either since I was very skeptical from the beginning. I have lost 7lbs in the first week. Missing the shot didn't effect me and I have just altered my eating times slighty on the nights I work. The only thing that bothers me is watching my family eat the things I can't such as chocolate! I'm sure the diet doesn't work for everyone but for right now its working for me when nothing else does. And yes, I have tried altering the way I eat to just eating healthier (not really "dieting") with exercise and I have a terrible time losing weight. Maybe there isn't any studies done showing this works but I personally know a few people it has worked for and they haven't been hungry on the diet either.

For 3 weeks you should ideally follow the "maintenance phase" in order to allow your body to stabiliaze at your new weight. After your 3 days of eating 500 calories once discontinuing the HCG, you can start to eat other foods, but avoid sugars and starches whenever possible. They say it is imperative to weigh yourself every day, without fail, and if you gain more than 2 pounds, have a "steak day". This means, you go all day without eating anything, but drinking as much of the allowable liquids as you want. Then, for dinner you have a huge steak with either a raw tomato or an apple. This must be done on the day your weight goes above 2 pounds from your final weight on the HCG. I have not gotten to this phase yet but this was the information I was given with my HCG order (I am using the sublingual homeopathic HCG drops). Good luck!