Living Fitness

Finding an hCG diet blog that isn’t a thinly disguised shopping cart is even more challenging than finding objective hCG diet reviews or an hCG diet forum that isn’t overrun with spammers. Originally, the plan was to find a half-dozen authority sites on the diet from experts that (1) were extremely informative and (2) weren’t constantly pitching products. Plan A didn’t work out, since, to be completely honest, there was no hCG blog that truly fit the bill. Plan B, on the other hand—to find personal blogs where it was clear that the blogger actually had experience with the diet and could provide some advice—turned up a few good resources.

The Best HCG Diet Recipes. The main site is exactly what the title states: a collection of hCG diet recipes. Whether or not they’re the “best”, they definitely look fantastic. The blog section of the diet is a post-by-post account of the blogger’s progress with the diet, and she’s quite frank about her wins and setbacks, as well as those of her boyfriend, who also is on the diet. While the hCG diet is often touted as being easy to maintain, blogs like this illustrate that resisting temptation on any diet is a challenge. But even with an occasional surrender to cravings, she still managed to lose 22.4 pounds in 27 days. This site by “Dee Lish” (her persona) is a first-rate personal hCG diet blog.

Amie’s HCG Experience. This hCG blog, updated under late 2009, is an absolute must-read if you’re looking for a thorough first-person account of a dieter who logs her experience right from the beginning all the way through Phase 2, Round 2. While she was on the diet, Amie would post a new update every two to four days, and most posts cover stats, events (what she ate, what she should’ve eaten, family issues) and her emotions; a few even include before-and-after pictures. On Round 2 alone, Amie went from 160.4 pounds to 142.8. What the blog lacks in design it makes up for in content—and has no advertising whatsoever.

HCG Blog. A lot of this site has an “Under Construction” feel to it. The link to the hCG diet recipes section, for instance, has no recipes as yet. Many personal diet blogs aren’t as fleshed out as blogs that are more clearly commercial (Dee’s blog is a noteworthy exception). What does distinguish the site is that it’s one of the few hCG blogs to chronicle the blogger’s entire 40-day diet—not each day, but an average of one post a week, beginning from the time of ordering hCG to Day 40. The blogger, Alex, lost 18.4 pounds in total, and her boyfriend, Nathan, lost 19.2 pounds.

Kims HCG Diet Blog. Kims HCG Diet Blog (the apostrophe is omitted in the blog title) was actually updated by Kim’s husband, Jeff, who posted his wife’s verbal accounts of her progress over an eight-week period in early 2009. This isn’t an extensive blog, but a good one to review in a short session. Despite cheating on the diet a few times, she lost 27 pounds between January 5 and February 14. While is doesn’t have a tenth of the posts that Amie’s blog has, it has all the same integrity, full of honest self-assessment, and devoid of advertising.