Guaranteeing slimmers the bonus of being able to lose 40 lbs in less than 6 weeks; the HCG diet consists of injecting your blood stream with the HCG hormone which is supposedly produced during pregnancy. Accompanied by a calories reduced diet of less than 500 calories a day, slimmers can easily follow this straight forward weight loss plan for up to 6 weeks at a time as long as they take a 40 day break between each cycle to guarantee that their organism does not become immune to the diet. How does it work? According to nutritionists' opinion, the glycoprotein hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, is reputedly produced in the woman's placenta during pregnancy. Constructed to supply the foetus with food whenever the mother is not eating enough; this universal hormone feeds the baby by harnessing the mother’s stored fat content and converting it into glucose. And now accessible in an injection and homeopathic form, this unqiue weight loss plan works by making your brain believe you are pregnant when you are notand that you are starving.