Three Kinds of Fat
Understanding the different types of body fat is crucial to successful weight loss and why traditional dieting often fails.
Fat is deposited in three separate compartments. The first is the structural fat which fills the gaps between various organs, cushions, the skin to smooth out the body outline and serves other important structural functions.
Structural fat also fulfills the important function of bedding the kidneys in soft, elastic tissue, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin smooth and taut. Structural fat may also provide the springiness of the step.
Structural Fat
Essential fat that fills gaps between organs, cushions the skin to smooth body contours, beds the kidneys in soft elastic tissue, protects coronary arteries, keeps skin smooth and taut, and provides springiness to your step.
Normal Reserve Fat
The body's fuel reserve that is freely accessible when nutritional intake falls short. This is the fat you lose on a normal diet. It's easily drawn upon when the body needs extra fuel.
Abnormal Fat
Locked-away fat deposits that the body stores but doesn't readily access for fuel. This problematic fat accumulates in trouble areas and is the primary target of the HCG program.
The Second Reserve: Normal Fat
The second reserve of fat is a normal reserve of fuel upon which the body can freely draw when the nutritional income from the intestinal tract is insufficient to meet the demand. Such normal reserves are localized all over the body.
Fat is a substance which packs the highest caloric value into the smallest space so that normal reserves of fuel for muscular activity and the maintenance of body temperature can be most economically stored in this form. Both these types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks them to capacity this can never be called obesity.
The Problem: Abnormal Fat
But there is a third reserve of fat which is entirely abnormal. It is the accumulation of this fat, and of this fat only, from which the overweight patient suffers.
This abnormal fat is also a potential reserve of fuel, but unlike the normal reserves it is not available to the body in a nutritional emergency. It is, so to speak, locked away in a fixed deposit and is not kept in a current account, as are the normal reserves.
Why Traditional Dieting Fails
When an obese patient tries to reduce by starving himself, he will first lose his normal fat reserves. When these are exhausted he begins to burn up structural fat, and only as a last resort will the body yield its abnormal reserves, though by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned.
It is just for this reason that obese patients complain that when they diet they lose the wrong fat. They feel famished and tired and their face becomes drawn and haggard, but their belly, hips, thighs and upper arms show little improvement. The fat they have come to detest stays on and the fat they need to cover their bones gets less and less. Their skin wrinkles and they look old and miserable.
The HCG Solution
This is precisely where the HCG program makes all the difference. When a patient follows the HCG protocol, the hormone enables the body to access and metabolize the abnormal fat deposits first, while preserving structural fat and normal reserves.
This is why HCG patients report losing inches from their problem areas while maintaining their energy levels and not experiencing the gaunt, drawn appearance typical of traditional calorie-restricted diets. The body is finally able to use the abnormal fat it has been storing, releasing approximately 1,500-4,000 calories per day from these deposits.