Deciding to give HCG a try

I learned about HCG through a friend. She called and said hey I am doing this HCG thing where I inject myself with this hormone called HCG and then I eat a very restricted diet of only 500 calories a day. She was pretty pumped up about it but, I just thought ya oky doke you just let me know how that goes. I thought give me a break! Anyone that eats 500 calories a day is going to drop drastic weight duh! So I thought nothing of this hormone. That is until she sent me some pictures just a couple months later. She went from a size 20 down to a size 10 in seriously just a couple months. I think she started 6-1-09 and by mid August she was size 10 and I mean August of 09. Ya, so when I saw those pictures I said o.k. now what was it you were telling me about HCG??? This time I listened and was interested in what she had to say. She told me the basics and told me to research the rest if I had any questions because that was the best way to learn. Just start researching on the internet. I did that for a couple weeks and was amazed to find so many positive results. There were so few people that failed on this diet and those that did fail were still successful overall. They still had big losses but, lets say fell off the wagon sooner than the expected 23 or 43 day protocol. It took me a couple days of reading and hearing about others positive results for instance no hunger, more energy, euphoric feeling, drastic weight loss without hanging skin etc to convince me that it was worth it to give it a try. I ordered my product online and then waited. While waiting I read over Dr. Simeons Protocol (pounds and inches) to familiarize myself with what foods were and werent allowed.