what HCG Diet Plan is all about

Been looking for a body reshaping program for quite sometime now. i have been asking the slimming centers nearby but the package of using multiple machines comes up to close RM5,000. it takes over a period of three months of twice weekly to complete the sessions.
i have doubts about keeping to the routine.

then, suddently i came across a brochure of a colleque who was on an Atkin Diet because her pressure has shot up to an extreme danger level. it says that u could loose between 0.5 - 2 kg per day by committing to a HCG Dieting Program.
so i googled and found out that HCG is: 

"Restricting your intake to 500 calories a day isn't healthy," says Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The other part of the diet is daily drops or injections of the pregnancy hormone hCG, which supposedly accelerates weight loss by suppressing appetite and "blasting" fat.
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone produced by the embryo following implantation

What is the hCG Diet then?

The hCG diet consists of three stages. The hCG Diet stages are:

• Loading — 2 days of eating fatty, carb-filled foods.
• Burning — 26 to 43 days of a 500-calorie diet, depending on your goal.
• Maintenance — 3 weeks of a starch/sugar-free diet.

The loading stage requires that you begin taking the hCG and load with foods that are high in carbohydrates and fats. This is done so that your body will begin to adapt to the effects of the hCG.

In the burning stage you begin the VLCD (very-low calorie diet, this diet is outlined in the hCG Meal Plan section) while continuing with the drops or injection.

The maintenance stage requires that you not eat any sugar or starches for 3 weeks.

taken from: 

http://www.hcgmealplan.com/hcg-diet-information