I\’ve got less than 10 days left on the low calorie portion of the HCG diet. That makes Day 16 one of my favorites so far. Here\’s a quick reminder of the program layout. It started off with 2 days of loading. Loading is eating a whole lot of food with a whole lot of fat content and therefore calories. While loading you start taking your HCG three times daily. It\’s supposed to increase the ability of the body to absorb the HCG product. After loading you start a 500 calorie per day portion of the diet. I chose to do the program that had me dieting for 23 days, but there are different lengths you can choose from.
After the 23rd day on the very low calorie diet comes the HCG maintenance diet. I\’m kind of big on preparation (or some might call it unnecessary torture since I don\’t really have to worry about this extension of the diet for quite a bit). During the HCG maintenance diet you can eat as much food of any type of food you choose (up to 1500 calories per day). There are, of course, some heft exceptions to this eat anything rule. During the HCG maintenance diet you cannot eat: sugar, dextrose, sucrose, honey, molasses, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, starch of any kind, artificial sweeteners, fast food, trans fat, and nitrites.
Whew! That\’s quite the list I thought. So while the food intake is going to jump considerably I have to point out that I\’m still going to be feeling strapped when it comes to what I can and can\’t eat. But that\’s just me. And I\’m getting accustomed to the feeling. It\’s not too bad; especially when my weight is going down so drastically.
Alright so now that we\’ve had that nice little recap from loading to low calorie to HCG maintenance diet we can move on. Today I weighed in at 156. I know! I did so good yesterday and no weight loss. I decided to add some green tea in (which I did…YUCK!) and try to drink a lot more water. I think I messed up with my water intake yesterday. I didn\’t fill a pitcher first thing in the morning so I don\’t really know how much I drank.
I\’m fine taking the HCG drops three times per day. And I think the B-Total drops are really helpful. I\’m thinking of getting online and ordering some more for when these run out.
Today I ate another green onion burger for lunch (leftovers) with the other half of the grapefruit I had yesterday and Melba Toasts. For dinner I had the last of the grilled chicken I had in the fridge (leftovers again). And I drank so much water that I was afraid I might make myself throw up. So I\’m crossing my fingers that tomorrow I\’ll see weight loss again.
Amelia Handley majored in exercise science in college with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she\’s found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.
