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.
Once you complete the low calorie portion of the diet you start what they call the maintenance diet. I\’m all for being prepared (or over prepared as some might call it) so I\’ve been looking into the maintenance diet lately. During the maintenance diet you can eat as much food as you want. (But no more than a total of 1500 calories per day). And there are a few exceptions when it comes to the actual foods that are okay to eat while on the maintenance diet. You can\’t have any sugar or dextrose or honey or molasses or high fructose corn syrup or corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. You can\’t have any nitrites or fast food. You can\’t have any trans fat. And you can\’t have any starch of any kind.
That\’s a pretty extensive exception, I know. But after the 500 calorie diet it sounds like heaven. I\’m so used to limiting myself that the 1500 calorie per day maintenance diet is going to be a breeze; at least that\’s what I\’m hoping. And it helps that the restrictive diet is actually working; seeing your weight drop is fabulous incentive to keep going.
So that\’s a general recap for you; now let\’s move on to the details of day 16. I was at 156 this morning when I weighed. That\’s exactly the same as yesterday which is a bummer because I ate really well yesterday. I decided that I\’d add some green tea to today\’s regimen in response (still don\’t like it, but it seems to work) and I tried to drink more water.
I took my drops (both HCG and B-Total) as required throughout the day. I don\’t think the timing is that difficult. It sounded annoying at first, but 15 minutes of no food/drink before and after isn\’t really that big of a deal. I go 15 minutes without food/drink all the time.
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 studied 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.
