Yesterday I completed the 25th day on the low calorie homeopathic HCG diet. That means that today is the first day of the maintenance portion of the program. (The length of the low calorie portion of the diet varies depending upon the dieter\’s choice of program). I successfully lost 21 pounds during the course of my HCG diet. And I\’m using the maintenance portion of the diet to make sure it stays off.
The low calorie diet and the maintenance diet definitely have drastic differences. It\’s really obvious to go from one to the other in one day. Yesterday the caloric limit was 500 calories and today I get a whopping 1500 calories. That\’s a huge jump!
While on the maintenance diet there\’s no particular portion control other than the total calories per day limit of 1500. There are still specific items that you can\’t have throughout the 26 days on the maintenance diet.
You basically can\’t have any sweeteners. There\’s no sugar or artificial sweetener. There\’s no dextrose, honey, molasses, sucrose, corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. You can\’t have any starch in any form (that means still no yummy bread or pasta, dang it!) You still have to avoid all the drive-thrus since you can\’t have any fast food of any kind. And you also can\’t have any nitrites or trans fats.
But there are lots of things that you can do while on maintenance. It\’s not all about what you can\’t do! You can have any fruit or vegetable you want. Go ahead and indulge in a berry salad. You don\’t have to stick to strictly strawberries anymore. You can now have milk, cheese and nuts! Make sure you enjoy it.
HCG Diet Direct sent a lot of information regarding the maintenance phase of the diet because it\’s really important. It\’s the time period required to let your body adjust to a high metabolic rate after the diet. Ignoring the maintenance phase could result in abnormal storing of fat; and after working so hard to lose all that weight it would be a shame to ruin it! So I\’m definitely going to stick to the rules of the maintenance phase.
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.
