Having completed Day 16 on the HCG diet means that I\’m more than halfway through the low calorie portion of the diet. It\’s a pretty exciting landmark in the course of the diet, I think. It started off with 2 loading days (during which I ate tons of fatty foods). The loading days are intended to accelerate the rate at which the body absorbs the HCG. Then I started the next 23 days of low calorie dieting (500 calories)! This is a personal choice. The lengths of the programs vary.
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.
When I first read it that seemed like a pretty big list of exceptions, but in comparison to the short list of approved foods while on the low calorie portion of the diet it\’s no biggie! 1500 calories is a massive increase from 500, right? And I\’m definitely accustomed to limiting my food intake after the 500 calorie portion of the diet. All this weight loss has definitely been inspiring me to keep heading in the right direction.
The recap is now officially over and we need to get down to the nitty gritty of day 16. I weighed in at 156. I\’m not really sure why I stuck at the same weight because I did really well with my foods yesterday, but sometimes that happens. In response I went ahead and forced down some green tea today and aimed to drink tons more water.
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.
Now for the eating recap. On day 16\’s lunch I had a leftover green onion burger and another half of a grapefruit (this one was better than yesterday\’s). It\’s weird how some of them are just really sweet and yummy and others just aren\’t. I had Melba Toasts with lunch, as well. I had the last of the grilled chicken at dinner (more leftovers) and I drank a ton of water. Here\’s hoping I see weight loss again tomorrow!
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.
