Day 16 on the HCG Diet. That means I\’ve only less than 10 days left on the low calorie portion of the diet. Just to recap in case some of you are just joining us or in case some of you are forgetful: the diet starts off with 2 days of loading. Loading is taking in as much fatty calories as possible. This increases the absorption of the HCG into the body. After loading the very low calorie diet begins (500 calories per day). This lasts for 23 more days.
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 HCG and my B-Total as required for the HCG diet. I\’m getting used to the timing required; no eating/drinking for 15 minutes before or after you take the drops three times per day. And the hold under your tongue for 15 seconds thing isn\’t a big deal. The stuff doesn\’t taste disgusting or anything. It\’s fine.
On day 16 I focused on leftovers. At lunch I had leftover green onion burger with Melba toasts and grapefruit. For dinner I had leftover chicken (the last of it) with strawberries and more Melba Toasts. I drank a ton of water. And I\’m hoping I\’ll drop down in weight again tomorrow; fingers crossed!
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.
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It is true that the HCG diet forces you to maintain a healthy lifestyle for weight loss. Since changing your lifestyle is usually the hardest part about losing weight and keeping it off, using HCG for weight loss really levels the playing field in your favor. It is true that the unbelievable amount of weight loss that happens in the early stages of the HCG weight loss program gives HCG dieters a boost in motivation to complete it in entirety.