HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced during pregnancy. As a prescribed medication, HCG is used mainly to treat fertility issues. Advocates of the HCG diet say that HCG can help you lose weight, burn and redistribute fat away from your buttocks and stomach. With the HCG diet, you either take injections of HCG or take HCG supplements. The HCG diet also involves you to considerably cut your calorie consumption, normally consuming just 500 to 800 calories a day or about one-fourth to one-half of the standard calorie commendations.
Because the HCG diet combines injections or supplements of the HCG hormone along with severe calorie restriction, you may lose weight. But it’s the calorie restriction that causes the weight loss, not the HCG. In addition, the safety of HCG for weight loss is uncertain, and the hormone hasn’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for obesity or weight control.
Some of the tips you should remember in making an HCG Diet menu plan are the following:
1. For breakfast, you should only take tea, coffee, green tea and any health drink without sugar.
Stevia or saccharine can be used instead of sugar. One teaspoon of milk can be consumed in a whole day. This will minimize your calorie for almost 150grams.
2. Go for light to heavy meals for lunch such as 100 grams of grilled shrimps, steak, white fish, chicken, lobster, beef, pork, liver.
Choose only one vegetable but increase intake of fruits, especially strawberry, raspberries and grapes to keep the body hydrated.
3. During dinner time, opt for food like grilled protein items and avoid mixing of vegetables.
Drink lemon juice at frequent intervals. Drinking 2 liters and more of any fluid, especially water is highly recommended.
4. Eat sprouted bread or sprouted wheat instead of refined wheat flour.
Organic sprouted wheat, sprouted barley, millets, lentils, soybeans, fresh yeast, sea salt are perfect in this diet. Ezekiel bread that comes in various forms like English muffins, cinnamon raisin, rolls and tortillas should be preferred. Dieters can take rice bread and spelt bread if sprouted or whole grain bread is not available.
5. Saturated fats or hydrogenated vegetable oils are very unhealthy for us.
So, avoid cooking food with this type of oil. Go for vitamin D enriched, low calorie oil. Use essential oils like extra-virgin olive, coconut oil; sunflower and sesame oil in your nicely prepared dishes, they support the HCG Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD).
6. Make a list.
Plan your grocery list smartly, read the labels carefully, there are lot ingredients like Hydrogenated Oil, Fructose Corn Syrup, Wheat Gluten, etc which are extremely unhealthy and need to be avoided. To be safe stick to organic food and fruits
Escape or avoid food that comprise synthetic flavour, artificial, bleached, enriched flour, wheat gluten, high fructose corn syrup during the diet. Also, stay away from dairy products as food like cheese, butter, cottage cheese since they can increase your weight. Always buy the wild and natural food products, be it fish, meat and eggs. Stay healthy and be successful with your HCG diet. Plan your menu well.
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
I am on day 5 of phase 2. I’ve lost over 5 lbs already, but i just don’t feel like this diet is right for me. I feel really irritable and moody most of the time, and I’ve been hungry the entire time. My question is, is there a way I can stop the hcg early that minimizes the weight I’m sure I’m going to gain back?
I question whether or not you’re on the right diet plan. Are you counting calories? If so, that’s why you feel bad. That’s too low of calories. Also, the first week is the toughest, just get through it and you’ll feel much better. But I don’t think your diet is correct, get an expert to look at it. And if you do want to stop, do 3 days of the diet without HCG, then you do maintenance. You won’t gain anything back if you follow the program and do what you need to do and don’t go back to old habits.