Day 16 on HCG…Check!
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.
Whew! That’s quite the list I thought. So while the food intake is going to jump considerably I have to point out that I’m still going to be feeling strapped when it comes to what I can and can’t eat. But that’s just me. And I’m getting accustomed to the feeling. It’s not too bad; especially when my weight is going down so drastically.
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 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.
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 at university 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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January 08 2010 05:20 am | Nutrition