subject: Day 16! Still on the Prescription HCG Diet! [print this page] Day 16! Still on the Prescription HCG Diet!
It's Day 16 on the Prescription HCG Diet. That means I only have less than 10 days to go on the low calorie portion of the diet; some people call it a VLCD or very low calorie diet. Just to recap in case some of you are just joining us or you're just plain forgetful: the diet starts off with 2 days of loading.
Loading is taking in as much high calorie, fatty foods as you possibly can. The name is very appropriate. This increases the absorption of the HCG into the body.
After loading the very low calorie diet (VLCD) begins limiting dieters to 500 calories per day. This lasts for 23 more days.
After the 23rd day on the very low calorie diet comes the Prescription HCG maintenance diet.
I'm kind of big on preparation (or some might call it unnecessary torture since I don't really have to worry about this extension of the diet for quite a bit). During the HCG maintenance diet you can eat a lot more food and a lot more "types" of foods (up to 1500 calories per day).
Some say that you can eat anything during maintenance and then they start listing the exceptions to the eat anything rule. During the HCG maintenance diet you cannot eat: sugar, dextrose, sucrose, honey, molasses, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, starch of any kind, artificial sweeteners, fast food, trans fat, and nitrites.
Whew! That's quite the list.
So while the food intake is going to jump considerably during the maintenance phase...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.
Alright so now that we've had that nice little recap from loading to low calorie to Prescription HCG maintenance diet we can get moving with today's basic info.
Today I weighed 156 pounds. I know! I did so good yesterday and saw no weight loss this morning. I decided to add some green tea in (which I did...YUCK!) and I also tried to drink a lot more water today. I think I messed up with my water intake yesterday. I didn't fill a pitcher first thing in the morning so I don't really know how much I drank.
I gave myself the HCG injection and took my B-Total sublingual formula. The injections aren't that big of a deal...I've gotten really accustomed to the routine of injection and B-Total drops.
I had another green onion burger for lunch (gotta' love leftovers) with the other half of the grapefruit I had yesterday and some 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 regurgitate my dinner. So keep your fingers crossed for me that I see weight loss again. I did everything I could today.
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