The HCG weight loss program has been proven capable of getting rid of one to two pounds off your frame, but this depends on how well you follow instructions. There are specific instructions on administering the hormone and instructions for implementing the HCG diet.
Both protocols are equally important, but the diet requires more work and stronger commitment. It limits consumption of calories to not over 500 units a day and that’s scary, come to think of it. However, there’s actually nothing to make you apprehensive about the diet. It was formulated not merely to reduce your calorie intake. More important than this, it triggers the inherent properties of the HCG hormone.
The HCG hormone, a substance extracted from the urine or blood of pregnant women, has been proven to have the ability to make the metabolism work more efficiently and suppress food cravings. This is the reason why pregnant women never seem to gain weight. All foods consumed are efficiently broken down into essential nutrients for the use of the mother and baby and fats are immediately converted into energy. Wastes are flushed out of the body, not allowing build-up of toxins or fats.
Looking at the HCG diet recipes, it becomes evident what the diet is really for. The foods you are to eat for the next 23 days are mainly proteins and fibers. The proteins are good for building up muscles and fibers are good for detoxification purposes. Add to these the prodigious amount of water – not less than two liters – you are to absorb daily and you can see that it’s the detoxification process that triggers the hormone.
In the book “Pounds and Inches” you will find the original HCG recipe. You can also find it in all HCG websites. But for your convenience the complete diet which you are start in the third day of HCG ingestion provided:
For breakfast you are allowed unlimited amount of sugarless coffee or tea, though liquid Stevia or Saccharin is allowed, and one tablespoonful of milk for the next 24 hours.
For lunch you can choose what food combinations to choose from a list provided:
- A hundred grams (3.5 ounces, Weighed raw before cooking) of fatless beef, veal, chicken breast, fresh white fish, crab, lobster or shrimp grilled or boiled. Avoid adding fats. Eel, salmon, tuna herring, pickled or dried fish are prohibited.
- 2. One kind of vegetable chosen from a list provided: chard, spinach, beet greens, chicory, tomatoes, onions, celery, fennel, asparagus, red radishes, cucumbers, cabbage.
3. One Melba toast or one breadstick (grissini).
4. One-half grapefruit, one apple, orange or a handful of strawberries
It is advisable to stick this diet recipe. Any deviations from it result to difficulties and you many not lose weight at all.