HCG Diet – Weight Loss Cure – How to Do the Crucial Maintenance Phase of No Sugars Or Starches

July 3rd, 2010 |

Are you getting close to the maintenance phase of the HCG Diet? Are you wondering just what you can eat and what you can’t? Are you thinking ahead to how you’ll do it? Worried about gaining any weight back?

Doing the HCG Diet gave me a new lease on life. It gave me back my sense of self and who I am. I found out that I could lose weight and I didn’t need to go to a psychologist and spend years figuring out why I was so overweight. You don’t have to do some rigorous exercise program or start running. You can do this diet and you can keep the weight off. The HCG Diet is a miracle diet in many ways.

But, I think those three weeks of maintenance are crucial. You don’t need to count calories. Just cut out starches and sugars…Yeah…”just”…it’s not so easy. And check the scales every single morning, to keep on track. Those three weeks are so important for resetting your hypothalamus to a new weight…a new set point.

1) When you get to the end of the HCG Diet, you do your last dose of hCG, however you are doing it, shots or oral/sublingual, etc., and then you continue for 2 more days with the VLCD (very low calorie diet) while you wait for most of the hCG to get out of your system. You will continue to lose for those couple of days after the last hCG.

2) Then you can eat whatever you want EXCEPT for no sugars or starches, which basically means, no cookies, no crackers, no desserts, no flour, no pasta, no spaghetti, no breads, etc. As long as you do that very carefully for 3 weeks, you should be able to keep at your last diet weight, or within 2 pounds. If you go up 2 pounds, you should do a steak day, as described in Pounds and Inches. It is very important to keep your weight in that range for those three weeks to re-set your hypothalamus and “set point,” so that you keep the weight off.

Have you ever heard about the saying, “If you want to lose weight, just cut out the white foods?” My doctor told me that years ago. I wish I had followed his advice, because I may never have gotten so overweight in the first place. I’d just had my first baby and he told me to cut out spaghetti and potatoes. It seemed too simple and also, too hard raising a family. So “white foods” are things like white sugar, white flour, white rice, white potatoes, white bread. But, just during maintenance. It’s not forever.

I have no way to prove this, but I suspect the hCG doesn’t entirely leave your body as fast as 2-3 days after the diet. I think that is another reason why the three weeks after of no sugars or starches is so important. Dr. Simeons warned to add fruits carefully, because of the natural sugar, weighing every day.

3) If you do gain, be sure and do the steak day. According to Dr. Simeons, that is the one best thing you can do. A steak day is one meal, usually at suppertime of steak and a raw tomato or apple.

The HCG is great for losing really fast, but because of the hCG hormone, you can also gain very fast, if you aren’t careful. For more information like this, go to http://www.hcgdietnews.com. It’s free.

Janet Sweeney is a successful Hcg Dieter, wanting to help others have success losing with the Weight Loss Cure program. Free report at http://www.hcgdietnews.com, including the 5 Top Tips for Starting the HCG Diet. Also free information about Pounds and Inches by Dr. Simeons.