Increasing desire of great shape and health awareness has encouraged people search for different options to lose weight and one such easy option of fat loss for idiots is an HCG diet. Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, a British Physician, was the first one to come up with this idea of using the hCG hormone.
hCG or human chorionic gonadotropin, is basically a hormone secreted in female body at the time of pregnancy with a main function of treating fertility issues. Now the question arises… how and why it is used in weight loss programs? Well, studies have found that the hCG hormone helps in the body mechanism of fat burning by boosting up the metabolic rate. Injections and other supplements of hCG help in the release of stored fat from the body, especially in the belly, thigh, and hip region.
hCG Diet
The hCG diet weight loss program incorporates two things…the reduced calorie intake and the consumption of hCG diet supplements. In this program, often the calorie intake is reduced drastically to cap withing 500 to 1000 calories (although most of the times, goal is 500 calories per day). In popularity, hCG remains as one of the most popular choice of numerous obese people who are looking for a quick effective weight loss.
- This diet is an amalgam of the specific foods in diet and hCG shots.
- You need to curb your appetite significantly if you are a food lover.
- There are certain restrictions on the type and group of food that can be eaten.
- To achieve desired results, you are supposed to follow the diet strictly and control your appetite.
- The starch and fat intake is totally avoided in this diet regimen.
- Low calorie foods and light and small meals is the plan of an hCG diet. The hCG diet works on certain defined stages.
Stage 1
This first stage is perceived as preparatory stage and it allows the consumption of fatty foods and storage of fat in the body.
Stage 2
Total time span for this stage is 21 days. The hCG intake starts in this stage, and the intake amount is generally recommended case to case.
Breakfast – You can either have tea and coffee (without sugar and only one spoon of milk) only once in a day. You cant eat sandwiches and breads.
Lunch and Dinner – You can have the following for lunch and dinner. 90-100 grams of veal, beef, chicken, white fish, lobsters, crab and shrimp. You need to remove all the visible fat before cooking. Just grilling or frying the food without adding any additional fat content is expected. For bread, you can have one bread stick or a Melba toast. If you are a vegetarian, you can have any of the following vegetables – spinach, chard, beet-greens, green salad, tomatoes, celery, fennel, onions, radish, cabbage, cucumbers.
Snacks: For snacks, prefer eating fruits like apples, grapefruit, strawberries or oranges.
Remember the daily calorie intake allowed is 500.
Stage 3
In this stabilization phase, you will start getting results here, in this phase. So now you can increase the calorie intake slowly and gradually.