Friday, May 13, 2016

Planning With HCG Allowed Food

By Diane Rogers


A persistent diet craze uses a naturally-occurring hormone with a greatly reduced calorie meal plan to burn fat and accelerate weight loss. Although health professionals often say that human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) does not affect metabolism, others attest to its benefits. While on the plan, dieters stick strictly to hCG allowed food for their two meals a day.

You can have two meals a day, lunch and dinner. Each will contain 250 calories, which seems like enough to keep a canary happy. This 'starvation' diet allows no butter or oil, and all fat must be trimmed off the meats you can eat. No sugar is included. The hCG supplement comes in pellet, spray, or liquid form.

Each of the two daily meals is structured with an item from four food groups. There will be one protein item, one vegetable, one bread, and one fruit. This gives a balanced entree, although the calorie count is much lower than the recommended daily intake. Diets this restricted in calories are not recommended by most medical doctors.

It's odd to think that such a limited calorie intake can include bread, but the choices are not lavish or even exciting. A bread portion is one round of Melba toast or one bread stick. On such a diet, however, the change in flavor and texture might be truly appreciated.

The protein can be a carefully measured piece of white fish, breast of chicken, veal, or beef, or a portion of shrimp, lobster, or crab. The meat should be grilled, which requires no added fat in cooking. Remember that no visible fat on the meat is allowed in this restrictive regime.

As you might expect, leafy green vegetables are on the list. You can choose one for each meal, either chard, beet greens, spinach, cabbage, chicory, or green lettuce. The list also includes red radishes, cucumbers, onions, asparagus, and fennel. Tomatoes are allowed, as is celery. This is a list of nutrition-packed foods that will be even more important when calories are so limited.

Fruit might be as surprising as the bread, but it is allowed. You can have your choice, as long as it's an apple, an orange, a grapefruit half, or a few strawberries. Coffee, tea, and water are the allowed beverages (sugar substitute may be used if its calorie-free), and these beverages are unlimited.

Critics of the use of hCG say that such severe restriction of calories would result in dramatic weight loss without adding the hormone. They say that there are no clinical results that point to appetite control, increased thermogenesis, faster metabolism, or any effect on the thyroid. However, many people report feeling more able to stick with the program while taking the hormone, and many feel that the combination makes losing stubborn fat easier than with any other diet plan. You will have to make up your own mind about trying this regime, which is said to 're-set' your metabolism and make maintaining an ideal weight possible once the diet is over.




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