Phases of HCG Diet Program Continued

HCG Diet: Maintenance Phase III

The Maintenance phase of the HCG Diet is the most important phase of the diet.  This is where all your hard work pays off and you maintain the benefits of your weight loss. With most diets you will lose weight, but the moment you stop the diet you tend to gain your weight back and then some.  With the maintenance program we are now resetting your bodies "normal" weight to your new weight. Your weight must stabilize.  Once reset, your body will want to maintain this weight without any drastic changes. 

 The maintenance phase is a three week phase so you can maintain your body weight within two pounds of your final weigh in.  During this phase you are still restricted on your diet, but your menu does open up quite a bit. A few of the thing added are your dairy products, certain nuts, and you now get to mix some of your fruits and vegetables. We do another body analysis on our patient to determine their BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) which will determine the amount of calories they can eat without gaining any weight.  So it is required to still count your calories during this phase, but you will quickly learn the proper amount of food to eat at each meal and be able to get away from having to count all your calories.  This is the time where you come mindful of your body and it's needs.  When eating you will want to eat until you are satisfied not full. Feeling satisfied is fairly easy to do since you have been eating 500 calories for several weeks.  It takes your brain around 10 minutes to realize that you are satisfied and then tells your stomach that you are full. 

It takes around 21 days for your body to stabilize and accept your body's weight.  The reason that this is the most important phase, is because if done properly you will benefit from all your weight loss and be able to maintain your weight loss with very little effort. 

HCG Diet: Life Phase IV

Life phase is the best and easiest if all the other phases when done correctly.  Now it's  time  to enjoy the new healthier you and indulge in the foods you love without feeling guilty.  In Life you now take what you learned in Phase III of the HCG Diet and apply to all your foods and your new lifesytle.  You can now eat all foods within moderation.  Just listen to your body and watch the amount you are eating. Don't go back to old habits and eat everything on your plate and eating till you feel full.  Instead enjoy your foods, don't feel guilty having desserts and sweets but do all this within moderation.  Still weight yourself every other day if not daily to keep an eye on your weight.  The biggest secret to life is to indulge and enjoy your foods once or twice a week and just watch what you eat the next day or two.   

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