So many people love the HCG diet. It’s what you might call…popular! Dieters who already finished their own HCG diet know the rules. They realize that they’re strict. But they also know first hand that they aren’t convoluted like so many other dieters. The HCG diet protocol is simple, straightforward and NOT confusing.
But there’s one aspect of the diet that many forget, ignore or miss…it’s the HCG diet phase 2. The maintenance phase is needed in order to give the dieter a stepping stone between severe calorie limitation and jumping back into the regular world of much more calories.
The body uses the maintenance phase to change to increased calorie intake. During the HCG diet, dieters are kept to five hundred calories each day. Once they start the HCG diet phase 2 they are given up to 1five hundred calories each day. The type of foods that are approved are still kept. But they are MUCH more varied than they are for the dieting portion of the plan.
When dieters start the maintenance phase (HCG diet phase 2) and stick to the rules they will stay inside the food limits as well as the caloric limits (1500 per day). They also stick to it for the requisite amount of time. The amount of time spent on maintenance varies because it should equal the amount of time spent on the diet.
So if a dieter did the HCG diet for the fifteen day period then they need to follow it with a fifteen day maintenance period. But if they did the HCG diet for forty days they need to follow it with a maintenance period lasting forty days. It is necessary just like the rest of the diet, but for some reason many simply ignore the need for this part of the diet.
Individuals who avoid HCG diet phase 2 find that they have a much harder time maintaining their weight loss after the diet is finished. This is a scandal considering the fact that HCG diets provide a drastic and rapid weight loss potential for most dieters. Dieters who are able to stick to the protocol introduced in the basic protocol will typically see weight loss close to the average of 1 to 2 pounds each day.
There is not much more annoying than meeting this wonderful weight loss average only to see the weight return when the maintenance phase is ignored. The maintenance phase is often not nearly as not easy for dieters as the literal diet. Some say that they have a not easy time changing to the increased foods while still keeping in mind that there is a limit. For these people there is a HCG diet maintenance e-cookbook that will aid them in sticking to the program protocol.
Amelia Handley studied exercise science in college with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she’s found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.