For a regular person, daily calorie intake hits anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 calories per day, depending on a person’s daily physical activity. Now envision this: what if somebody’s calorie intake was reduced from 2,500 calories a day to 500 calories a day? That seems impossible; that’s the equivalent to having an eating disorder. However, the HCG diet allows dieters to survive off of 500 calories a day, but only with the correct HCG diet recipes. HCG, or Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, forces the body to draw its energy from usually inaccessible fat reserves. HCG is only produced in a woman’s body during pregnancy, and provides sustainment for the growing baby from the mother’s fat reserves. Because of HCG’s incredible weight loss capabilities, thousands of HCG recipes have sprouted up around the world, making the HCG diet a tasty, fast way to lose stubborn weight
Lean chicken. Beef. Fresh shrimp. Not exactly diet foods, right? Wrong! Most HCG diet recipes require at least one of these things on a daily basis. Most HCG recipes for lunch and dinner allow 100 grams of chicken, fresh shrimp, or beef, which makes cooking a scrumptious adventure. One tasty HCG meal is chicken shish kabobs, which can also double as a great appetizer for a dinner party. All you need is chicken cut into cubes with the fat trimmed off, several small tomatoes, and whichever vegetables (HCG approved) that you’d like. Once you’ve arranged these items on the skewers in whichever order you please, lightly sprinkle them with freshly squeezed lime juice and a dash of salt and pepper. The last thing is to grill the skewers, alternating the sides to ensure that all pieces are cooked thoroughly. Serve immediately after they’re cooked, and enjoy!
Fruit salad was huge in 90’s – but today, artificial sweeteners and high fructose corn syrup have replaced naturally sweetened foods. On the HCG diet, the aim is to fill your body with natural, non-artificial foods, like lean meat, fruit, and lots of vegetables. One of the sweetest HCG diet recipes is a fruit salad that combines a unique combination of fruit. And like most HCG recipes, this fruit salad is 100% healthy for you – which is all the more reason to make it! You’ll need a cup of chopped strawberries, a cup of chopped bananas, a cup of chopped pineapples, and a cup of rinsed and dried blueberries. Once you have all these delicious fruits, mix them together in a large bowl. One bite of this delicious, sweet fruit salad will win your taste buds over, and prevent you from “cheating” on the HCG diet by giving into other sweet junk foods. This fruit salad is great for just about anything, and full of antioxidants to boot.
Because of fish’s naturally high levels of protein and antioxidants, it’s quite clear why there are a number of HCG diet recipes that call for some kind of fish or another. One of the most popular HCG recipes involving fish is a lemon dish. Remember to only buy fresh fish, and no salmon or eel. Skip past the frozen fish section of the grocery and talk to the butcher to find out which fish are most fresh. Once you’ve selected three and a half ounces of choice fish, roll out about two feet of tinfoil and fold over to create a thick cooking sack for the fish. Lay the fish out on the tinfoil and coat with half of a squeezed lemon, and if you’d like, place the lemon rinds on the tinfoil with the fish. Sprinkle a little bit of salt and pepper over the fish and wrap up the fish tightly, ensuring that there aren’t any leaks in the tinfoil. Preheat the oven to three hundred and fifty degrees, and when the oven is completely preheated, cook the fish in the tinfoil for about twenty to thirty minutes. The fish should be soft, and should easily fall apart when picked up with a fork. If you’d like, this fish can be served over fresh lettuce.
Most diet recipes with chicken are so flavorless that it’s like eating a can of SPAM. Yet the HCG diet recipes with chicken break the norm for diet recipes. One of the best HCG recipes with chicken includes fresh oranges, basil, lemon juice, and tomatoes. Trim the extra fat off of three and a half ounces of fresh, organic chicken. Peel and cut up the orange into bite size pieces and mix in a bowl with the juice of half of a lemon and one tablespoon of freshly ground basil (or dried, if it’s more convenient). With the frying pan heated (you can use a dash of low fat cooking spray here), cook the chicken on moderate heat, and after three or four minutes, add the orange, lemon, and basil mixture to the pan. Once the chicken is completely cooked, remove from heat and cut into servable portions. This recipe is so delicious that your family won’t know it’s from an HCG cookbook! If you’d like to add an extra punch of fiber, serve the chicken pieces over freshly chopped lettuce. Your family and friends will love this recipe!
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