The maintenance phase of the HCG Diet can be a little bit challenging due to restrictions on carbohydrates, starches and sugar especially for those with a sweet tooth.

You have restricted all forms of sugar and starches and you will only focus on eating mostly fruits, vegetables lean proteins and whole grains. However, you are not forbidden to cut back on your calorie because in this phase you are setting a new weight set point. You are getting your body ready in maintaining its normal weight.

Worry no more because the HCG Diet is not that strict to the extent that you can’t enjoy some sweets. With little creativity, you can have your slice of cake and eat them too!

No Crust Pumpkin Pie

A tasty-licious pumpkin pie that you can make for fifteen minutes simply by combining all the ingredients in a microwave-safe pie plate:

Ingredients

1¾ cup canned pumpkin

2 tsp. of cinnamon

1 cup fat-free milk

2 eggs

½ tsp. of nutmeg

½ tsp. of ginger

1 cup no-calorie sweetener (measures like sugar)

Instructions

1. Beat all the ingredients with a whisk then microwave on high uncovered for 8 to 10 minutes. Check halfway through cooking.
2. Remove the pie from the microwave oven when the outside edges start to pull away from the pie plate.
3. . Set it aside for 5 minutes to finish cooking.
4. Cut the pie into pieces and serve warm or cold.

No Crust Pumpkin Pie has just 62 calories per serving. It has 4.3 grams of sugar, 7 grams of carbohydrates, and three grams of fiber and one gram of fat.

Strawberries and Chocolate

Give your sweet tooth a delicious concoction of chocolate and strawberries.

Ingredients

Strawberries

1½ tbsp. of cocoa powder

1 tbsp. virgin coconut oil

Stevia to taste

Almond, peppermint extract or vanilla (optional)

Instructions

1. Heat 1 tbsp. of virgin coconut oil in a pan over low heat.
2. Add 1½ tbsp. of cocoa powder. Gently stir to combine.
3. Add stevia to taste your liking.
4. Dip the strawberries into the mixture. Lay them after on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper.
5. Refrigerate or freeze.
6. You can add some chopped nuts, almonds or flavor extract like peppermint or vanilla to the chocolate to spice things up a bit.

Bread-Crusted Chicken Breast

Ingredients

1-part Parmesan cheese

1-part almond meal

Your favorite herbs or spices

Chicken breasts

Finely-chopped walnuts, peanuts, or almonds, optional

Instructions

1. Combine one-part Parmesan cheese and one-part almond meal.
2. Coat the chicken breasts in the mixture.
3. Fry or bake as usual.
4. Add your favorite herbs and spices to the mix if you want to get creative. You may also add some finely-chopped peanuts, walnuts, or almonds.

 

You probably tried a diet or two in your life. Perhaps a diet that you’ve heard from your workplace, relatives and even neighbor. Perhaps, you always kept a paper and pen with you to count the calories in all the foods you are eating.  You have succeeded, you’ve lost a little or maybe a lot but the problem starts to arise once you go back to your normal eating habits. Gaining the weight back after all those efforts is such a curse for most diet.

How a Normal Diet Works

According to Dr. Simeons, the original creator of the HCG Diet and author of Pounds and Inches: A New Approach to Obesity, when an obese person goes into a diet, the body burns first the normal fats before burning the structural fats. However, the abnormal body fat will only burn if the normal and the structural fats are already depleted. During this time, dieters will go back to normal eating due to hunger, weakness and fatigue resulting from the restrictive diet.

How HCG Diet Differs From Any Other Diets

The HCG Diet is one of the most popular diets in recent years. The HCG Diet, which uses the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin hormone, enables the body to lose the abnormal fats without compromising the normal and structural fats. The hormone unlocks the fat reserve so the body can use it as a source of fuel during the diet phases. Even though with only 500 calories intake a day, the body is consuming up to 4000 calories in abnormal fat. This makes hunger issues during the diet, not a big deal. If in case you become hungry, try to look back in your journal to see what went wrong. Maybe you ate or used something out of the protocol or maybe you are not using the right hcg injections dosage.

The HCG Diet is proven to work for the majority of dieters. Most dieters who complete a round of the HCG Diet without cheating and without altering the protocol up loses a significant amount of weight. Although it’s one of the diets with lots and lots of restriction, it’s by far one of the most effective diets.

The HCG Diet is faster than any other diet. You’ll start to see results real quick. You can lose up to 15 pounds in just three weeks or even up to 40 pounds in six weeks. Other diets won’t give you the same results. Once the diet is over, you can transition to a healthy eating lifestyle. From there, you can start improving your eating habits and avoid all those foods that are making you big.