Summary of Phase 3

Yay! You’ve made it past the VLCD phase of the HCG Diet!!  Huge congratulations are in order. Now on to the maintenance phase! Some freedom at last!

If you did the HCG diet correctly, you hopefully have a new, healthier appetite. Most people come off the diet craving things like eggs, cheese, and almonds instead of their old cravings of Cheetos and ice cream. Bravo to you if you now have a new palate. It will make the maintenance phase much easier.

Summary of the Maintenance Phase of the HCG Diet

1st 3 weeks: NO sugars and NO starches

·       That means N-O bad for you sugars and N-O starches

·       If you cheat during this phase you may mess up all of the hard work you endured over the last month and take the chance of making maintenance in the future much more difficult. Believe me, you don’t want to do that.

·       Good foods to eat on this phase are protein-rich sources such as meats, eggs, hot wings, jerky, low-ish carb fruits and veggies, a few almonds, a little bit of cheese, some healthy fats, and some fantastic salads with extremely low-carb dressing such as Ranch dressing and Blue Cheese.

2^nd 3 weeks: S-L-O-W-L-Y adding back sugars and starches in (starchier fruits and vegetables, good whole wheat bread, etc.) 

·       Slowly, very slowly, add back sugars & starches (starchier fruits and vegetables, good whole wheat bread, etc.)

·       Your body needs time to adjust as the new food is being introduced.

·       Good foods during this time are all the foods listed in the 1^st 3 weeks with a little more leniency, any fruits and veggies, a little more dairy (yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese, etc.), still lots of salads, maybe a little more peanut butter, more milk, low carb/high fiber cereals like Kashi, oatmeal, etc. and your other favorite sugars and starches in very small portions and only one or so a day as the scale allow.

For a better understanding and a much more extensive list of over 1, 000 foods, drinks, and condiments and whether or not each is allowed, cautioned, or unallowed on each phase of the diet, buy the HCG Weight Loss Cure Guide (Linda Prinster) under the HCG Diet Books section in the Buy HCG Products tab. You will be glad you did!

The goal during this phase is help your body learn a new weight set point. You must still weigh every day on this phase (and for life) in order to train your body to maintain this new weight set point. 

WARNING: If your morning weight is 2.1 lbs over your last HCG date weight (the last day you took HCG), you do a Steak Day.  A Steak Day is where you eat nothing all day (but drink plenty of water, coffee, and/or tea). Then, for your evening meal, you eat a huge steak (8-14 oz) followed by an apple or a raw tomato. This should put you back down 2-5 lbs and get you back in your “range”.   

As you move forward in life you will continue to weigh yourself each day and complete a Steak Day any other time that your morning weight is 2.1 lbs over your last HCG date weight. It’s that simple.

For Phase 3 (Maintenance Phase) recipes, visit the Phase 3 section of the HCG Recipes tab!