Losing weight can be difficult, especially if you don’t know which foods to cut out, how many calories to eat, and how much exercise to get daily. The good news is that there is a solution that’s simple and effective. At Mac Med Spa in Milford, MA, we offer the HCG diet to meet the needs of patients who want to lose weight quickly and safely.
What Should You Know Before Starting the HCG Diet for Weight Loss?
The HCG diet is a 30-day plan that uses a combination of dietary changes and HCG supplementation to help patients lose their desired amount of weight. Before beginning this plan, it’s important that you understand how it works, what to expect, what’s required of you, and how much weight you’ll lose. When you’re fully informed about the process, you can feel confident moving forward and have real realistic expectations.
What It Is
The HCG diet is a unique weight loss program that requires a low caloric intake and HCG supplementation. HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that women produce naturally during pregnancy. During these nine months of pregnancy, HCG helps the body utilize excess fat to energize both the mother and the baby.
When injected into the body or taken orally, HCG supplementation releases unwanted fat deposits that the system can metabolize and use as energy. It also requires that patients follow a low-calorie diet of 500 to 800 calories per day.
How It Works: The Three Phases
Loading
Before beginning the HCG diet, you’ll undergo what’s known as the loading phase, during which you’ll spend two days eating extremely high-calorie foods. During these two days, you can eat as much fat, carbohydrates, protein, and calories as you’d like. You’ll also begin HCG supplementation during this time.
Weight Loss
After the loading phase, you’ll enter the weight loss phase, during which you’ll consume anywhere from 500 to 800 calories daily. These calories will be spread out over the entire day for the duration of your program. The HCG supplements will force your body to use fat for fuel and accelerate weight loss during this time.
Maintenance
After you achieve your goal weight, you’ll enter into the maintenance phase, the diet during which you’ll eat a specific amount of calories as recommended by one of our specialists to maintain your weight loss long-term. We will give you instructions on how to live the healthiest lifestyle after reaching your goal weight so you can maintain it and reap all the benefits of living life at a healthier weight.
What You Can Eat
Even though you’ll be under significant caloric restriction, you’ll still have a variety of foods to choose from while following this program. You can eat lean proteins like chicken, whitefish, certain shellfish, extra lean beef, and bison. You can also choose from vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, asparagus, onions, shallots, and more.
Approved fruits include berries, apples, and citrus fruits. You can season your foods with approved herbs and spices. Although most drinks are off-limit, you can drink unlimited amounts of coffee, tea, and water and sweeten your foods and beverages with stevia or saccharin.
What You Can’t Eat
You’ll need to avoid several food groups while on the HCG diet, including all dairy, most carbohydrate-rich foods, fats and oils, sugar, alcohol, and all desserts. Even though your food choices will be limited, these limitations will only last for a short time, after which you can gradually implement different foods back into your diet.
One of the benefits of avoiding all these food groups for 30 to 40 days is that you’ll feel the positive effects of not eating them, which often makes patients choose to eliminate them from their diet for good. Removing sugar and alcohol from your diet will help you lose weight, improve your health, reduce inflammation, make your skin look better, and support your overall health.
What the Benefits Are
The HCG diet results in rapid and safe weight loss. It helps patients learn discipline and how to make healthy food choices. Patients can lose up to one pound per day while on the diet and a total of 20 to 40 pounds throughout the program.
HCG is available in both injectable and oral forms, so patients can undergo treatment with the best supplement option based on their needs and preferences. Results are dramatic, the treatment process is monitored and safe, and you’ll see real results as long as you stick to the diet protocol.
Who It’s Right For
Before you begin this program, it’s important that you qualify as a good treatment candidate. The HCG diet is an effective option for men and women who want to lose significant weight within a short period. If you’re interested in beginning this program, the process will begin with an initial consultation. We will meet with you to discuss your weight loss goals, medical history, and overall health.
We’ll also perform a blood test to confirm that you are in good health and that this treatment is safe for you. Then, we can move forward with your diet plan and begin your treatment so you can experience all the benefits of accelerated weight loss and reach your goals as quickly as possible.
You Play a Part in Maintaining Your Results
Even though there is a maintenance phase involved with this diet, it’s important that you commit to living a healthy lifestyle well after completing the program to maintain your goal weight long-term.
Eating healthy foods and avoiding sugars, chemicals, artificial ingredients, starchy carbohydrates, and fatty foods is important for long-term success. Getting plenty of exercise, staying hydrated, and maintaining low stress levels are also important. All these healthy habits will go a long way in helping you maintain your goal weight in the long term.
Reach Your Goal Weight
If you want to learn more about this diet program and confirm your treatment eligibility, we can provide all the details and help you quickly and safely achieve your goal weight. Contact us today at Mac Med Spa in Milford, MA, to schedule your initial consultation.
