What to Eat While on the HCG Diet

The hCG diet is something that most people look into trying since it does produce weight loss results. However, many people wonder just what can you eat while on the hCG diet. There are numerous options of what you can eat, however, you must keep in mind that the idea is to only eat 500 calories a day in conjunction with the hCG hormone shot that those people on the diet take.


For breakfast, there are no real foods that you eat. However, you can have 1 cup cereal (Total, Special K, Cheerios) with ½ cup fat free milk or 1 boiled egg with 1 slice Ezekiel Bread or the egg can be 1 cup scrambled egg white. You should focus on drinking coffees and caffeine free green tea. You may have 1 cup a day. Most professionals point out that drinking organic coffees and teas are the best way to go. You may add 1 teaspoon of saccharin. This means that no regular sugar or cream should be added to the coffee, and no regular sugars to the tea. You can also substitute 1 teaspoon of maple syrup to the tea instead of sugar. This is why getting naturally flavored coffees and teas are the best way to go so you can have some flavor in the morning.

For lunch and dinner, your meal will consist of proteins and vegetables. Protein wise, you will want to eat only those meats that are cut lean such as beef or veal. Or you can eat chicken that has the skin removed. You can also choose fish to eat that is low in mercury. Vegetable wise, you can choose from spinach, cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes or celery. The important thing to remember about these vegetables is that you do not want to fry or cook this with some type of oil. Instead, steam, boil or grill these vegetables. You can also choose to eat them raw, however, most prefer to cook them. IN addition, you are only allowed one vegetables with the protein of your choice.

You also have a few fruits to choose from that you can add to your lunch or dinner. For example, a small apple, grapefruit or strawberries can be added to the meal in order to make it more filling.

When choosing what to eat for lunch and dinner be sure to choose a different protein and vegetables for each meal that way you are getting a different source of protein with each meal. If you find that you are still hungry throughout the day, then drink plenty of water. In fact, you should continuously drink water in order to curb your appetite.

According to Dr. Simeons manuscripts, “Pounds and Inches” – showing the original 500 calorie a day diet, your day should look like this:

Breakfast:

1. Tea or Coffee in any quantity without sugar. Only one tablespoon of milk allowed in 24 hrs. Saccharin or Stevia may be used as a sweetener.

Lunch:

1. 5 ounces of veal, beef, chicken breast, fresh white fish, lobster, crab, turkey or shrimp. All visible fat must be carefully removed before cooking, and the meat must be weighed raw. It must be boiled or grilled without additional fat. The chicken breast must be removed from the bird.

2. One type of vegetable only to be chosen from the following: Spinach, chard, chicory, beet-greens, green salad, tomatoes, celery, fennel, onions, red radishes, cucumbers, asparagus, cabbage.

3. One Ezekiel bread or one Melba toast.

4. An apple, orange, or a handful of strawberries or one-half grapefruit.

Dinner:

1. The same four choices as lunch (above).