What to Eat After Your HCG Diet Is Over

The HCG diet—which harnesses the power of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) to reduce or eliminate the hunger, weakness, and other unpleasant side effects that can be common when following a low-calorie diet—is a revolutionary weight loss program that may help you shed those pounds that you’ve been trying to lose for as long as you can remember. If you’ve already taken the plunge and begun your HCG diet and required injections, you may already be familiar with how the phases of the diet work and what you can eat during each phase. However, what you eat after your HCG diet is over can be just as important when it comes to maintaining the results you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

The maintenance phase (stage four) of the HCG diet holds just as much weight as any other stage of the program, even though you may have stopped your HCG injections. But what exactly should you eat during this phase of your HCG diet? As the provider of all your hormone replacement therapy needs, Pharmacy Rx Solutions can help you answer that question. We’ll explain everything you need to know about what to eat after your HCG diet here, starting with:

Foods You Should Continue to Avoid

Just because your HCG diet is “over” doesn’t mean you can immediately shift back to your old eating habits. There are certain foods that you should continue to avoid indefinitely, including:

• Highly processed foods
• Heavy cream, buttermilk, whole milk, and other full-fat dairy products
• White flour
• Soda and other sugary beverages

Essentially, the key to getting used to life after your HCG diet is over is continuing to focus on eating healthy, whole foods and avoiding junk foods and foods rich in empty calories.

Start Gradually Increasing Your Calorie Intake

Due to the innovative nature of the HCG diet, you should not make any abrupt changes after the program is over when entering the maintenance phase. Instead, you should start increasing your daily calorie intake gradually so you don’t confuse your body. This stage is a key factor in what makes the HCG diet so effective, as many other diet programs focus entirely on weight loss and restriction during the program and not on adjusting eating habits after the diet is over.

When increasing calories, you’ll want to start small—about a couple hundred additional calories per day for the first week—and begin reintroducing certain foods that you avoided during the diet, such as healthy starches and foods with natural sugar.

Focus on Whole, Nutritious Foods

Now that you aren’t focused on following the specifics of your HCG diet plan, you should continue to base your diet around nourishing, whole foods. This can include the types of food that you ate during your HCG diet as well as some nutritious additions. Your diet can include:

• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Lean proteins
• Whole grains

Learn More About What to Eat After Your HCG Diet From Pharmacy Rx Solutions

If you have questions about what to eat after your HCG diet is over or are interested in starting an HCG program, the team of experts at Pharmacy Rx Solutions is here to help. We proudly serve customers across the United States, supplying them with HCG shots that meet USDA guidelines and are dispensed on a made-to-order basis, are distributed by a licensed compounding pharmacy, and are tested by a third party for potency, pyrogens, and sterility. To learn more about the HCG diet and what to eat after your program ends, contact us today.