The Loading Phase
is an important step of the HCG Diet, if not done properly could
compromise the whole round, because - let's
face it - if you're starving how many chances on succeeding you have?
So here comes the gorge
phase, where you take HCG injections that will help you saturate
your blood with as much fat as you can, your reserves for when no fat at all will ever come, not even
through your dry broken skin – since no
creams with oil are allowed during the Diet.
When I started my HCG
Journey with my first Round I made a list of food items I should buy to eat
during the loading Phase. Here's my original list:
1. Walnuts
(based on my researches the nuts with the highest
amount of fat)
2. Eggs + Egg
whites (I usually prepare some mini-frittata in the oven with it – lots of
proteins and fats)
3. Various
cured meats (pork mostly – high in
fat)
4. Cheese
(different types, mostly those high in fat)
5. Pancetta/bacon
6. Sour
cream (the one high in fat % – I use
it for the mini-frittata as dip)
7. Cottage
cheese (the one high in fat %)
8. Chicken with skin
9. Quest Protein
bars (the ones with Stevia – avoid aspartame/sucralose)
10. Cheese
Sticks/Snacks
TO PREPARE FOR THE LOADING DAYS
1. Mini
frittata (adding pancetta/bacon and cheese to it or any pork meat available, lots
of olive oil to add – I cooked them in muffin-trays so they become almost
bite-size)
2. Chicken
with added fats (skin NOT removed,
lots of olive oil to add)
3. Boiled
Eggs for snacks
Those
ingredients are very easy to cook; I
mostly mix them and put in the oven with lots of oil and butter. I try to avoid having junk food or sugar; I
don't even eat bread so I can get into Ketosis
faster once on the VLCD. I have
enough to eat in the Loading Days so
my cravings are under control, my only indulgence
is the Cottage Cheese that I eat with unsweetened
cacao powder and a couple of drops of Stevia
– that would be my "dessert" during the gorge days.
I read a lot
of people eating just spaghetti, pasta, pizza, chocolate bars, chips, or all
those candy bars that do not add anything good to a Loading Phase. Where is the
high fat content? I don't think stuffing ourselves with sugar and grain is a
wise idea, it defeats the purpose of the load!
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