How Wheat Starch Can Ruin Your HCG Diet

By Dr. Dennis Clark


Many people are using the HCG diet to lose extra pounds and to keep them off. Yet, you need to be very careful about the things that you eat when you are on this type of program. Eating foods that contain wheat starch may be a bad idea and here are reasons why.

When you first start the HCG diet you must go though the loading phase and then comes the hard part. You consume very low calories and must be careful about the kind of foods that you eat. However, it is common to lose weight every day in a consistent manner with this kind of eating. Yet, this is not where many people make terrible mistakes.

The hard part about the HCG diet is the maintenance part. This is where you have to decide whether you want to stick with a certain plan or go back to your old ways. If you avoid refined sugar and wheat starch you will have a much better chance for success. However, this is much easier to say than to do.

Wheat contains a complex carbohydrate starch and this starch has concentrated glucose or sugar. This is perhaps one of the easiest types of carbohydrates for you to digest. This may seem like a good thing, as most people seek to make their digestion process as simple as possible. Yet, bad things can happen when you digest complex carbohydrates too quickly.

If you are trying to lose weight you should avoid sweets for several reasons. Sweets contain a lot of empty calories but they also make your blood glucose spike. However, eating a sandwich can cause blood sugar levels to spike as high as eating a sweet dessert. The higher something goes up the lower it will drop in proportion, and this is what happens with blood sugar levels.

When your blood sugar suddenly falls you become hungry. It makes no difference if it has only been a short time since your last meal. This is why many people eat when they should not. They are taking in foods that actually make them hungry in a short amount of time.

If you want to keep off the weight that you work so hard to lose, stay away from complex carbohydrates like wheat starch. This keeps blood sugar levels constant and makes your HCG diet plan more effective. When you stay away from wheat products you also will avoid gluten, as this can cause people to feel bloated and have digestive problems.




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