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.

When you eat wheat products you receive concentrated carbohydrates loaded with sugar or glucose. Wheat starch is very easy for the body to digest and turn into glucose for food. You may seek to eat foods that will digest quickly to make it easier on the digestive system. However, when you eat the kind of carbs in wheat starch, it can cause problems.

Most people understand that they should not eat too many sugary foods if they want to lose weight. Sugar is high in calories and it also raises blood sugar significantly. Yet, your blood sugar will rise in a similar fashion if you eat a sandwich with wheat bread. When blood glucose rises rapidly it also drops suddenly, and this happens when you eat sugar or wheat starch.

When your blood glucose levels bottom out you get hungry as this signals the body that it is time to eat. However, it may have only been an hour or so since eating. This false sense of hunger is responsible for many people eating more calories than they need and is a major contributor to obesity.

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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