Amount of allowed vegetables on Beta HCG diet

 On the Beta HCG diet, the vegetable can be fresh, frozen or canned. You may steam, broil, grill, or eat it raw.
Fortunately, the amount of vegetables allowed is more flexible than the meat, fruit, or carb.
Too much fruit, and you have eaten way too many sugar calories.
Too much meat, and you have eaten too many fat calories.

The vegetables, as long as they are prepared without fat or sugar, leave the most flexibility.

You are allowed up to 500 calories per day in total food.
Let's say for example that you eat shrimp as your 100 gram meat, and strawberries as your fruit for each meal that day. You would have more calories left and would be able to eat way more vegetables than on a day where you ate beef for your 100 grams of meat and apples for your fruit.

If you have my book, the Beta HCG Detox diet, which is available on my website, you will get some ideas of the calorie counts of the different meal combinations.

In most of my recipes I used 100 grams of each vegetable, but in the original protocol, Dr. Simeons was not as precise about the amount of vegetables as he was about everything else.

I would measure 100 grams, unless you see room for extra calories in your meal and want to increase the amount of vegetables to get to your 500 calories.

Here are some calorie estimations to help you with your calculations.


Asparagus (3.5 oz) – 20 calories

Beet Greens

Broccoli (3.5 oz) – 34 calories
Broccoli (1 cup – 88g) – 30 calories

Celery (3.5 oz) – 15 cal
Celery (medium stalk) – 6 calories

Cabbage (3.5 oz) – 24 calories
Cabbage (1 cup shredded) – 17 calories

Cauliflower (3.5 oz) – 22 calories
Cauliflower (1 cup) – 28 calories

Cucumber (3.5 oz) – 12 calories

Fennel

Lettuce, all varieties (3.5 oz) – 20 calories
Lettuce, all varieties (1 cup) – 8 calories

Onions (pickled) - 23 calories per 100 grams

Red Radishes (3.5 oz) – 12 calories
Red Radishes (one medium) – 1 calories

Spinach, raw (3.5 oz) – 20 calories
Spinach, raw (1 cup) – 7 calories
Spinach, frozen (3.5 oz) – 23 calories
Spinach, frozen (1 cup) – 41 calories
Spinach, cooked (3.5 oz) – 31 calories
Spinach, cooked (1 cup) – 48 calories

Tomato (3.5 oz) – 20 calories
Tomato (cherry) – 3 calories