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Potato Diet

June 3rd, 2011

Potato Diet

Potato Diet is based on consumption of potatoes.

The duration of the diet – from a few days.

At breakfast – 1 cup milk.

At lunch – 300 grams of mashed potatoes.

At dinner – salad: 250 grams of potatoes, 1-but hard-boiled egg, salt, oil, vinegar and black pepper.

In the course of the diet is mandatory acceptance of minerals and vitamins.

Potato Diet is very nourishing, much discomfort is not felt.

Weight loss during potato diet – up to 1kg in 2 days.

Diets, Fast diet

Figs diet

April 7th, 2011

Figs dietMost of the diets severely limits the intake of sweets, that for many losing weight is a serious challenge. Fortunately, there are some “sweet” methods of losing weight. These include the current Figs diet - it is devoted to our article.

Briefly about the benefits of figs

Energy value of fresh dates in the range 140-270 kcal, but slightly dried or dried fruits of several increases this figure – an average of their caloric reaches 340 kcal. Despite the relatively high energy value, dates, long and successfully used in the dietary. This is explained by the fact that the sweet fruit quickly satisfy hunger, but because of the luscious taste you simply can not eat much. At the same time, they are perfectly restore the strength and relieve depression.

The sweet taste of figs provide glucose and fructose, which simply do not have time to become fat and rapidly absorbed and consumed by the human body. Delicious fruits have in their composition a certain amount of protein (up to 2.9%), fat (1%) and fat (6.5%).

Useful trace elements in figs are iron, calcium, phosphorus, sodium and potassium. Of the vitamins is to highlight the A, B1, B2, B5, C and E.

The essence of Figs diet

The duration of the diet – 10 days (no more). During this time, you can lose 6-8 kg.

The first four days you can eat only figs, water and green tea without sugar. On the fifth day of the diet you can eat oranges and green apples.

Disadvantages diet

Figs diet has a serious limitation in the chemical composition of food, which adversely affects the health. Also note – due to the low protein content, figs are not able to provide building material for muscles, which will necessarily lead to unsightly sagging body.

Contraindications

In fact, contra-indications are not so much. You can’t eat lusciously sweet fruit if you have  serious gastrointestinal diseases, and diabetes. But don’t forget – a serious calorie restriction diet in any case not the best impact on the well-being (and sometimes health). That is why, before proceeding to the diet weigh all the pros and cons, and you should consult with your doctor.

Diets, Mono-diet

The Apple diet

April 4th, 2011

Tale of the rejuvenating apples is not written in vain. Apples – a very valuable piece of fruit, which contains almost all vitamins and minerals, as well as folic acid, sugar, pectin. “Every day, eating an apple, you save on the doctor” – as people say.

Apple diet helps to correct metabolic disorders, combat obesity. The main thing of Apple Diet – do not forget that this is not a panacea. Apple, like any other diet (kefir, rice, vegetables, cottage cheese, fish) is good only as a supplement to the basic method of recovery.

It’s better to arrange one fasting day “on apples.” To reduce weight, it’s desirable to have “apple day” 1-2 times a week. And for prevention rather than once a month. By the way, this Apple Diet is very effective for the prevention of atherosclerosis and is useful for hypertensive patients.

Apple dietHere is one of the options “apple day”. During the day you need to eat only apples, and as much as you like. During the day you should gradually eat 1,5 kg of fresh apples. By the way, you can also bake the apples in the oven – there is almost no difference.

Another popular type of  Apple Diet is apple-kefir diet. For 1 apple – half a cup of kefir 5-6 times a day. Very often it’s advised to apply to pregnant women during toxicosis.

Small tips of Apple Diet

2.3 apples help with constipation, If you eat them on an empty stomach every morning for a month.

If you have bowel problems, you are simply obliged to eat apples every day and have “apple” fasting days. Apples are specific substances which suppress the malignant cells that cause cancer of the liver and intestines.

It is important to know what varieties of apples suitable for you. For example, when a stomach ulcer contraindicated sour apples, but you can eat sweets apples. In the case of gastritis with low acidity – apples sour varieties.

Diets, Unloading diets

Oatmeal Diet

April 4th, 2011
Oatmeal Diet

Oatmeal Diet

Oatmeal diet is also very useful and nutritious. French doctors appointed oatmeal diet  for ill patients. Rolled oats are the basis of almost all the nutritious foods for young children. They contain all the necessary elements for the excellent work of the body.

Oatmeal diet quickly eliminates hunger, you are not hungry before lunch, if you ate oatmeal in the morning.

The only nuance in the Oatmeal diet, you can’t drink tea or juice during the meal, but only after 30 minutes after ingestion. Salt and pepper porridge is not recommended.

In any case, with proper and effective weight loss, you need unloading diet. Oatmeal same or dairy, you decide! The main thing – not to make any amendments to the Oatmeal Diet and strictly follow its requirements. The result will follow immediately, be patient!

140 grams of oatmeal in the water 5 times a day, only 700 g of cereal (200 g of cereal), 1-2 cups of tea and a decoction of rose hips.

Diets, Unloading diets ,

The diet of 1000 calories

March 27th, 2011
The diet of 1000 calories

The diet of 1000 calories

The diet of 1000 calories is a fairly controversial method of losing weight. Many nutritionists believe that prolonged starvation only contributes to the emergence of excess weight. Explains this paradox is very simple – the hungry days of forcing the body at the first opportunity to make up losses, and simultaneously acquire reserves for a rainy day.

Therefore, do not forget about the rules out of the diet – caloric intake should be increased gradually, denying themselves in fatty foods, sweets and pastries.

The diet of 1000 calories- Menu:

Variant number 1

Breakfast: a slice of black or a couple slices of diet bread. You can replace them with the fourth part of fresh tortillas. Addition to the bread is low fat cottage cheese (2 tablespoons), or half a glass of diet yogurt (kefir).

Second breakfast: fruit of your choice (apple, pear, orange, peach, plum or apricot).

Dinner: 100 grams of turkey (chicken) or 150 grams of marine fish. Replacement of meat can be a vegetarian schnitzel. Also includes lunch bean (vegetable) soup and 3 tablespoons garnish (it can be steamed vegetables or cereals in the water).

Snack: any fruit, 8 pieces of almonds (2 nuts) or an ear of corn.

Dinner – half a glass of buckwheat (oatmeal) cereal and 1 egg (as an option, 2 slices low-fat sausage or 3 sardines in oil). Also in this meal includes salad of cucumber, tomato, lettuce and greens.

Before going to bed can eat 1 tablespoon of low fat cottage cheese and a slice of diet bread.

During this diet should drink plenty of fluids (at least 10-12 glasses of fluid). As a drink can be consumed green tea, chamomile broth, or clean water without gas.

Variant number 2

Breakfast – boiled egg, a slice of bread, butter (10 grams), half a grapefruit and a glass of skim milk.

Lunch – vegetable broth or tea (coffee) without sugar.

Lunch: boiled meat (80 grams) and vegetables (200 grams), fruit (100 grams) and green salad. You can drink unsweetened tea (preferably green) or coffee.

Snack: slice of bread with butter (butter is not more than 5 grams) of cheese or cottage cheese (30 grams) and skim milk.

Dinner: vegetables (200 grams), fruit (100 grams), green salad, boiled meat (80 grams) and half a glass of skim milk (you can add it to coffee or tea).

As you can see, the diet at 1000 calories a very harsh – to survive it needs to have excellent health and strong will (the result may not appear immediately, so at first it is difficult to convince ourselves of its effectiveness).

Diets, Low-calorie diet

Sugar diet

March 27th, 2011

Despite its “sweet” name, sugar diet is one of the most severe methods of weight loss – to sustain her by force is not for everyone. But if all of the rules, then taka diet helps the body to rest from heavy meals, clean it, and along with save from a couple of extra pounds.

The purpose of the sugar diet

Sugar diet is designed primarily to cleanse the body. Lack of protein and fat in the diet gives the kidneys and liver needed rest. Severe restriction of calories leads to weight loss (even if tongue no longer responds to any other diet, this technique necessarily losing weight will push them into the smaller side). Thus, the greatest benefit it can bring people suffering from chronic kidney and liver, as well as those who want to quickly get rid of a pair of particularly “stubborn” pounds.

Dietary

During the day, should drink 5 glasses of sweet tea (200 ml of tea – 30 grams of sugar). Despite any lack of food, hungry fainting during this diet is not threatened. The reason is that sugar – a source of quick energy (conversion of carbohydrates does not take much time).

In addition to sweet tea is to drink up to an additional 1.5 liters of pure water without gas – liquid helps clean the body of toxins.

Before proceeding to the sugar diet, you should consult with a physician – any violations to the level of blood sugar, weakness, reduced immunity, and some other reasons make this variant discharge completely unacceptable.

Stick to the diet can be no more than three days (ideally – 1-2 days). The frequency of such unloading days – once a month if sugar diet lasts only one day and once in 2 months, if it lasts 2-3 days.

During the diet you should give up active exercise. Maximum load these days – walking in fresh air.

Every day diet should lead to the long sleep (about 10 hours a day to relax, so it is not forbidden, and naps).

This diet is better timed to the weekend – possible weakness and drowsiness.

Output from the diet

Out of the diet should be gradual, without straining the body. In the first diet should include a light salad and fruit, then – go to the vegetable porridges and only then can gradually include dishes from its usual menu.

Results

If all of these suggestions, the sugar diet will bring only one benefit – it helps the body to rest from heavy meals, clean it, and along with save from a couple of extra pounds.

Diets, Mono-diet

Lemon Diet

March 27th, 2011
Lemon Diet

Lemon Diet

In an effort to lose weight, we sometimes do not listen to the voice of reason, literally torturing his body rigid restrictions. Meanwhile, you can lose weight without such serious casualties, and can help in this simple but very effective lemon diet.

Briefly about the benefits of lemon diet

Lemons, containing a large quantity of acid, contribute to the splitting of fats in the body. In addition, lemon juice improves digestion, speeds up metabolism, and even for some time dulls the hunger. Contained in the lemon peel pectin, stabilizes blood sugar levels, while vitamin C is abundant presence in the fruit, markedly improves the immune system.

Dietary

This diet is good because it does not carry with it severe restrictions on the diet – except for just two days unloading is possible to practically everything, avoiding only fatty and starchy foods.

Lemon diet begins with a drunk on an empty stomach a glass of water, which added the juice of one lemon. This is – a classic recipe for the drink, which is consumed throughout the diet, increasing the number of devices with each subsequent day exactly one (up to 7-day). That is, the first day you need to drink one glass of beverage, in the second – two and so on

On the seventh day should completely refuse to eat and drink only water with honey and lemon (for a three-liter water jar – 3 of lemon and a tablespoon of honey).

On the eighth day you can eat in the usual way, and drink water with lemon, starting with 6 cups and reducing the number of receptions drink in reverse order. On the fourteenth day of discharge should be repeated.

Specific recommendations

• Before starting the diet you should consult your doctor – some diseases do not allow the use of acidic beverages

• The drink of water with lemon juice to drink on an empty stomach – in this case strengthens digestion (note – for its preparation should only use warm water)

• In addition to the beverage you can drink more and good quality dry wine (1-2 glasses) – it will reinforce the effect

• During the diet you should eat as many vegetables and fruits – vegetables should be cooked by steaming or stewing, and salads can be refilled with lemon juice and vegetable oil

• After the use of acidic beverages (better to drink it through a straw) to rinse the mouth to avoid the destruction of the enamel

Results

Within two weeks of this diet you can lose 4-5 kg of extra weight. This result can be beat if given to an active physical exercise. Well, for our part we wish you a rapid and sustained results!

Diets, Mono-diet

Diet Alicia Silverstone

March 27th, 2011

Famous actress Alicia Silverstone has a strict vegetarian diet, a diet which includes: vegetables, fruits, cereals and soy products.
Diet Alicia Silverstone: Sample menu is as follows:

Breakfast: bowl of porridge with honey, orange juice.

Snack: a plate of pea soup, fruit salad, tofu (soybean curd).

Lunch: salad, spinach, pear.

Dinner: almonds, peaches, raisins.

It is also quite popular and another version of the diet Alicia Silverstone – a three-day low-calorie diet with restriction of carbohydrates and fats, which helps to lose a few extra pounds and develop the work of metabolism.

Day 1

Breakfast: 170 gr. grapefruit juice, a cup of cereal meal with soy milk.

Dinner: 170 gr. fresh or boiled vegetables in the form of a complex sandwich, 1 / 2 cup of cooked beans.

Dinner: 115 gr. tofu, fried mushrooms with a cup and a cup of pea pods, 2 cups steamed rice.

Dessert: 2 patty with rice, 2 teaspoons of jam or marmalade.

Day 2

Breakfast: 2 pancakes with fresh strawberries (or other berries).

Lunch: a cup of chili (stewed vegetables), an ear of corn freshly brewed, cup of fruit salad.

Dinner: 2 slices of pizza with cheese, a portion of vegetable salad.
Dessert: 2 plums, a cup of sorbet.

3rd day

Breakfast: 2 slices of low-calorie bread with soy cheese cream.
Lunch: a cup of stewed vegetables, a slice of rye bread.

Dinner: 2 large pepper stuffed with rice and corn, a cup of steamed broccoli.

Dessert: a cup of dietary yogurt, a cup of fresh strawberries.

Diets, Fast diet, Low-fat diet

Diet Clint Eastwood

March 27th, 2011

That brave and handsome, who for many years wins women’s hearts, has chosen for himself a diet of California Professor of Medicine Dean Ornish “life choice”. The motto of this power system is paradoxical: “Eat more, weigh less!”

According to Dr. Ornish, not to gain excess weight and still meet the needs of the organism as a necessary fatty acids, it is necessary to use more than 5% but less than 10% of food rich in fats. In addition to a fatty meal diet Clint Eastwood says avoid alcohol, sugar, salt, and foods containing caffeine.

Strongly encouraged the use of foods rich in fiber: fruits, vegetables, rice, dried beans, seafood, meat, dairy products, poultry and soups and salads.

Diet “life choice” – a typical menu looks like this:

Breakfast: fruit cup nonfat yogurt, a cup of strawberries, orange juice, a cup of decaffeinated coffee.

Lunch: a big baked potato tuber, 0.75 cups of broccoli, a big portion of lettuce, tomato, apple.

Dinner: salad of sprouted wheat.

Diets, Low-fat diet

Stone Age Diet

March 27th, 2011

Stone Age Diet

The main component of this diet, cabbage soup, you can consume in any quantity and with whatever frequency throughout the cycle of dieting.

With proper application of this diet – during the week, when alternated with two weeks of normal food – it is a safe and healthy nutrition program, which included an abundance of vital fruits and vegetables, and fat content is minimal.

Recipe for cabbage soup

For the preparation of 6 liters of soup you need: a head of cabbage, 6 carrots, 6 medium-sized bulbs, 6 feathers green onions, 2 green sweet pepper, tomato bank in its own juice weight of 900 grams., 5 stalks of celery. Herbs: dill, parsley, etc. to taste 1 1 / 2 cup raw unpolished rice. Salt and pepper to taste.

Cut vegetables in small pieces, place in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Give the soup a rolling boil for 10 minutes without closing the pan, then cover it with a lid and Narita on low heat until vegetables are tender (about an hour). Separately ogvarite rice and add it to soup just before the end of cooking. Ready soup season with salt and pepper to taste.

Diet cabbage soup, Menu:

The first day. Cabbage soup in unlimited quantities. Fruits (except bananas) in unlimited quantities.

Second day. Cabbage soup. Vegetables (except beans) in unlimited quantities. At dinner – a big baked potato.

Third day. Cabbage soup. Vegetables, fruit in unlimited quantities.

Fourth day. Cabbage soup. 6.3 bananas. 8 glasses of skim milk.

Fifth day. Cabbage soup. Fish, chicken or 300-600 gr. during the day. 1 can of tomatoes in juice (800 ml.) Or no more than 6 fresh tomatoes. At least 8 glasses of still water throughout the day.

Sixth day. Cabbage soup. Fish, chicken 300-600 gr .. Vegetables (excluding potatoes) in unlimited quantities.

Seventh day. Cabbage soup. Vegetables, fruit in unlimited quantities. Unpolished (brown) rice in unlimited quantities. Freshly squeezed juice.

On a diet excludes alcoholic and soft drinks.

This diet is not intended for children and adolescents and is not a substitute for proper nutrition for a long time. For best results, should be clearly adhere to the periodicity – after seven days of a diet of cabbage soup at least two weeks follow a normal healthy diet, returning to the diet from time to time.

Diets, Low-fat diet



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