Nowadays there are a lot of diets: low-calorie, low-fat, protein, mono-diets and others. But not all of them are effective. Moreover, some can even cause harm to your body. That’s why it is so important to be careful choosing the most suitable diet, which will have long-term results.
Many women before a vacation or an important event want to lose weight in a short time. Of course, the probability of achieving results is great but the lost kilograms will also return quickly. Proper dietary nutrition will help you not only to get rid of unnecessary kilograms but also will improve health.
Contents
- Diet number 1: Kefir diet
- Diet number 2: Buckwheat diet
- Diet number 3: Apple diet
- Diet number 4: Japanese diet
- Diet number 5: Cucumber diet
- Diet number 6: “White” diet based on Diary products
- Diet number 7: Cleansing diet
- Diet number 8: Balanced diet
- Diet number 9: All-inclusive diet
- Diet number 10: Сhicken diet
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Diet number 1: Kefir diet
This diet is strict but very popular and effective one. Kefir is a very useful product and provides a stable result of losing weight.
Benefits of this diet:
- Regular use of this drink will improve the microflora of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract,
- cleanse of toxins,
- and will improve the condition of the entire body.
There are three main variants of this diet:
Variant 1: It is necessary to consume about one and a half liters of fresh kefir per day. Drink it for 5-6 receptions. Follow this type of diet only three days. You cannot add sugar to kefir.
Variant 2: You need to take the same volume of yogurt (1.5 liters), and add to it no more than a kilogram of sweet fruits and vegetables. Duration of the diet is 5-6 days.
Variant 3: Here’s how the approximate menu of such a diet looks like for 7 days:
Day 1: 1.5 liters of kefir plus boil potatoes (5 pieces);
Day 2: 1.5 liters of kefir plus 100 grams of boiled chicken;
Day 3: 1.5 liters of kefir plus 100 gr of boiled meat;
Day 4: 1.5 liters of kefir plus 100 gr of boiled fish;
Day 5: kefir plus fruits, vegetables (high-calorie bananas and grapes are excluded);
Day 6: only kefir;
Day 7: fasting day – the whole day only mineral water should be drunk.
Benefits of this diet:
- Improves the microflora of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract;
- Cleanses of toxins;
- Improves the condition of the entire body.
Important: All products are cooked without sugar and salt. Such diet can be repeated no earlier than a month later.
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Diet number 2: Buckwheat diet
This diet has proved to be highly effective. With its help you can lose up to 10 kilograms. This diet last for 7 days.
Benefits of this diet:
- Buckwheat gives a feeling of satiety and, at the same time, cleanses the body;
- It also has a beneficial effect on the skin.
How to cook buckwheat:
- Pour a glass of cereals with 2 cups of boiling water and leave overnight.
- In the morning just drain excess water.
- You do not need to cook buckwheat.
- Eat it without any spices and salt,
- You can add low-fat kefir.
During the day you can eat as much buckwheat as you want in any quantity and in any form – liquid or crumbly porridge. As for the yogurt – drink it no more than 1 liter per day. Also in unlimited quantities you can drink water. You cannot eat 4 hours before sleep, if you are hungry, you can drink a glass of kefir diluted in half. After a diet, you need to take a break for at least a month.
With a less strict diet, you can drink a small amount of low-fat yogurt and eat a couple of fruits. But such a diet is less effective.
Important: After the end of the diet, you need to continue to eat moderately, so that the weight does not return. The main thing is not to overeat, not eat at night and avoid fasting days.
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Diet number 3: Apple diet
Benefits of this diet:
- Apple diet adjusts and normalizes metabolism;
- It is especially useful for problems with the intestines;
- This diet is useful for hypertensive patients, as well as for the prevention of atherosclerosis.
The number of apples varies in each of 7 days:
Day 1- 1kg of apples;
Day 2 -1.5 kg;
Day 3 – 2 kg;
Day 4 – 2 kg;
Day 5- 1,5 kg;
Day 6 – 1 kg of apples;
Day 7- 1 kg of apples.
It is allowed to drink green tea and eat rusks from black bread.
Important: If you find it difficult to keep to the 7 days diet, it is possible to have apple days once a week, when you should eat only apples during the whole day.
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Diet number 4: Japanese diet
Benefits of this diet:
- The Japanese diet for 7 days promises the loss of 5-7 kilograms that will not return;
- You will feel that your taste preferences have changed, and your appetite has become significantly less.
Day 1: Breakfast: you can drink only a cup of coffee, and immediately after awakening drink a glass of water to improve digestion and wash away toxins from the body.
Lunch: 2 eggs, make a light salad from Peking cabbage and drink a glass of tomato juice, and juice is best done at home, since the composition of the purchased, as a rule, includes salt, which is banned in the Japanese diet.
Dinner: have 250g of fish (250g).
Day 2: Breakfast: Besides a cup of coffee, you must also eat a rye crumb.
Lunch: it is allowed to eat cabbage salad and boiled fish.
Dinner: eat 100g of boiled beef and drink kefir 1% fat, since the body does not need fats during the Japanese diet for 7 days, so the fat content of sour-milk products should not be more than 1%.
Day 3: Breakfast: A cup of coffee and a rye crumb.
Lunch: zucchini with olive oil.
Dinner: you can eat 2 boiled eggs, 200g of boiled beef and cabbage salad.
Day 4: Breakfast: only a cup of coffee, but do not forget that sugar and cream cannot be added to coffee.
Lunch: you must necessarily eat a small (15g) piece of cheese, boiled egg and boiled carrots.
Dinner: two red apples.
Day 5: Breakfast: boiled carrots with lemon juice.
Lunch: boiled or steamed fish and tomato juice.
Dinner – two red apples.
Day 6: Breakfast: a cup of coffee without cream and sugar.
Lunch: 500 g of boiled chicken and a salad of cabbage or carrots with olive oil.
Dinner: cabbage salad and 2 boiled eggs.
Day 7: Breakfast: green tea.
Lunch: 200 g of boiled beef and fruit (apples, pears, oranges).
Dinner: the menu of any of the previous days, except for the third.
Important: Do not forget to drink at least 1.5 liters of water every day.
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Diet number 5: Cucumber diet
Benefits of this diet:
- cucumbers are digestive stimulants;
- take part in the purification of the entire body, and especially the skin and intestines;
- help promote food through the intestines;
- normalize the water-salt balance;
- have a diuretic effect;
- activate the metabolism.
The method of losing weight is built on the use of a large amount of fiber and water, which are constituents of fresh cucumber (more than 95%). For example, if for the whole day you eat at least 2kg of cucumbers, then in essence 95% of this mass will be water, but even with such a diet you will not have an uncomfortable feeling of hunger. Fiber contributes to the normalization of the intestine, while the body restores water-salt balance and normalizes metabolism. The basis of the diet we are considering is a simple cucumber salad, in which you need to add a little greenery and fill with low-fat sour cream. Approximate menu of cucumber diet for 7 days:
Day 1:
a slice of bread made from grinding flour (rough), you can eat 1 apple or 1 grapefruit, and the rest of the diet is a cucumber salad, or just a fresh cucumber;
Day 2:
you can eat 50 g of beef, a slice of bread, 1 apple, and all the rest – cucumbers;
Day 3:
100 g of boiled rice, 100 g of boiled fish, cucumber salad or fresh cucumbers;
Day 4:
20 g of hard cheese, 100 g of boiled rice, 1 pear and cucumber;
Day 5:
a small slice of bread, a cucumber salad, in which you add a little white cabbage, carrots and vegetable oil, 1 grapefruit or orange, 1 apple, 20 g of hard cheese, just fresh cucumbers;
Day 6:
vegetable soup without potatoes, a slice of bread, 1 grapefruit or mandarin, fresh cucumbers;
Day 7:
vegetable soup without potatoes, a slice of bread, 1 apple, fresh cucumbers.
Important: Remember that it is prohibited to add salt in the dietary cucumber salad.
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Diet number 6: “White” diet based on Diary products
The basis of the daily menu is milk and sour-milk products with a low percentage of fat content: cottage cheese, hard cheeses, kefir, fermented baked milk, yoghurts (up to 4%).
Benefits of this diet:
- No constant feeling of hunger and related irritability or a decline in efficiency;
- The set of products offered by the diet is quite accessible and allows you to show imagination when making the menu and preparing dishes.
Menu:
Day 1: Breakfast: Natural yogurt / kefir / yogurt (200 ml), coffee with milk;
Unsweetened milk porridge, except semolina and wheat (150 g), banana, green tea (if desired with a teaspoon of honey); Protein omelet, cracker with hard cheese, mineral water (250 ml).
Lunch: Prunes (5-6 pieces); baked potato (no more than 2 pieces); skimmed milk (200 ml).
Dinner: Cottage cheese with dried fruits (100 g), fermented baked milk (250 ml);
Chicken fillet steamed (200 g), boiled egg, stewed cabbage (150 g); Soup with beans (250 g), vegetable salad on sour cream (150 g).
Day 2: Breakfast: Kefir (200 ml), milk porridge;
Lunch: fruit and yogurt;
Dinner: Baked fish fillet (200 g), boiled rice (150 g);
Day 3: Breakfast: coffee with milk, omelet;
Lunch: Cabbage salad (250 g), green tea;
Dinner: Fruit slicing (200 g), yogurt (100 ml).
Day 4: Breakfast: milk porridge with banana, coffee with milk;
Lunch: dried fruits;
Dinner: a glass of kefir or or herbal decoction (mint, lemon balm).
Day 5: Breakfast: coffee with milk, dried bread with cheese;
Lunch: dried fruits;
Dinner: rice and 200 g of fish.
Day 6: Breakfast: milk porridge, coffee.
Lunch: apricot, peach.
Dinner: chicken fillet and rice.
Day 7: Breakfast: buckwheat with milk;
Lunch: dried fruits
Dinner: fish and white beans.
It is allowed to include in the diet:
- Fresh (boiled, stewed) vegetables of white color (radish, potatoes, white cabbage);
- Sweet kinds of fruits (pears, bananas, peaches, apricots, apples);
- Dried fruits (prunes, figs, raisins);
- Whole-grain cereals (oat, rice, buckwheat);
- Dried bread in small quantities;
- Legumes (white beans, soybeans);
- Chicken fillet, sea (freshwater) fish;
- Boiled chicken (quail eggs).
During the diet should be abandoned:
- Salt, refined sugar;
- Any sour food, including citrus fruits and berries;
- Low-alcohol and alcoholic beverages;
Before each meal, 15 minutes before eating, it is important to drink a glass of ordinary (mineral) water. The optimal duration of the diet is 7 days.
Important: It is recommended to follow the diet not more often than 1-2 times in 3 months.
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Diet number 7: Cleansing diet
The diet is designed for a week and is an alternation of different ways of eating:
Day 1: “Drinking day”
Drink anything (except alcohol), including juices and broths.
Day 2: “Vegetable day”
Eat any vegetables, especially cabbage, without any restrictions in quantity. You can eat them fresh, boiled, stewed, in the form of salads, mashed potatoes, casseroles.
Day 3: “Drinking day”
Continue to drink much.
Day 4: “Fruit day”
Eat any fruit but it is better to give preference to natural fat burners (pineapple, kiwi, grapefruit).
Day 5: “Protein day”
Eat boiled poultry meat, eggs, dairy products.
Day 6: “Drinking day”
Return to the drinks again.
Day 7: “Mixed day”
In the morning drink coffee or green tea without sugar, have dinner with rice soup, have a snack with fruit, have dinner with vegetable salad.
Benefits of this diet:
- This diet allows to cleanse your intestine effectively;
- The diet results in loss of about 5-7 kg.
Important: It is not allowed to change the sequence of days, otherwise, you won’t have the desired results.
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Diet number 8: Balanced diet
During 7 dietary days, drink as much purified water as possible. Green tea, sweetened with honey is also allowed.
Day 1: Potato day
Boil 1 kg of potatoes, combine with any vegetables and herbs, eat in equal portions throughout the day.
Day 2: Cabbage Day
Divide the average head of cabbage into equal portions and use it throughout the day in fresh, boiled, stewed or baked form.
Day 3: Fruit day
Try to diversify the daily ration as much as possible (apples, pears, apricots, pineapples, bananas, kiwi, grapefruits, oranges)
Day 4: Meat day
Eat stewed, boiled and baked meat in unlimited quantity.
Day 5: Fish Day
Any seafood is allowed in unlimited quantities. You can complement the dishes with fresh vegetables.
Day 6: Dairy day
Sour-milk drinks are allowed in the amount of one liter. But cottage cheese and yogurt of minimal fat content can be eaten without restrictions.
Day 7: Cereal day
Up to 300 grams of any kind of cereals can be consumed.
Benefits of this diet:
- Balanced diet is the most healthy one;
- It allows you to lose weight and not experience hunger at the same time.
Important: Follow the instructions and don’t change the sequence of days as it may influence the result negatively.
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Diet number 9: All-inclusive diet
Benefits of this diet:
- This diet is not an extreme one as the ration is more diverse.
- You won’t suffer from hunger.
- This diet can be used quiet often as it is not dangerous for your health.
Day 1:
- Breakfast: 1 egg, slice of ham, low fat yoghurt, coffee or tea;
- Lunch: fresh vegetable salad, beetroot carrot stew with prunes, apple fresh.
- Snack – fragrant herbal tea, meat or vegetable broth;
- Dinner: a ham fillet without skin and fat, a slice of cheese, skimmed sour milk drink.
Day 2:
- Breakfast: citrus fruit, 2 loaves and tea;
- Lunch: salad with shrimps and herbs, steam beef or chicken, fat-free non-sweet yogurt;
- Snack: fresh, tea or broth.
- Dinner: cabbage, steamed , boiled Potatoes, 2 loaves.
Day 3:
- Breakfast: skim cottage cheese, a slice of ham and coffee;
- Lunch: boiled mushrooms with herbs, braised cabbage with potatoes, kiwi;
- Snack: fresh, tea or broth;
- Dinner: steamed fish fillet, dietary not sweet yogurt.
Day 4:
- Breakfast: muesli with banana, a cup of coffee;
- Lunch: fish fillet, egg;
- Snack: tea or juice;
- Dinner: vegetable salad, a stew of beans and cabbage, a slice of rye bread.
Day 5:
- Breakfast: Skimmed curd or yogurt, egg, tea;
- Lunch: a salad of beets and carrots with olive oil, boiled rice dressed with soy sauce;
- Snack: tea or broth;
- Dinner: lean curd or yogurt, cheese, milk.
Day 6:
- Breakfast: cereal with milk, fat-free yogurt;
- Lunch: boiled eggs;
- Snack: tea or broth;
- Dinner: cabbage salad with olive oil and herbs, 2 loaves, kiwi, tea.
Day 7:
- Breakfast: coffee, cheese, omelette;
- Lunch: carrots and cabbage salad dressed with lemon, rice pilaf with mushrooms, orange.
- Snack: tea or broth;
- Dinner: the shrimp or crab meat, a piece of boiled beef, milk.
Important: It is necessary to keep in mind that it is not allowed to substitute the recommended products with others. Try to follow all recommendations and the effect will be noticed in a week.
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Diet number 10: Сhicken diet
The most common and popular version of the chicken diet is for 7 days. The peculiarity of the chicken diet is that you should eat a lot of vegetables. This significantly corrects the side effect of high doses of protein – in a company with fiber, vitamins and slow carbohydrates of plant origin, the chicken diet does not create an increased burden on the kidneys and does not disrupt intestinal motility. In the course of drawing up of its menu it is necessary to be guided by two basic indicators:
- the energy value of food consumed per day cannot exceed 1200 kcal;
- chicken meat should not be more than ½ day’s ration.
Chicken meat is used boiled or steamed. Other permitted foods you can include in the 7 day chicken diet are the following:
- any vegetables (except potatoes),
- greens;
- fruit (except grapes and bananas);
- whole grain unrefined cereals (except wheat and cereals from it).
It is recommended to eat small portions, but often, 5-6 times a day – this will help maintain a stable metabolism, do not feel hunger and evenly burn fat. It is not recommended to salt food. Following a week of a chicken diet it is possible to lose 3-5 kg of excess weight.
Benefits of chicken diet:
- Due to the satiating ability of protein foods and their slow digestion, it helps to avoid feeling hungry;
- corrects the metabolism, causing the body to burn fat stores without damaging the muscle mass;
- well combined with physical exertion;
- gives a result that quickly becomes noticeable;
- allows you to keep the effect of losing weight for a long time.
Important: It is necessary to drink at least 1.5 liters of water a day. You can also drink tea and coffee without additives. It is allowed to have 1 glass of red dry wine a day.
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