From time to time, mono-diets become very popular, as a rule, we see it closer to the beach season. To feel stunning in a bathing suit, women are ready to eat monotonous and tasteless food. Often choose to lose weight on cereals. However, a porridge diet may not be so painful if you follow some rules. We’ll talk about them.
First, remember that a porridge diet cannot be used for more than a week. If the initial weight is very large (100kg or more), then you can extend the use of the diet for up to ten days. However, longer adherence often leads to edema, because protein in porridge is not enough, and there are a lot of carbohydrates, which will lead to water retention in the body. You need to know that protein deficiency will lead to a drop in the body's protective capabilities, and therefore it will be very difficult to continue the diet - you can not limit proteins during colds (at best) diseases.
Secondly, give up the idea of eating only rice, only buckwheat, only oatmeal. This can cause your body to start returning monotonous food in the form of vomiting. It seems that we are ready for everything for weight loss, but the body often does not agree with this thesis - and you will feel it on the third or fifth day, when you try to force yourself to eat the same porridge. So what to do? The best option is to use different cereals (except semolina). Do not forget that there is pearl barley, corn, barley porridge. There is also such an excellent product as lentils. Together with traditional cereals, 7 different ones are obtained, that is, every day of the week you can cook a new porridge.
Thirdly, the amount of porridge per day should be limited to 150-200g in the form of dry cereals. The yield of most cereals is 3 times at least more in mass, so you won’t be hungry. Naturally, porridge is not cooked in milk and without butter, without sugar. Salt can and should be used, because there are no other sources of salt in your diet. A complete rejection of salt will give a temporary illusory weight loss, but the harm will undoubtedly outweigh the benefits.
Fourth, the porridge diet should be supplemented by physical exercises, without them, the weight will go away very slowly. You need to give yourself a load of at least 300 kcal, that is, for a person of small weight, this is 40 minutes of jogging. From the 7 days of the diet you need to train 6. Why is the load required? The fact is that the carbohydrates circulating in the blood (from porridge) do not allow fats to burn. The body eats carbohydrates in the first place, and fats only when carbohydrates are used up. Therefore, be sure to train. A diet on porridge gives good results - 2-4kg per week (if you are not anorexic initially).
Fifth, do not sharply increase the calorie intake, otherwise the kilograms will return instantly. First add lean meat and fish, after 3 days - fruits and vegetables. Sweets and starchy foods are better not to return to the diet at all, but if you really want to, you can treat yourself in a few weeks. But only once a week.
Sixth, multivitamins are required. Better complex for pregnant women, because the porridge diet is poor in nutrients. If the complex is without iodine, be sure to drink it as a supplement.
If you have recovered as a result of a holiday, a Hercules diet is suitable. Three days, no more. The holiday will leave and will not return if you do not overeat after a diet.
If you want more radical weight loss, a vinaigrette diet is suitable. It is clear that there should not be potatoes in such a vinaigrette. Beets, carrots, pickles and onions. 500g per day. The same week - and you lose 3-5kg. But you can not extend the diet.
All diets of this kind are, in a sense, extreme. The body will turn on the fasting mode, so every mistake after a diet will immediately affect the volume. Maybe you should choose the classic way to lose weight?