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In spring, in every office across the country, women at lunch share secret diets that are sure to help.
The main advantages of the Japanese diet for the inhabitants of our country are its relative availability and duration. No complicated and expensive ingredients, just two weeks of restrictions, and now you're rocking jeans that didn't button up before. But to become a great geisha, you must strictly follow the menu.
Briefly about the main
The duration of the diet is 14 days. This is a low-calorie protein menu, you can practice such nutrition no more than 2 times a year. The average result of the Japanese diet is 5-8 kg in 2 weeks. This menu is not suitable for pregnant women, lactating women, those with gastritis and ulcers, as well as people with liver, kidney and heart disorders. Before starting a diet, you should consult with your doctor.
Original or speculation?
There will be no exotics - all the products allowed in the Japanese diet have long been familiar to us. This is a definite advantage, because the risk of allergies is minimized and the necessary ingredients for cooking can be bought at any supermarket.
It is not known exactly why this diet is called Japanese. According to some sources, it was invented in a Tokyo clinic, according to others, the name was inspired by the simplicity and clear diet plan, following which it gives the expected inspiring result (very Japanese style: act according to the rules, try your best and you will be rewarded).
The Japanese diet is popular all over the world, it is characterized by moderation in the composition and caloric content of the allowed foods, this also relates it to the traditional diet of the Far East. Japanese nutritionist Naomi Moriyama is sure that her compatriots' youth and longevity allow them to keep a relatively small amount of carbohydrates in their daily menu and small portions.
According to Moriyama, the Japanese consume an average of 25% fewer calories than the inhabitants of any other country. In Japan, for example, it is not customary to eat potato chips, chocolate, confectionery, and the Japanese generally learned about butter only at the beginning of the 20th century from Europeans and still treat it with suspicion. That is, choosing healthy foods in moderation is a national characteristic of Japan's culture. And the Japanese diet for 14 days fully meets this requirement, despite formal differences from the usual diet of ordinary inhabitants of the Pacific state.
"Samurai" rules of the Japanese diet.
The main satiating substance in the diet is protein obtained from chicken eggs, chicken, beef, fish and dairy products. Carbohydrates are present in crackers and some of the allowed vegetables, fats are in olive oil, which can be used for cooking and dressing salads, as well as meat and fish.
Fiber is found in abundance in vegetables and fruits, the amount of which is not even regulated on some days of the diet, so the stomach most likely does its job well. Coffee and green tea not only keep you energized, but also contain healthy antioxidants (which is why it is important to choose high-quality tea and coffee, always natural, without flavorings or additives).
However, such a diet still cannot be called balanced, and following it for more than two weeks is dangerous to health. But even in these 14 days, your body can respond badly to a reduction in the amount of carbohydrates in the menu: in this case, you will feel body aches, weakness and headache. Then you need to safely abandon the strict menu and consult a doctor.
The drinking regimen in the Japanese diet is especially important. Drink plenty of plain, still water at room temperature to not only help your stomach feel full, but also to ensure elimination of processed animal proteins.
The main condition for the success of the Japanese diet is strict adherence to its plan. You can not confuse days and, at your whim, replace one product with another, even similar ones. The only exception may be, perhaps, just the morning coffee - it can be replaced with a cup of green tea without sugar. It is advisable to refuse salt for the entire duration of the diet, but if this prohibition is critical for your taste buds, add salt to food minimally.
A small number of meals per day (just three instead of the healthiest 5 or 6) and no snacks can also be difficult on the Japanese diet, be prepared for this. Have dinner at least a couple of hours before bedtime and start the morning with a glass of water on an empty stomach; this is good for the metabolism and allows you to better withstand the lack of breakfast.
Since the Japanese diet is strict, it is highly undesirable to enter from the bay. If you decide to lose weight on such a menu, prepare yourself psychologically and prepare your body, at least a few days before the start of the diet, giving up sweets, fast food and reducing the size of the usual portion.
14 day japanese diet shopping list
- Whole bean or ground coffee - 1 packet
- Green tea of your favorite variety (without additives and flavors) - 1 packet
- Fresh chicken eggs - 2 dozen
- Sea fish fillet - 2 kg
- Lean meat, fillet - 1 kg
- Chicken fillet - 1 kg
- Extra virgin olive oil - 500ml
- White cabbage - 2 medium forks
- fresh carrots - 2-3 kg
- Zucchini, eggplant - 1 kg in total
- Fruits (except bananas and grapes) - 1 kg in total
- Tomato juice - 1 l
- Kefir - 1 liter
- Lemons - 2 pcs.
Menu for the resistant
The composition of the Japanese diet is often compared to the "chemical diet, " a meal plan invented by American physician Osama Hamdiy to treat obesity in diabetics. Like the Hamdia diet, the Japanese diet takes advantage of the effect of drastically reducing carbohydrate intake while increasing protein. As a result, the chemistry of the body's metabolic processes is rebuilt, the accumulated fat is quickly burned, and the strengthened muscles prevent the formation of new ones.
In the Japanese diet, no changes in schedule or diet are allowed. If you want to get the result, you must strictly follow the diet program.
First day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar and milk.
Lunch: 2 boiled eggs, boiled cabbage with vegetable oil and a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner: 200 g of boiled or fried fish.
Second day
Breakfast: a slice of rye bread and coffee without sugar.
Lunch: 200 g of boiled or fried fish with boiled cabbage and vegetable oil.
Dinner: 100 g of boiled beef and a glass of yogurt.
Third day
Breakfast: a slice of rye bread dried in a toaster, or a biscuit without yeast without additives, coffee without sugar.
Lunch: courgettes or eggplants fried in vegetable oil, in any quantity.
Dinner: 200 g of boiled beef without salt, raw cabbage in vegetable oil and 2 hard-boiled eggs.
Fourth day
Breakfast: a small fresh carrot with the juice of a lemon.
Lunch: 200 g of boiled or fried fish and a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner: 200 g of any fruit.
Fifth day
Breakfast: a small fresh carrot with the juice of a lemon.
Lunch: boiled fish and a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner: 200 g of any fruit.
Sixth day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar.
Lunch: boiled chicken without salt (500 g) with fresh cabbage salad and carrots in vegetable oil.
Dinner: small fresh carrots and 2 boiled eggs.
Seventh day
Breakfast: green tea.
Lunch: 200 g of boiled beef without salt.
Dinner: 200 g of fruit or 200 g of boiled or fried fish, or 2 eggs with fresh carrots in vegetable oil, or boiled beef and 1 glass of kefir.
eighth day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar.
Lunch: 500 g of boiled chicken without salt and carrot and cabbage salad in vegetable oil.
Dinner: fresh baby carrots with vegetable oil and 2 boiled eggs.
ninth day
Breakfast: medium carrot with lemon juice.
Lunch: 200 g of boiled or fried fish and a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner: 200 g of any fruit.
Tenth day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar.
Lunch: 50 g of cheese, 3 small carrots in vegetable oil and 1 boiled egg.
Dinner: 200 g of any fruit.
eleventh day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar and a slice of rye bread.
Lunch: courgettes or eggplants fried in vegetable oil, in any quantity.
Dinner: 200 g of boiled beef without salt, 2 boiled eggs and fresh cabbage in vegetable oil.
twelfth day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar and a slice of rye bread.
Lunch: 200 g of boiled or fried fish with fresh cabbage in vegetable oil.
Dinner: 100 g of boiled beef without salt and a glass of kefir.
thirteenth day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar.
Lunch: 2 boiled eggs, cabbage boiled in vegetable oil and a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner: 200 g of fish boiled or fried in vegetable oil.
fourteenth day
Breakfast: coffee without sugar.
Lunch: boiled or fried fish (200 g), fresh cabbage with olive oil.
Dinner: 200 g of boiled beef, a glass of yogurt.
It is believed that such a diet is one of the most durable and the result obtained can last up to three years. But, of course, the dream will remain unattainable if, after the end of the restrictions, you begin to overeat.
fast doesn't mean good
It should be noted that among experts there is also an opinion that diets that have a name often do not work or even harm. Endocrinologist and nutritionist Irina Tatarnikova says that weight loss should be gradual, and cardinal hypocaloric nutrition itself leads to breakdowns and can even cause depression. The fact is that a person begins to scold himself for weakness, but in reality his diet was simply not balanced.
"Diets with an extremely low number of calories are used here, starvation, for which a person is not ready. Therefore, extreme methods are effective only at the initial stage, but then there will be a breakdown, and the weight will return with force, says the expert.
The nutritionist also clarifies that for most people, long breaks between main meals, such as skipping breakfast, will lead to overeating at dinner.
- Do not try to lose weight; in general, you need to forget about this phrase, because trying - from the word "torture", and losing weight - from the word "bad". By saying this, we are not setting ourselves up for positive weight loss, the nutritionist concludes. Irina advises to think that by limiting ourselves without fanaticism, first of all we make ourselves healthier.