Did they really drink vinegar and castor oil, starve and torture themselves for the sake of an ideal figure?
Looking at the albums of our mothers, one can only wonder how they managed to keep themselves in shape … Nothing supernatural. Before, as now, some were rewarded with harmony by nature itself, others made efforts so that extra pounds did not stick to their sides.
So, if you belong to the second type, then advice on nutrition and diets that Soviet women used will come in handy.
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Back in the 60s, this diet appeared. It is difficult to assert one hundred percent of the ballerina’s authorship, but we all remember the phrase of the great prima of the XNUMXth century, with which she answered the journalists’ question about keeping the shape: “I’m not eating!”
In any case, a food system with the name of a ballerina went around among the people for a long time and was very popular.
Plisetskaya’s diet is short-term! It cannot be used for a very long time. In fact, a fasting menu for a week. But after 7 days of some kind of fasting, it was possible to increase the amount of fish, fresh fruits and vegetables in the diet, as well as limit or completely abandon salt. By the way, then they began to pay attention to Japanese cuisine.
The unloading part of the diet consisted of three meals a day. At the same time, snacks were allowed, but exclusively with fresh non-starchy vegetables and unsweetened fruits. Tomatoes, cucumbers, apples were suitable here.
Here’s a sample menu for these days.
Breakfast: 100 grams of oatmeal in water.
Lunch: 150 grams of vegetable soup, 100 grams of vegetable salad.
Dinner: 30 grams of baked fish, 60 grams of rice and 100 grams of fresh vegetables.
It was also necessary to add physical activity, because the life of ballerinas involved a lot of rehearsals. Without physical education, the result was not so noticeable.
After unloading, you could eat your favorite foods, of course, with a low calorie content. Surprisingly, there were no hard-and-fast prohibitions on late dinners and snacks after six.
Immediately after the release of the musical “Merry Guys”, where the miniature Lyubov Orlova played the main role, all Soviet women tried to achieve her parameters (the artist’s waist was only 43 cm!).
Soon there was a diet named after the actress. But you shouldn’t attribute the authorship to her.
Meanwhile, before the war, the people used to go on a version of Orlova’s diet, which was considered extreme: two meals a day, where they were allowed to eat a small piece of bread and two hard-boiled eggs for breakfast. For lunch, a few vegetables and up to 200 grams of meat were allowed.
Not only was the diet very poor, but twice a week it was necessary to arrange fasting days, when nothing could be eaten at all.
The cruel version of the diet in the 60s became more gentle:
You had to eat 4-5 times a day. True, the menu was not balanced, but the hungry days were removed. Meat and fish were completely absent from the diet. Of course, under the strictest prohibition was fried and fatty.
A special temporary rule has appeared!
They ate porridge only in the morning. For lunch – vegetable soups. For an afternoon snack – some dairy products, fresh vegetables with herbs. In the evening – fruit. If you suddenly feel hungry at the end of the day, you can drink a glass of broth.
An approximate menu of the Orlova diet for the day.
Breakfast: buckwheat porridge with raisins and nuts.
Lunch: soup with beans without roasting with bread.
Afternoon snack: green salad with cucumber and cheese.
Dinner: fruit salad.
In general, the Soviet public catering must be given its due. The developed 15 therapeutic diet tables are used to this day. Their creation was approached seriously and worked at the state level.
Diet “Table number 8” was intended for the treatment of obesity. According to the program, Soviet nutritionists proposed cutting calorie intake to 1800 per day. To do this, they cut down on foods containing carbohydrates and fats. In addition, the dishes were hardly seasoned.
On the diet, you cannot eat fried foods, they were replaced by stews. You could also boil and bake.
It was here that the fractional 5-6 meals a day, which is usual for us today, was assumed. If the obesity was severe, then the calorie intake was limited to 1200. However, the person was monitored in a hospital.
With today’s sedentary lifestyle, you can reduce your calorie intake to 800-1000 per day.
So, a sample menu would look like this.
In the morning: low-fat cottage cheese and vegetable salad.
After 2-3 hours: a few apples.
Lunch: lean borscht, to which you can add a little sour cream, separately boiled meat with a side dish (usually braised cabbage).
Afternoon snack: low-fat kefir.
Dinner: boiled fish and vegetable salad.
Before bed: milk.
This diet was popular in the 60s. It lasted 1,5 months: three days of a diet, two weeks of regular food, but with the restriction of salt, sugar and bread, then three days of the diet – three weeks of the usual diet again.
With a parsley diet, there are only eggs, cheese, cottage cheese, boiled meat on the table – and a large amount of grated raw parsley root, which has a strong diuretic effect and helps with edema. The result was promised to be stunning – getting rid of 5 kilograms irrevocably. Due to the complete absence of vegetables and fruits, such a diet was suitable only for healthy people. But many did not pay attention to the recommendations and managed to sit on it for months, torturing their bodies in pursuit of the perfect waist.
Here is a menu for one day.
Breakfast: tea or coffee and a tablespoon of grated parsley root.
Lunch: 100 grams of boiled meat and another spoonful of parsley.
Afternoon snack: 100 grams of cottage cheese or cheese and a little more parsley.
Dinner: it was allowed to pamper yourself with a glass of kefir.
5. Spectacle diet, now known as the Kremlin
This diet appeared in the USSR at the dawn of the 70s. According to the rules of the system, you can eat an unlimited amount and any amount of food within 40 points. Each product was credited with its own “spectacle”.
So, the smallest number of points on this diet have meat, eggs, strong alcohol, etc. And vice versa, eating salads from vegetables and fruits, you can quickly master the daily rate of points. Essentially, weight loss is due to a sharp drop in carbohydrate intake. Today on the Internet you can easily find the same list with glasses of products.
During the Soviet era, these lists were passed from hand to hand, copied and even memorized. Such wild popularity was among the diet and remains to this day. Who among us has not tried to sit on the Kremlin?