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Losing weight up to 10 kg in 14 days.
The average daily calorie content is 520/550/580 Kcal for a menu for 4/7/14 days.
This diet was developed by the famous Bulgarian herbalist and medicine man Petr Dimkov. As the author notes, he knows firsthand ways to cleanse the body and get rid of excess weight. Therefore, he is convinced that this system simply cannot be ineffective.
The diet promises gentle weight loss without serious stress for the body, due to the presence of a delicious menu in the diet. At the same time, weight loss on this diet should be quite noticeable. In 4 days, about 2-3 kg of excess weight usually goes away, in 7 days – up to 5 kg, in 14 – all 10 kg.
Choose the diet option that suits you the most.
Requirements of the Bulgarian diet
As for the main provisions of the diet, they primarily include a decrease in the calorie content of the daily diet. And if you want a more tangible result, then skip dinner altogether.
In addition to the menu, which you can find out in detail below, you should definitely follow the drinking regime. This is especially important for the body now.
Considering that the Bulgarian diet involves avoiding sugar, you can supply the daily diet with one teaspoon of honey in order to avoid complete sugar starvation.
Another small but effective trick for starting the metabolism is to drink 5-6 tbsp as soon as possible after waking up. l. hot water. You can repeat this procedure before bed. The body will only get better from this kind of manipulation, stimulating even more active weight loss. In the morning, by the way, after taking the indicated amount of liquid, it is very good to take a contrast shower. Help your body and body.
Since the calorie cut on this diet is still quite noticeable, it is not recommended to exercise heavily and actively exercise. This is how you can face powerlessness. If you have hard physical work ahead of you, especially in the first days of dieting, then it is better to postpone it.
Petr Dimkov recommends paying special attention to getting out of this diet. Of course, at the end of it, you should not pounce on heavy food. At the very least, the stomach will not like it. And he will surely repay you with pain and other uncomfortable sensations. At least in the first days of non-diet food, you do not need to introduce white bread (or allow yourself quite a bit), various pastries, fatty meat, fried foods into the diet. Try to focus on low-fat dairy and sour-milk products, lean meat, fish, and various seafood. Add unrefined vegetable oils to your meals. When cooking, stew, bake or use a double boiler. If, after returning to a normal diet, you really want sweets, allow yourself a little marshmallow, and try to refrain from fatty, high-calorie cakes. This will help preserve the result obtained on the diet and will not make you complain about the extra pounds sticking to you again.
It is worth noting that, no matter how well and simply you lose weight on this diet, you cannot continue it for more than two weeks. This can hit the body and cause health problems.
You can add a little pepper and other spices to the dishes to give them a taste. But salt, no matter what version you lose weight, it is advisable to completely exclude from the diet. It is allowed to transform dishes by sprinkling them with a small amount of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Menu for the four-day Bulgarian diet
The first three days observe the following rules. All day you need to eat only raw salad made from grated carrots and half an apple per serving. Do this when you feel hungry. You can add a little honey to this dish. It is advisable to take 3-4 meals in about the same amount of time.
On the 4 day such a menu is recommended.
Breakfast and afternoon tea: one baked potato, apple and 1 bran loaf.
Lunch and dinner: a portion of carrot and apple salad with bread.
Menu for the weekly Bulgarian diet
Day 1
Breakfast: up to 150 g of lean meat (methods of its preparation – baking, boiling or stewing without adding oil), 1 boiled egg, fresh cucumber, a slice of bread (rye or whole grain) or crisp.
Lunch: up to 150 g of boiled fish, up to 200 g of salad from any fresh vegetables, a slice of bread.
Afternoon snack: any fruit (preferably not starchy).
Dinner: It is recommended to exclude it altogether.
Day 2
Breakfast: absent. If this is very difficult for you, make a light breakfast. For example: one egg and some kind of vegetable (fruit), some low-fat cottage cheese or other fermented milk product.
Lunch: vegetable salad (portion about 150 g), any fruit.
Afternoon snack: up to 100 g of any vegetables.
Dinner: It is recommended to skip this meal.
Day 3
Breakfast, lunch: any steamed vegetables (one portion – up to 200 g).
Afternoon snack: half of any fruit. The same snack is also allowed between breakfast and lunch.
Dinner: 150 g of vegetable salad.
Days 4-7
All these days, according to the principles of the diet, it is worth eating the same way as on the first day, but dinner should not be ruled out. An evening meal during this period is a glass of low-fat kefir.
Menu for a two-week Bulgarian diet
In this version of the diet, the number of meals should be determined by you yourself. But keep in mind that you should not be too heavy on food (and even more so to eat the entire daily portion) during dinner. It is best if this meal is light. Or skip dinner altogether, if possible, and end your daily meals at 15-16 p.m.
Day 1: any vegetables (but not potatoes) – 1 kg. The method of their preparation is any, which does not imply the addition of oil during cooking or before serving.
Day 2: any fruit up to 1 kg, except for grapes and bananas.
3 and 4 days: fruits, vegetables – 300 g each (we choose according to the same rules as in the first diet days described above), one boiled egg.
5 and 6 days: 250 ml of low-fat kefir, one egg, 200 g of cottage cheese with a fat content of up to 5%, up to 200 g of any meat.
Days 7-12: it is worth repeating the previous six-day period.
Day 13: Repeat the 2nd day menu.
Day 14: repeat the 5th diet day.
Daily fluid intake – at least 2 liters of pure water, tea without sugar, coffee (but not every day, and no more than 1-2 cups a day).
Contraindications to the Bulgarian diet
It is impossible to adhere to any version of the Bulgarian way of transforming a figure for people who have any diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, suffering from serious metabolic disorders, as well as with an exacerbated state of any chronic ailment.
Dimkov also puts a strict ban on dieting for ladies who are in an interesting position, as well as nursing mothers. This can negatively affect the health and well-being of the child. Don’t risk it!
Advantages of the Bulgarian diet
The pluses of the diet, which many people who lose weight are actively experiencing, include relatively quick and tangible weight loss (which is confirmed by numerous reviews of people who have transformed the figure in this way).
We also note that the diet (if you do not take into account the four-day, which is the most stringent version of the transformation of the figure among the above) is quite varied. One product should not get bored so as to provoke a breakdown due to the monotony of food.
Also, the author of the diet promises to cleanse the body of toxins and other harmful substances. As a result, you will mildly improve your health during the dietary rendezvous.
Disadvantages of the diet
On some days, the diet cuts down significantly in terms of calories. Therefore, you can face weakness, drowsiness. Especially if you previously consumed a much larger amount of food, which also differed in higher calorie content.
Also, this diet is not suitable for people who are actively involved in sports. Most likely, there will simply not be enough strength for full-fledged training with such a diet.
Some people have come across, sitting on this diet, with an exacerbation of gastritis or the appearance of some kind of stomach problems. So be sure to listen to your body. If you feel cramps and malaise, stop the diet immediately and consult a doctor.
Re-dieting
If you wish to repeat the two-week Bulgarian diet, be sure to wait at least 1 month. For a 7-day menu, a recovery period of at least 2 weeks is required, and for a 4-day diet, 1 week.