Diet doesn’t have to be boring and tasteless! Cleansing the body should certainly not be synonymous with starvation. With the beginning of the new year, we start to think more and more about losing the extra pounds that have accumulated during winter laziness. Many people opt for elimination diets or, even worse, starvation. Neither one nor the other way will bring long-term effect, and additionally it can undermine your health, and this is certainly not what slimming is about.
Winter is a difficult time for our figure. Not only does the desire for sweet, fatty and caloric dishes increase, we also spend more free time under a blanket in front of the TV than in motion. Low physical activity combined with fattening foods gives an unpleasant effect in the form of fat accumulated here and there. It is best to start slimming as early as possible – in this way we will give the body time to switch to a less caloric diet and get used to the “new conditions”.
Divide your daily diet into 5 meals, preferably small in volume, and eat them at regular intervals (preferably every 3-4 hours). Here are some healthy suggestions that will speed up the cleansing of the body and facilitate weight loss:
- In the morning: first drink a flaxseed infusion. You can buy ready-made, ground flaxseed in many stores, you can also grind it yourself using a coffee grinder or blender. One teaspoon of linseed pour one cup of boiling water. For breakfast, eat oatmeal with bananas and cardamom. Composition: 30 g of oat flakes, 200 ml of milk, banana, cardamom, a teaspoon of honey and almonds. The recipe is very simple – all you have to do is cook the oatmeal over low heat, adding cardamom at the end. Decorate the finished whole with banana and almonds, optionally sweeten with honey.
- Before noon: an option for a second breakfast. Ideally, it should consist of dark bread (e.g. wholegrain rye bread), chickpea and avocado hummus, a large tomato, radish, lettuce leaves and cress sprouts. In this way, you will satisfy your hunger with colorful, healthy sandwiches with humus and vegetables. Preparation: Soak chickpeas in water overnight, rinse the next day and cook until soft. Once cool, mix it with avocado, lemon juice, spices, garlic and sesame oil. In this way, you will make your own, 100% healthy and dietary hummus.
- For dinner: baked fish is the perfect substitute for meat. Especially the fat ones. Therefore, your dinner should consist of baked cod with the addition of buckwheat and sauerkraut salad. It is very simple to make: after washing and drying the fillet, salt it, sprinkle with herbs, sprinkle with a teaspoon of oil and lemon juice, then bake in the oven. Boil the buckwheat groats in slightly salted water, and add the chopped onion and carrot grated on small meshes to the sauerkraut.
- For afternoon tea: a cleansing cocktail will be most suitable for this time of day. Just mix 1/3 cup of orange juice, a handful of parsley, one piece of kiwi, half a banana and half a lemon in a blender. Delicious, healthy and perfect for the figure!
- Dinner: This dish is also not to be denied, although many people mistakenly believe that dinner should be skipped. However, it is true that it should be a light meal. Cook 50 grams of dry green lentils, preferably for about 25 minutes over low heat, add some chives, fresh cucumber, a handful of arugula and lamb’s lettuce, your favorite spices, paprika, a teaspoon of linseed oil, radish, parsley.
Also, do not forget to drink 2 liters of fluids a day – preferably water with lemon and tea without sugar.