The essence of the water diet, or the diet for the lazy
Fortunately, such a power supply system is quite simple to implement, the main thing is to follow two simple rules:
- Drink 15-20 glasses of water 1-2 minutes before any meal.
- Do not drink any liquid during meals and for 2 hours after meals. After the specified time, you can also afford a glass of water, a cup of tea or coffee, but without additional goodies (no cakes, cookies, etc.). Think of your tea / coffee / juice intake as a complete meal that does not mix food and liquids.
If you follow the described diet rules, you will be able, without changing your food preferences, to lose weight on average from 8 to 12 kg in 14 days.
How does it work?
So, you drink clear, non-carbonated water before meals, stretching and filling your stomach, so even with a strong desire, you will not be able to eat as much as you could with a normal diet.
In addition, if you do not drink any liquid during meals, you do not continue to stretch the stomach, respectively, do not overload it and do not feel a feeling of heaviness. The subsequent 2-hour abstinence from water after a meal is also quite reasoned: the gastric juice produced by the intake of food and necessary for its processing is not washed out, because during this period, the liquid does not enter the body. Thus, you do not interfere with the natural process of digestion, it becomes more efficient, which also contributes to weight loss.
The undoubted advantages of this diet:
- thanks to the water drunk before eating, the metabolism is accelerated (accordingly, adipose tissue is burned by the body faster);
- water dulls the feeling of hunger, while it itself has zero calories;
- in the process of a diet, the condition of the skin improves and the work of the digestive system is normalized;
- losing weight according to this technique, there is an increase in performance and a tonic effect of long-term action.
Features of the water diet
- Nutritionists recommend taking into account the complexion of a person and his physical condition (we will talk about the contraindications of the diet a little later) when calculating the daily volume of water consumed. To determine exactly how much water you can and should drink per day, divide your current weight by 20. That is, if you weigh 60 kg, you need to drink about 3 liters of water per day.
- You need to start switching to the recommended amount of water consumption gradually, starting from 1 liter (note, we are talking about water, not counting that during the day we still consume tea, coffee, juices, etc.).
- Please note: when consuming large volumes of water (from 2,5 liters), calcium, sodium and potassium are washed out of the body, therefore, in this case, take vitamin complexes in parallel to compensate for the losses.
- Cold water slows down your metabolism, so drink room temperature water.
- Experts advise to go on a water diet in summer, when the liquid is intensively excreted with sweat, which means it does not overload the bladder and kidneys.
- Stick to this weight loss system for 3 weeks, and then take a 3-4 week break. This advice is very important because you should understand that with a water diet there is a high load on the kidneys, which should not work for a long time in such an enhanced mode.
Sample menu
- Breakfast. Drink water 15-20 minutes before meals (calculate the volume according to the above formula, taking into account that the resulting number should be divided by an average of 4 meals). Eat whatever you like for breakfast, without drinking food and refraining from liquids for 2 hours.
- Lunch. Drink water 15-20 minutes before meals and again adhere to the key diet rules.
- An afternoon snack. You need to drink water 15-20 minutes before meals, but if you want to have a snack only on a sandwich or eat some kind of fruit, you can drink less water than with dense meals.
- Dinner. Drink water for 15-20 minutes (if dinner is supposed to be light, then you can drink less water than for breakfast and lunch). Dinner whatever you want, but do not wash down the food during and within 2 hours after eating.
How to improve the effectiveness of the diet?
To improve the results of a lazy diet, you need to:
- a few days before the start of the diet, cleanse the body of toxins and toxins;
- a day before the start of the diet, organize a fasting day (for example, during the day, eat only buckwheat porridge and drink only tomato juice or kefir);
- drink water slowly, in small sips;
- consume no more than two glasses of liquid at a time;
- limit the consumption of flour, sweet and fatty foods, as well as begin to devote at least 10 minutes a day to physical exercise.
Contraindications
The water diet is contraindicated in diseases associated with the urinary system and heart, in hypertension and diabetes. Also, this diet is not recommended for pregnant women. Those who are already obese should be careful about it: with a high level of insulin in the blood, edema may develop.