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Losing weight up to 8 kg in 2 weeks.
The average daily calorie content is 550 Kcal.
A lean diet will help you lose weight while keeping your wallet weighty.
Among the many options for economical methods, you can certainly choose a way to lose weight for yourself.
Lean diet requirements
Very popular economical diet, designed for 2 weeks, on which you can lose 6-8 extra pounds. It will be necessary to say “no” to any food that contains sugar, fast carbohydrates, pickles, smoked meats, marinades, fast food products, fatty and fried foods, and alcoholic beverages. Of liquids, except for pure water without gas, green tea without sugar is allowed. It is also better to refuse a sugar substitute for this time.
Food consists mainly of lean chicken, eggs, potatoes and other non-starchy vegetables, dairy products (low-fat kefir, cottage cheese, low-fat yogurt), apples. From time to time a small amount of rye bread flashes from flour products on the menu.
To avoid a lack of fat in the body, it is allowed to leave a little vegetable oil in the diet of this diet, which is not subject to heat treatment. Meals – three times a day, with refusal from food 3-4 hours before lights out. Make weight loss more significant and your figure more attractive by playing sports. In general, on all types of economical diets, it is useful to be friends with physical education and lead a fairly active lifestyle.
Another economical way to lose weight is buckwheat diet… And for the winter period, the buckwheat technique will be one of the most budgetary and effective. It is also recommended to follow the buckwheat diet for no longer than two weeks. If the result is achieved earlier, then the diet can be stopped sooner. On the classic buckwheat mono-diet for breakfast, lunch and dinner (as well as snacks, which are not prohibited), you should eat exclusively buckwheat. In order to preserve useful substances as much as possible, it is recommended not to cook the cereals, but to pour boiling water, using 0,5 liters of water for 1,5 kg of buckwheat. Steamed buckwheat should be wrapped in a warm blanket or towel for the night, in the morning a healthy dietary dish will be ready. The resulting portion of porridge should be consumed during the day. If the cooking time for buckwheat is running out, a thermos will come to the rescue. 40-45 minutes before meals, the cereal can be poured with boiling water right in it. If you want the effectiveness of the diet to be 100%, buckwheat should be cooked and eaten without salt. All seasonings, spices, sauces, sugar and other additives should also be discarded.
The basis of the liquid diet is pure water. And if you want to treat yourself to something hot, sometimes we can use tea (naturally, without sugar). We stop eating 4 hours before bedtime. In two weeks of buckwheat weight loss, you can lose up to 12 extra pounds, the result depends on the amount of excess weight.
If you doubt your willpower, it is not necessary to eat only buckwheat during the diet. You can supplement the diet with seasonal fruits (this will not hit your wallet). You can also sit on such a diet for up to two weeks. For a week, as a rule, 3-5 kilograms of excess weight escapes. In this diet option, it is recommended to eat buckwheat for the main meals (a portion should weigh 100-150 grams in ready-made form). And for snacks, you can use fruits, it is better to focus on non-starchy products. It is also allowed to add a little bit of nature’s gifts directly to the cereal to make the menu more varied.
Sour milk diet – Another inexpensive weight loss option. It is advisable to observe it no longer than one week, or less. You will need to eat cottage cheese, kefir, milk, empty yogurt with minimal fat content. It is recommended to eat fractionally, taking food in small quantities. In a week of economical fermented milk technique, you can lose 3-4 unnecessary kilograms. By the way, if long food deprivation seems painful to you, you can do otherwise. If you stick to the fermented milk menu at least two days a week (not necessarily in a row), you will soon notice a pleasant decrease in volume.
It is necessary to leave any option of an economical diet gradually. Smoothly add previously forbidden foods and try to compose your diet from the most healthy and wholesome food. This will not only help not to return weight, but will also respond positively to the health of the body. Since all types of lean diets are tough, taking a multivitamin is a good idea.
Example of a diet of a two-week lean diet
Day 1
Breakfast: chicken eggs boiled or cooked in a pan without adding butter (2 pcs.); large potatoes baked in the oven; a cup of tea.
Lunch: 2 potatoes, baked or boiled; two boiled eggs.
Dinner: a couple of baked potatoes and tea.
Day 2
Breakfast: 100 g fat-free cottage cheese; tea.
Lunch: low-fat cottage cheese (100 g); 150-200 ml of low-fat 1% kefir.
Dinner: 150 ml of low fat kefir.
Day 3
Breakfast: an apple and 0,5 cups of kefir.
Lunch: a glass of kefir.
Dinner: apple (fresh or baked); 150 ml of kefir.
Day 4
Breakfast: a piece of boiled chicken fillet (100 g) and tea.
Lunch: boiled chicken (200 g); salad (fresh cucumbers and Chinese cabbage), sprinkled with vegetable (preferably olive) oil; tea.
Dinner: boiled chicken fillet (100 g).
Day 5
Breakfast: 2 sweet and sour apples and a cup of tea.
Lunch: 2-3 small apples.
Dinner: a couple of apples and tea.
Day 6
Breakfast: large potatoes baked in the oven and 170-180 ml of low-fat kefir.
Lunch: two baked potatoes and tea.
Dinner: half a glass of low-fat kefir.
Day 7
Breakfast: a glass of yogurt.
Lunch: yogurt (about 200 ml).
Dinner: duplicate today’s breakfast.
Day 8
Breakfast: salad from boiled chicken egg and two small tomatoes; tea.
Lunch: a piece of boiled chicken breast (100 g) and a tomato.
Dinner: a tomato with a slice of chicken fillet (do not use oil and fat during cooking).
Day 9
Breakfast: an apple and a cup of tea.
Lunch: boiled or baked chicken (100 g); salad (cucumber and Chinese cabbage), which can be seasoned with a few drops of vegetable oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Dinner: sweet and sour apple and tea.
Day 10
Breakfast: apple; tea with a slice of dried rye bread.
Lunch: boiled chicken or turkey (100 g); a slice of rye bread; a cup of tea.
Dinner: an apple with a cup of tea.
Day 11
Breakfast: rye bread in the company of fresh or baked apple; tea.
Lunch: boiled chicken (100 g); a slice of rye bread (preferably dried); tea.
Dinner: apple and tea.
Day 12
Breakfast: one baked potato; sweet and sour apple; half a glass of low-fat yogurt or kefir.
Lunch: two baked or boiled potatoes; a glass of yogurt or kefir.
Dinner: 2 green apples; up to 200 ml of kefir or yogurt.
Day 13
Breakfast: boiled chicken egg; tea and apple.
Lunch: 200 g of boiled or baked chicken fillet; boiled egg; tea.
Dinner: up to 100 g of lean chicken meat, cooked without added fat; an Apple.
Day 14
Breakfast: baked potatoes; apple and tea.
Lunch: two boiled or baked potatoes; small apple.
Dinner: potatoes baked in the company of eggplant and a glass of low-fat kefir.
An example of a lean buckwheat diet for 3 days
Day 1
Breakfast: a portion of buckwheat.
Snack: apple.
Lunch: a portion of buckwheat.
Snack: pear.
Dinner: a portion of buckwheat.
Day 2
Breakfast: a portion of buckwheat with a small shabby apple.
Snack: orange.
Lunch: a portion of buckwheat.
Afternoon snack: half a grapefruit.
Dinner: a portion of buckwheat.
Day 3
Breakfast: a portion of buckwheat.
Snack: small banana.
Lunch: a portion of buckwheat.
Afternoon snack: baked apple and a couple of grapefruit wedges.
Dinner: a portion of buckwheat.
An example of a daily diet of an economical fermented milk diet
Breakfast: 100-150 g of cottage cheese and half a glass of kefir.
Snack: a glass of empty yogurt.
Lunch: up to 200 g of cottage cheese and a cup of green tea.
Afternoon snack: a glass of milk.
Dinner: 100-150 ml of kefir or 100 g of cottage cheese.
Contraindications of a thrifty diet
- Any variant of an economical diet is unacceptable for nursing mothers, women in an interesting position, people with a very active lifestyle, involved in strength sports, performing hard physical labor.
- You should not “save” so much in case of problems with the gastrointestinal tract and other serious diseases, especially if they are aggravated.
- Dieting is not recommended soon after illness or surgery, because the body is now already weakened.
- If we talk about a fermented milk diet, you should not turn to it with lactose intolerance, diabetes.
- Taboos for keeping a lean diet – children, adolescents or old age.
- To comply with the buckwheat diet, it is imperative to obtain permission from a doctor in the following cases: all forms of diabetes, hypertension, renal or heart failure, deep depression.
Benefits of a lean diet
- Of course, the undoubted plus of a frugal diet is the essence of the name. The proposed methods help not only to lose weight, but also to save money.
- Weight losses, by the way, also promise to be very noticeable. In a week or two, you can dramatically change your forms.
- There are several options for economical weight loss, choose the one that is right for you.
- The main character of several options for an economical diet – buckwheat porridge – gives the body a feeling of satiety with a low calorie content. Fiber, abundantly contained in buckwheat, simultaneously cleanses the intestines and liver. Vegetable protein, B vitamins, calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron – the components of buckwheat – will replenish the body with the necessary components and protect it from malfunctions, normalize metabolism. The slimming process will take place simultaneously with cellulite reduction and skin and nail health.
- A fermented milk diet is rich in animal proteins that help our bodies function properly and maintain muscle tissue. Such products will satisfy hunger, speed up metabolism and cleanse the body of harmful accumulations. Calcium from sour milk will prevent the formation of fatty layers, improve the condition of teeth and bones, and reduce cosmetic problems of the skin and hair.
Disadvantages of a lean diet
- A lean diet is a strict one. It takes willpower to finish what you started.
- If you are accustomed to eating plentifully and love various “harmfulness”, eating behavior will have to radically change.
- The buckwheat diet is not for everyone. It does not exclude the appearance of headaches, weakness, fatigue, drowsiness and other “delights” of dietary nutrition. Nutritionists advise first to spend one fasting day on buckwheat and listen to your body. If there are no problems, then you can go on a diet. During the diet, an exacerbation of chronic diseases, a decrease in blood pressure is possible. Although buckwheat contains an easily digestible protein of plant origin, it does not completely replace the protein of meat and fish, so it is impossible to extend the diet longer than 14 days.
- With fermented milk nutrition, blood sugar levels can rise, so diabetics should be careful and consult a doctor.
Re-running the lean diet
To minimize the chance of harming the body, it is not advisable to repeat any of the thrifty diet options for the next two months.