It is believed that losing weight without titanic effort is impossible. You have to struggle in the gym or completely refuse to eat. Well, or at least starve a few times a week and eat apples and cucumbers the rest of the time.
Modern views of nutritionists are seriously different from the stereotypical approach. The danger of fasting has reached science and practice.
Regular running or fitness is just as effective as trying to lose weight with kettlebells and machines. A diet for the lazy can be the beginning of the path of proper nutrition and an attractive figure for years to come. So what are its characteristics?
How to lose weight for the lazy: dietary principles
To fight overweight productively, follow these rules:
- Drink water before meals.The essence of the diet is to partially replace food with a drink of purified water. Two glasses should be drunk 20-30 minutes before each meal. Water fills the stomach, stretches the walls. The body perceives this as a signal of fullness and blocks the feeling of hunger. When you eat, you don’t want to overeat or swallow food too much. If there is no appetite, then you need less. Adhering to this rule, it will be easy to reduce the diet by 30-40%.
- Drink water between meals.An hour after a meal you can drink a glass or two of liquids (water, green or herbal tea without sugar, herbal juice). Fluid forces the body to expend more calories to maintain its own functions and increases the speed of metabolic processes by 30%. Only by drinking enough water can you get rid of excess waist and hips. Indeed, when there is a lack of fluid in the diet, the body stores it in the tissues, causing edema and they give the body extra volume and weight.
- Eat healthy foods.A lazy diet will not work wonders if you continue to eat burgers, fries and double ice cream every day. These products must be replaced by food of full value: vegetables, fruits, meat and fish, cereals, legumes.
Plan four meals a day. The densest are breakfast and lunch. Dinner should be as light as possible.
Diet for the lazy - weekly diet
The advantage of dieting is that you don't have to count calories or measure meal size. Eat according to your appetite (taking care of the water you drink before meals). Include simple, healthy foods from this list in your diet.
Breakfast- millet porridge in water or milk, buckwheat porridge with milk, omelette with herbs, spoon of cheese, cheese cakes, boiled eggs, natural unsweetened yogurt, toast with cheese, oatmeal with honey and berries, cheese with fruit or berries.
Snack- any fruit, handful of berries or nuts.
Lunch- chicken soup with homemade noodles, soup with meatballs, dish with vegetables, cooked or baked fish, vegetable salad (cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, greens in any combination), lentil soup, side dish of cereals or pasta with liver or boiled chicken.
Dinner- egg and vegetable salad, cottage cheese with honey, a glass of kefir or fermented milk with toast, roasted or stewed vegetables without starch (cabbage, zucchini, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes), cookedor liver fish.
You may have other meals in your diet, and the menu should vary each day. An important advantage of a lazy diet is that it teaches you to eat healthy and wholesome foods. Even after dieting (you should not adhere to such a heavy drinking regime for more than two weeks), the resulting eating habits will help maintain the achieved weight.
Nutritionist's opinion, contraindications
People with kidney disease should not resort to a lazy diet. And in the presence of intestinal, gastric diseases, you should consult a doctor. In addition, drinking plenty of fluids can help flush out minerals (calcium, potassium, magnesium) from the body. While following this diet, it is recommended to take mineral supplements.
According to nutritionists, a lazy diet is good because it teaches you to drink enough fluids. And for people who do not have such a habit, it will become a vivid indicator of how plain water speeds up metabolic processes and normalizes weight.
But that's also his downside. If a person is accustomed to a high-calorie diet, there will be no pronounced weight loss effect. Water will help get rid of swelling in the tissues, clean the intestines, so that in the first days the weight will be reduced by three to four kg, and within two weeks will help get rid of 9-12 kg of extra pounds.
If you continue to eat improperly, weight loss will stop in the first week, so a balanced diet is no less important than the habit of drinking enough fluids.