Crash diet

In English, srash means to crush, to break. It means fast extreme weight loss. Under this name is covered any diet that severely limits the consumption of daily calories (not more than 800 kcal), or reduces the amount of food consumed to 2-3 items. One of the authors of this blitz weight loss (for 15 days 10kg) is a sports physiologist Lyle MacDonald.

A nutritionist has written a book on this topic, in which he sets out a scientific approach to quickly getting rid of excess fat. The essence of the diet is to limit calories, but not to deprive a person of the proteins, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids necessary for the normal functioning of the body. In this case, the benefits will prevail and the harm to health will be minimized.

Its main principle is the reduction of carbohydrate intake. Replaceable nutrients are excluded from the diet, and proteins and omega-3 acids come with food. Not receiving a source of energy in the form of fast carbohydrates, the body begins to burn its own fat reserves. The combination of such a power system with exercise will lose weight, but not muscle mass.

General information of the crash diets

There are various options for crash diets: berry, yoghurt, seafood, lemonade, ketogenic and others. The diet depends on the chosen food system and in each products are dominated by the name. The main thing to count calories and not to go through with the energy value of food. The menu for 2 weeks is not too extreme diet may look like this:

Day	Breakfast	2nd breakfast	Dinner	Afternoon tea	Dinner
1st	Porridge on the water (250g), half a glass of skimmed milk	An Apple	Lean borsch (250g)	Banana	Boiled chicken breast (100g), fresh vegetable salad
2nd	Porridge "3 cereal"	Orange	Vegetable soup	Strawberry	Buckwheat
3rd	Low Fat Curd Cheesecakes	Dried fruit compote, loaves	Vegetable stew	Pear	Cabbage cutlets
4th	Yogurt with bread	Grapefruit	Homemade soup in weak chicken broth	Cherry	Boiled fish
5th	Hard cheese, apple	Milk	Braised cabbage with champignons	3 walnuts	Cucumber salad, tomato, pepper, dressed with sour cream
6th	Boiled Cauliflower	Kiwi	Schi lean	Yogurt	Boiled beef, green peas
7th	Cottage cheese	An Apple	Baked meat, asparagus beans	Compote	Vegetable souffle
8th	Porridge "Hercules"	Orange	Rice with vegetables	Plums	Baked fish with lemon
9th	Buckwheat porridge	Pear	Sorrel borscht on beef broth	Yogurt	Broccoli Chicken
10th	Cheese, a slice of bread	Fruit Salad	Fish ear	The nuts	Omelet protein on vegetables
11th	Durum wheat pasta sprinkled with cheese	Grapefruit	Pea Soup Chicken Broth	Dried fruits compote	Cabbage salad, carrots, greens, boiled meat
12th	Oatmeal porridge	Low fat cottage cheese	Moussaka from vegetables	Milk, loaves	Fish, tomatoes
13th	Cottage cheese	Banana	Vegetable stew with a piece of turkey meat	An Apple	Grilled boiled egg, zucchini
14th	Buckwheat	Milk	Meatball Soup	Orange	Meat soufflé, vegetables

The difficulty of these diets is to significantly reduce servings. With an average of 2000–2500 kcal required for the full existence of a person, they decrease by one third, therefore short-term crash diets. If someone has health to sit on it for a month, then the diet menu by day can be repeated, starting from the first week.

Dish recipes

Meals from the diet menu are simple and uncomplicated, with a limited set of products. The hostesses know that it is tasty when you are busy for a long time, you use high-calorie foods, fats, seasonings. In the case of crash-diets, a person who is not experienced in cooking can handle it. Here are some recipes:

• buckwheat porridge - cereal is washed and placed in a thermos, then poured boiling water at a ratio of 1: 2, it is steamed overnight and you can eat it for breakfast. To her good to make a salad of their vegetables, dressed with olive oil. He for 10 minutes will allocate juice, which you can pour porridge;
• scrambled eggs - sauté the onion, zucchini, pepper, tomato in a pan. Beat egg, add a little milk, pour into the pan. Before serving, crumble greens;
• fish - whole or pieces of lemon wrap, wrap in foil, bake in the oven;
• stew - shred white cabbage, onion, carrot, sweet pepper, tomato, zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms, other available vegetables, lightly salted, sprinkled with sunflower oil and stewed;
• moussaka - layered in layers: onions, carrots, celery root cut into slices, chicken, eggplants, bell peppers, tomatoes and baked in the oven for 40-60 minutes.

What can and what can not?

The list of products recommended for nutrition in the days of the diet are those in which protein is predominant and there are no fats, carbohydrates. What can you eat? From protein products to choose:

• lean red meat;
• chicken or turkey meat;
• low-fat fish (pollock, cod, hake, halibut);
• hard cheeses and low fat cottage cheese;
• egg whites;
• seafood (squids, crabs).

Along with these products, fibrous vegetables should be present in the menu: asparagus, white cabbage and Brussels sprouts, broccoli, celery, zucchini, mushrooms, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet peppers. Cellulose in their composition will give a feeling of satiety and will contribute to intestinal motility. The daily number of meals is at least 4 times, the portions are small. Required daily intake of a spoon of fish oil or flaxseed oil. Once a week it is allowed to eat something delicious, not included in the diet, but without excesses. And of course, you need to drink a lot to remove the decay products from the body.

Crash diets exclude carbohydrates from the menu, which means flour and sweet, fat. As with any other diet can not eat spicy, smoked, canned, fried.

Contraindications

Only healthy people can resort to diets, especially so tough. They are contraindicated, first of all, with problems of the digestive tract, cardiovascular diseases, renal failure, etc.

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Possible risks

Crash diet can cause a slowdown in metabolism, weaken the immune system, lead to dehydration, cause problems with the liver and kidneys. Possible complications associated with cardiac activity, impaired bowel function. Skin, nails, hair may be affected.

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Reviews

According to those who have experienced such a diet, and these are predominantly girls who needed to urgently put themselves in shape on the occasion of the upcoming important events for them, the result really is. Some managed to lose 3-4kg in a week. But everyone unanimously warns that it is difficult to keep the weight, after a short period of time it returns.