Curd variant of Maggi diet: reviews and results

The former Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher is credited with the intended purpose of this nutrition system. It is unknown whether she used it, but after her death it was found in her papers. The politician's slender figure convinced everyone that it was thanks to her that Thatcher had such forms, which is why she was called "Maggie" from the diminutive Margaret. The cottage cheese diet "Maggie" is a type of protein diet, widespread throughout the world.

Indications

Any protein diet is designed for weight loss. "Magi" is also indicated for gaining slimness, with excess weight, obesity - problems of not only aesthetic but also physical nature. Its adverse effect on various functions of the body: heart, blood vessels, endocrine system, musculoskeletal system leads to many pathological conditions, including diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, metabolic disorders, diseases of the joints and spine. The desire to look and feel good is the driving force that makes you take strict control of your diet. Read also about how to properly do a fasting day on cottage cheese and kefir.

General information of the Maggi cottage cheese diet

There are two types of the Maggie diet - cottage cheese and egg. Which one is better? The essence of both options is the exclusion of carbohydrates and fats from the diet and the launch of the reaction of fat breakdown in the body with the help of proteins. First, glycogen is consumed, and then the body's own fat deposits. Eggs are rich in protein, but they are not suitable for everyone, because they cause allergies. Therefore, by replacing 1 egg with 100 g of cottage cheese, we get the curd Maggie. The main principles of such a diet are to adhere to a specific daily menu, a large volume of liquid drunk (necessary for the absorption of proteins), unlimited consumption of certain raw fruits and berries, getting satiation without overeating.

Curd diet "Maggi" for 1 week

The minimum period of the cottage cheese diet "Maggi" is a week. When resorting to it, it is important to observe various nuances that do not allow deviations: you need to eat the products provided for this day and this meal, but improvise with cooking, drink 2 liters or more of water, exercise yourself physically, eat 6 times a day, the last time 2-3 hours before bedtime.

• What can you eat? The choice of products is quite wide, so the diet will not cause disgust to one specific one. It includes fresh or frozen (depending on the season) vegetables, legumes, greens. These are zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, arugula, parsley, dill. They can be combined in salads, stews, use any type of cooking except frying. Among the necessary fruits are apples, apricots, grapefruit, kiwi, cherries, pears. Of the meat, poultry with skin removed and other low-fat varieties are allowed, cooked by boiling, steaming, baking in the oven. Fish and seafood also have a place in the diet menu. There is even bread, but dried rye or whole grain, crispbread. Dishes can be salted, seasoned with pepper, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, soy sauce. The main feature of the diet is in its name, so of course, it is cottage cheese with a fat content of no more than 9%. Following "Maggi", you do not even have to give up coffee and tea, but unsweetened.
• What should you not eat? Fats, sugar, starchy foods, alcohol, broths, and canned goods are excluded. Cereals, pasta, potatoes, and fruits such as figs, grapes, bananas, and dates are prohibited.

Curd diet "Maggi" for 2 weeks

The Maggi cottage cheese diet is 4 weeks long, but it can be shortened to two. Daily breakfast consists of 200g of cottage cheese and various fruits (from the list of permitted ones), and for snacks, the products of a specific day are suitable. Here is a detailed menu for a two-week diet:

First week
	Dinner	Dinner
Monday	Grapefruit or 2 oranges	Sea fish, cucumber salad, bell pepper, lettuce, tomatoes, slice of bread, 1 citrus
Tuesday	Boiled chicken fillet	200g stewed lean meat, broccoli, green peas
Wednesday	100g hard cheese	Baked vegetables and meat in the oven
Thursday	Any fruits	Meatballs, oven-baked vegetables
Friday	Boiled egg, vegetable salad	Steamed fish, arugula, basil, parsley
Saturday	Fruit set	Meat, cauliflower
Sunday	Chicken, cucumbers, tomatoes, grapefruit or orange	Vegetable stew of carrots, peppers, zucchini, onions, cabbage

Second week
	Dinner	Dinner
Monday	2 soft-boiled eggs, low-fat cheese or cottage cheese, salad	Cottage cheese, pear
Tuesday	Baked beef, fruits	Cottage cheese or cheese, orange
Wednesday	Boiled meat, raw vegetables	Cottage cheese, apples, kiwi
Thursday	Cheese or cottage cheese	Vegetable salad, fish cutlets
Friday	Shrimp, mussels or squid	Pomelo, cottage cheese casserole
Saturday	Chicken, tomato, orange	Cherries, apricots, cottage cheese
Sunday	Chicken meat, stewed zucchini, pepper	Baked meat, tomato and cucumber salad

Curd diet "Maggi" for 4 weeks

Those who were not stopped by the first 2 weeks of dietary restrictions and who want to achieve maximum and long-term results can use the recommendations regarding the subsequent nutrition plan.

Third week
Monday	Any fruits during the day
Tuesday	Stewed vegetables, excluding potatoes
Wednesday	Combine fresh or steamed vegetables and fruits
Thursday	Steamed fish, seafood, vegetable salads
Friday	Fresh vegetables, chicken shashlik
Saturday	Kiwi, cherries, apricots
Sunday	Pears, apples

In the last week, the listed daily norms should be divided between meals following breakfast, the caloric content of food should not exceed 700 kcal. During this period, you can introduce fermented milk products: kefir and yogurt.

Week 4
Monday	200g boiled meat, a can of tuna, 2-3 tomatoes and cucumbers, a slice of bread, fruit
Tuesday	Pears, kiwi, apples, a piece of bread, 1-2 cucumbers, 2-3 tomatoes,
Wednesday	400g cottage cheese, baked vegetables, bread, fruit
Thursday	Half a kilo of boiled chicken, several cucumbers, tomatoes, apricots
Friday	Steamed omelette, vegetables, fruits
Saturday	Boiled chicken, cottage cheese, bread, pepper, cucumbers, pears, low-fat kefir or yogurt
Sunday	400g cottage cheese, boiled hake, pollock (200g), vegetables, bread

Egg and Curd Diet "Maggi"

An abundance of cottage cheese in the diet for such a long time can cause a negative response from the body and prevent you from going the entire way. The developers of the Maggi diet foresaw such an outcome and offered an egg-curd diet, because its principles did not suffer from this - it still remained protein. Every morning, breakfast consists of 1-2 eggs, grapefruit, coffee or tea. Otherwise, focus on the previous menu, periodically replacing one key product with another.

Read also about the benefits and contraindications of the egg diet.

Recipes for the cottage cheese version of the Maggi diet

The food set is known and here is an opportunity for culinary creativity, because healthy can be very tasty. Here are some recipes for the cottage cheese diet "Maggi":

• add salt to the cottage cheese, chop dill and parsley, grate a clove of garlic, mix the mixture well. Cut the tomatoes in half, make indentations in them, fill with the cottage cheese mixture and bake;
• cut various fruits into pieces, season with low-fat yogurt, and you will get a delicious fruit salad;
• mince the chicken, add salt, pepper, beat in an egg. Cut the zucchini crosswise into 2 cm thick pieces, remove the core and fill it with minced meat. Place in a saucepan, add herbs and various spices to taste, add a little water, simmer until done;
• Place sliced onion, tomato slices, eggplant circles on the hake or pollock carcass, wrap in foil and bake in the oven;
• Boil cauliflower and broccoli in salted water. Arrange them beautifully on a plate, mixing them to create a color contrast, grate hard cheese on them and sprinkle with grated breadcrumbs;
• cut the boiled eggs, mash the yolks, add salt and pepper, combine with diced tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, season with lemon juice, fill the egg halves again, place on lettuce leaves;
• Boil the "seafood cocktail", combine the arugula leaves, tomatoes, cucumbers, and diced eggs in the salad. For dressing, use soy sauce, lemon juice, and chopped parsley.

Benefits

Any reasonable diet provides, along with the mechanism for losing weight, a set of ingredients necessary for the functioning of the body. But often, it is so meager that it turns life into an existence on the edge of a foul. The benefit of a protein diet is that there is no feeling of hunger with it and, at the same time, it brings long-term results, because after stopping it does not force you to break down and make up for the portions you did not receive. Other advantages include the ability to quickly destroy fat reserves, saturate with calcium, and remove toxins.

Contraindications

The Maggi cottage cheese diet is not suitable for people with gastritis with high acidity, colitis, pancreatitis, dysbacteriosis, and kidney pathologies.

Possible risks

Any diet is "guilty" of being unbalanced. This one is no exception. The main risk associated with the diet is the heavy load on the kidneys and liver, which occurs due to dehydration.

Complications

Serious possible complications include kidney dysfunction, exacerbation of chronic gastrointestinal pathologies. Lack of carbohydrates causes drowsiness, weakness, irritability, apathy.

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Reviews and results of those who lost weight

Although the diet is positioned as not starving, but according to reviews, its first week is not easy. Those who have gone through this short path will overcome other days of restrictions. Those who have endured have received real results, sometimes a weight loss of up to 10 kg was recorded. Others could not endure it due to health reasons: flatulence, nausea, heaviness in the stomach, and extreme weakness appeared.

Doctors' reviews

According to doctors, any diet, especially protein diet, requires perfect health. But starting it, rarely does anyone consult a doctor for examination and consultation, so their attitude is mostly negative. In any case, doctors urge you to listen to your body and stop at the slightest alarming signals from it.

Useful links

• Margaret Thatcher's victory diet: 28 eggs a week https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/7111052/Margaret-Thatchers-victory-diet-28-eggs-a-week.html
• How to eat like a world leader: from Trump's Big Macs to Thatcher's Bovril toast https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2017/dec/04/trump-diets-world-leaders-mcdonalds-book