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Diet to lose 40 kg in 1 month
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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Losing 40 kg in a month is a real adventure, for which you will have to pay with your health, if not your life. There is nothing to say about the benefits of such a diet. A safe loss is 5% of your total weight in a short period. Getting rid of 40 kg will take more than one month, although it is quite achievable. An example is the diet of Polina Gagarina, who turned from a fat woman formed after childbirth into a slender and beautiful "swan".
The essence of Polina Gagarina's diet
The singer managed to lose 40 kg and return to the stage with triumph. As a basis for losing weight, she took a strict diet of alternating mono-diets. Its essence is that only 1 type of permitted products is consumed every day.
What can you eat? On the first day, the diet consists only of boiled rice, on the second day - dietary cooked chicken without skin, on the third - raw and steamed non-starchy vegetables or vegetable soups. Then the cycle is repeated from the beginning. The last meal ends at 18:00 . Dietary restrictions must be combined with physical activity.
What you can't eat? Fast food, sweet sodas, baked goods, sausages, smoked meats, mayonnaise, coffee, tea with additives are completely prohibited.
It took me half a year to lose 30 kg, and then, simply by sticking to a healthy diet and intense training, another 10 disappeared.
Detailed menu for every day
In mono-diets, one product dominates, but there are others. The main advantage of rice is that this grain crop is an excellent enterosorbent. It absorbs the contents of the stomach and intestines, thereby cleansing them.
On the shelves of shops we see many different varieties, differing in shape, colour and price. Which one to choose for a diet? White polished is the least useful for this purpose, because it is freed from the bran-like shell, in which the most valuable substances are concentrated, it contains a lot of starch.
It is best to use unrefined grains. You can supplement the "rice" day with vegetables or fish, separating them by time: rice for breakfast, fish for dinner or vice versa.
Sometimes you can arrange strict rice fasting days, consisting of a glass of cooked grain, divided into 5 meals.
The second day of the diet is more "fun" - meat. Protein will satisfy the feeling of hunger. You will need up to 300g of boiled dietary meat, distributed throughout the day. A side dish of vegetables is allowed, for example, white cabbage, boiled green peas.
Vegetable day can be started with a glass of freshly squeezed carrot and apple juice, half diluted with water. For the second breakfast, prepare a salad of sweet pepper, tomato and cucumber, lightly sprinkle with olive oil. Lunch will be vegetable soup, afternoon snack - boiled cauliflower, dinner - vegetable stew without adding vegetable fat.
And so go around in circles until you have enough willpower or there is no negative response from your health.
Throughout the diet, it is necessary to drink enough water, 2-2.5 liters, including rosehip infusion and herbal teas.
Recipes
Taking into account the proposed diet, you can prepare dishes using the following recipes:
- On the eve of the "rice" day, a glass of grains is soaked overnight in water. In the morning, it is drained and the rice is poured with 1.5 glasses of boiling water, cooked on the fire for a quarter of an hour. This amount is distributed throughout the day. Once you can put a spoonful of honey in a portion;
- you can add variety to vegetable dishes with beetroot caviar: lightly sauté the onion in a small amount of sunflower oil, add the beetroot grated on a coarse grater, simmer under a lid over low heat, add tomato juice or a tomato minced through a meat grinder 10 minutes before it is ready;
- the champignons are boiled, stuffed with a mixture of low-fat cottage cheese, chopped herbs and grated hard cheese, and baked in the oven;
- boiled green beans, cut into 2-3 pieces, sprinkled with hard cheese, put in the microwave until it softens;
- Boil the cauliflower florets, cut into cubes, add a chopped boiled egg, finely chopped onion, season with low-fat sour cream with a spoonful of mustard;
- To avoid getting tired of boiled or baked meat, we recommend replacing it with chopped cutlets sometimes. To do this, cut the chicken fillet into cubes, add onion, a little salt, a raw egg, a spoonful of sour cream, and mix. Cutlets are formed from the resulting mass, laid out on baking paper and baked;
- fish is good to cook with vegetables: fillet cut into pieces is placed in a saucepan with rings of onion, eggplant, tomatoes, beets. A small amount of water is poured in and simmered until done;
- You can treat yourself to this kind of dessert: boil a concentrated compote of various dried fruits, strain, combine with ogar-ogar dissolved in water, pour into molds and let it harden in the refrigerator.
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Contraindications
Any diet is stress for the body, especially such a strict one. Therefore, it is contraindicated for anyone who is not young, has various chronic diseases, diabetes, neoplasms, is pregnant, breastfeeding a child whose body is still growing.
Ignoring these contraindications poses serious risks associated with
With the condition of the kidneys, liver, cardiovascular system. Possible deterioration of the digestive tract, complications of hidden and hitherto undetected pathologies.
Reviews
Not everyone can withstand such diets. According to reviews, they feel hungry all the time, and they don't have enough strength for physical exercise. Too much weight loss often leads to a deterioration in health. After leaving it, it is difficult to maintain the achieved weight.
Results
The diet gives noticeable results, but it is not 40 kg in a month, it is realistic to count on 10. After some respite on healthy eating with the "right" products, you can return to it again.
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