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Disadvantages of the egg diet
Last reviewed: 14.08.2021
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Egg diet is not recommended for pregnant women, as when dieting the level of cholesterol in the body becomes very high. Egg diet is contraindicated for people who are friends with alcohol, have problems with kidneys and liver.
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What are the disadvantages of the egg?
The liver does not tolerate a high level of cholesterol, this fact is worth knowing and paying attention to it. Give up the diet if you belong to the people who were listed above.
To the direct disadvantages of the diet can be attributed a bad smell from the mouth, severe weakness, fatigue and even constipation.
The diet loves courageous
Despite the disadvantages of the egg diet, it does not become less effective, it is enough just to reconsider the state of your health and the desire to lose weight qualitatively. It is because of the lack of recipes that you can show your ingenuity in cooking.
Thanks to a tight schedule of food - you can understand how powerful your willpower is. You really understand if you need to lose weight at all. And it is right.
Reviews about diet
If you take into account the statistics, you can confidently draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of the egg diet. Those people who have tried the egg diet on themselves and their figure, write about it only positive reviews. On average, people manage to lose at least 10 kilograms per month. How many diets are given such a qualitative result?
Why do we lose weight during a diet?
You should know that fast and large burning of fats from your body is not due to eggs, but because the body is at a critical low stage in the intake of calories. Due to this difference - very low caloric content, they are compensated by their natural, accumulated years of reserves, that is, the body makes up for the lack of fats, burning up the accumulation of its own body.
During a diet, you get about 1000 calories, which is an extremely low amount for an adult. Because the effects of almost all diets are similar. Diets lead to rapid weight loss, a lower level of substances in the body and lost pounds quickly returns to its beloved owner.
Everything should be in balance
If in the menu of some days you see the words "without restriction", this does not mean that you need to overeat the product in which there is no clear restriction. Try to eat until the stage when you begin to feel that the feeling of hunger is going away. Overeating with any diet does not benefit, but only harms. Stop if you feel saturated.
Eggs are related to foods with a high cholesterol content, because the abuse of this product can adversely affect the overall well-being of your body and lead to a malfunction in weight loss.
How to make the egg diet more effective and less harmful?
There is a very good method. Eat eggs only for breakfast, and having dinner and dinner, you need to reduce the intake of cholesterol. Increase the caloric content by taking other components of your menu, then all the disadvantages of the egg diet will gradually run out.
Another point that helps to lose weight is sports. Sports have not hurt anyone yet. It is with the help of regular exercise that most of the body fat is burnt. Sport is the most natural way to lose weight and without resorting to dangers, depriving yourself of useful and nutritious foods, and risk your own immunity.
Conclusion of the egg diet
As mentioned earlier, a diet is good, if you do not make them a way of your life, it all depends on your efforts. Egg diet will help you maintain your weight for a long time, and lost pounds will not come back to you for a long time, but sports are a prerequisite for a lifetime to feel young and beautiful. Lose weight on health!