Ducane Diet: 4 Effective Steps to Losing Weight
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Dukan's diet is not on three, but on as many as four whales. These are the 4 phases of the diet, thanks to which we reach our ideal weight and never again recruit it. With these phases, we will now introduce you in detail.
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Ducane Diet: 1 phase Attack
The essence: to begin an active attack on your own fat cells, so that the fat tissue begins to split.
Duration: 3-10 days (and on average 1 week)
Result: minus 2-6 kilos
Features: the greater your initial weight, the more time you need to phase fatty deposits. And vice versa: less weight requires less time for weight loss.
- If your weight is 10 kg - you need 3 days for weight loss
- If your weight is 10-20 kg - it will take 5 days for weight loss
- If your weight is 20-30 kg - it will take 1 week to lose weight
- If your weight is 20-30 kg - need 5-10 days for weight loss
Permitted products in the Attack phase
Features: You can feel dryness in the mouth, increasing bad breath and the whole body. Do not worry: this is normal, the body is intensively cleaned.
You can only eat protein foods and, to reduce the intoxication of the body, be sure to drink water - not less than 1.5 kg per day. And another prerequisite for weight loss - to use 1,5 tablespoons of oat bran, filled with boiling water. Oatmeal will help you feel more full, and also to remove toxins from the body.
Products can be fried, but in a dry skillet without oil. And best of all - cook them, bake or cook on the grill. Products can be consumed as long as desired, without limiting themselves to the norms.
- Meat dishes from birds (except geese and ducks)
- Fish dishes
- Eggs (a cola of 2 eggs a day, and if you do not have yolk, you can do more)
- Seafood
- Dairy products with zero or low fat content, yoghurts (but not more than 0.5 kg per day)
- Liver of calf or chicken
- Spices and condiments, except for sugar
Prohibited products
Please note that eating these foods can have a negative effect on your weight loss process. So avoid them.
- Beef
- Rabbit meat
- Meat of pigs
- Meat of lamb
- Meat of ducks, geese
- Sugar
Is it possible to exercise during the 1st phase of weight loss?
Yes, and even necessary. For better digestion and digestion of food, you need to give physical activity 20-30 minutes a day. If you can not exercise intensively, just walk during this time. And you yourself will not notice how to start losing weight faster!
Ducane Diet: Phase 2 Cruise
Essence: to achieve the weight you need as a result of using those products that the body needs.
Duration: 3-10 months (until your weight returns to normal)
Result: minus 10-30 kilograms
Features: Pierre Ducan recommends those wishing to lose weight alternately apply the protein diet, the vegetable side dishes that you will eat with meat or fish, as well as fermented milk products with a low percentage of fat.
Permitted products
- From vegetables - green asparagus, salads, cabbage, zucchini, cucumber, onion, sorrel, spinach, turnip, eggplant, pepper
- Mushrooms
- Soy beans
- Oatmeal - 2 spoons filled with boiling water (per day)
- Meat (its permitted types)
- Must drink 1.5 liters of water per day
Two resolved products from the list
To slightly sweeten the bitterness of losing weight, the Ducane diet has a list of products from which you can choose 2 per day and make yourself happy with small excesses.
- Cocoa without fat - 1 teaspoon
- Starch - 1 tablespoon
- Cream of soy - 2 tablespoons
- Sunflower or corn oil - up to 3 drops (with frying)
- Hard cheese with fat content up to 6% - 30 g
- Wine white or red, of course, dry - 3 tablespoons
- Ketchup mild - 1 tablespoon
Prohibited products
- Potatoes (there is a lot of harmful starch in it)
- Rice groats
- Peas
- Avocado
- Beans, except soya
- Lentils
Features: in the Cruise phase of his diet for weight loss, Pierre Duccan recommends sitting at the table only if you are very hungry. If you do not feel hunger, it is better to wait until it appears. So weight loss will be faster. Schemes of alternating diets for weight loss you can change the way you like.
- If you want to lose weight to 10 kg, alternate 1 day of protein diet and 1 day of protein with vegetables. More options: 3 days of proteins - 3 days of proteins with vegetables. Or the same diet for weight loss alternate as 5 days one - 5 days another.
- If you want to lose weight by more than 10 kg with a persistent result, alternate 5 days of protein diet and 5 days - protein with vegetables.
Can I exercise during the 2nd phase of weight loss?
Yes. Give active physical action for at least 30 minutes in a row. If you can not move intensively, just stroll slowly. This will help you lose weight faster.
Ducane Diet: recipes for the Cruise phase
1 breakfast. A cup of tea without sugar or half a cup of coffee without sugar, 1 boiled egg, 2 cheese or curd with a total weight of up to 0.5 kg, a piece of low-fat meat with a palm (chicken or turkey).
2 Breakfast. Not more than 100 g curd or cheese with a fat content of 0%.
Dinner. Mushrooms, brawned without oil, up to 100 g of tuna, a cup of tea without sugar or coffee without sugar. In beverages it is permissible to put cream, but without fat.
Snack. Ovadushk on the basis of oatmeal, a skimmed piece of meat or a low-fat ham. Or any other permitted kind of meat.
Dinner. Liquid hot soup with green zucchini, beef dry roast, 2-3 protein egg.
Ducane Diet: Phase 3 Fastening
Essence: you have already made a lot of progress in the difficult matter of losing weight. Now your task in the third phase of the Ducane diet is not to take positions and strengthen them. That is - do not get well and keep the weight off in the norm.
Duration: from 1 month (until your habits for a healthy diet become automatic and you stop looking at forbidden foods). Each lost kilogram you fix exactly 10 days. Have grown thin for 10 kg - means, you continue the third phase of Dukan's diet exactly 100 days.
Result: stable weight.
Features: you will start to slowly eat those foods that you were not allowed. But in small doses, otherwise the weight will return to its place! 2 times a week, Pierre Duccan allows himself to be pampered and allow to eat absolutely everything. But not more often and only for 1 reception, but not for a day or two. And the intervals between such feasts of the stomach should be at least 24 hours.
Every Thursday, according to Dukan's diet, you are reinforcing your weight loss the whole day of proteins in the menu.
Permitted products
- Meat dishes from birds (except geese and ducks)
- Fish dishes
- Eggs (a cola of 2 eggs a day, and if you do not have yolk, you can do more)
- Seafood
- Dairy products with zero or low fat content, yoghurts (but not more than 0.5 kg per day)
- Liver of calf or chicken
- Spices and condiments, except for sugar
- Oatmeal (up to 2 spoons a day, filled with boiling water) Water (at least 1.5 liters per day)
- From vegetables - green asparagus, salads, cabbage, zucchini, cucumber, onion, sorrel, spinach, turnip, eggplant, pepper
- Mushrooms
- Soy beans
- Fruit - no more than the portion that fits in the palm of your hand (except cherry, grapes and bananas)
- Cheese hard - up to 40 grams
- Bread black - 2 slices
- Products that contain starch, but only 1 species at once: potatoes, pasta, beans, rice cereals, peas.
Prohibited products
- Cherries
- Grapes
- Banana
- Fatty grades of meat
- Fried in oil food
Ducane diet: 4 phase Stabilization
Essence: now you will not make mistakes for anything, using everything at once and immediately. Therefore, the 4th phase of the Ducane diet can be called with full confidence another phase of confidence. At this time, you finally stabilize your weight, eating as usual, without banned food. But do not get better by 1 kilogram! Ah, a dream.
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Duration: the duration of this diet for weight loss is not limited, ideally - all of life.
Result: stable weight.
Features: every Thursday you arrange a day of proteins, and only proteins (that is, protein foods). And do not forget about your favorite oatmeal - up to 3 spoons, filled with boiling water, per day.
We wish you effective weight loss on the basis of the Ducane diet and the joy of life!