Effective weekly diets for weight loss and for illnesses

Without nutrition, the basic vital functions of a person are unthinkable. Food is a source of energy, without which internal processes, motor and mental activity cannot occur. With it, the body receives substances involved in the synthesis of enzymes, hormones - essential regulators and biochemical catalysts. Nutrition should be rational, and its caloric content should correspond to energy costs for metabolism, physical work, deposition of substances in tissues. Violation of these rules is fraught with pathological changes in the body, excess weight. Dietary nutrition plays a huge role in the treatment and prevention of diseases, weight loss. Weekly diets are good because they are designed for a not too long time, but enough to strengthen health and not lose extra pounds too abruptly.

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Indications

There is a single numbered system of diets that provides recommendations regarding nutrition for a particular disease. The characteristics of any of them contain indications for use, purpose, energy value, composition, cooking method, meal regimen, acceptable and unacceptable products. For people with acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases, diet No. 5 has been developed.

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General information of a week-long diet

Since each diet pursues its own goals, their essence is different. The essence of diet No. 5A is energy completeness, sufficient amount of proteins, carbohydrates and reduced content of fats, coarse fiber, cholesterol, nitrogen-containing products. More protein, but less refractory fats, carbohydrates, extractive substances coming from animal and plant tissues, in diet No. 5P. Both provide for chopped food that is baked, boiled or steamed, fried, very hot or cold are not allowed.

In accordance with its goals, diet No. 9 significantly limits carbohydrates, especially sugar, cholesterol, and fats.

Weekly diet for pancreatitis

Pancreatitis is a pathology of the pancreas. The role of this organ is to digest proteins, fats, carbohydrates with the help of enzymes produced by it. They transform food into simple compounds: amino acids, vitamins, glucose, then enter the bloodstream and ensure human life. Treatment of an inflamed pancreas requires, first of all, a diet. In acute pancreatitis, fasting for up to 4 days is indicated, allowing only abundant drinking of plain or mineral alkaline water without gas, rosehip decoction. Then, diet No. 5p (stricter with mashed food) is used in the diet and a gradual transition to No. 5. This may be the menu of a weekly diet: Recipes for dishes and a detailed menu for this diet can be found here.

Days after fasting	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Afternoon snack	Dinner
1st	Strained oatmeal (250g), steamed protein omelette (100g), tea	Low-fat cottage cheese (110g), rosehip decoction	Slimy rice soup (0.5 serving), steamed meatballs	Baked apples	Steamed fish soufflé, boiled vegetable puree, tea
2nd	Liquid semolina porridge on water, steamed meat dumplings	Baked pudding with cottage cheese and pasta	Vegetable soup, boiled lean fish	Non-acidic fruit puree, biscuit biscuits	Steamed cutlet, mashed potatoes, rosehip infusion
3rd	Rice porridge with a little milk, fish soufflé	Steamed omelette	Diet borscht, boiled chicken meat	Fruit jelly, yesterday's bun	Grated beetroot, steamed veal cutlet
4th	Buckwheat porridge with butter, quenelles	Kefir, cookies	Vermicelli soup, fish with garnish	Baked pumpkin	Zucchini puree, rabbit cutlets
5th	Boiled vegetables, pasta, steamed cutlets	Cottage cheese with a little sour cream	Vegetarian pearl barley soup, meatballs, boiled rice	Baked apple	Carrot puree, lean boiled fish
6th	Boiled cauliflower with added butter, boiled chicken	Boiled egg, cookies with kefir	Chicken meatball soup, boiled fish, mashed potatoes	Non-sour jelly, cookies	Turkey beef stroganoff, boiled rice, tea
7th	Vinaigrette, potato casserole with minced meat	Sandwich with mild hard cheese, tea	Semolina dumpling soup, fish balls	Carrot cutlets topped with sour cream	Zucchini stuffed with rice and vegetables

Weekly diet for pancreatitis and cholecystitis

Cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder wall caused by bile stasis or infection. Its chronic form often develops against the background of pancreatitis. For cholecystitis, diet No. 5a is used, stimulating increased bile secretion, which contradicts the goal of diet No. 5p - to reduce the excitability of the gallbladder. Therefore, the presence of two diagnoses requires a balanced diet so as not to harm either organ. The following rules remain common in the weekly diet for pancreatitis and cholecystitis:

• frequent fractional meals;
• steaming meat and fish dishes;
• elimination of spicy, smoked, sour, fried foods, and coarse fiber from the diet;
• predominance of porridges, vegetable soups, baked vegetables, fermented milk products, low-fat cottage cheese.

The above table with various variations is suitable as a weekly menu. Read more about dietary tables used for pancreas and gallbladder diseases here.

Weekly diet for gastritis

Translated from Latin, gastritis means "stomach disorders". Such pathologies can be accompanied by both low and high concentrations of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, which means different nutrition. Diet No. 5, used for gastritis with high pH, does not allow the consumption of fatty meat, rye bread, canned food, sour unripe fruits, cabbage, legumes, and fermented milk products. One day of nutrition may look like this:

• breakfast - grated beet salad dressed with vegetable oil, steamed cutlet with buckwheat porridge, Maria cookies, butter, tea;
• second breakfast - cottage cheese casserole, carrot juice;
• lunch - oatmeal soup, yesterday's white bread, boiled chicken with rice, dried fruit compote;
• afternoon snack - warm milk with cookies;
• dinner - boiled fish, mashed potatoes, tea with a rusk.

By being creative, you can diversify your weekly diet by changing side dishes, types of meat, cereals, and adding acceptable fresh fruits.

A diet with low acidity does not include whole milk, canned food, mushrooms, legumes, vegetables such as radishes, onions, garlic, cabbage, lettuce, smoked meats, yeast-raised bakery products in the menu. More about the diet for gastritis.

Weekly diet for diabetics

The sugar level and well-being of diabetics largely depend on nutrition. Diet No. 9 has been developed for patients with mild to moderate severity. Its main rule is to limit carbohydrates, fats, foods containing cholesterol, and eat frequent and small meals. Carbonated drinks, fried and smoked foods are completely prohibited, sugar is replaced with sorbitol and xylitol. The most acceptable cooking method is boiling and baking in the oven. Meat and fish broths should be drained twice before making soups. Rice, pasta, canned goods, grapes, salted cheeses, bananas, and figs are excluded. A diabetic's diet day may look like this:

• breakfast - Bulgarian omelette with vegetables, coffee with milk, diabetic cookies;
• second breakfast - cottage cheese casserole;
• lunch - cream of zucchini and cauliflower puree, lean boiled fish, stewed vegetables, dried fruit compote, apple soufflé;
• afternoon snack - yogurt;
• dinner - cabbage rolls with veal and buckwheat, tea, rusk;
• Before bed - low-fat kefir.

Weekly diet for weight loss of 5 kg, 10 kg

There are simple weekly or express diets aimed at quickly getting yourself in shape for an event, fitting into your favorite outfit, and reducing your belly. They are based on limited low-calorie portions and more frequent meals. For example, the morning can start with a glass of low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese, a few hours later - a banana, up to 200 g of boiled dietary meat or fish, steamed vegetables or soup from them for lunch, and finish the day with a boiled egg and vegetable salad.

The most popular diets in the world are diets for weight loss. A weekly diet is ideal for people who are not used to denying themselves gastronomic delicacies and stoically enduring a long period of hungry existence. The effectiveness of such a diet is entirely dependent on the diet, and it is based on three "pillars": limiting calories, using a single product, and making adjustments to metabolism (using proteins). Having endured a week's restriction and lost a few kilograms, it is important not to give in to the body's demand to return what was lost and not to pounce on food with double the appetite.

Nutritionists have developed special weekly diets that, depending on their radicality, allow you to lose from a few kilograms to a dozen in 7 days. Let's look at some effective weekly diets for losing 5 and 10 kg.

A quick weekly diet involves losing up to 8 kg in a week (about 2 kg per day), the price for success is strict dietary restrictions, which is why it is called "extreme". You can achieve such results in different ways: use milk-tea fasting days (drink only milk with tea for a day or two), give up salt for a week, sit for 2 days on apples, boiled chicken (100 g), a few crackers. A popular weekly diet can be called the following: each day is dedicated to one product - kefir (liter), fruit (6 medium oranges), cottage cheese (250 g), vegetable (up to 1 kg of squash caviar), chocolate (100 g), apple (1.5 kg), cheese (300 g). At the same time, every day you need to drink 1 tablespoon of vegetable (preferably olive) oil and herbal tea.

Egg Week Diet

The trick of eggs is that their yolk contains biotin or vitamin B7, which is part of the enzymes that regulate protein and fat balance. With a large accumulation of biotin in the body, the mechanism of spending subcutaneous fat reserves is launched. The advantage of this diet is that a person does not feel hunger, due to the high energy value and duration of digestion. Citrus fruits can enhance the effect of its action on fats: grapefruit, lemon, orange. Their combined use makes the diet less monotonous and enhances energy metabolism. The menu uses boiled eggs and boiled meat and fish.

Day of the week	Breakfast	Dinner	Dinner
Monday	2 eggs, grapefruit, green tea	Egg, 150g chicken, orange	200g chicken, a glass of kefir
Tuesday	2 eggs, a glass of citrus juice	2 eggs, 2 oranges, 150g chicken, 1 cup water	2 eggs, grapefruit, 1 glass of mineral water
Wednesday	2 eggs, 1 cup water with lemon	200g beef, 1 cup orange juice	3 eggs
Thursday	3-egg omelette with herbs	Stewed chicken legs (2000g), salad leaves	Egg, 2 grapefruits, plain water
Friday	Salad of 2 eggs, boiled carrots, greens, dressed with a spoon of sour cream	2 fresh carrots, 1 cup juice	200g sea fish, sprinkled with lemon juice, egg, 1 cup mineral water
Saturday	100g low-fat cottage cheese, 1 cup mineral water	2 eggs, 2 grapefruits	Mineral water
Sunday	2 eggs, half a grapefruit	150 g veal, orange	Mineral water

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Maggie's Weekly Diet

Named after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for whom it was developed before taking office. The menu was found after her death during an archive search, and immediately became very popular after its publication. It is unknown whether the "Iron Lady" resorted to it, but the name "Maggie Diet" stuck to it.

The diet contained notes that you can't stay on it for more than 2 weeks, drink alcohol, except for days when the menu includes meat. In fact, it was the first protein low-calorie diet, which spread around the world in different variations. The one above is also based on it. Its essence is in the daily consumption of 2 to 4 eggs, citrus fruits, fresh vegetables, salads from them, lean meat and fish. Moreover, the doses were not specified. More details about the cottage cheese version of the Maggie diet.

Weekly kefir diet

The name "kefir" gives away the main ingredient of the menu and provides for daily consumption of 1.5 liters of kefir. Such a diet would be difficult to maintain if 400 g of one or more low-calorie products were not added to it every day for a week: low-fat cottage cheese, boiled chicken, baked potatoes, cucumbers, fruits. Since kefir comes in different fat contents, 1% with a calorie content of 40 kcal, a short shelf life, is used for the diet.

The kefir diet requires adherence to a strict meal schedule and limiting liquid to 0.5 liters per day. Based on kefir, a so-called "hunger" diet has been developed with an increase of up to 2 liters of the drink per day and a decrease of up to 100 g of additional product, as well as an apple-kefir diet, which is unacceptable for people with increased stomach acidity.

Weekly drinking diet

The weekly drinking diet is considered the fastest-acting of all existing ones. It is based on liquid: all dishes in the diet of a person losing weight should have a liquid, mushy consistency. The list includes porridges from various cereals, vegetable broths, milk soups, vegetables and fruits, and fermented milk products. Water satisfies hunger, maintains water balance, and does not add calories. Such a diet allows you to lose up to 10 kg of weight in a week. In other words, it can be defined as cleansing the body. People with kidney and liver failure and hypertensive patients should not resort to it. Read more about how to properly conduct therapeutic water fasting in this article.

Malysheva's Weekly Diet

Malysheva's weekly diet contains not only a detailed menu, but also recipes for each day of the week, as well as certain rules, thanks to which the result is achieved. According to them, you can't starve, because this leads to the accumulation of fat for future use, eat every 3 hours, keep a daily calorie diary (with a sedentary lifestyle, there should be no more than 1200), chew food thoroughly (at least 18 times), between meals (half an hour before eating or after 1.5) drink a lot of water (8-10 glasses a day). You should remove salt, sugar, spices from the menu, make one day a week a fasting day and eat only rice, kefir or apples.

Malysheva's diet does not allow the use of high-fat milk, lard, butter, smoked meats, and semi-finished products. Preference is given to fresh and cooked vegetables, occasionally allowed in small amounts olive oil, whole grain porridge, boiled lean meats, a few small spoons of honey per day, coarse flour for baking.

Buckwheat weekly diet

Buckwheat has been honored to be the table favorite for a whole week for a reason. In fact, it is a very healthy cereal - low-calorie, nutritious, with a high content of iron, B vitamins, various microelements, amino acids. It contains complex carbohydrates that are slowly digested, which is why it gives a feeling of satiety for a long time. It strengthens blood vessels, promotes digestion, and reduces bad cholesterol. The only obstacle to such a diet may be a dislike for buckwheat porridge. There are no restrictions on its quantity, but on average, according to observations, a glass of cereal is consumed per day.

Buckwheat is not cooked in the usual way, but poured with boiling water and closed with a tight lid, you can use a thermos. No salt, sugar, oil are added to it, only water and cereal. It is allowed to dilute it in its finished form with kefir (up to a liter of drink per day). A day of such a diet may look like this: porridge for breakfast, a little low-fat cottage cheese, half a glass of yogurt. Lunch can consist of a salad with fresh vegetables, a small piece of boiled beef. Between lunch and dinner, you can eat an apple. Porridge and vegetables for dinner. Tea and still mineral water are not limited. You cannot eat after 7 pm. Read more about the advantages and disadvantages of this diet in this article.

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Dukan Diet Weekly

The Dukan diet is more of a nutrition system than a diet. It consists of several phases: attack, alternation, consolidation and stabilization. The attack should last no more than 7 days and consists of strict requirements for the menu, strict adherence to all the rules. But it ends with a reward - weight loss. The list of products in the first phase is quite varied: chicken, skinless turkey, veal, beef, eggs, seafood, salt, seasonings. A mandatory condition is to eat 1.5 tablespoons of oat bran daily and drink 1.5 liters of plain water. Food can be consumed in any combination. Sugar, pork, duck, goose, rabbit are excluded.

The duration of the second phase depends on how much weight was lost in the first stage: 3 kg requires 30 days, 4.5 kg - 45 days, etc. It consists of alternating protein days and protein-vegetable days. If the excess weight is more than 10 kg, the alternation stage should be 5 days. The same products are used as in the first, only 2 spoons of bran, 1.5 liters of water and new ones are added to the diet daily: cream, milk, cheese up to 6% fat, cocoa (1 teaspoon), starch (1 tablespoon), vegetable oil (3 drops), bread (2 slices), wine (50 g). Rice, legumes, potatoes, pasta, avocado are prohibited.

The third phase consolidates the achieved results. It lasts for 10 days for each lost kilogram. The menu is normal, but one day a week should be protein. In addition, you need to eat 2.5 spoons of bran daily, the same amount of water, and starchy foods twice a week.

The fourth stage is stabilization and for the rest of your life: 3 tablespoons of oat bran, 1.5 liters of water daily, one day of the week protein. Requirements not related to food are walks in the fresh air, morning exercises.

The Dukan diet is accessible, doable, easy to follow, and produces long-lasting results.

Japanese Weekly Diet

In Japan, except for sumo wrestlers, overweight people are extremely rare. Therefore, the diet called "Japanese" was most likely developed for Europeans. In fact, it is effective, not too exhausting, allows you to quickly lose weight and maintain it in the subsequent period - all this makes it very popular and in demand.

A distinctive feature that makes it related to the ocean state is the daily presence of sea fish in the menu. Its essence is in protein, low-carbohydrate, low-calorie food. The Japanese diet menu is monotonous, but the portions are not small, which makes it possible to simultaneously do physical exercise without a threat to health.

The list of basic products consists of dietary meat (chicken, veal, beef) boiled, fish, eggs, zucchini, eggplant, carrots, fruits (bananas and grapes are excluded), kefir, olive oil, lemon. Moreover, fish fillet, vegetables can be fried in oil. The morning of the diet begins with coffee, green tea without sugar, once a week for breakfast carrots, poured with lemon juice. Lunch consists of meat or fish with vegetables. Dinner the first three days of the week is quite abundant, containing fish, meat, eggs and meat respectively. The next 2 days only fruits, the 6th and 7th - with protein foods. During the day it is prescribed to drink plenty of water.

Weekly fasting diet

A weekly fasting diet is good for both those who have already lost weight and for slim people who want to feel lightness in the body and improve their health. One option is a mono-diet. Salt, sugar, alcohol are not allowed, the order of products should be maintained:

• first day - liquid dishes (chicken broth, low-fat dairy and fermented milk products);
• the second is raw vegetables, you can season them with oil;
• the third is water (intersects with the first);
• fourth - fruit (oranges, apples, grapefruits, kiwi, pears);
• fifth - protein (eggs, meat, fish, cottage cheese);
• sixth - water;
• the seventh - adapting to the exit from the diet (combines products from previous days).

Queen's Weekly Diet

The author of this diet is a famous nutritionist, with whose help many show business stars lost weight, including Natasha Koroleva. It consists of 3 stages of mono-diets, is designed for more than a week (9 days), and allows you to lose up to 10 kg. Read more about this diet in this article.

To unload the digestive system and cleanse the digestive tract, boiled rice without salt and 2.5 liters of water daily are consumed for 3 days. To prepare the cereal, 250 g is soaked in water in the evening, washed in the morning and boiled without salt in a ratio of 1:2 for 15 minutes. The resulting volume is divided into 5-6 portions and eaten during the day.

The next 3 days are dedicated to boiled chicken (1 kg), drinking water, and green tea is possible.

The last three days are vegetable. Every day you eat 300g of fresh and 500g of boiled vegetables (except potatoes).

After coming off the diet, you don’t need to pounce on food, eat in small portions, drink a lot, reduce sugar consumption to a minimum, and exercise a lot.

Weekly porridge diet

The weekly porridge diet is based on the use of six types of cereals: millet, wheat, barley, oatmeal, buckwheat, rice and pearl barley (1 day - one porridge) without the use of salt and sugar, and on the seventh day a mixture of cereals is prepared (2 tablespoons of each).

Cook in water in a ratio of 1 to 3 for exactly 5 minutes, then remove from heat, wrap in a towel and leave for 10 hours. In the morning, drink a glass of hot boiled water on an empty stomach, and after half an hour you can eat porridge. The diet also includes fruits, vegetables, low-fat kefir, and tea. Any feeling of hunger between main meals can be eaten with porridge.

Benefits

The benefits of diet are hard to overestimate in the treatment of gastrointestinal pathologies and diabetes. Diet therapy in these cases is an equal partner along with drug treatment. Thus, diet No. 5A is aimed at restoring the functioning of the liver and bile ducts, No. 5P - normalizing the pancreas, sparing the stomach, diet No. 9 - maintaining normal blood sugar levels, minimizing the risk of strokes and heart attacks, getting rid of excess weight. But an incorrectly selected diet without taking into account the characteristics of human genetics, metabolic processes of the body can cause great harm. Therefore, before using it, you need to undergo an examination, consult a doctor about which diet is suitable, and only then learn about its features from the Internet.

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Contraindications

Contraindications of individual diets have already been mentioned. Of course, diets are contraindicated for young people under 18, especially girls, as they can lead to menstrual cycle disorders, pregnant women, people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, cardiovascular system.

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Possible risks

The risks associated with dieting lie in the area of nutritional imbalance. The body needs vitamins, microelements and other useful substances to function properly. Dieting for the body is always certain restrictions, often it does not correspond to physiological needs. Under-receipt of one or another component can become a trigger for the development of pathological processes.

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Complications

Long-term and radical diets, carried out without the supervision of specialists, can cause cardiac dysfunction, renal and biliary colic in the presence of stones in these organs, exacerbation of gastritis, the formation of ulcers and erosions of the digestive tract. The period of their exit from diets is fraught with food overload syndrome, which is characterized by a feeling of heaviness in the stomach, nausea, sometimes vomiting, and stool disorders. Resumption of the use of salt and salty foods during the recovery period often leads to the appearance of edema.

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Duration of diets

The listed weekly diets can be used for a longer period of time if the body tolerates them well, if they bring results, there is willpower and a desire to continue losing weight:

• 2 weeks - this is how long protein, buckwheat, Japanese, Malysheva, egg and a number of other popular diets can last without harm to health, and lead to a loss of more than 10 kg of weight;
• 4-week - its effectiveness is 12-20 kg. When resorting to it, you need to increase the volume of liquid you drink to 2-3 liters per day. Do not use broths, boil vegetables in water or stew, do not season with oil. This can be protein, egg, Maggie diet;
• 5 weeks - this is how long the Protasov diet lasts and promises minus 15 kg. It is based on a large number of vegetables, so it is cheaper to resort to it in the summer. The first 2 weeks you can eat unlimited amounts of them raw or cooked without salt and oil, 3 green apples in the main meal, one boiled egg, fermented milk products, plenty of drinking up to 2 liters of water are required. In the next 3 weeks, 300 g of dietary meat is included in the diet, and fermented milk products are reduced by a third. The next 2 weeks you need to gradually exit the restrictions, slowly introducing regular foods into the menu;
• 7-week - a rather strict German diet is designed for such a long period. It guarantees weight loss and weight stability after its termination, but may be unacceptable for many. Every Monday no food, only water (up to 5 liters), then in the first week normal food, in the second on Tuesday 2 kg of grapefruit or orange, with each subsequent one another fruit day is added, at the end another day of yogurt or kefir, Sunday of the last week ends with only water;
• 10-week diet — does not require too strict restrictions, but gives the opportunity to lose weight slowly but surely. The main rule — calories should be no more than 1.5 thousand per day, 6 meals, 20 minutes before meals a glass of cold water. What can not be eaten? Sugar, flour products, alcohol, mayonnaise are completely excluded from the diet, salt is limited. What can be eaten? Meat and fish should be boiled, dairy products low-fat, fruit snacks, hunger should be washed down with kefir.

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Reviews

According to unanimous reviews, diets used for diseases of the internal organs of the digestive system, diabetes, lead to relief and are very useful. The opinions of those who have lost weight are not so unambiguous, but this is predictable. Many positive reviews about the diet of Elena Malysheva, Maggie - not very exhausting and gives a good result. They also lose weight on buckwheat, it does not hit the pocket, but not everyone can withstand the monotony of food. The Dukan diet caused a surge in the unification of people in groups "by interest" for moral support during the period of losing weight, which indicates its popularity and demand. The kefir diet has also received wide recognition from those who have a good attitude to kefir. The protein diet is popular even among athletes, with the help of which they "dry out", at the same time it is also tasty, although it makes you spend money.