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Menu for a low-calorie diet
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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What are low-calorie diets?
If a person is relatively normal with weight and does not suffer from chronic diseases, he needs a low-calorie diet with the usual amount of calories for weight reduction. Restrictions on food are minimal. The purpose of such a diet is to disaccustom a person from overeating. And the weight will slowly go away.
At the next stage of low-calorie diet, when a person has already formed certain taste preferences (this can happen on the 2nd-3rd week of the diet), calories are limited to a little more.
Here is the goal - a significant weight loss. And the volumes of food can remain the same, there can be restrictions only in what products can be eaten. Usually we lose weight when we limit fat and carbohydrate foods in the diet.
Allowed products for a low-calorie diet
Flour
Flour adds weight to us. This is clear even to the baby. Therefore, with a low-carb diet, you do not need to eat white bread and any kind of buns like buns, cakes and cakes.
But not all bread is banned. Rye and wheat bakery products, please, with this food system it is quite possible to eat. Not cars, of course. Up to 150 grams of bread per day will be enough to not feel hungry.
Soups
They are allowed. But with small restrictions. Potatoes in soups put the minimum - you do not have to do soup porridge instead. In soups you can put different cereals, and also cook them on fish or meat. With a low-calorie diet, soups with meatballs are also allowed. Eat no more than 300 grams of soup in one go, and your figure will build up.
What can not be put in soups: milk, pasta, noodles, beans. They increase the calorie content of the dish.
Meat
Low-fat varieties of meat during a low-calorie diet - please! Of course, fat pork should be limited, like fried meat. Cook it for a couple, in the oven, cook - the body better digests such meat dishes than fried. At one time, you can eat up to 150 grams of meat.
What kind of meat during a low-calorie diet can not be? Avoid using goose, duck, refuse any kind of sausage. Canned food for losing weight, you also now do not need.
A fish
It can be eaten in any form - even fried. Only limit the portion of fish to 200 grams per day.
What kind of fish dishes during a low-calorie diet you can not? Forget about herring and tulle (any salted fish), do not buy canned fish, fat fish, stop eating any kind of caviar.
It is very caloric and in our diet for weight loss does not fit.
Vegetables
Eat vegetables as much as you want, but it is advisable not to cook them and not to bake them, but eat raw. So you get the necessary amount of vitamins and trace elements in the most natural form.
Vegetables can be consumed up to 200 grams at a time.
Drink, children, milk
Dairy products in a low-calorie diet are allowed. Just do not need to buy fatty. Cottage cheese is allowed up to 9% fat, and milk can be eaten up to 200 g per day. With a low-calorie diet, you can also eat lean hard cheese.
What should I refuse? Fatty sorts of cottage cheese (above 9% of fat content), yogurt with added sugar and starch, fatty cheeses, fermented baked milk, fatty sour cream - not for you. This will slow the process of losing weight.
Eggs of birds
Make them into health omelets (better protein), hard boil, just do not fry in the form of eggs. And limit the consumption of eggs to 2 per day.
Groats
You can eat it in soups with vegetables, you can cook porridge on the water from it. Only, if you ate porridge, take the bread out of the menu.
Which cereals are prohibited? Rice, semolina, oatmeal. They are too high in calories for our diet.
Snacks and salads
Any amount! Within reasonable limits, of course. The optimum portion of snacks - up to 200 grams per day. It can be vegetable salads, salads with boiled fish or boiled meat of low-fat varieties.
Of the snacks can not only fat and spicy - the latter is particularly active in arousing appetite.
Fats in the diet
In a low-calorie diet, under no pretext can not butter, as well as vegetable. But they can be added to the dishes - no more than 1 tablespoon per day. But from culinary and animal fat should generally be abandoned for the time of a low-calorie diet.
Dessert
Fruits are allowed in a low-calorie diet, especially sweet and sour, unsweetened mousses, jellies. Instead of sugar, it is desirable to put xylitol and fructose there.
What can not be lost for weight loss? Jam or jam with sugar, dates, bananas, grapes (very high in calories). Ice cream and honey, too, avoid.
Sauces, mayonnaise, ketchup
It is advisable to cook them yourself, rather than use the store with a lot of preservatives and sugars - very quickly return the lost were kilograms.
Vinegar is not forbidden, but it is better to avoid sharp sauces and mayonnaise with high fat content.
Drinks in the diet
Black coffee is permitted (cereal, not powdered), and also tea without sugar. You can drink freshly squeezed fresh, except grape juice - it has a high percentage of glucose, which makes it very caloric.
Cocoa too can not be drunk - it is cooked on milk, and this will add a lot of calories to your diet. What kind of weight loss can we talk about?
Lose weight with us easily and with pleasure! Let low-calorie diet bring you pleasure from your slender figure and younger skin.