Protein-Vegetable Diet for Weight Loss
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The essence of this type of vegetable diet is the alternation of vegetables and protein foods. The diet is very effective, lasts an average of 5 her. In such a short period of time, you can lose up to 5 kg of body weight. Two slices of rye bread are allowed per day. You need to drink plenty of water. Instead of water, you can eat tomato juice. Below is an example menu for such a diet. For each meal there are 2 dishes.
Menu for 5 days of protein and vegetable diet
1 day
Only vegetable dishes are consumed.
- Breakfast
Salad of fresh vegetables, seasoned with vinegar, salt or soy sauce. For example, a salad of cucumber and tomato, with the addition of dill and parsley. Or a salad of cabbage, carrots, onions with salt, grated or rifled ginger, greens.
- Dinner
Stewed or blanched vegetables. For example, carrots stewed with onion and greens. Or sweet pepper stuffed with stewed carrots, with greens.
- Dinner
A fresh vegetable salad. For example, a salad of radishes and radishes, with the addition of greenery. Or a salad of sweet pepper, fresh cabbage and cucumbers.
2 day
The diet includes protein food.
- Breakfast
Green tea without added sugar, a sandwich with baked vegetables under a cheese crust. Or a sandwich with butter, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers.
- Dinner
Chicken broth with a piece of boiled chicken. Saute from baked mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms) and stewed beans. Or soup-puree on broth with the addition of chicken, potatoes, carrots. Cabbage stewed with mushrooms.
- Dinner
2 eggs, hard boiled + 200 g boiled chicken. Or 1 processed cheese + 200 g of boiled fish.
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3 day
The diet also includes protein dishes.
- Breakfast
Omelet from sweet pepper, tomato, onion, and eggs. Chicory without sugar. Or baguette with butter, fried mushrooms, tomato and cucumber. Chicory without sugar.
- Dinner
Okroshka without the addition of mayonnaise. You can fill with fat-free sour cream + 2 slices of bread. Pancakes from courgettes. Or beetroot + 2 slices of bread. Dranniki from carrots and beets.
- Dinner
2 cutlets of steam fish + boiled egg. Or meatballs from chicken meat + boiled egg.
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4 day
Vegetable day
- Breakfast
Pancake pancakes + green tea. Or a sandwich with tomatoes and vegetables + green tea.
- Dinner
Vegetable soup + croutons. Boiled beans in tomato sauce + vegetable cabbage rolls. Or carrot soup with vegetables + dumplings. Cutlets cabbage + boiled beans.
- Dinner
Carrot salad with nettle and garlic. Or a salad of fresh cucumbers with plantain and rhubarb.
5 day
Fruit and vegetable day
- Breakfast
Charlotte from apples + compote apple-plum. Or blueberry + pudding green.
- Dinner
Soup puree from tomato and apples + toast. Casserole from potatoes and carrots + salad of fresh tomato and cucumber. Or soup puree from green peas + rusks from rye bread. Beans with stewed cabbage + 2 vegetable cutlets.
- Dinner
200 g of vinaigrette. Or a salad of cottage cheese with the addition of pieces of fruit.
Cottage cheese and vegetable diet
Means the use of vegetable dishes, fresh vegetables and cottage cheese. Vegetables should prevail in the diet. It is allowed both the use of fresh vegetables, and in the processed form. You can apply any method of cooking products, except frying. Vegetable oil is excluded. For dressing salads, you can use soy sauce, vinegar, vegetable sauces, for example, tomato, mushroom, green sauce.
Dishes of cottage cheese should be included in breakfast and dinner. Below is an indicative list of dishes that are suitable for this diet:
- Sandwich with cottage cheese mass
- Cottage cheese with the addition of slices of vegetables
- Weight of cottage cheese and radish
- Weight of cottage cheese and radish
- Weight of cottage cheese and garlic
- Sandwiches with vegetables
- Salad with cottage cheese and sorrel
- Cabbage salad
- Salad of tomato, cucumber, pepper
- Grated carrot salad
- Vegetable soup
- Cream soup with cottage cheese and ginger
- Toast with cottage cheese
- Soup with tomato and cottage cheese
- Cottage cheese casserole
- Casserole with carrots and cottage cheese
- Tomatoes stuffed with cottage cheese
- Pepper stuffed with cottage cheese
- Pumpkin baked with cottage cheese
- Pumpkin casserole with cottage cheese
- Pancakes with pumpkin and cottage cheese
- Aubergines fried with onions
- Vareniks are lazy
- Curds
- Pancakes made of cottage cheese
- Jelly carrot and curd
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Egg and vegetable diet
It is a diet that consists mainly of vegetables with the addition of eggs. Vegetables and eggs can be used in various forms. The only thing to observe is to try to use as little fried vegetables as possible, more fresh ones.
Eggs can not be eaten fresh, as the risk of infection with invasive diseases increases, as well as the risk of developing foodborne infections. You can eat any eggs: chicken, quail, duck, and even ostrich. Below are the different options for this diet:
- Boiled vegetables
- Stewed vegetables
- Boiled egg
- Egg fried
- Egg-fried eggs
- Eggs stuffed with vegetables
- Egg weight with mustard oil
- Weight of a sandwich of eggs and radish
- Tomatoes stuffed with eggs
- Sandwiches with egg mass and vegetables
- Egg-mushroom mass
- Omelette from eggs and mushrooms
- Omelette from tomato, pepper, onions and eggs
- Salad with eggs and carrots
- Salad from eggs and sea cabbage
- Salad from eggs and greens
- Vegetable soup
- Soup with egg
- Sum-carrot with vegetables and eggs
- Casseroles with eggs
- Pancakes stuffed with eggs
- Vegetable cutlets
- Pumpkin porridge with eggs
- Soft-boiled egg
- Egg "in the bag"
- Egg in a bag without a shell
- Hard boiled eggs
- Eggs fried with mushrooms
- Jelly egg
- Egg souffle.
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Fish-vegetable diet for weight loss
It implies the use of a large number of vegetables, as well as the introduction of fish and seafood into the diet. Duration 5-10 days. Saturates the body with phosphorus and protein. It can be useful to those who want to gain muscle mass, while dropping excess fat deposits, weight.
The following dishes are recommended:
- Boiled vegetables / stewed / grilled
- Stew
- Azu
- Vegetable Salads
- Sandwich with smoked fish
- Farshmak
- Sandwich with herring mass
- Sandwich with salmon oil
- Sandwiches with sprats and vegetables
- Sandwiches with fish caviar
- Sandwiches with fish milk
- Vegetables stuffed with fish oil
- A fresh vegetable salad
- Salads for fish
- Fish boiled / stewed
- Ear
- Fish broth
- Rolls of fish
- Cutlets of fish
- Fish balls
- Carp boiled with vegetables
- Carp stewed with onions
- Pike stuffed with vegetables
- Fish stewed with onions and carrots
- Carp in mustard oil
- Sardines stewed with vegetables
- Mackerel with tomato
- Sea fish baked with courgettes
- Flounder stewed with onion and sweet pepper
- Capelin in batter
- Fish stewed in tomato sauce
- Steward stew in mustard with onion
- Cod baked in marinade with herbs
- Grilled fish
- Cutlets from cod
- Fish stewed with horseradish
- Squid stewed with pickled cucumbers
- Salad of squid, tomato, cucumber and pepper
- Squid in tomato sauce with onion and garlic
- Fish casserole
- Filled fish
It is used in treatment and preventive treatment, with a lack of protein in the body, increased fatigue, and with various neuropsychic disorders, a busy work schedule, intense mental work, stress, after a nervous shock, grief. Activates the activity of the nervous system, normalizes metabolism.