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What do you need to know about the protein diet?
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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The protein diet is effective for those people who will follow all its rules and principles. That is why such a diet has a remarkable effect in the fight against excess weight.
Let's figure out what a protein diet is and how to stick to it
Take your meal schedule and sequence seriously. Determine for yourself exactly what products you will eat and how to prepare the dishes. Your body needs to change its metabolic rate in order to lose weight and cleanse itself.
This method leads to rapid weight loss. Then there will be an effective result, (we emphasize) exactly the result.
If the volume of food you eat is too large, you need to reduce the portion or divide your food amount into several meals. Try to eat the required amount of food in several times.
Many days of the diet may seem incredibly difficult.
This is normal. What did you expect? Many people who have tried the protein diet believe that the most unbearable days are from the third to the fifth day, the fourteenth day of the diet, the thirteenth and twelfth days. Advice: if you drink warm water, the feeling of hunger will go away for a while.
Take a break from your diet and do household chores or work. Take care of your flowers, read, listen to music or watch a movie. In general, do everything to avoid thinking about what you want to eat. And may the strongest be rewarded.
If you are an active and mobile person, a protein diet will suit you. A protein diet promotes blood clotting. The blood of people who are not very active is already too clotted. Even if you led a sedentary or inactive lifestyle before the diet, change everything for the better, start moving. You are responsible for your own health.
Drink 1.5 liters of water a day, but not less. If you find it difficult in life, heat the water, boil it first. Mineral water is allowed.
Benefits of a protein diet
The body begins to rapidly lose weight, and this is the most important positive effect. The feeling of hunger will not bother you in nightmares. Food containing a large amount of proteins is very satisfying, nutritious and charges the body with energy.
The choice of products is quite large and varied. Desserts and side dishes are taboo. And you can live without them. Other diets may offer you to eat, for example, 200 grams of steamed rice for two weeks. It's up to you whether this is a plus or a minus.
The protein diet is especially pleasing because after following it the body does not gain weight at supersonic speed; the loss of kilograms lasts for quite a long time.
This does not mean that as soon as the protein diet comes to an end, you need to fly to the nearest supermarket and buy up all the cakes there. Lose weight wisely and be happy.
Disadvantages of a protein diet
The big downside is that as soon as you start following the requirements of a protein diet, you immediately feel the effects of an unbalanced diet.
Immediately after you go on a diet, the necessary fats, acids and vitamins stop coming in due to the fact that you stop consuming carbohydrates and fats, and only proteins fuel your body.
It is unlikely that anyone will be pleased by the lack of essential fats, vitamins and fatty acids; a person experiences discomfort from a lack of microelements.
Dark things happen due to unbalanced nutrition – nails break, skin becomes dry, face becomes pale, hair loses its color, you feel unpleasantly tired and sleep poorly. These are some of the most important disadvantages of the protein diet.
The body's condition is always affected by a lack of vitamins. And we do not recommend taking vitamins in tablets. Vitamins A, D, E, K are poorly absorbed if taken with fats.
By going on a protein diet, you cause irreparable harm to your health. The kidneys will work worse due to the enormous load during overeating. If you eat a lot, the kidneys work at full capacity, which means that a lot of water is lost from the body, and this is harmful to health.
To avoid the problem described above, drink a lot of water (mineral), then the kidneys will still work actively, but there will not be as much harm from a large amount of protein. And also with a protein diet, the body experiences a lack of calcium.
Pensioners should not go on a protein diet, as it increases blood clotting and this leads to the appearance of blood clots in blood vessels. Protein diets are also prohibited for people who suffer from kidney disease, gastrointestinal diseases such as pancreatitis, dysbacteriosis, etc. Protein diets are prohibited for gout.
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The protein diet is not as scary as they say, and it is highly effective. The only thing you need to remember is to follow all the instructions regarding the method of eating and the regime. Then you will forget about excess weight forever.