Japanese diet: how to lose weight on it
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The Japanese diet is so effective that with its help you can lose weight by 8-10 kg in just 13 days. We will tell you how to do it.
Where did the Japanese diet come from?
They say that it was invented by Japanese geishas to look even slimmer, prettier and more refined. According to another version, the Japanese diet was invented in one of the reputable Japanese hospitals to help patients get rid of obesity-related diseases.
General information Japanese diet: how to lose weight on it
The essence of the Japanese diet
During the whole period of the diet - 13 days - a person limits his diet to vegetables, rice and some other useful products, and from drinks you can drink coffee and green tea without sugar.
There is a nuance: to this diet (as, indeed, to most other diets) a person prepares himself gradually so as not to subject the body to stresses, sharply limiting his diet.
How to prepare for a Japanese diet?
Before you join the diet in Japanese, do not eat anything in the evening 3 hours before bedtime. And prepare a light dinner: a salad from raw vegetables, you can still eat an egg or a porridge on the water.
It is desirable that this dish was not salted, because during the Japanese diet of salt will have to give up.
If you like sushi, buy yourself sticks for Japanese dishes. They will give you the opportunity to take less food, and the process of absorbing it will be more interesting.
What can and what can not?
What can not be eaten with a Japanese diet?
- Salt.
- Sakha.
- Flour products (especially pies and rolls).
- Alcoholic drinks (generally it is impossible).
- It is necessary to eat with the Japanese diet.
- Purified water.
- It helps to avoid dehydration during this system of weight loss and remove toxins from the body, and actively.
- Mineral water without gas.
- It will help saturate the body with some minerals and normalize the work of the gastrointestinal tract.
- In total it is desirable to drink liquids not less than 1.5 liters per day.
Since in foods during the Japanese diet you will have a tight restriction for almost 2 weeks, you need not leave the body without vitamins. Therefore, consult your doctor-gastroenterologist and buy a complex of vitamins.
So you can not only lose weight, but also saturate the body with the necessary trace elements, useful for development.
It is very important during the Japanese diet not to change anything from the proposed products throughout the period of weight loss.
Possible risks
Pros and cons of the Japanese diet
Advantages
Fast weight loss.
The relatively short duration of the diet is 13 days.
A stable result after losing weight (long will not build up a new weight).
Disadvantages
Two weeks without sweets to withstand quite hard.
A very limited diet, which must be supplemented with vitamins and trace elements purchased at the pharmacy.
Lose weight with pleasure, quickly and easily. And about the exact diet during the Japanese diet for all 13 days, we'll tell you in our next publication.
Reviews about the Japanese diet
This nutrition system is recognized by dieticians and themselves losing weight as very effective, although not very comfortable.
Products that are used during the Japanese diet, are inexpensive and available to all. The dishes are easy to prepare and effective for weight loss.