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Diet for body drying: a menu for every day at home
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Diet for body drying is a kind of sports diet, implying eating foods that contain a large amount of protein and a small amount of carbohydrates. Also this type of food is often called a non-carbohydrate or ketone diet.
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General information of the diets for drying the body
The essence of the diet for body drying is the use of protein foods and food with a small amount of carbohydrates in a certain mode. It is necessary to fulfill certain conditions.
- Decrease in the number of used carbohydrates should occur gradually. With a diet for body drying for girls and women, a smoother elimination of carbohydrate food is supposed. At the same time, a diet for body drying for men implies not only a sharper rejection of carbohydrate foods, but also the use of less food containing carbohydrates.
- With a protein diet to dry the body you need to adhere to the fractional use of food. You need about 2-3 hours after the previous meal. Thus, approximately 5 or more meals are obtained.
- A carbohydrate diet for body drying involves small portions of food.
- It is necessary to engage in physical activity. As a rule, athletes perform power and cardio exercises twice a day as a set of exercises.
- Compliance with the drinking regime is mandatory. At 1 kilogram of weight, you need to consume at least 20 milliliters of clean water.
- It is undesirable to dry the body more than once a year.
It is believed that this technique is a diet for weight loss. Drying the body has few fundamental differences with losing weight. With the correct diet, the fat layer is burned, which makes the figure more slender. However, when drying, an important factor is the recruitment of muscle mass through exercise and protein intake.
A 6-week diet for body drying consists in the gradual elimination of a daily carbohydrate meal from a daily diet. As a rule, they start with 120 grams of carbohydrates and exclude 20 grams every week. After the sixth week in the reverse order, they return to the previous power mode. Each week a certain product is removed:
- Week 1. Carbohydrates should not be more than 120 grams. When choosing cereals, you should pay attention to products with a low glycemic index.
- Week 2. Carbohydrates should not be more than 100 grams. Porridge should be consumed before lunch.
- Week 3. Carbohydrates should not be more than 80 grams, not allowed to eat cheese and fruits
- Week 4. Carbohydrates should not be more than 60 grams, in addition, carrots are excluded.
- Week 5. Carbohydrates should not be more than 40 grams, of carbohydrate foods should only eat vegetables.
- Week 6. In addition, all the dairy and sour-milk foods are removed from the diet.
The approximate diet of a diet for drying the body for a week by day should be based on meals and the number of elements that need to be used in certain receptions.
- Breakfast: complex carbohydrates and protein, for example, oatmeal in water and two egg whites
- Snack: allowed fruits, vegetables, nuts
- Lunch: vegetables or cereals and protein, for example, vegetable salad or buckwheat porridge and boiled chicken breast
- Snack: sour milk drinks, proteins
- Dinner: protein, for example, cottage cheese, fish or meat.
Benefits
With proper drying of the body, the benefits of a diet for the body and for the body as a whole will be noticeable. With proper scheduling of nutrition and physical activity, the following results are observed:
- body becomes more fit and embossed
- muscle mass becomes more prominent
- the body is cleaned of toxins and toxins
- improves skin condition
- strengthens the cardiovascular system
- There is a decrease in the amount of fat in the accelerated rhythm
- for 4-5 weeks you can lose weight by 20-25 pounds.
What can and what can not?
Among the products that you can use:
- proteins: chicken fillet and other low-fat varieties of meat and poultry, white fish, egg protein, milk food (cottage cheese, milk, kefir).
- fats: olive, sunflower, linseed oil
- carbohydrates: vegetables, greens, whole grains, cereals with a low glycemic index, legumes (contain a lot of protein), fruits (mainly citrus fruits)
- liquids: not less than 1.5 liters of drinking water per day, green tea, ginger tea, natural coffee.
What you can not eat?
Occasionally allowed to eat potatoes, carrots, beets.
From the diet should be deleted completely:
- sauces, ketchup and mayonnaise
- sugar-containing foods, sugar and sugar substitutes
- non-grain flour products
- smoked food
- fried foods
- conservation
- alcohol
- carbonated drinks
- products containing high in animal fats
Possible risks
If there are no contraindications, all risks associated with the diet should be eliminated and consulted by a specialist before adjusting the diet.
Possible complications associated with drying:
- depletion of the body, associated with the consumption of small amounts of foods containing carbohydrates and frequent physical exertion
- problems with hair, nails and skin due to restriction of fat intake
- load on the kidneys and bladder, the appearance of edema and kidney pathology due to the increase in the amount of protein consumed
- dizziness, decreased mental activity due to decreased blood glucose levels
- possible hypovitaminosis, so you should take a multivitamin complex
If there are any ailments, the diet should be discontinued and consult a doctor.
Reviews about diet
The reviews confirm that an effective diet for body drying can give the body relief and reduce body fat. However, it should be remembered that such a diet is not suitable for everyone and there are some contraindications.
Those who followed the diet when dryed at home, often had dizziness, a breakdown, problems with hair and skin began. In cases where drying is carried out under the supervision of a specialist, the possibility of such consequences is practically excluded.