The curd diet is not for everyone. This is the best choice for lovers of this product. People who do not like cottage cheese will find it difficult to eat only this kind of dish for a few days.
The characteristics and principles of curd diet
The cheese diet has its own characteristics. It not only allows you to lose excess weight, but also helps strengthen the skeletal system, teeth, hair, nerves and accelerate metabolism. Eating cottage cheese for a short period of time will not bring stress to the body, because it provides all the necessary substances. Curd contains a lot of vitamins and easy-to-digest protein, and can quickly produce a feeling of fullness.
rule:
- The fat content of fermented dairy products must be very low (no more than 5%), otherwise you will not be able to lose weight. But it’s not worth it to eat completely defatted cottage cheese, it will not bear fruit;
- During the diet, you need to drink plenty of water-at least one and a half liters.
It is very convenient to arrange fast days on cheese. They can not only help you lose a little weight, but also clean your body and speed up your metabolism.
If you don’t trust store products, you can make cottage cheese yourself with country milk:
- Put fresh products in the refrigerator and separate the milk from the cream.
- Collect the cream.
- Put the milk in a warm and dark place to make it sour.
- Pour the resulting curd into a pan and heat it, but do not boil it. The product will start to curl.
- When it cools down, tighten the clumps with cheesecloth. The tofu is ready.
Serum can be used for other purposes.
Weight loss options
The curd weight loss diet can be a multi-product or a single ingredient.
Therefore, everyone can choose the option that suits them best:
- curd;
- Curd and fruit;
- Curd and milk;
- Cheese and eggs;
- Tofu and vegetables.
Only people with strong willpower can stick to a single diet. For the rest, it is better to choose more forgiving options, with less menus.
Recommended and prohibited foods
If ascetic food is not for you, you can use other dishes and cottage cheese.
Among the allowed foods, you can eat:
- Nuts (a small amount);
- Leafy vegetables;
- Green vegetables;
- Fruits (such as bananas or apples);
- Kefir or other milk.
Adding extra food to your diet will not interrupt your diet halfway through. If you already have unbearable pure cheese, it can be used to make salads, omelets, rolls, and casseroles.
You should not eat pastries, sweets, meat, fish, fast food, canned food.
Detailed menus for 3 and 7 days
Three-day quick single diet choice:
- Every day you need to eat a pound of cheese, drink about half a liter of kefir, and divide this amount by 5 times. There is another: 400 grams of cottage cheese and 1 liter of milk.
- In addition, you can drink a glass of rose hips every day. Sugar-free water and green tea-unlimited.
The 3-day menu is quite small. If it is difficult to stick to this diet, you can add 2 more fruits (an apple, a banana, a strawberry or a grapefruit) to your diet every day. Weight loss occurs gradually. During this time, you can lose 2 to 5 kg.
A pleasant reward is the reduction in stomach volume, so a person starts to be satisfied with less food.
During the 7-day diet, breakfast is the same—a portion of cottage cheese, grapefruit, and a cup of unsweetened green tea.
Meals remaining for the day:
- Monday: Lunch-100 grams of cottage cheese, bananas; Dinner-a stew of vegetables.
- Tuesday: Lunch time-half a portion of fermented dairy products, a few portions of steamed vegetable patties. You can dine with carrot salad.
- Wednesday: Second meal-100 grams of cheese and radish salad with cabbage. Evening-Quinoa with vegetables.
- Thursday: Lunch-Half a salad of cottage cheese and boiled beetroot. Dinner-vegetable puree soup.
- Friday: Second meal-100 grams of fermented dairy products and a glass of vegetable smoothie; the third is roasted broccoli.
- Saturday: lunch time-cheese and vegetable rice; evening-vegetable salad.
- Sunday: Second meal-a little cottage cheese, a vegetable soup; evening-fresh seasonal vegetable salad.
You can eat any vegetables except potatoes.
Exit rules
It is very important to quit eating properly and not to pounce on high-calorie foods. Within a week, you need to gradually return to your normal diet, adding stews, soups, roasts, and fish to your diet.
Who are the contraindications to this diet?
For pregnant women, breastfeeding women and patients with kidney disease, you should not try to use this diet to lose weight.
Constipation is sometimes regarded as a side effect. In order to eliminate this problem, fruits and vegetables must be supplemented in the diet to increase the fiber content.