The curd diet is not suitable for everyone. This is the best option for lovers of this product. Those who do not like cottage cheese will find it very difficult to eat just such a dish for several days.
Characteristics and principles of the curd diet
The cottage cheese diet has its own characteristics. Not only does it allow you to lose extra pounds, but it also helps strengthen the skeletal system, teeth, hair, nerves and speed up metabolism. A short-term diet on cottage cheese does not bring stress to the body, as it is endowed with all the necessary substances. The curd contains many vitamins and easily digestible proteins, in addition, it gives a quick feeling of fullness.
Rules:
- the fermented milk product must have a low percentage of fat (no more than 5%), otherwise you will not be able to lose weight. But eating completely fat-free cottage cheese is also not worth it, this will not give any results;
- during the diet, it is necessary to drink a sufficient amount of water - at least one and a half liters.
It is very convenient to organize fasting days on cottage cheese. They will not only help you lose some weight, but also cleanse your body and speed up your metabolism.
If there is no confidence in a product from the store, you can make cottage cheese yourself from village milk:
- Put the fresh product in the refrigerator to separate the milk from the cream.
- Collect the cream.
- Put the milk in a warm, dark place so that it sours.
- Pour the resulting curdled milk into a saucepan and heat, but do not bring to a boil. The product will begin to curl.
- When it cools, strain the mass through gauze. The curd is ready.
The serum can be used for other purposes.
Weight Loss Options
The curd slimming diet can be multi-product or single-component.
Therefore, everyone can choose the most optimal option for themselves:
- curd;
- curd and fruit;
- curd and milk;
- cottage cheese and eggs;
- curd and vegetables.
Only people with great willpower can sit on a mono diet. For the rest, it is better to choose more tolerant options with a not so poor menu.
Recommended and prohibited foods
If ascetic food does not suit you, you can use other dishes along with cottage cheese.
Among the allowed foods, you can eat:
- nuts (in small quantities);
- leafy vegetables;
- greens;
- fruit (such as bananas or apples);
- kefir or other milk.
The introduction of additional foods into the diet does not allow you to stop the diet in half. If there is already an unbearable cottage cheese in its pure form, it can be used for making salads, omelets, sandwiches, casseroles.
You shouldn't eat pastries, sweets, meat, fish, fast food, canned food.
Detailed menu for 3 and 7 days
Three-day fast mono diet option:
- Every day you need to eat half a kilo of cottage cheese and drink about half a liter of kefir, dividing this amount by 5 times. There is another variety - 400 g of cottage cheese and 1 liter of milk.
- Also, you can drink a glass of rose hips every day. Unsweetened water and green tea - unlimited.
The menu for 3 days is quite poor. If following such a diet is difficult, you can add 2 more fruits to your diet every day (one apple, one banana, one strawberry or one grapefruit). Weight loss occurs gradually. During this time, you can lose 2 to 5 kg.
A pleasant bonus is a decrease in the volume of the stomach, as a result of which a person begins to be satisfied with less food.
On a seven-day diet, the breakfasts are the same: one serving of cottage cheese, grapefruit, and a cup of unsweetened green tea.
The rest of the day meals:
- Monday: lunch - 100 g of cottage cheese, banana; dinner - a portion of stewed vegetables.
- Tuesday: for lunch - half a portion of a fermented milk product, a couple of steamed vegetable cutlets. You can dine on carrot salad.
- Wednesday: second meal - 100 g of cottage cheese and radish salad with cabbage. In the evening - quinoa with vegetables.
- Thursday: for lunch - half a portion of cottage cheese and boiled beetroot salad. Dinner - vegetable puree soup.
- Friday: second meal - 100 g of fermented dairy products and a glass of vegetable smoothie; the third is baked broccoli.
- Saturday: lunch - ricotta and rice with vegetables; in the evening - vegetable salad.
- Sunday: second meal - a little ricotta, a portion of vegetable soup; in the evening - a salad of fresh seasonal vegetables.
You can take any vegetables, except potatoes.
Exit rules
It is very important to get out of the diet correctly and not to pounce on high-calorie foods. During the week, you need to gradually return to your normal diet, introducing stewed vegetables, soups, baked meat and fish into the diet.
Who is contraindicated in such a diet?
You should not try to lose weight with the help of such a diet for expectant mothers, nursing women and people with kidney disease.
Constipation is sometimes observed as a side effect. To eliminate this problem, the diet must be supplemented with fruits and vegetables to increase the amount of fiber.