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 only such a dish for several days.
Features and principles of the curd diet
The cottage cheese diet has its own characteristics. It not only allows you to lose extra pounds, but also helps to 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, since it is provided with all the necessary substances. The curd contains a lot of vitamins and easily digestible protein, moreover, it gives a quick feeling of fullness.
Rules:
- 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 a result;
- during the diet, you need to drink a sufficient amount of water - at least one and a half liters.
It is very convenient to arrange fasting days on cottage cheese. They will not only help you lose a little weight, but also cleanse the body and speed up metabolism.
If there is no trust in a store product, you can make cottage cheese yourself from village milk:
- Place the fresh product in the refrigerator to separate the milk from the cream.
- Collect the cream.
- Put the milk in a warm and dark place so that it sour.
- Pour the resulting curdled milk into a saucepan and heat, but do not bring to a boil. The product will begin to curl up.
- When it cools down, strain the mass through cheesecloth. The curd is ready.
The serum can be used for other purposes.
Weight loss options
Curd weight loss 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 egg;
- curd and vegetable.
Only people with great willpower can sit on a mono-diet. For the rest, it is better to choose more forgiving options with a not so meager menu.
Recommended and prohibited foods
If an ascetic diet does not suit you, you can use other dishes along with cottage cheese.
Of the permitted foods, you can eat:
- nuts (in small quantities);
- leafy vegetables;
- greens;
- fruits (such as bananas or apples);
- kefir or other milk.
The introduction of additional foods into the diet does not allow you to break off the diet halfway. If there is already unbearable cottage cheese in its pure form, it can be used to make salads, omelets, rolls, casseroles.
You should not 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 a pound 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.
- In addition, you can drink a glass of rose hips daily. Sugar-free water and green tea - unlimited.
The menu for 3 days is rather meager. If it is difficult to adhere to such a diet, you can add 2 more fruits to your diet daily (either an apple, or a banana, or a strawberry, or a grapefruit). Weight loss occurs gradually. During this period, you can lose from 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.
In a seven-day diet, breakfasts are the same - a portion of cottage cheese, grapefruit and a cup of unsweetened green tea.
The rest of the meals by day:
- Monday: lunch - 100 g of cottage cheese, banana; dinner - a portion of stewed vegetables.
- Tuesday: at lunchtime - half a portion of a fermented milk product, a couple of steamed vegetable cutlets. You can dine with 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 milk products and a glass of vegetable smoothie; the third is baked broccoli.
- Saturday: lunchtime - cottage cheese and rice with vegetables; in the evening - vegetable salad.
- Sunday: second meal - a little cottage cheese, a portion of vegetable soup; in the evening - a salad of fresh seasonal vegetables.
You can take any vegetables, with the exception of potatoes.
Exit rules
It is very important to get out of the diet correctly and not pounce on high-calorie foods. Within a 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, lactating women, as well as people with kidney disease.
Constipation is sometimes observed as a side effect. To correct this problem, the diet must be supplemented with fruits and vegetables to increase the amount of fiber.