In order to lose extra pounds, 60% of women switch to a diet - a nutritional system aimed at quickly burning fat. Having tried various types of rational meals, many prefer the Maggi curd diet with a 4 week menu.
The diet does not provide for fasting, the products and the sequence of their use are selected specifically to create a correct metabolism and timely withdrawal of fluid from the body.
The essence of the "Maggi" curd diet
The cottage cheese diet is identical to the egg diet. Here, the eggs are replaced with low-fat 3% cottage cheese, a healthier product that contains enough calcium to strengthen bones. In addition to calcium, the curd contains other trace elements (phosphorus), vitamin A.
The course of the diet is designed for 4 weeks (not a month, but exactly 28 days), divided into 4 phases - each for 7 days.
The main principle of the diet is weight loss over a set period. It is strictly forbidden to swap the phases, the order of food intake during the day, the order of each individual day. All dietary rules must be strictly followed and unhealthy foods should be abandoned.
Maggi's specially designed diet is classified as a diet rich in foods high in protein and very low in carbohydrates. It is designed for people with an excess of 20-25 kg.
Pros and cons of diet
Like any other diet, Maggi's developed diet has advantages and disadvantages. Before starting the course, you need to carefully familiarize yourself with them to make sure that this diet is necessary.
Benefits:
- Easily digestible food composition.
- Irreversible weight loss after the end of the course and the transition to regular foods.
- Simplicity and ease of preparation of products included in the menu.
- The presence of products (apples, kiwi, cucumbers, green peppers, zucchini), taken without restriction due to the lack of toxicity, low calorie content.
- Saturation of the body with a large amount of vitamins, various minerals.
- Rapid elimination of toxins and breakdown of fats.
- Economy of the curd diet (includes inexpensive, readily available foods).
- Gentle diet.
Diet "Maggi" curd (menu for 4 weeks) excludes fasting days, which contributes to a stable, uniform weight loss without feeling hungry. If there is a desire to eat, you can have a snack with foods that are acceptable for consumption without restriction.
Disadvantages:
- Strict adherence to the diet according to the compiled diet menu.
- Rejection by the body of citrus fruits, products containing toxic substances (it is recommended to undergo a medical examination before starting a diet).
- A categorical prohibition on the "Maggi" diet during pregnancy.
- Monotony in the use of basic foods (less patient people quickly get tired of the same food).
The main task of patients sitting on a diet is a correct, accurate way out of it. If, after the end of the course, you eat without restrictions, whenever you want, the previous weight will return quickly and in excess.
Allowed Products
A curd-based diet is suitable for overweight people. The diet includes a large number of acceptable products, which allows you to diversify the menu. A 4 week hard diet doesn't seem exhausting.
The diet menu includes:
- milk products (cottage cheese - 5% fat, cheese - maximum 25%), eggs. For the sake of diversity, it is allowed to replace one product with another;
- fruit: pears, apples, citruses, avocados, grapefruit, plums;
- vegetable products: carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans (string beans), radishes;
- from meat products: rabbit, pork, beef, chicken, turkey, partridge. The portion should be free of fat layers;
- all types of fish, other seafood... Canned tuna is also allowed for variety;
- as drinks decoctions of various medicinal plants (chamomile, mint, ginger), tea, coffee drinks were taken.
- bread: whole grain crisps, dark toast, bran. You can consume no more than 2 thin pieces. If desired, instead of bread, food can be seasoned with bran.
The main foods in the diet are cottage cheese, meat, grapefruit.
Prohibited foods
The Maggi curd diet with a 4-week menu does not include products containing:
- fats;
- toxic compounds;
- carcinogenic substances.
The diet allows you to get used to healthy food in the allotted time.
It is strictly prohibited:
- from fruit products: bananas, grapes;
- from vegetables: potatoes, all legumes, corn;
- dates, hazelnuts, Indian nuts, walnuts (they are high in fat);
- from meat products: lamb, goose, duck meat;
- from drinks: all types of juices (the use of fruits and vegetables is already enough for the body), lemonade, milkshakes;
- products containing sugar (all types of confectionery, ice cream);
- cereals.
During the diet, it is forbidden to take alcohol, smoke (it is advisable to follow this rule after the diet).
Contraindications to diet
Rational nutrition from Maggi has a number of contraindications:
- Pregnancy, lactation period.
- Dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Metabolic disease.
- Allergy to dairy products and citrus fruits.
- Taking medications that lower blood pressure.
- Weak immune system.
- The rehabilitation period after surgery.
The diet is not recommended during adolescence. The developing body needs foods that are not included in the diet.
Diet preparation rules
The Maggi cottage cheese diet (the menu for 4 weeks will be indicated below) is a diet for people who do not have problems with physical health. Only a strong, strong organism can withstand a radical change not only in nutrition, but also in lifestyle.
Before starting the course, it is recommended to pre-fix the weight, body volume, then do the same at the end of the diet. Measurements should be taken without having breakfast in the morning.
It is impossible to accurately predict the rate of weight loss, since each organism is individual, respectively, the process of weight loss occurs at different times. You can not start a diet during colds.
How to make a menu for every day: general principles
The diet from Maggi refers to protein diets. Their peculiarity lies in the ability to maintain fullness throughout the day. The regimen for every day is calculated so that there is no need to fight hunger, the desire to refresh yourself, abandon a strict diet and return to the previous way of eating.
The main goal of such weight loss is to stimulate the body to rapidly break down, burn fat. Daily foods are combined and distributed in a specially designed way to speed up metabolism. The absence of hunger is the result of strict adherence to the rules without missing even one serving of food.
To achieve the goal, you need to adhere to some mandatory rules during the diet period:
- drink plenty of water (more than 2 liters per day);
- use only approved products;
- regulate sleep time (8-9 hours);
- strictly exclude foods not included in the diet.
It is recommended to do gymnastics together with the observance of the regime. This will speed up the achievement of the desired result.
Detailed nutrition table for the first week of the diet
The Maggi cottage cheese diet (the menu for 4 weeks is calculated according to the basic plan) contributes to the body's habituation to a small amount of sufficiently high-calorie, at the same time, easily digestible food.
In the first week of the diet, the body rebuilds, gets used to the regime, new products. It is recommended to strictly follow a specially selected diet. Correct nutrition for the first 7 days helps to achieve positive results from the remaining 3 weeks of the diet. Attached is a diet chart for the first 6 days. For Sunday, the diet is identical to Monday.
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
Breakfast | Cottage cheese - 200, 2 oranges or 1 grapefruit | Cheese - 200 g Apples (can be 3 - 4 pcs.) | Cottage cheese - up to 200 g, 2 oranges | Cottage cheese - 200 g, pears - 2 pcs. | Cheese - 200 g, kiwi - 4 pcs. | 200 g cottage cheese, grapefruit - 1 pc. |
Dinner | Apples, sliced, in the form of a salad | Chicken (white meat only) | 1 toast or 2 loaves of 200 g cottage cheese, 1 tomato | Plums or kiwi, 4 - 5 pcs. | 200 g cottage cheese, 150 g vegetables | Pears or avocados - 2 pcs. |
Dinner | 5-6 green salad leaves, 100 g of pork | 150 g cottage cheese, 1 toast or 1-2 loaves, 1 orange, vegetable salad | 150-200 g of non-fatty beef | 6-7 green salad leaves, partridge meat - 150 g | 6-7 green salad leaves, 150 g of any fish, 1 grapefruit | Green lettuce leaves - 6-7 pcs., 200 g of pork |
All vegetable and meat products included in the menu should be boiled or stewed with a little water without vegetable or ghee. The menu contains products without specifying their exact amount, which can be eaten until full without stress on the stomach.
Maggi Diet - Day One:
Menu for the second week
The diet for the second week is different from the first 7 days. The breakfast menu does not change all 7 days: cottage cheese - 200 g, grapefruit (as main products).
First day:
- Lunch time-14.00: cottage cheese - 150 g, boiled vegetables (carrots, zucchini, tomatoes).
- Dinner-18.30: 200 g any kind of steamed fish, or 3-4 pieces of canned tuna, vegetable salad (2 tomatoes, cucumber, dressed with green lettuce leaves), citrus fruits.
Second day:
- Lunch-14.00: 200 g of beef tenderloin, finely chopped cucumbers, tomatoes in the form of a juicy salad in unlimited quantities.
- Dinner-18.30: apples, pears, chopped, added to 150 g of cottage cheese (2 pcs.)
The third day: the menu of the second day is repeated. You can replace apples with kiwi fruits.
Fourth day:
- Dinner: cottage cheese - 150 g, boiled or lightly fried zucchini, beans in unlimited quantities.
- Dinner: lean boiled pork or lightly fried fish - 200 g.
The fifth day:
- Dinner: boiled fish or shrimp - 200 g, green lettuce (you can eat until full).
- Dinner: 2 finely chopped oranges in 150 g of cottage cheese.
Sixth day:
- Dinner: lightly fried white chicken meat –200 g with 2 tomatoes, 2 oranges.
- Dinner: a combined salad of finely chopped apples, plums, kiwi.
Seventh day:
- Dinner: lightly fried fish - 200 g, boiled vegetables, seasoned with fresh tomato as a side dish, a large orange.
- Dinner: it is necessary to repeat exactly the lunch menu.
Diet for the third week
The third week of the diet differs from the rest with a free menu, the ability to receive an arbitrary amount of foods included in the diet at a convenient time of the day.
Diet:
- First day. Any fruit in large quantities, excluding bananas, grapes, mangoes, figs.
- Second day. Green leaf salad, boiled or stewed vegetables, broccoli can be added.
- The third day. The products of the first two days are included in the menu together, distributed 4-5 times.
- Fourth day. Fish cooked in the oven or boiled shrimp. Various vegetables, including cabbage, excluding potatoes.
- The fifth day. Thoroughly boiled beef or pork, plenty of vegetables. By the end of the day, you need to eat 2 oranges or 1 grapefruit.
- Sixth and seventh day. Fruit abundant, until the end of the day. In the morning you can refresh yourself with cottage cheese in the amount of 200 g.
Menu for the final week
The diet of the 4th week is identical to the previous one, with the difference that in the final week the food should be in a specific amount for all 7 days. You can eat when the desire arises.
It is important to correctly distribute food for the whole day:
- First day. Chicken or partridge meat, or beef - 150 g (divided into portions), 2 cucumbers, 4 medium tomatoes, any boiled fish or canned tuna, 1 piece of grain bread (can be replaced with bran), fruit to choose from, except for those unacceptable for the diet.
- Second day. Pork or beef - 250-300 g, the rest of the products are repeated from the first day, only fish products are excluded.
- The third day. Cottage cheese - 350 g, boiled or stewed vegetables in large quantities, salad of tomatoes and cucumbers (2 pcs.), 1 toast, fruit of your choice. It is recommended to eat 1 grapefruit at the end of the day.
- Fourth day. Chicken or partridge fillet - 200 g, Green lettuce with 3 cucumbers, 2 tomatoes, 1 piece of grain bread or bran, plenty of fruit of your choice, 2 oranges at the end of the day.
- The fifth day. Cottage cheese - 200 g, 2 hard-boiled eggs, green lettuce combined with cucumbers and tomatoes (2 each), fruit of your choice.
- Sixth day. Skinless chicken or beef - 200 g, cottage cheese - 150 g, fruits, except prohibited ones, 3 cucumbers and 3 tomatoes each.
- Seventh day. Cottage cheese - 350 g, canned tuna or other boiled fish, stewed or boiled vegetables of your choice, cucumbers, tomatoes 2 each, 1 toast.
Diet effectiveness: results, before and after photos
The "Maggi" curd diet (the menu for 4 weeks was described above) promotes a gradual weight loss. The diet does not provide for restrictions on high-calorie food. The developed regimen is based on chemical reactions occurring in the body, as a result of which a uniform weight loss is carried out.
Therefore, you need to exactly follow the scheduled meals for every day. Any change leads to a shift in the regime, a decrease in the effectiveness of the diet.The first 7 days are difficult due to changes in the usual composition of the menu. In a period of 1 week, an adaptation to a new diet takes place. The incentive to continue the diet is a tangible decrease in weight - 3-4 kg on the 7th day.
At the end of the second week, no changes are observed. Within 7 days, an intensive process of lipolysis begins, the removal of toxic substances. The body, relieved after the first week, copes with the removal of toxins faster, the weight is reduced by only 2 kg.
During the third and fourth weeks, there is an increased loss of kilograms. At the end of the diet, weight is reduced by 12-14 kg (including the first 2 weeks).
The correct way out of the diet
The first rule of thumb when exiting a diet is to eat in moderation. You can eat 4-5 times a day in small portions, eat a lot of fruits, do not abuse flour products. A large amount of clean water is needed after the end of the diet. Water maintains a reduced weight, periodically freeing the body from toxins and fats.
You can gradually include your favorite food in the menu, at the same time eating dietary products.
It is not recommended to exclude from the diet:
- cottage cheese;
- grapefruit;
- zucchini;
- pork.
You do not need to eat after 6-7 pm. If hunger pesters badly, you can eat 2 oranges. To maintain weight, it is highly recommended to give the body a little physical activity.
Examples of recipes for the "Maggi" diet
So that the dietary food does not seem too bland, you can prepare the "right" dishes from vegetables and meat products:
- Fragrant cutlets. Boil carrots (2 pcs.), Grate on a coarse grater. Pre-cooked beef (200 g) through a meat grinder. Next, you need to combine 2 ingredients, add a raw egg, season with 2-3 tbsp. bran, a little salt, stir all this thoroughly, shape the cutlets and steam them.
- Vegetable cutlets. You need 1 zucchini, carrots, broccoli inflorescence, grate onion on a fine grater, add a raw egg, 50 g of cottage cheese, 2 tbsp. bran. Having mixed well, it is necessary to free the minced meat from the accumulated liquid, put it on a baking sheet in the form of cutlets and send it to the oven for 15-20 minutes.
- Fish roll. From fillet of lean fish (200 g) with the addition of a raw egg of 1 medium finely chopped onion, excellent minced meat is obtained. To make it fragrant, you can add 1 small carrot, 2 tablespoons of bran. After thoroughly mixing, you need to prepare small rolls and, wrapping them in foil, send them to the oven for 15-20 minutes.
Reviews of doctors and nutritionists
Diet nutritionists give a positive assessment of Maggi's diet. Practice has shown that you can lose weight in this mode. The main plus of the diet is the absence of hunger. As a protein, it surpasses many diets in its merits. It is important to remember to take at least 2 liters of liquid per day.
The diet is relatively easy to tolerate, given its duration. Nutritionists believe it is suitable for people who are not advised to lose weight dramatically. Following the Maggi diet, women can, with interruptions, achieve a positive effect in losing weight over several courses.
A big plus of the Maggi cottage cheese diet is a 100% opportunity to lose 10-15 kg, adhering to a strict menu for a 4-week period.
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