The classic English diet, which takes 3 weeks, is distinguished by its high efficiency.
It provides 3 options for a balanced menu, which allows you to achieve the desired results in 21 days.
The main advantage of the diet is that the body gets used to the new diet, and the old weight no longer returns.
Features of the stages in the English diet: daily menu
According to the rules of the diet, you need to alternate three options for the menu. The first two days are considered hungry, they are called dairy. The second two days - meat or protein phase. The third two days are fruit and vegetable. After the first six days, only meat and fruit days should be alternated, and hungry or fasting days should no longer be used. If desired, you can alternate not for 2, but for three days of fruits, vegetables and meat.
The hardest thing about an English diet is first milk stage. It is assumed that in these two days the body can unload and relax. You need to choose the lightest products with the lowest calorie content. Due to the lack of calories, the body will begin to burn its own reserves of fat, and the size of the stomach will decrease.
It is allowed to use such products:
• milk;
• nuts - in small portions;
• crackers or rye bread;
• tomato juice.
The next step is protein days.. It is needed to replenish the amount of protein that the body will lose during unloading. It is allowed to drink coffee with milk these days, eat meat broth, hard cheeses and eggs in the evenings.
The third stage - the use of fruits and vegetables for two days. Days are needed to cleanse the intestines and provide fiber to the body.
If the diet lasts 1 week, then its seventh day should be milk again, if three weeks, then the 21st.
Lists of allowed and prohibited foods in the English diet - daily menu
Among the allowed products are the following categories:
• vegetables - almost everything is allowed to be consumed, including garlic and onions, but more attention should be paid to carrots, celery, pepper, asparagus, beans, pumpkin, beets;
• fruits - pears, apples, pineapples, lemons are the priority; you can even eat bananas and grapes;
• cereals - choose better semolina, buckwheat, oatmeal and rice porridge;
• nuts - cedar, hazelnuts, walnuts;
• spices and seasonings.
A strict restriction is placed on such products:
• pasta;
• sweets, cakes and pastries;
• baking and baking;
• salt;
• gas drinks, especially sweet ones;
• alcohol products;
• fatty meat, pork;
• sauces and mayonnaise.
Detailed menus for the English diet of different options
An example of a menu for milk days (1.2 and 21 ending):
• In the morning, drink a glass of dietary kefir or milk with a slice of whole grain bread;
• at lunch, drink an empty glass of milk again;
• Repeat the morning menu at midday;
• for dinner, repeat the lunch menu;
• before going to bed, drink a glass of tomato juice, preferably natural, in 15-20 minutes.
An example of a meal for protein days:
• for breakfast, a sandwich with butter from brown bread and coffee with the addition of milk;
• lunch - a rich soup on meat or fish broth, a portion of porridge with meat or boiled chicken, brown bread;
• afternoon snack - cottage cheese or milk with honey;
• dinner - boiled eggs 2 pcs., Choice of hard cheese, a slice of meat or kefir, a slice of rye bread.
To make protein days more diverse, you can cook dishes of meat, fish, poultry, offal and seafood, eggs, cottage cheese. You need to choose cereals, peas as side dishes.
Example menu for fruit and vegetable days:
• for breakfast, eat 2 of any large fruits - it can be kiwi and orange, apple and pear or other combinations;
• Lunch may consist of vegetable soup without meat or mashed soup, such as broccoli and zucchini. It is allowed to eat a slice of bread, and on the second a vegetable salad, for example, vinaigrette;
• afternoon snack - two identical fruits (apples, grapefruits, bananas, oranges, you can eat 1 small pineapple);
• dinner - a fruit or vegetable salad of your choice, green tea with cracker.
Cooking for the English diet: a daily menu with recipes
1. Curd Omelet - a dish for a protein day. You will need proteins of 2 eggs, cottage cheese 100 g - for one serving, you need to choose low-fat, water - no more than 3 tbsp. l., spices, herbs. Beat the cottage cheese with protein, season with spices chosen to taste, add water and chopped herbs. You need to place the raw materials in the pan, pre-cover and send to the preheated oven. Baking time from 5-10 minutes.
2. Kefir fillet - Another option for a protein day. You will need chicken fillet up to 150 g, water and kefir in equal proportions of 50 g, herbs, salt, pepper to taste. Fillet should be cut into small and medium-sized pieces, seasoned with spices and herbs, and then pour kefir mixed with water. The food container must be covered and refrigerated - it will take several hours in the refrigerator. For cooking, you need to heat the pan, and only after that place the fillet soaked in kefir in it. Stew the dish for 10 minutes.
3. Baked Zucchini - option dishes for the fruit and vegetable phase. Required: 3 zucchini, herbs, hard cheese 50 g, some spices to taste, olive oil. Zucchini needs to be peeled and cut into strips, it is better to cut small vegetables into rings. Separately, each slice should be greased with oil and put on a prepared baking sheet. Season each slice with spices and herbs, top with grated cheese. Baking tray with vegetables should be placed in an oven heated to 200 ° for 20 minutes.
4. Carrot and pumpkin cream soup. You will need 2 pieces of medium-sized carrots, up to 400 g of pumpkin, salt and spices to taste. It is necessary to cut prepared vegetables - cubes of pumpkin and straws carrots. Place them in boiling water for 7 minutes, then drain the water, leaving very little liquid, and grind it with a blender into a homogeneous mass. Bring the thick mass to a boil by adding the remaining ingredients.
