The best diets: how to eat to lose weight

It seems that there is no clear answer to the question of how to lose extra pounds. Each person chooses a method suitable for the body and health. This explains the constantly expanding range of books and the emergence of new fashionable diets. The main thing is to get results. I WANT presents new diets that are not fashionable, but actually work and provide long-term effects. So, we lose weight quickly, easily, interestingly and beautifully.

“The Parisian Diet” by Jean-Michel Cohen (AST publishing house, 2014, 109 UAH)

The Paris diet is not a fad, but a new approach to eating and enjoying life. If you follow the Parisian diet, you will not have to change your usual lifestyle. You can go to a cafe, drink wine and even eat pasta. Jean-Michel Cohen is confident that stress diets give only temporary results (and many people who quickly lost weight and gained it back even faster will agree with him). It is impossible to achieve significant and lasting changes in life if they are based on deprivation. Although the Parisian diet is close to philosophy, it has classic stages: calculating the correct weight, choosing foods, methods of preparing light meals. The preliminary stages - “Cafe”, “Bistro” and “Gourmet” - are given with an approximate diet and recipes for preparing dishes. How to deal with bouts of gluttony, get rid of snacking, what vitamins and microelements to take if you refuse certain types of foods, but most importantly - how, while following a diet, enjoy food and enjoy its taste.

“Fast Diet 5:2. Recipes for the method" Mimi Spencer, Sarah Shenker (Eksmo publishing house, 2014, 120 UAH)

The Fast Diet is a collaboration between Dr. Sarah Schenker, registered dietician and nutritionist, and journalist Mimi Spencer. Today, the principle of a fast diet is known to most people. Five days a week you eat as you are used to, and on two fasting days you reduce the number of calories by four times. Fasting days can be consecutive, or you can separate them with regular days. The peculiarity of the diet is that the lost kilograms come from fat, while muscle mass is preserved. If you bring your weight to the desired level, you can leave one fasting day instead of two. Psychologically, the diet is easy to maintain; after all, a restriction of only two per week cannot be compared with a strict multi-week diet. Typically, on fasting days, people eat what is listed in the section “The laziest food of a fasting day” - raw vegetables, fruits with a low glycemic index, muesli, hard-boiled eggs, fish, vegetables, salad. But a fasting day is worth diversifying it with new tastes and good cooking. In addition to the basic principles of a quick diet, the book contains recipes for breakfasts - simple and leisurely, dinners, cooking vegetables, fish, meat and vegetable salads, soups, sauces and snacks. All these dishes, worthy of a restaurant menu, can be safely eaten on fasting days.

“Losing weight is interesting. Recipes for a tasty and healthy life" Alexey Kovalkov (Eksmo publishing house, 2014, 100 UAH)

Dr. Kovalkov, one of the most famous nutritionists in the CIS (he once lost 70 kg), has collected recipes that even a novice cook can do. The book is more like detailed instructions. At the first stage, the body needs to be weaned off fast carbohydrates and the microflora restored. The stage lasts two or three weeks and an approximate basic menu with recipes is given for each day. At this same stage, a person gets accustomed to feasible physical activity, loses the first 5 kg and gains motivation and faith in success. The second stage, the main one, lasts as long as it takes to achieve optimal weight (at this stage it takes 200 g per day). A menu with recipes is given for three weeks, plus recipes for soups, salads, meat and fish dishes. The third stage lasts from a year to a year and a half; at the final stage there are no strict restrictions, and physical activity is reduced to daily walking