Diets, diets, diets

Weight loss program:

This 1000 kcal diet the most known and the most recommended as an efficient way of weight losing. At the beginning before you start applying the diet firstly during a week note everything what you eat, every meal and snack. In this diet a reduction of amounts of products, containing so-called "empty calories" that is big quantity of fat, such as sweets, fatty meat, cured meat products and cheese, beer, alcohol. Cut everything in thin slices - it creates the illusion of abundance. Eliminate hot spices, they stimulate appetite. Eat on small plates, you will cheat your eyesight. After each bite put a sandwich on the plate. Reach for it when you have your mouth empty. Drink a glass of water before a meal. Eat slowly and chew precisely. Do not eat something only because it could be wasted. Remove skin from poultry. Replace cream with kefir or yogurt.
Approximately the calorific "table" of meals in 1000 kcal diet should look as below:

Breakfast - 250 kcal.
Midmorning snack (elevenses) - 100 kcal.
Dinner - 350 kcal.
Tea - 100 kcal.
Supper - 200 kcal.

Example of 1000 kcal diet:

Breakfast - 250 kcal:
To select
1. Spread a whole-wheat roll with a teaspoon of butter or margarine, put on it 2 thin slices of cooked ham and several slices of cucumber.
2. Pour half a package of vanilla yogurt over 30 g of chocolate flakes, add a mandarin.
3. Mix 10 g of cottage cheese with a teaspoon of cream, sprinkle it with lemon juice and sweeten with sweetener. Add cut half an orange and half an apple and 100 g of raspberries.
4. A slice of brown toast with a teaspoon of margarine, cover it with a leaf of lettuce, a slice of cheese or a teaspoon of melted cheese. Eat with kiwi and carrot or tomato, pepper.
5. A slice of wholewheat bread spread with a teaspoon of butter and 50 g of cottage cheese, cover it with tomato.
6. Mix an egg with a spoon of water, add half a bunch of chopped dill or chives, season with salt and pepper. Fry on a spoon of butter. Eat with a slice of whole-wheat bread.
7. Cut a small roll and spread it with a teaspoon of butter and 2 teaspoons of jam.

Midmorning snack (elevenses) and tea - 100 kcal:
To select
1. A slice of bread with butter and tomato.
2. A slice of crisp bread with 2 teaspoons of cottage cheese and tomato.
3. A slice of pumpernickel with butter and half a cucumber.
4. A cup of tomato soup with rice.
5. 100 ml of vegetable stock mixed with an egg.
6. Carrot with apple and lemon juice.
7. 2 tomatoes, 2 small onions with chives.
8. 6 thin slices of pork loin.
9. 4 thin slices of sausage.
10. A slice of cooked ham.
11. 6 slices of poultry loin.
12. 100 g of cream cheese with 100 g of strawberries.
13. 100 g of lean cottage cheese with chives.
14. a glass of buttermilk with a slice of crisp bread.
15. A small banana.
16. Grapefruit.
17. 2 peaches.
18. 2 apples.
19. 2 delicacies.
20. 5 pieces of chocolate.
21. 3 scoops of fruit ice cream.

Dinner - 350 kcal:
To select
1. Chop 100 g of chicken breast, a small green or yellow zucchini, carrot and leek. Fry meat on a spoon of oil, add vegetables and stew for 5 minutes. Season with salt, pepper and Chinese spice. Pour it with thyme, eat with a slice of whole-wheat bread or 2 small potatoes.
2. 100 -150 g of chicken breast sprinkle with spices (Vegeta, paprika, pepper etc), fry on a spoon of olive oil. Boil 150 - 200 g of vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli, green bean, carrot). Eat with a potato.
3. 150 g of turkey breast and 200 g of mushrooms rinse and cut. Fry on a spoon of oil. Add 50 g of green pea and a spoon of skim cream. Season with herbs, salt and pepper.
4. 100 g of minced meat mix with a spoon of cottage cheese, salt and pepper. Form small cutlets. Remove all seeds from 2 peppers, peel an onion. Chop vegetables. On a frying pan heat up a spoon of oil. Fry cutlets with vegetables.
5. Mix a glass of boiled pasta with a salad of tomato, pepper, cucumber and 2 spoons of cottage cheese.
6. Eat a glass of buckwheat with an egg fried on a teaspoon of oil. Additionally drink a glass of buttermilk or kefir.
7. Boil and cut a substantial unpeeled potato. Dice a small piece of red pepper. Mix a spoon of vinegar, a teaspoon of olive oil, salt and pepper. Sprinkle vegetables with marinade. 100 g of fillet from hake, cod, flounder, trout or sole fry with butter or margarine.

Supper - 200 kcal:
To select
1. A salad of lean cured meat product, a chicory, a sour cucumber, a sour apple, 100 ml of natural yogurt.
2. Boiled dough pockets filled with 150 g of skim cottage cheese and potatoes.
3. 2 slices of rye crisp bread with butter or margarine and cottage cheese and a salad of chicory, radishes and tomato.
4. A slice of brown bakery product with 50 g of lean cured meat product and a salad of pepper, onion and tomato.
5. A slice of bakery product and a salad of leek, sour cucumber, 3 spoons of canned green pea.
6. A fruit salad of kiwi, grapefruit, a slice of pineapple.
7. A salad with tuna (120 g of tuna in oil, 2 spoons of corn, 2 spoons of boiled rice, 2 leaves of Chinese cabbage).

Anderson diet

Weight loss program:

This diet was worked out by a dietician from a university from Los Angeles, Henry L. Anderson. This is also a one from not-linking kind of diets. Its followers claim the reason of putting on weight is incorrectly set menu, but also one needs to watch the amount of calories in the evening and obey certain rules.

From midnight until midday - one is allowed to eat only fruit and drink only fruit juices (squeezed from fruit).

From midday until 4 p.m. - in midday we drink vegetable juice. About 30 minutes later one can begin to vegetable salads, their basis is to be lettuce. One must not eat sauces of any kind, also on the base of yogurt or olive oil.

From 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. - one can eat everything remembering one cannot link proteins with carbohydrates (e.g. meat, fish and cheese with potatoes, groats, bakery products and pasta). After having eaten fruit one should wait 30 minutes to the next meal. The last meal ought to be eaten before 8 p.m.

It is also necessary to remember the following matters: we eat when we feel hunger, coffee, tea, alcohol, carbonated water and juices from a shop are excluded, we do not drink directly before, during and just after a meal.

Example of Anderson diet:

From midnight until midday
Apple juice, bananas, ripe pears, grapes.

From midday until 4 p.m.
Carrot juice, lettuce with tomatoes and onion, almonds.

From 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Roast potatoes, green pea, lean meat with lettuce and vegetables.

Anti - diabetic diet

Diets program:

Anti - diabetic diet should be the most similar to nourishment of a healthy man. The fundamental modification depends on significant limitation of easily-available carbohydrates (glycemic index), and first of all any sweets and products containing considerable addition of sugar. One should also limit fats and increase the amount of proteins in comparison to a healthy man's nourishing. In food very important is the control of quantity and quality of consumed dishes and their schedule during the whole day. It concerns especially carbohydrates. People suffering from diabetes can neither eat big amounts of food nor remain too long without it. Number of meals a day should be equal and also each meal ought to be consumed at the same time each day.

Products recommended in anti - diabetic diet:

every kind of bakery products but a part of daily diet in form of whole-wheat bread,
milk of 2% fat content, powdered skim milk, skimmed cottage cheese,
lean meat, fish, poultry,
only lean cured meat products: beef or pork ham sausage, ham, loin,
butter in limited quantity,
sugar in very limited quantity or its total elimination,
rape oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, olive oil, plant butter, high quality margarine, home-made mayonnaise.

Products forbidden in anti - diabetic diet:

full fat milk, powdered full fat milk, fat cheese, cottage cheese and melted cheese,
egg yolk,
fat meat, fish, poultry, liver, brain, kidneys,
fat cured pork products, pâté,
butter in average or large quantity, cream,
margarine (apart from mentioned as allowed), lard, back fat, beef and mutton tallow,
sugar, all products and preserves with sugar, honey.

Anti - ulcer diet

Diets program:

It is a protective diet with limitation of substances increasing secretion of gastric juice. It is used in case of ulcer disease of stomach and duodenum, ulcers of intestine.

Products recommended in anti - ulcer diet:

white wheat or stale bakery products,
white wheat flour, semolina, rice, sago, oat flakes, barley groats, fine delicate pasta,
sweet milk, not-sour curled milk, very fresh cottage cheese, full cream cheese,
soft-boiled egg, shell-less boiled egg, steamed fried egg, steamed scrambled eggs,
lean meat and poultry: veal, beef, rabbit, turkey, chicken, ham, loin,
fish: cod, bream, sole, flatfish, pike, pike perch,
fresh butter, sweet cream, soybean oil, sunflower oil, rape oil, olive oil, high quality margarine in limited quantity,
boiled, mashed potatoes, purée,
boiled: carrot, beet, spinach, cucurbit, pumpkin, cauliflower, green bean and green pea in limited amounts; raw: lettuce, tomato,
ripe fruit without stones, boiled: apple, strawberries, apricot, boiled juices from berries,
sugar, honey, jam,
cereal stale pastries, low-sweet sponge cake,
seasonings: salt, sugar, vanilla, dill, lemon juice,
gruel, barley soup from allowed groats, milk and vegetable soups seasoned with flour,
cooked and stewed meat, fricassee, meatballs, puddings,
compote, jelly, jelly-type dessert made with potato starch - all of them with low sugar content,
soft tea, soft coffee, milk.

Products forbidden in anti - ulcer diet:

any fresh, rye and whole-wheat bakery products,
whole-wheat flour, groats: hulled barley, buckwheat, thick pasta, dumplings, pancakes,
sour curled milk, kefir, yogurt, cheese and melted cheese,
hard-boiled egg, fried egg, egg in mayonnaise, scrambled eggs,
fat meat: pork, mutton, goose, duck, venison, fatty cured meat products; fish: eel, mackerel, salmon, herring, sardine; cured, smoked meat, meat and fish cans,
sour cream, lard, back fat, bacon, mutton and beef tallow, margarine,
french fries, all kinds of fried potatoes, potato pancakes, dumplings,
all kinds of cabbage, cucumber, radish, turnip, pepper, sorrel, onion, fungus,
raw and dried fruit, pear, gooseberries, sweet cherry, plum, nuts,
pea, bean, broad bean, lentil,
halvah, chocolate, sweets containing fat, cocoa and nuts,
vinegar, pepper, mustard, paprika, horseradish, bouillon cubes,
broth, soups on stocks from meat or bones, fish soups, soups from contraindicated vegetables,
fried, stewed and roast in conventional way meat,
desserts with chocolate, nuts, high content of sugar, desserts from contraindicated fruit,
strong tea and natural coffee, alcohol drinks, carbonated drinks,
crisp cakes, fruit cakes, poppyseed cake, donuts, gateaux.

Anti - constipation diet

Diets program:

Its aim is regulation of defecation without use of pharmaceuticals. This diet contains increased amount of not-digested in human's digestive system "dietary fiber" (dietary fibre) of plant polysaccharides (cellulose, pectins, gums, hemicellulose, lignin, mucilages). Daily dose in a healthy man's diet should contain 40 g of these compounds. The rich-rest (anti-constipation) diet characterizes itself with increased amount of these substances (50-70 g a day). Apart from introduction of this diet in constipations it is also used in prophylactics of large intestine sensitive syndrome, formation of diverticulum or cancer of large intestine, prevention of growth of arteriosclerosis, cholelithiasis, diabetes and obesity caused by overeating with high-calorie food missing rich-rest nutrients. One of the main reasons of growth of metabolism civilization diseases is nourishing with highly-purified food, while plant polysaccharides provided with food, constituting mass filling in digestive system increase water amount in intestine content, absorb cancerigens forming in large intestine from decomposition of gall acids and accelerate their expelling. Dietary fiber also decreases concentration of cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose.

Products recommended in anti - constipation diet:

fresh and curled skim milk, kefir and yogurt,
skim cottage cheese,
egg white, egg yolk only in limited quantity,
lean meat: veal, beef, horsemeat, rabbit, chicken, turkey, pigeon,
cod, redfish, pike perch, pike, tench, bream, crucian carp,
lean ham and loin, meat in jelly,
skim cream, plant oils: sunflower, rape, soybean, olive oil in limited quantity,
boiled and roast potatoes, mashed potatoes,
all vegetables and fruit,
plum jam, sugar, syrups, jams, jelly, fruit candies, drops, honey,
bay leaf, allspice, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, lemon juice,
skim milk, buttermilk, whey, herb infusions, soft tea, soft chicory coffee,
butter in limited quantity, cheese and cottage cheese from skim milk,
soups on stocks from a bunch of mixed vegetables (carrot, leek, celeriac, parsley), vegetable soups, barley soup, milk soup, fruit soup,
stewed and fried without fat meat dishes,
salads, juices, boiled vegetables,
fruit desserts, compotes, jelly, dessert made from milk, sugar and starch.

Products forbidden in anti - constipation diet:

bakery products with low fiber content, fresh, white, wheat, bakery products, whole-wheat bread on honey,
wheat flour from full milling, corn, potato flour,
full fat milk, kefir, yogurt,
other cheese,
large amounts of egg yolk,
mutton, pork, haslets, venison, duck, goose, fat fish,
pâté, fat cured meat products,
salt butter,
full fat cream,
french fries, fried potato pancakes,
sweets, chocolate, pralines, candies, pastries, conserve,
alcohol, cocoa, liquid chocolate, strong coffee and tea,
soups on fat stocks,
fried and roast dishes,
gateaux, confectionery creams, whipped cream, ice cream, cookies, jelly-type dessert made with potato starch.

Atkins diet

Weight loss program:

The author of Atkins diet is Robert C. Atkins, who is the founder and director of Complementary Medicine Center in New York. In his opinion to fight efficiently against obesity and overweight one does not need to decrease the quantity of nourishment. It is enough to limit the consumption of carbohydrates - the basic energetic fuel, and because of that to force the organism to burn accumulated fat. During a two-week-long Atkins diet one does not eat bakery products, cereal products, vegetables containing starch, yogurt, milk and fruit. A daily menu in Atkins diet cannot consist of more than 20 g of carbohydrates. Meat, cured meat products, fish and eggs can be eaten in quantity satisfying hunger but the must not be linked with products containing carbohydrates. Because the diet drastically limits the quantity of consumed vegetables and fruit during its applying one ought to take vitamin-mineral preparations.

Example of Atkins diet:

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs or fried eggs with bacon, ham or sausage, decaffeinated coffee or tea.

Dinner:
Cured meat products, roast or fried chicken, poultry broth, little ration of salad, noncarbonated mineral water.

Supper:
Pâté from hen livers, steak, salad with vinaigrette sauce, whipped cream without sugar.

By day:
Cured meat products as snacks, mineral water, not sugared coffee, tea.

Budwig diet

Diets program:

The author of this pro-healthy diet is Johanna Budwig - a German biochemist. Her discoveries (research into omega-3 fatty acids and flaxseed oil) found application among other things in treatment of diseases such as: Alzheimer's disease, tumors, arteriosclerosis, allergy, dermatoses, depression. Diet relies on providing organism with nourishment rich among other things in omega-3 fats, complex carbohydrates, fiber and antioxidants. The basic rules of Budwig diet include the following issues:

the basic fat in this diet is cold-pressed and unrefined flaxseed oil. The use of refined or hydrogenated fats (oils, margarines, mayonnaises) is forbidden. To reach treatment efficient effects one needs to strictly eliminate fried products, fatty dairy products and meat from his diet,
consume only fresh products. Dishes should not be prepared on base of products artificially preserved, with chemical additives (sodium benzoate and other artificial food additives),
flaxseed oil ought to be consumed each day in the form of so-called spread (it is prepared by mixing from 6 to 8 minutes flaxseed oil and skim cottage cheese in ratio of 5-6 spoons of oil to 125g of cheese), in prophylaxis 2 spoons, in light affections 2-4 spoons, in serious cases 6 spoons are used. After pasta has been prepared it needs to be kept in a fridge. It may be seasoned with herbs, salt, garlic, paprika, pepper. Johanna Budwig recommends to eat pasta every morning together with muesli, cereal flakes, a spoon of ground flaxseed and grated apple as well as separately. For ill people it is also advised to eat ground flaxseed.

Products recommended in Budwig diet:

sea fish (mackerel, cod, herring, tuna) up to 200 g a day,
fresh fruit, in amount from 3 to 4 rations of average quantity a day. Fruit should not be mixed,
fruit juices at least a glass daily. Between drinking of juice from citrus fruit and consumption of spread several hours ought to pass,
sour milk products (natural yogurt, kefir, buttermilk, acidophilous milk),
cereals in form whole-wheat bakery products and unpurified flakes,
food yeast (before consumption boil it),
water. It is advised to drink 2 l of water a day (purified with mechanical filters or spring bottled but not mineral). It is best to consume liquids (water, juices) before a meal.

Products allowed in Budwig diet:

meat and poultry, but only unprocessed, with low-fat content, from animals which have not been fed with fodder containing hormones, pesticides, and antibiotics, in occasional amounts. In case of serious diseases e.g. tumors, meat and poultry should be completely given up,
honey.

Products forbidden in Budwig diet:

sugar, artificial sweeteners, juices in packaging of carton and bottle kind,
synthetic vitamin A (from vitamin preparations),
other fats apart from cold-pressed flaxseed oil.

Hay diet

Weight loss program:

Hay diet worked out by an American doctor William Howard Hay is a diet of not-linking carbohydrate products with protein ones. He divided products into protein, carbohydrate and neutral. These last products can be linked with all the others. During a day one should eat a meal based on carbohydrates, a protein one and a one consisted only of fruit or vegetables. There must be a 4-hour interval between protein and carbohydrate meals. From menu we exclude sugar, salt, coffee, strong tea, carbonated drinks, chocolate, white bakery products, red meat, cured meat products, beer, alcohol, cakes, fast food, powdered products. We give fried, hot seasoned dishes and cakes with fruit and cream. We eat fruit when our stomach is empty or as a snack between meals. We eat often but little - 3 meals and if need be 2 snacks. We drink between meals and never during them. We try to avoid fat because it postpones digestion process. The division of products into groups looks following:

Protein group:
Pod vegetables, eggs, milk, yogurt, meat, fruit (apple, apricot, kiwi, sweet cherry, sour cherry, grapes, grapefruit, pear, pineapple, currants, strawberries, raspberries, peach, mandarin, lemon, prune), mayonnaise, vinaigrette sauce.

Carbohydrate group:
Cereal products (grains, whole-wheat bread, oat flakes), potato, artichoke, sweet fruit (figs, banana, sweet and ripe pears, grapes, raisins), beer.

Neutral group:
Fats (plant oils, butter, margarine, olive oil), sweet and sour cream, vegetables (beside potato, asparagus, green bean, beet, onion, spinach, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, leek, pumpkin, zucchini, celeriac, eggplant, champignons, lettuce, cucumber, radish, dill, garlic, germs, seed onion, chicory), avocado fruit, bran, honey, cured meat products, herbs.

Example of Hay diet:

Breakfast:
Big bunch of grapes.

Dinner:
Pasta with sauce made of olive oil, garlic, basil and peanuts.

Supper:
Roast chicken breast, steamed broccoli and cauliflower.

Hollywood diet

Weight loss program:

Hollywood diet belongs to low-calorie diets - 1200-1500 kcal. Daily amount of calories does not have to be drastically decreased just from the beginning of treatment but it can be done gradually e.g. 200 kcal a week. It allows to get accustomed to smaller food portions without hunger. Besides menu of diet should contain the following ingredients: natural yogurt, onion, bran, yeast, germs. During the first week of the diet only fruit are eaten (e.g. 3 grapefruit, 750 g of strawberries, 250 g of prunes or plums). In the second and third week vegetables, lean meat and cereal products are introduced. Eggs and milk are forbidden. Dishes are not salted. Between eating different kinds of fruit one must keep an hour interval, and between fruit and meat 2-hour break. As in case of every slimming diet we drink noncarbonated mineral water or soft unsweetened tea. Hollywood diet is poor in nutrients so it ought to be carefully applied.

Example of Hollywood diet:

Breakfast:
4 teaspoons of wheat grains mixed with a teaspoon of honey, lemon juice, a teaspoon of natural yogurt and 3 chopped hazelnuts.

Midmorning snack (elevenses):
2 slices of whole-wheat bakery product without butter, half a glass of fresh germs and to choose: 100g of skim cottage cheese, 50g of lean smoked fish or a hard-boiled egg.

Dinner:
150g of boiled or grilled chicken, a slice of whole-wheat bread, half a lettuce loaf.

Tea:
Natural yogurt or kefir.

Supper:
2 glasses of raw or boiled vegetables with vinaigrette sauce, sprinkled with 2 spoons of bran.

Yogurt diet

Weight loss program:

Yogurt diet is rich in easy digestible protein, calcium, phosphorus and vitamins. It is recommended to use only yogurts containing live cultures, which facilitate and accelerate digestion. In this diet, apart from mentioned below fruit, bakery products and other components, one should eat the following kinds of yogurts: natural low-fat content yogurt, skimmed fruit yogurt and whole fruit yogurt.

Example of yogurt diet:

Breakfast:
150 g of fruit yogurt with quarter a glass of muesli, banana, or 150 g of wild strawberry yogurt with 2 spoons of wheat bran, 2 mandarins, or 150 g of sour cherry yogurt with 2 spoons of corn flakes, a big pear, or 150 g of apricot yogurt with cereal grains, an apple.

Dinner:
200 g of roast cod with yogurt sauce (half a glass of light yogurt with chopped onion), boiled potato, or 100 g of roast chicken breast, 300 g of boiled spinach (frozen product), sauce of half a glass of yogurt seasoned with a clove of garlic and basil, or roast chicken drumstick (100 g), 2 spoons of rice, a cucumber cut into slices and sprinkled with sauce made of half a glass of natural yogurt, a spoon of basil or mint, a pinch of salt, pepper and oregano, or 60 g of roast cod, half a glass of boiled pasta, sauce made of natural yogurt, diced tomato, a spoon of basil, a pinch of salt and pepper, salad of sour cucumber and cut into feathers seed onion, with a teaspoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of lemon juice.

Supper:
250 g of fruit salad, 50 g of natural yogurt or a hard-boiled egg, 2 tomatoes and a quarter of red onion, half a Graham roll, or 100 g of smoked cod, a salad made of a big tomato, pepper, 5 big lettuce leaves, half a chopped small red onion, seasoned with 4 spoons of natural yogurt mixed with grated clove of garlic and pepper, a slice of whole-wheat bread with a bit of margarine, or 120 g of beefsteak fried on a bit of rape oil, a salad of riced carrot and half an apple, seasoned with a teaspoon of olive oil or horseradish, half a whole-wheat roll.

Low cholesterol diet

Diets program:

This diet is dedicated to people with high concentration of cholesterol and triglycerides (tryglicerydes), and also for people burdened with the hazard of suffering from heart ischemia, infarct, arteriosclerosis, brain stroke. To "get released" from "harmful" cholesterol one should also remember the following matters: physical exertion which "melts" cholesterol best, avoidance of active and passive smoking, avoidance of sun excess and avoidance of stress.

Products recommended in low cholesterol diet:

whole-wheat bakery products,
kefir, buttermilk, natural yogurt,
skim cottage cheese,
red wine from wild rose (brier),
sea fish: mackerel, cod, herring, salmon, sprat, sardine (all not fried),
cold-pressed olive oil, cold-pressed rape oil,
carrot, garlic, onion, beet, cauliflower, tomato, pumpkin, spinach, cucurbit, broccoli, green pea, green bean, chicory, lettuce, potato, cabbage,
apple, lemon, grapes, strawberries, watermelon, apricot, kiwi, peach, orange, raspberries, currants,
fruit and vegetable soups without fat,
green tea,
brown rice and coarse groats,
natural (riced) fruit and vegetable juices, fruit drinks.

Products allowed in low cholesterol diet:

low-fat milk,
sea food,
bitter chocolate,
walnuts and hazelnuts,
white bakery products,
soybean oil, sunflower oil, plant butter,
sugar,
compotes, jelly-type desserts made with potato starch, moussy, jellies, desserts made of milk, sugar and starch,
eggless pasta,
lean meat: veal, beef, chicken, turkey, in form of: stewed, boiled, roast in foil, parchment, fricassee.

Products forbidden in low cholesterol diet:

full fat milk,
fat cottage cheese, cheese, melted cheese,
egg yolk,
haslets,
margarine,
goose, duck,
freshwater fish,
fat meat,
cream,
tallow, lard, bacon,
instant soups,
fast food,
french fries, potato pancakes,
sweet chocolate, sweets, pastries, candies,
alcohol, cocoa,
egg pasta,
color carbonated drinks
mayonnaise,
donuts, pastries prepared on fat.

Cabbage soup diet

Weight loss program:

Cabbage constitutes a precious source of vitamins and other essential for organism compounds. It can fully fill the demand for vitamin C. Fresh cabbage as well as sauerkraut increases the activity of digestive system, regulates the running of intestines and has wide medicinal properties. Sauerkraut is exceptionally low-calorific: 100 g of it has only 20 kcal of energy.
The diet won popularity thanks a rumor announcing Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski had gained a beautiful shape thanks just cabbage. It was compiled for patients with cardiological problems. People, who have used it, lose even up to 5 kg a week, but the majority of them return to the previous weight. It relies on the introduction to a menu big amounts of vegetables which fill stomach (according to the authors they also cancel hunger). Without limits one can eat vegetable soup (such soup should always consist of cabbage) and vegetables and fruit, but meat and carbohydrates are strictly limited. The cabbage soup diet ought not to be applied longer than a week, but it is recommended to serve cabbage soup to a dinner.

Recipe for cabbage soup diet - soup I:
6 big onions, 2 green peppers, a can of tomato puree, a twig of celery and a loaf of cabbage. Preparation: cut and boil all ingredients, season with salt and pepper, a bouillon cube or soybean sauce can be added.

Recipe for cabbage soup diet - soup II:
Boil 2 glasses of water with a small can of tomato puree and a shredded loaf of cabbage.

Example of cabbage soup diet:

Breakfast:
Mix 2 eggs and 3 spoons of water with salt and pepper, pour into a frying pan. Add 30 g of ham. Spread butter on 1 or 2 slices of whole-wheat bread, cover them with 20 g of skim cottage cheese, spread with low-calorific conserve, or a slice of whole-wheat bread with butter, a slice of lean cured meat product, a tomato, or mix 3 spoons of oat flakes with 3 spoons of skim yogurt, dice a small apple and add it to the flakes.

Dinner:
Fish with cabbage, or a cabbage soup with potatoes or casseroled dish made of sauerkraut, sausage and fungus.

Supper:
A pancake of grated potatoes with apple and cabbage, addition of tuna and oat flakes, or a salad of cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes and ham with addition of chicory and parsley top leaves, or red sauerkraut with turkey breast, stewed beets, pieces of pear and crisp bread, or a slice of bread with cabbage sprinkled with caraway and slices of cheese (it can be sprinkled with oil).

High - energetic diet (Weight gain diet)

Diets program:

   While the majority of people being on various diets fight overweight, there is a group of people who act oppositely and try to gain weight. Increase of weight in healthy way (by muscular tissue growth, and not adipose one!) is a slow process. To gain 0,5 kg a week the consumption of at least 500 kcal more a day consistently is needed. This quantity of calories can be variable because metabolism is affected by: body area, temperature, level of hormones, age, sex, condition of nervous system, consumption of coffee, tea, smoking and of course genetic factors. Taking into consideration mentioned above factors one must be conscious it is not easy.
   Anyone who wants to gain weight, first of all during 7 days should carefully write down what he has eaten and drunk each day, strictly count consumed calories remembering about it is to be ordinary "nourishing" week. During these 7 days each morning before the first meal and each evening one registers his weight and its possible fluctuation and the correlation with taken daily calorie amount. Registering of consumed calories allows to estimate what calorie amount must be ensured to gain weight. To such obtained daily mean calorie consumption 500 kcal a day ought to be added. If after 2 months one has not gained weight, the amount of taken calories should be increased of 250 kcal in diet.
   To gain weight one should obey several important rules of diet:

every day eat consistently three primary meals plus two or three additional snack meals. None of them may be skipped. By extension of meal "schedule" to 5-6 one will not have to force himself to consume meals and additionally will not feel "stuffing". It often happens that only 2-3 hearty meals, which only needlessly weigh digestive system, are eaten a day. The last meal - snack ought to be eaten as late as possible to not to disturb sleep and problems with falling asleep. Among meals one should not take breaks longer than 4 hours,
after physical exertion instead of water one should drink large quantity of liquid nourishment - thick fruit and vegetable juices and milk drinks (best fermented). Contained in them water activates muscles,
intensify physical exercises to stimulate muscular tissue growth. In slim people physical exercises naturally cause weight losing instead of its gaining, but they stimulate appetite by what the quantity of consumed calories can be additionally increased. Exercises also cause bigger thirst what can be easily used to consume thick fruit and vegetable juices and milk drinks,
to gain weight one must demonstrate patience, but the slower and more systematically one gains weight the more new kilograms will turn into muscular tissue instead of adipose one,
generally the consumption of higher amount of fat influences weight gaining but consumption higher amount of fats of animal origin such as: butter, fatty cheese, fatty cream, fatty meat and fast food may lead to increase of cholesterol level, that is why they should be consumed in moderate amounts, whereas the consumption of unsaturated fats originated from olives, olive oil, sea fish and nuts is beneficial,
sweets, which also influence weight increase, should be substituted by sweet nourishment of higher nutritional value: (because of content of vitamins and mineral salts essential to correct weight gaining) such as: thick fruit and vegetable juices and milk drinks, muesli, honey, nuts and raisins, dried fruit,
avoid caffeine and nicotine as they are metabolism stimulators causing calories are faster burnt,
rest, relax, physical exercises are factors which indirectly affect weight increase. Stress and tension of nervous system are factors which ought to be avoided in diet.

Products recommended (additional) in high - energetic (weight gain) diet

pasta (half-hard cooked), brown (natural) rice,
brown bakery products from full milling, whole-wheat bakery products, pumpernickel,
muesli, flakes, nuts and raisins, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds,
dried fruit: apricot, banana, papaya, apple, plum, figs, dates,
fruit: pineapple, banana, grape fruit, avocado, strawberries,
thick fruit and vegetable juices, nectars,
milk drinks: kefir, yogurt, curdled milk, acidophilous milk,
vegetables: green pea, corn (avoid canned one), potatoes, bean, carrot, vegetable marrow, olives, all remaining pod vegetables,
crackers,
honey,
sea fish,
olive oil,
poultry, beef.