The four-week egg diet - a popular way to lose weight. Total for the month of special meals extra weight will melt, and the figure will become an attractive shape. Egg diet for 4 weeks, has many advantages: it is accessible, effective, does not require a lot of time cooking, protects against hunger, contributes to the formation of correct dietary habits.

Eggs: harm or benefit?

The ratio of doctors to chicken eggs repeatedly changed. On the one hand, this product was accused that it causes allergies, contains a large amount of cholesterol, is often infected with salmonella Salmonellosis - features of the disease . On the other - the eggs were considered food, which is granted by nature, a source of protein, vitamins, minerals, lecithin and healthy fat.

Today, eggs are allowed to use almost all the diet - this product is considered to be very useful for those who want to lose weight.

If within one month to comply with such a diet, you can lose weight by 5-10 kg. However, nutritionists do not recommend too rapid weight loss, so if the weight starts to go too fast, you can make yourself a small indulgence - for example, to add to the standard diet of a couple of slices of black bread or grain.

General principles of the diet

Every day should eat one or two eggs for breakfast, and on some days and dinner. Eggs should be boiled in a bag or a hard-boiled, lovers can eat soft-boiled eggs, but no bread.

The diet will be effective if you do not break the basic rules:

• You must strictly adhere to the recommended diet;
• Do not supplement it with some other products;
• Portions should be small: instead of the usual dish is recommended to take a dessert;
• During the day you need to drink plenty of water. Other drinks (with the possible exception of green tea) under the ban;
• The last meal should be at least three hours before bedtime Dreams: how to understand our dreams .

Day after day

Every day for two weeks for breakfast should eat half a grapefruit and two boiled eggs. Grapefruit can be replaced by orange. Lunch and dinner menu changes:

• On the first day at meal you can have any number of fruit, but only one species. At dinner - 200 grams of cooked lean meat without garnish;
• Second day. For lunch boiled skinless chicken for dinner a couple of eggs, toast, green salad without dressing and half a grapefruit;
• On the third day at lunch should eat low-fat cottage cheese with tomato and toast, and for dinner - a piece of lean meat;
• Menu of the fourth day includes fruit for lunch and lean meat with salad for dinner;
• On the fifth day for lunch, you can pamper yourself salad of cooked vegetables and two eggs, and for dinner - boiled fish with green salad and orange;
• On the sixth day should be fed in the same manner as in the fourth;
• Seventh Day Lunch - a skinless chicken with fresh salad and dinner is recommended to eat boiled vegetables;
• The eighth day. For lunch lean meat with salad, two eggs for dinner with a salad and citrus;
• On the ninth day of the dinner, you can lean meat with salad and dinner is the same as the breakfast - eggs and grapefruit;
• The lunch menu includes the tenth day of meat with cucumbers, dinner reiterates breakfast;
• The eleventh day. Lunch 2 eggs, boiled vegetables, low-fat cheese or cottage cheese. At dinner, two boiled eggs;
• The twelfth day. For lunch the fish without garnish, and for dinner two eggs;
• Menu thirteenth day of meat with tomatoes for lunch and fresh fruits in any combination for dinner;
• Fourteenth day: lunch and dinner can be eaten boiled chicken without skin, boiled vegetables, citrus fruits.

By the end of the second week of weight loss is already quite considerable. To consolidate the achieved results every day to eat only one product in unlimited quantities:

• The first day - any fruit;
• Second day - any vegetables, except potatoes;
• Third day - any fruit and vegetables;
• The fourth day - boiled fish (can be supplemented with a small amount of vegetables);
• Fifth day - lean meat (can also be combined with vegetables);
• Sixth day - boiled eggs (can be combined with citrus fruits and vegetables);
• Seventh day - fruit.

The fourth week - the final. It helps the body to adjust to a normal diet. This extra weight continue to leave:

• During the first day to eat four slices (half a palm) of cooked meat, a jar of canned tuna without oil, three tomatoes, cucumber and four one orange;
• Menu of the second day: 200 grams of meat, one egg, three tomato, four cucumber, apple;
• During the third day should eat one egg, a plate of boiled vegetables, low-fat cottage cheese a tablespoon, a pair of cucumbers and tomatoes, toast one and one grapefruit;
• On the fourth day should be treated with half a chicken, three tomatoes, cucumbers, apples and oranges;
• Menu fifth day: two eggs, grapefruit, green salad, a couple of tomatoes;
• During the sixth day you can enjoy two chicken breasts, 125 grams of cheese and the same amount of yogurt, a couple of tomatoes and cucumbers;
• On the last day of the diet diet consists of eggs, canned tuna, fresh vegetables and grapefruit.

Reviews of egg diet for 4 weeks

Because the diet is varied, it is easy to sustain. In the opinion of lost weight, the weight continues to go for the entire month, but in the first week of extra kilos just melt away.

Disadvantages experience only suffering from diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal tract - they egg diet Egg diet - the full rehabilitation of eggs   hardly suitable. Healthy people can also lose so much.

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Recently, you could hear a lot of negative information about the eggs - in particular, he attributed to the property to raise cholesterol and worsen the appearance of the skin. However, supporters of the egg diet claim that it can help you lose weight and, and to lower blood cholesterol levels.

How does the egg diet

Egg Diet refers to the low-carb diet, the operation of which is the severe restriction of the use of products from any particular food group, and this case - carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates - the first thing that the body converts to fat. It is believed that if there is as much as possible eggs, lean meat, low-fat cheeses and other products containing proteins and fats, but with virtually no carbohydrates, we deprive the body the possibility to postpone the extra fat.

Normally, when you eat any carbohydrates, they are gradually recycled into simple sugars - glucose Glucose: The energy source . With this simple carbohydrates occurs much faster than with the complex. Also fat cells, all other cells in the body and use glucose as an energy source. Excess carbohydrates can absorb and store only the fat cells. When you eat too little carbohydrate, the body begins to turn into glucose previously established reserves of fat.

Options egg diet

There are several versions of the egg diet. The most extreme and least popular of them involves eating only boiled eggs for a few days. During this diet you can drink only water and green tea.

In addition to eggs, it is possible to turn the meat, some vegetables, and lean proteins. You can also eat 1-2 servings of fruit a day, but the fruit must contain a minimum amount of carbohydrates. Bread, pasta and potatoes during such a diet should be discarded.

There are so-called egg-grapefruit diet Egg-grapefruit diet - weight loss in the short term . They are very much like the previous one kind of egg diet, but with every meal to need to eat half a grapefruit.

Nutrition Plan

Approximate nutrition plan to adhere to the egg diet is as follows:

• Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, grapefruit 0.5
• Lunch: 100 grams of fried or boiled chicken without skin and green salad
• Dinner: two eggs scrambled with spinach and tomatoes

Snacking can be slices of low-fat cheese, plain yogurt and other low-calorie foods that contain minimal amounts of carbohydrates.

Advantages of the egg diet

• Protein and low-carbohydrate diets allow fairly easy to control appetite
• The use of mostly protein foods increases the number of calories burned - the body has to expend energy for processing of proteins
• Eggs are a rich source of not only proteins, but also of many nutrients
• The research results suggest that eating eggs for breakfast helps weight loss

Disadvantages egg diet

• Absence of a healthy balance of nutrients in the diet
• Exclusion from the diet of whole food groups and almost complete abandonment of vegetables
• Due to the lack of carbohydrates a person will be difficult to withstand intense exercise
• The sharp decrease in the number of carbohydrates consumed often causes nausea and feeling very tired in the early days of egg diet
• Eating a large amount of eggs can cause constipation, flatulence and halitosis
• The monotony of the diet is one of the main reasons that many people drop out after a few days
• Egg diet can not be used regularly to maintain a healthy weight
• There is a very high probability of a quick return to the previous weight after the diet

How to eat after the egg diet

Losing weight is simple: it is enough to show willpower and to cut their diet that extra weight disappeared. Diet in this case may be any - virtually all restrictions somehow help to lose weight. At the same time preserve the achieved result is obtained for a long time not all.

That is why it is so important the correct way out of any diet. And a diet based on eggs, is no exception. So you should find out in advance how to eat after the egg diet, not to make common mistakes.

The next day after the diet can gradually expand its menu due to grain products. At the same time should be increased servings of fruits and vegetables. At the same time, the protein products better in this period is not abused. It is necessary to give your body at least a week "rest" from eggs that had recently attended the menu daily.

Fats menu gradually returned, their number should not exceed 70-80 grams per day. From fried foods should be abandoned. The longer the recovery period a healthy diet Healthy eating - do not limit yourself to eating   After the egg diet, the more reliable the result will be and the less likely that the lost weight back. Do not rush: you need to give your body time to get used to the harmony. And then over time, you can sometimes afford to allow a variety of sweets, cakes or fatty delicacies without much harm to the figures.

Contraindications egg diet

Contraindications egg diet - it is an allergy, atherosclerosis and diseases of the digestive system. An allergy causes the egg white, and in atherosclerosis and high cholesterol levels in the blood have to give up the yolks.

Eggs, especially the hard-boiled, not always well absorbed by the body. Therefore, any diseases of the digestive system before the egg diet should consult a doctor. It is also important to use only fresh slimming benign eggs purchased from a trusted seller: it helps to minimize the risk of contracting salmonella Salmonellosis - features of the disease .