The cottage cheese diet is not suitable for everyone. This is the best option for lovers of this product. Those who do not like cottage cheese will find it very difficult to eat just one such dish for several days.
Features and principles of the cottage cheese diet
The cottage cheese diet has its own characteristics. Not only does it allow you to lose extra pounds, but it also helps to strengthen the skeletal system, teeth, hair, nerves, and speed up metabolism. A short-term diet with cottage cheese does not put a load on the body, as it is supplied with all the necessary substances. The quark contains many vitamins and easily digestible protein, and it quickly makes you feel full.
Rules:
- Fermented milk product must have a low percentage of fat (no more than 5%), otherwise you will not be able to lose weight. But it is also not worth eating cottage cheese completely free of fat, it will not give any result;
- During the diet, you need to drink enough water - at least one and a half liters.
It is very convenient to arrange fasting days on cottage cheese. Not only will they help you lose a little weight, but they will also cleanse the body and speed up the metabolism.
If a shop product is not trusted, you can make your own cottage cheese from village milk:
- Put the fresh product in the refrigerator to separate the milk from the cream.
- Collect the cream.
- Put the milk in a warm and dark place so that it turns sour.
- Pour the resulting curdled milk into a saucepan and heat, but do not bring it to a boil. The product begins to roll up.
- When it has cooled, strain the mixture through a cheesecloth. The curd is ready.
The serum can be used for other purposes.
Weight Loss Options
Cottage cheese diet for weight loss can consist of several products or a single component.
Therefore, everyone can choose the optimal option for themselves:
- Quark;
- Cottage cheese and fruit;
- Cottage cheese and milk;
- Cottage cheese and egg;
- Cottage cheese and vegetables.
Only people with great willpower can follow a mono diet. For the rest, it is better to choose more forgiving options with a not so meager menu.
Recommended and prohibited foods
If ascetic food does not suit you, then in addition to cottage cheese, you can use other dishes.
Of the allowed foods, you can eat:
- Nuts (in small quantities);
- Leafy vegetables;
- Greens;
- Fruits (like bananas or apples);
- Kefir or other milk.
The introduction of additional foods into the diet does not allow you to stop the diet halfway. If there is already unbearable cottage cheese in its pure form, then it can be used for the preparation of salads, omelets, rolls, casseroles.
You shouldn't eat pastries, sweets, meat, fish, fast food and canned food.
Detailed menu for 3 and 7 days
Three Day Quick Mono Diet Option:
- Every day you need to eat a pound of cottage cheese and drink about half a liter of kefir, dividing this amount by five times. There is another variety: 400 g of cottage cheese and 1 liter of milk.
- You can also drink a glass of rose hips daily. Sugar-free water and green tea - unlimited.
The menu for 3 days is rather poor. If such a diet is difficult to follow, you can add 2 more fruits to your diet every day (either an apple or a banana or a strawberry or a grapefruit). Weight loss occurs gradually. During this time, you can lose 2 to 5 kg.
A pleasant bonus is a decrease in stomach volume, which makes a person content with less food.
On a seven-day diet, breakfast is the same - a serving of cottage cheese, grapefruit, and a cup of unsweetened green tea.
The remaining meals during the day:
- Monday: lunch - 100 g of cottage cheese, banana; Dinner - a serving of steamed vegetables.
- Tuesday: noon - half a serving of a fermented milk product, a couple of steamed vegetable cutlets. You can dine with carrot salad.
- Wednesday: second meal - 100 g of cottage cheese and radish salad with cabbage. Quinoa with vegetables in the evening.
- Thursday: for lunch - half a serving of cottage cheese and boiled beetroot salad. Dinner - vegetable puree soup.
- Friday: second meal - 100 g fermented milk products and a glass of vegetable smoothie; the third is baked broccoli.
- Saturday: noon - cottage cheese and rice with vegetables; in the evening - vegetable salad.
- Sunday: second meal - some cottage cheese, a serving of vegetable soup; in the evening - a salad made from fresh seasonal vegetables.
You can take any vegetable, with the exception of potatoes.
Exit rules
It is very important to finish the diet properly and not rush to rush to high calorie foods. During the week, you need to gradually return to your normal diet, including steamed vegetables, soups, baked meat and fish in the diet.
Who is contraindicated on such a diet?
You should not try to lose weight with the help of such a diet for expectant mothers, breastfeeding women, as well as people with kidney disease.
Constipation is sometimes seen as a side effect. To eliminate this problem, it is necessary to supplement the diet with fruits and vegetables to increase the amount of fiber.