The favorite diet is a mono-nutrition option that will help you lose excess weight.In addition, it is so diverse that it lives up to its name.
The essence of the favorite diet
Depending on the duration of the diet and its severity (more on this below), you will be allowed a certain choice of food each day.This list must be followed.And integrate at least a minimum of physical exercises into your everyday life to start the weight loss process.
How many extra pounds can you lose?
You must start with the starting number on the scale.
On average, reviews suggest that if you follow a gentle diet, you will lose 4-5 kg per week on your favorite diet, and about 7-10 kg if you follow a strict diet.
More than 10 kg can be lost on a three and four week diet.
How and why does weight decrease?
The favorite diet contains several conditions that will help you quickly lose extra pounds:
It forces the body to adapt to a new nutritional system every day.This speeds up your metabolism and burns more calories.
The sample menu is designed to create a calorie deficit.
Drinking days are fasting days;They remove fluid from the tissue.
Diet rules
During the selected period, you must follow the described diet every day.At the same time, you can choose your own diet from your favorite foods.If it is a drinking day, you can only drink during the day.These are the strictest days but very productive.
There are many options for the duration of the diet.We recommend that you realistically assess your strengths and motivation and choose the path that is right for you now.
This can be 7, 12, 14, 21 or 30 days.
The seven-day system is the most accessible.This is what their diet looks like:
- Day 1 – Drinking;
- Day 2 – Vegetables;
- Day 3 – Drinking;
- 4th day – fruit;
- Day 5 – Protein;
- Day 6 – Drinking;
- Day 7 – balanced diet.
List of permitted and prohibited products
Regardless of the day, if you really want results, you need to eliminate unhealthy foods, mayonnaise, sugar and salt from your diet.Alcohol should also be avoided (dry wine can be an exception).In the longest version of the favorite diet, 30 days, sugar should be replaced with honey, salt consumption in reasonable quantities is acceptable.
Water will definitely be on the list of recommended products.Every day - at least 2 liters.Drink green (unsweetened) tea.
| day | Allowed | Forbidden/not recommended |
| Drink | Water, weak tea, low-fat kefir, coffee without milk and sugar, low-fat yogurt, soups, broths, milk | Sugar-sweetened drinks (including soda), flavored yogurt, packaged juices |
| Vegetables | Cooked, raw, baked vegetables in any form, vegetable salads with lemon dressing (without salt) | Mayonnaise and butter as dressing.Potatoes and canned vegetables are not recommended. |
| Fruity | Raw fruit, baked in the oven, fruit salads | It is recommended to avoid bananas and grapes. |
| protein | Poultry, fish, chicken or quail eggs, low-fat cheese, cottage cheese, other dairy products | Oil for frying (use boiled breast, bake fish).
Do not eat fatty meats: pork, lamb. |
Menu for 7 days
Classic (hard) version
A strict version of the diet assumes that you are prepared for significant dietary restrictions.This option puts you in a calorie deficit.In addition to the products from the table, only water and green tea without sugar are allowed during the day.
Example menu:
| day | Sample menu |
| 1 (drinkable) | Distribute 1-2 liters of low-fat kefir throughout the day and drink it when you feel hungry |
| Day 2 (drinking) | Distribute 1-2 liters of low-fat kefir throughout the day and drink it when you feel hungry |
| Day 3 (Fruity: Apple) | Distribute fresh apples, fresh apples, baked apples 5-6 times a day |
| Day 4 (Protein) | Distribute 300 grams of cooked lean chicken meat 5-6 times throughout the day |
| Day 5 (Protein) | Distribute 300 grams of cooked lean chicken meat 5-6 times throughout the day |
| Day 6 (Protein) | Distribute 300 grams of cooked lean chicken meat 5-6 times throughout the day |
| Day 7 (cheese and wine) | 5-6 meals, each: 50 ml dry wine and about 30-40 g hard cheese |
Simple option
If you are not ready yet or a strict diet is not recommended for health reasons, you can stick to a gentle diet.Here there is a more varied diet and you feel less hungry.
| day | Sample menu |
| 1 (drinkable) | Breakfast: unsweetened tea
Snack: 200 ml low-fat kefir Lunch: chicken broth without salt 200 ml Afternoon snack: yogurt 150 ml Dinner: a glass of skimmed milk |
| Day 2 (vegetables) | Breakfast: 2 fresh tomatoes
Second breakfast: fresh cabbage salad with cucumbers and herbs, seasoned with lemon juice and a drop of olive oil Lunch: steamed vegetables Snack: cucumber Dinner: Salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and herbs |
| Day 3 (drinking) | Breakfast: 150 ml unsweetened yogurt
Snack: 200 ml low-fat milk Lunch: 200 ml unsalted chicken broth Snack: 200 ml milk Dinner: a glass of kefir |
| Day 4 (fruity) | Breakfast: 2 oranges
Snack: grapefruit Lunch: vegetable salad with lemon juice Snack: apple Dinner: pear and grapefruit |
| Day 5 (Protein) | Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Snack: 100 g of cheese Lunch: 150 g of boiled chicken fillet and 100 g of boiled peas Snack: low-fat yogurt Dinner: boiled or baked fish |
| Day 6 (drinking) | Breakfast: green tea
Snack: 200 ml low-fat kefir Lunch: 200 ml chicken broth without salt Snack: 200 ml fresh grapefruit Dinner: 150 ml yogurt |
| Day 7 (balanced) | Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Snack: apple and pear Lunch: 150 ml of boiled chicken fillet and broth Snack: 150 grams of low-fat cottage cheese Dinner: fresh vegetable salad seasoned with lemon juice and olive oil |
Menu for 14 days
Represents two circles in a row of a seven-day diet. However, since such long-term dietary restriction can lead to a loss of strength, it is allowed to include the following in this option:
- Coffee and chicory – 1 cup per day (without sugar);
- on drinking days - milkshakes, freshly squeezed juices with pulp, jelly;
- on vegetable and fruit days - a green smoothie or cocktail.
Menu for 12 days
There are several options for this diet.
What matters is that you follow the two-week diet regimen described above.But you remove the 7th and 14th days.Since we eliminate the “most nutrient-dense” days when you hardly feel hungry, this diet option is not easy.
Option 2 is even more difficult.For six days you have to follow the nutrition plan according to a gentle seven-day diet.Next, the diet looks like this:
- Day 7 – Fasting (drinking only water);
- Day 8 – Vegetables;
- Day 9 – Fasting (drink only low-fat kefir);
- Day 10 – Protein (300 grams of cooked chicken breast);
- Day 11 – Fasting (drink only green tea);
- The 12th day is balanced (like the last day in the 7-day gentle variant).
The sequence of alternating foods in the diet for 21 days
The principle of compiling a menu for 3 weeks remains the same: we will alternate mono-diets.Only in this case each block lasts 3 days.There will be some relaxations in the weekly diet to make it easier for the body to tolerate the restrictions.
- Days 1-3 – Drink.Since the diet is quite long, 200 grams of low-fat cottage cheese and a glass of jelly are allowed;
- Days 4-6 – Vegetables.As with the Seven Day Diet, vegetables can be eaten raw, steamed, stewed, or boiled.In contrast to the classic version, you can add vegetable cutlets, olive oil is also acceptable in the salad;
- Days 7-9 – Fruit.Fruits in any form.In the three-week version, you can add yogurt to the salad;
- 10-12 – Meat.Lean poultry meat, boiled or baked, is permitted here.You can not use salt, but you can diversify the taste with different spices;
- Days 13-15 – Protein.Here the diet consists of fish as well as vegetable proteins: nuts, legumes;
- Days 16-18 – Wine and cheese.The amount of wine is at your discretion.It can be replaced with pomegranate juice (300 ml).You can eat about 300 grams of cheese per day;
- Days 19-21 – balanced diet.Mix and cook products from all previous blocks.Such a diet prepares you optimally for stopping the diet and helps the body adapt to the “normal” diet.
The sequence of alternating foods in the diet for a month
In this case, you will also alternate mono diets for 3 days each.
- Days 1-3 – Drink.In addition to the products described in the seven-day diet, fruit and milk smoothies, vegetable puree soup,
- Days 4-6 – Vegetables.You can diversify the menu with stew or stewed zucchini
- Days 7-9 – Proteins.You can cook steamed cutlets from poultry meat,
- Days 10-12 – Fruits
- 13-15 days – Drink
- Days 16-18 – Vegetables
- Days 19-21 – Proteins
- Days 22-24 – Fruits
- Days 25-27 – Wine and Cheese.In contrast to the strict variant of the weekly diet, the consumption of black bread (200 g) is allowed here.
- Days 28-30 – Balanced.If you let your imagination run wild, you can have a varied diet.
What to do in the event of a breakdown?
If a “breakdown” occurs, the most important thing is to stop in time.If you eat a piece of chocolate, it's important not to panic and eat a few thousand more calories, "because it's gone anyway."
For example, if you eat too much on a drinking day, for the rest of the day try to limit the number of calories consumed and eat only the right foods that are allowed in a balanced day.And from the next day, pick up where you left off.In our case, that means arranging another drinking day for yourself the next day.
Another little tip: If you mess up your nutritional system and eat too much, try to burn off the calories you consume through exercise.Jogging or any cardio activity is perfect.
Recipes for Diet Favorites
For a drinking day
In addition to freshly squeezed juices and kefir, you can also enjoy a glass of healthy cocktail here, for example:
- 2 bananas
- 1 ripe mango
- 200 ml water
Mix all ingredients in a blender and pour into a glass.
Tomato puree soup
- Peel 200 grams of tomatoes and first pour boiling water over them
- Fry 1 onion and 1 clove of garlic in a little oil
- Add tomatoes to onions and simmer until soft.Add water, put everything in a blender and mix on high speed.
- Garnish with a sprig of basil
For vegetable day
Fresh vegetable salad
White cabbage, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber – chop everything finely, season with lemon juice and a little olive oil.
Pumpkin caviar
- Peel zucchini.Grate and simmer in its own juice for about half an hour.
- Sauté the onions and carrots, add a drop of oil, mix with the zucchini mixture and simmer for about 5 minutes.
For a fruit day
Baked apples with cinnamon and honey
Wash apples, cut off the top and core.Pour in a teaspoon of honey with ground cinnamon.Bake in the oven for about half an hour.
Fruit salad
Cut oranges, pineapple, kiwi and apple into cubes.Drizzle with low-fat yogurt and garnish with a sprig of mint.
For a protein day
Juicy cooked salmon
Place salmon fillet (or other fish of your choice) in a plastic bag and place in boiling water.Cook until done.Drizzle with lemon juice.
Chicken fillet in soy sauce
- Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces, add soy sauce and garlic.Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Simmer without oil for about 10 minutes.
Why is the weight worth it?
It happens that at some point the weight stops decreasing.This can happen with any diet.When it comes to your favorite diet, the most important thing is not to stop and to continue to stick to the nutritional system.
Check that you are following all the rules exactly.If you follow a bland diet, you may be consuming too many calories.Remember that with any weight loss program, you should always feel a slight sense of hunger.The number of calories consumed should not exceed 1600.
How to make your diet more effective
When you feel empowered, you can try creating an even larger calorie deficit to make your diet more effective.If you used the easy version of the diet, try the strict version.It is possible to alternate days: hard and gentle options.
Add sports.Not only will you burn more calories, but you will also look fitter and stronger.
How to Quit a Diet Safely and Maintain the Results
After the diet you will definitely lose 5-10 extra pounds.This is due to dietary restrictions.The most important thing after all the work is not to gain back the hated fat.To do this, you need to finish the diet competently and eat properly after the diet.
The beginning of the exit from the diet will be the last day: a balanced diet.Stick to this diet for about a week.
If you overload your body with burgers or fried foods on the first day, it will immediately begin to accumulate the missing calories and convert them into fats.All the kilograms lost come back in even larger proportions.
Contraindications and health risks
The favorite diet cannot be called balanced and therefore is not suitable for everyone.
Who the diet is not suitable for:
- Pregnant and nursing mothers
- People with gastritis, ulcers, gastrointestinal problems
- People with diabetes
Opinions of doctors and nutritionists
Doctors and nutritionists agree on the favorite diet:
- It is not recommended to repeat the course more than once every 3 months and a 30-day course more than once a year.
- If you have problems with stool (diarrhea), interrupt the diet with oatmeal.
- Use broccoli instead of white cabbage.
Comparison with other rotation-based diets
Many diets are based on mononutrition, including the well-known “6 petals”.
Benefits of the favorite diet
- More effective, allows you to lose more kg;
- In addition to weight loss, it cleanses the body;
- Has a smooth exit;
- Due to the variety of options, it is possible to choose the most suitable option.
Disadvantages
- Hard to bear
- Unbalanced, which can lead to health problems