If you want to lose weight, do not rush to dieting: there is a much more effective way

As the dietitian said, drastically changing the diet is not difficult for most, it can also be seen in the number of people who follow different diets. However, these diets are very short and most of the people who follow them try them over and over again.

“She lost weight, came back, and then I had another miracle diet that would really work. Then the fifth, tenth, twentieth and the result remains the same. For this reason, I recommend that you think very well how many diets you have followed in your life and what the results have been. A study has found that women who have followed a regular diet have gained weight in 20 years. After that, their desired ideal weight, after 20 years, was the same as it was before they started following the diets, ”said V. Kurpienė.

According to the dietitian, small steps toward a healthy diet work much better. For example, eat a serving of vegetables every day. While this may seem a bit, if you’ve only eaten fried or roasted before, a serving of fresh veggies every day will make a nice change.

Another good and simple promise is to drink a glass of water before every meal.

After the holidays, you often resort to several days of detox or discharge. Isn’t that harmful?

“Looking at what exactly. I myself recommend landing days to some. However, for some they are suitable and for others they are not. It is not suitable in cases where a person thinks they will be able to eat a lot on the weekend and “unload” on Monday. The problem is that, in that case, we eat much more than we can unload that Monday. It happens that a person is constantly dissatisfied, thinks that he has no will and the like. When it comes to detox diets, if you eat normally, your body activates the detox program and detoxifies as well as possible without any special measures, ”said V. Kurpienė on the program.

According to the dietitian, if a person is very afraid of being very hungry on the day of the discharge, it is not worth doing. If there is no such great fear, you can not eat anything on the day of the discharge, just drink water or eat only 180 grams of grain per day. They should be soaked, boiled briefly, and consumed in some meals.

It is also possible to drink tea, but without honey and without other sweeteners. According to the dietitian, after that day you will feel really better, because the grains will dry out the body: “By the way, most religions have those days, they are just called differently. For example, fasting. Some call it a one-day fast, but for me it already has to do with suffering. And I say that we have to enjoy food, take care of our bodies ”.

However, if you eat unhealthy on a regular basis, don’t engage in any physical activity, get a lot of worthless substances into your bloodstream, and a week of detox will definitely not help you. And if it is drastic, immunity can be further weakened.

According to V. Kurpienė, healthy food must be delicious, and if it is not tasty, you are doing something wrong. After all, one of the most important things is enjoying food.

“And the myth that healthy food is tasteless dates back to ancient times, when diet food was cooked only by steam and without spices. Although you can make them very tasty. For example, and salmon, not fry, but steamed. When the parts of the fish begin to differ from each other, the steaming should be stopped. And most importantly, you don’t have to stand next to the pots, “said the interlocutor.

Also, the use of spices in cooking should not be forgotten, as they contain many antioxidants.

The dietitian advises choosing as few processed products as possible from each product group.

“The food must be varied. I recommend starting to capture what you eat. Many people have a completely different idea of ​​what they eat than they really are. Each bite needs to be arranged, both half a cookie and several finished bites from the pot. Do this for a few weeks. Then you will see how much you eat legumes, meat, fish, dairy, cereals, etc. This way, you will see where your diet is out of balance, ”said V. Kurpienė.

Is it really necessary to give up sugar, buns, carbohydrates?

According to the interlocutor, if you want these products so much that you would not survive without them, you may lack sleep or have an unbalanced diet. In the latter case, this desire will disappear when the diet is adjusted, which can be done even within a week.

“I do not recommend total abandonment of such products, as there may be fear of such products. Especially if a person loses weight. It may start to look like I’m going to get fat after eating a bun, which is practically impossible. However , it is better to eat a dessert that we really like and enjoy. If you put it in your mouth just to pass, how much pleasure do you experience? So why eat it? “Said the dietitian, adding that the food should not look good or bad, but wondering if it’s worth it or not.

When the interlocutor asked how not to lose weight after losing it, the dietician replied that such rules begin even before they throw it off, from the choice of the method of release. If you think that with such a diet that you will follow, you will only endure a certain amount of time and not all your life, you better not do it at all. Because the weight will definitely come back.

When choosing a weight loss method, you should consider that it must become a routine. Although people are often afraid of committing to their whole life because they think they will have to think about it all the time.

“It just came to our notice then. If it becomes routine for us, we won’t think about it anymore. For example, sometimes I wouldn’t drink water in the morning. Then I thought about what to do to drink it. I thought I’d put a glass in the bathroom next to the sink. When I get up and go to the bathroom, I always see her. I drink water and that’s it. When we start thinking not “why can’t I” but how to do it, we find many ways, “said V. Kurpienė.

The interlocutor also stressed that perfectionism and the desire to do everything perfectly should be thrown away, because that is why people do not start anything and feel constantly dissatisfied.