Favorite Diet is a mono-nutrition option that helps you lose excess weight.Moreover, it is so versatile that it certainly lives up to its name.
The essence of the Favorite diet
Based on the duration of the diet and its severity (more on this below), each day you will be allowed a certain set of foods for that day.This list should be followed.And include at least a minimum set of physical exercises in your daily life to start the process of losing weight.
How many extra pounds can you lose?
You need to start from the starting number on the scale.
On average, reviews suggest losing 4-5 kg per week in the favorite diet if you follow a gentle regimen, and about 7-10 kg with a strict regimen.
With a diet of three and four weeks, more than 10 kg can be lost.
How and why weight loss
The favorite diet contains several conditions that help you lose weight quickly:
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 day is fasting day;they remove fluid from tissues.
Diet rules
During the selected period, you need to adhere to the diet described for each day.At the same time, you can choose your own diet from your favorite foods.If it is a drinking day, then you can only drink during the day.This is the strictest day, but very productive.
There are several options for the duration of the diet.We recommend that you realistically assess your strengths and motivations and choose the path that best suits you right now.
This can be 7, 12, 14, 21 or 30 days.
The seven-day system is the most accessible.Here's what the diet looks like:
- First day - drink;
- Second day - vegetables;
- 3rd day - drink;
- 4th day - fruit;
- Day 5 - protein;
- 6th day - drink;
- Day 7 - balanced diet.
List of permitted and prohibited products
Regardless of the day, if you are really committed to the results, you need to eliminate unhealthy foods, mayonnaise, sugar and salt from your diet.You should also abstain from alcohol (dry wine may be an exception).In the case of the longest version of the Favorite diet for 30 days, sugar should be replaced with honey, and the use of salt in reasonable quantities is acceptable.
Water will definitely be on the list of recommended products.Every day - at least 2 liters.Drink green tea (without sugar).
| Day | allowed | Prohibited/not recommended |
| Drink | Water, weak tea, low-fat kefir, coffee without milk and sugar, low-fat yogurt, soup, soup, milk | Sugar-sweetened beverages (including soda), flavored yogurt, packaged juices |
| vegetables | Boiled vegetables, raw, baked in any form, vegetable salad with lemon dressing (no salt) | Mayonnaise and butter as a dressing.Canned potatoes and vegetables are not recommended. |
| Fruits | Raw fruits, baked in the oven, fruit salad | It is recommended to avoid bananas and grapes. |
| Protein | Chicken, fish, chicken or quail eggs, low-fat cheese, cottage cheese, other dairy products | Oil for frying (use boiled breast, grill fish).
Do not eat fatty meat: pork, lamb. |
Menu for 7 days
Classic (hard) version.
The strict version of the diet assumes that you are ready for significant dietary restrictions.With this option, you will experience a calorie deficit.In addition to products from the table, only water and unsweetened green tea are allowed during the day.
Sample menu:
| Day | Sample menu |
| 1 (Drinkable) | Distribute 1-2 liters of low-fat kefir throughout the day, drink when you feel hungry |
| Day 2 (Drinks) | Distribute 1-2 liters of low-fat kefir throughout the day, drink when you feel hungry |
| Day 3 (Fruit: Apple) | Distribute fresh apples, fresh apples, baked apples 5-6 times a day |
| Day 4 (Protein) | Distribute 300 grams of lean boiled chicken meat 5-6 times during the day |
| Day 5 (Protein) | Distribute 300 grams of lean boiled chicken meat 5-6 times during the day |
| Day 6 (Protein) | Distribute 300 grams of lean boiled chicken meat 5-6 times during the day |
| Day 7 (Cheese and wine) | 5-6 servings, each: 50 ml of dry wine and about 30-40 g of hard cheese |
An easy choice
If you are not ready or a strict diet is not recommended for health reasons, you can stick to a soft diet.There is a more varied diet here, and you will feel less hungry.
| Day | Sample menu |
| 1 (Drinkable) | Breakfast: tea without sugar
Snack: 200 ml of low-fat kefir Lunch: chicken soup without salt 200 ml Afternoon snack: yogurt 150 ml Dinner: a glass of skim milk |
| Day 2 (Vegetables) | Breakfast: 2 fresh tomatoes
Second breakfast: fresh cabbage salad with cucumber and herbs, seasoned with lemon juice and a drop of olive oil Lunch: boiled vegetables Snack: cucumber Dinner: Cucumber, tomato, sweet pepper and herb salad |
| Day 3 (Drink) | Breakfast: 150 ml of unsweetened yogurt
Snack: 200 ml low-fat milk Lunch: 200 ml of chicken soup without salt Snack: 200 ml of milk Dinner: a glass of kefir |
| Day 4 (Bearing) | Breakfast: 2 oranges
Snack: grapefruit Lunch: vegetable salad dressed 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 beans Snack: low-fat yogurt Dinner: boiled or baked fish |
| Day 6 (Drink) | Breakfast: green tea
Snack: 200 ml of low-fat kefir Lunch: 200 ml of chicken soup 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 and soup Snack: 150 grams of low-fat cottage cheese Dinner: fresh vegetable salad, seasoned with lemon juice and olive oil |
Menu for 14 days
Represents 2 consecutive circles of the seven-day diet.But since such long-term dietary restrictions can cause loss of strength, in this option it is allowed to include:
- coffee and chicory - 1 cup a day (without sugar);
- on drinking days - milkshakes, freshly squeezed juice with pulp, jelly;
- on vegetable and fruit day - green smoothie or cocktail.
Menu for 12 days
There are several options for this diet.
It comes down to the fact that you use the 2 week diet scheme described above.But you removed the 7th and 14th day.Since we are eliminating the most "nutritious" days, when you hardly feel hungry, this diet choice is not easy.
Option 2 is more difficult.For six days you have to follow the nutrition plan according to the gentle seven-day diet.Next, the diet is as follows:
- Day 7 - fasting (drink only water);
- Day 8 - vegetables;
- Day 9 - fasting (drink only low-fat kefir);
- Day 10 - protein (300 grams of boiled chicken breast);
- Day 11 - fasting (drink only green tea);
- Day 12 is balanced (like the last day in the 7 day soft version).
The sequence of food alternates in the diet for 21 days
The principle of building a menu for 3 weeks will remain the same: we will replace the mono-diet.Only in this case, each block will last for 3 days.There will be some flexibility 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.Like the seven-day diet, vegetables can be eaten raw, boiled, steamed or boiled.Unlike the classic version, you can add vegetable pieces, and olive oil is acceptable in the salad;
- Days 7-9 – Fruits.Fruits in any form.In the three-week version, you can add yogurt to the salad;
- 10-12 – Meat.Lean chicken meat, boiled or baked, is allowed here.You can't use salt, but you can vary the taste with different spices;
- Day 13-15 – Protein.Here the diet will be fish, as well as vegetable protein: beans, legumes;
- Days 16-18 – Wine and cheese.The amount of wine is at your discretion.It can be replaced with pomegranate juice (300ml).You can eat about 300 grams of cheese per day;
- Day 19-21 - balanced diet.Mix and cook the products from all the previous blocks.Such a diet will prepare you perfectly to leave the diet and will help the body adapt to a "normal" diet.
The sequence of food alternates in the diet for a month
In this case, you will also change the mono-diet 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 boiled or stewed zucchini
- Day 7-9 – Protein.. You can make steamed cutlets from chicken meat,
- Day 10-12 – Fruits
- 13-15 days - Drink
- Days 16-18 – Vegetables
- Days 19-21 – Protein
- Day 22-24 – Fruits
- Days 25-27 – Wine and cheese.Unlike the strict version of the weekly diet, the use of black bread (200 g) is allowed here.
- Days 28-30 – Balanced.If you use your imagination, you can get a varied diet..
What to do in case of damage
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, "since it's already gone."
If, for example, you eat too much on a drinking day, for the rest of the day try to limit the number of calories you eat and eat only the right foods that are allowed on a balanced day.And from the next day, pick up where you left off.That is, in our case, the next day, arrange a drinking day for yourself again.
Another little tip: if you disturb your nutritional system and eat too much, try to reduce the calories you eat with exercise.Jogging or any cardio activity is perfect.
Recipes for Favorite Diets
For drinking days
In addition to freshly squeezed juice and kefir, here you can enjoy a glass of healthy cocktails, for example:
- 2 bananas
- 1 ripe mango
- 200 ml of water
Mix all the ingredients in a blender and pour into a glass.
Tomato puree soup
- Peel 200 grams of tomatoes, first blanch with boiling water
- Saute 1 large onion, 1 clove of garlic in a little oil
- Add tomatoes to onions, simmer until wilted.Add water, pour everything into a blender and blend on high speed.
- Garnish with a sprig of basil
For vegetable day
Fresh vegetable salad
White cabbage, sweet pepper, tomato, cucumber - finely chop everything, season with lemon juice and a little olive oil.
Squash caviar
- Peel the zucchini.grate and simmer in its own juice for about half an hour.
- Boil onions and carrots, add a drop of oil, mix with zucchini mass, simmer for about 5 minutes.
For fruit day
Baked Apples with Cinnamon and Honey
Wash the apples, cut off the top and core.Pour a teaspoon of honey mixed with ground cinnamon in it.Bake in the oven for about half an hour.
Fruit salad
Orange, pineapple, kiwi, apple cut into cubes.Drizzle with low-fat yogurt and garnish with a sprig of mint.
For protein day
Juicy poached salmon
Place salmon fillets (or other fish of your choice) in a plastic bag and place in boiling water.Cook until done.Sprinkle with lemon juice.
Stuff the chicken in soy sauce
- Cut the chicken into small pieces, add soy sauce and garlic.Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Simmer without oil for about 10 minutes.
Why is it worth the weight?
It happens that at some point the weight stops coming off.This can happen on any diet.On a favorite diet, the main thing is not to stop and continue to follow the nutritional system.
Make sure you follow all the rules exactly.If you're on a bland diet, you may be consuming too many calories.Remember that with any weight loss system, you should always feel a little hungry.The total number of calories taken should not exceed 1600.
How to make your diet more effective
If you feel empowered, you can try creating a bigger calorie deficit to make your diet more effective.If you're on the easy version of the diet, check out the strict version.It is possible to alternate days: hard and soft options.
Add sports.This will not only help you burn more calories, but it will also make you look fitter and stronger.
How to safely stop dieting and maintain results
After the diet, you will definitely lose 5-10 extra pounds.This will be due to dietary restrictions.The most important thing after all the work is not to get back the hated fat.To do this, you need to efficiently exit the diet and then eat properly after the diet.
The beginning of leaving the diet will be the last day: a balanced diet.Follow this diet for about another week.
If you overload your body with burgers or fried food on the first day, it will immediately begin to accumulate lost calories, turning them into fat.All the lost kg will return in larger amounts.
Contraindications and health risks
The favorite diet cannot be called balanced, so it is not suitable for everyone.
Who the diet is not suitable for:
- Pregnant and breastfeeding mothers
- People with gastritis, ulcers, gastrointestinal problems
- People with diabetes
Opinions of doctors and nutritionists
Doctors and nutritionists agree on the following about the Favorite diet:
- It is not recommended to repeat it more than once every 3 months, and a 30-day course more than once a year.
- If you have problems with stool (diarrhea), use oatmeal to break the diet.
- Use broccoli instead of white cabbage.
Comparison with other rotation-based diets
Many diets have been built based on mononutrition, including the famous "6 petals".
Favorite Diet Benefits
- More effective, allows you to lose more kg;
- In addition to losing weight, it cleanses the body;
- Have a smooth exit;
- Due to the large number of options, it is possible to choose the most suitable option.
Cons
- Hard to bear
- Unbalanced, which can cause health problems