Most girls striving for a perfect figure and maintaining feminine proportions choose protein diets based on intense protein intake. Weight in such dietary regimes (the Kremlin’s diet, Dukan’s system) goes away very slowly, and most importantly, it returns in excess immediately after canceling increased portions of protein and including carbohydrate foods in the diet. But what to do if you need to build as soon as possible and at the same time ensure stable weight at the end of weight loss? There is a way out - this is a balanced diet for 4 weeks "Maggie", the menu of which includes both protein and carbohydrates.
The so-called egg diet is not based on calorie counting or even on the fashionable alternation of proteins with carbohydrates. Its basic principle is simple, like all ingenious: products eaten for a particular meal enter into a special chemical reaction between themselves and thereby contribute to the speedy removal of toxins and excess fat from the body. That is why it is extremely important to comply with the dietary guidelines and in no case add new dishes to the prepared menu. It is also not recommended to arrange fasting days or go on medical fasting until you have completed the full four-week course "Maggie". The daily menu is detailed below.
Key recommendations
- You must strictly follow the menu. If you want to exclude any product from the daily diet, this will not interfere with the diet, but you can not replace this product with another - otherwise the chemical bond on which the effectiveness of losing weight with the help of "Maggi" is based is broken.
- Water can be drunk in any quantity. Any non-alcoholic drinks, even diet cola, are also allowed.
- Coffee and tea (without sugar) are allowed for use in an unlimited amount. However, there is a rule: you can’t sweeten these drinks with anything. Even a sugar substitute is forbidden. For the sake of greater effectiveness of the diet, it is better to refuse the addition of milk.
- Vegetables are boiled in plain water, and not in meat or fish broth. You can add spices, herbs, onions and garlic in any quantity to vegetables and other dishes.
- The proper Maggi diet categorically prohibits animal and vegetable fats as a complement to main courses. This list includes lard, margarine, sunflower, olive and butter.
- If there is a feeling of hunger, do not torment yourself and endure, comforting thoughts of a beautiful figure. Between the main meals, you can eat a cucumber, carrot or a little leafy green salad, but only if at least two hours have passed since the previous meal.
Additional tips
- Strict adherence to the prescribed regimen is the basis on which the entire 4-week Maggi diet is built. The menu consists of breakfast, lunch and dinner; at the same time, you can’t swap two meals, that is, replace lunch with dinner, and dinner with lunch.
- To get up on the scales should be every day in the morning, after visiting the toilet.
- Exercising in this diet is not necessary, but if you had minimal physical activity before starting to work on your figure, an increase in activity will safely affect weight loss and approaching the treasured figure on the scales.
- If you ate a product not listed on the menu, or replaced lunch with dinner, or took a break in losing weight, there’s no point in continuing on this diet: the sequence of chemical reactions has already been disrupted, and the desired effect can no longer be achieved. To lose weight and consolidate the result, you need to start the diet again, from the very first day.
- If you liked the results and the Maggi diet for 4 weeks is fully suitable, the menu of which will be presented below, it can be continued for another four weeks, but in this case, you should repeat the first seven days of the diet twice and twice the last. Since the consumption of animal and vegetable fats is significantly limited at Maggi, it is not recommended to repeat it more often than once every six months or a year.
- Due to the balance of proteins and carbohydrates, the diet is suitable for people of all ages. No need to take extra vitamins or other dietary supplements.
- If the description of the ration for the day does not indicate a specific amount of the product or dish, you can eat as much as you want.
Breakfast in the first two weeks
During the first fourteen days of following this diet, the same breakfast is repeated: half a grapefruit (you can replace it with an orange if desired) and one or two hard-boiled eggs (chicken). As a rule, most people find such a breakfast nutritious enough not to feel hunger until dinner.
First week
On the first day of the diet for lunch, fruits of any kind and in any quantity are allowed. It is better to choose citrus fruits, green apples, yellow or green pears, apricots, peaches, melons or watermelons. For dinner, you can cook or grill any meat except fat mutton.
On the second day for lunch, you can eat boiled or grilled chicken (the skin must be removed before starting to cook the bird). Dinner consists of two boiled eggs, a vegetable salad without dressing (you can mix cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, cabbage), one piece of bread dried in a skillet without adding butter, and one grapefruit or orange.
On Wednesday, low-fat cheese and tomatoes are eaten for lunch, crispy toast is additionally allowed - a piece of white bread dried in a pan. Dinner is the same as on Monday.
On Thursday, the Monday menu is completely repeated. This is how the Maggi diet is conceived, the essence of which is to saturate the body with vital proteins and carbohydrates with a simultaneous deficiency of fatty acids.
On Friday, eat two boiled chicken eggs with boiled or steamed vegetables for lunch. You should choose one type of vegetables from the list: either zucchini, or beans (cereal, leguminous), or carrots, or peas. For dinner, boiled or steamed fish with vegetable salad is allowed, as well as one orange or grapefruit.
On Saturday, the Monday and Thursday menus are repeated.
On Sunday for lunch, they eat boiled or grilled chicken without skin, steamed vegetables, tomatoes, citrus fruits. For dinner, only boiled vegetables remain, which can be replaced with those cooked in a double boiler.
Second week
If your choice is a 4-week “Maggie” diet, at first the menu may seem a little monotonous to you. However, do not worry in vain: the body will receive all the necessary vitamins and minerals from fruits and vegetables, and proteins and the minimum amount of fat - from meat and fish.
In the first two days of the second week, the diet is completely repeated. For lunch, a salad of fresh vegetables and boiled or grilled meat is provided, for dinner - the same salad. Two boiled eggs, an orange or grapefruit, are served to it.
On Wednesday, they eat steamed meat with fresh vegetables for lunch (preferably cucumbers), for dinner - two eggs, one grapefruit or an orange.
On Thursday, boiled eggs (no more than two), any low-calorie low-fat cheese and steamed or boiled vegetables are provided for lunch. For dinner, you can serve only one more pair of boiled eggs.
On Friday, boiled or steamed fish is planned for lunch, and a pair of hard-boiled chicken eggs for dinner.
On Saturday for lunch and dinner, you can eat orange or grapefruit, as well as treat yourself to fresh tomatoes and any boiled meat, except lamb.
On Sunday, lunch and dinner are repeated (that is, conditionally interchangeable) - this is boiled or steamed chicken without skin, steamed vegetables, fresh tomatoes, grapefruit or orange.
Third week
The third week may seem rather difficult and the most monotonous of the four, however it will help to consolidate the excellent results that the Maggi diet will give you. The table of calories and protein and carbohydrate content in specific products will no longer be useful to you - diet developers have calculated all the indicators specifically for those who want to build without harm to health.
On the first day of the third week, you can eat any fruit in any quantity and any combination. Almost all kinds of fruits are allowed - with the exception of bananas, mangoes, grapes, dates and figs.
On Tuesday, they eat any vegetables - boiled or steamed, with or without spices and herbs. Only potatoes containing excessive amounts of carbohydrates and starch are strictly prohibited.
Wednesday combines the two previous days: you can have fruits, and boiled vegetables, and a salad of fresh vegetables - at any time, in any volume. However, remember: the 4-week “Maggie” diet, whose menu is based on the chemical interaction of products, involves dividing meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. This rule does not directly apply to the third week, but experts advise to adhere to a given schedule.
On Thursday, they eat boiled or steamed fish, boiled vegetables, leafy green lettuce or white cabbage.
Boiled meat and steamed vegetables are allowed on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday are similar to fasting days: on the weekend you can only fruit of one variety. For example, on Saturday - only apples or pears, and on Sunday - only apricots or plums.
Fourth week: Monday and Tuesday menus
Diet "Maggie" details the nutrition plan for the last week. All of the listed products and dishes must be divided into three meals, respectively.
So on Monday the following are allowed:
- 4 small pieces of boiled meat or a quarter of chicken carcass;
- vegetable salad without dressing;
- 1 can of tuna (pour oil);
- 1 piece of bread dried in a pan;
- 1 orange or grapefruit.
Then on Tuesday you can:
- 2 pieces of boiled meat (up to 200 g);
- vegetable salad without dressing;
- 1 toast
- 1 any fruit or slice of melon.
Fourth week: menu on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
One of the foundations on which the Maggi diet is based is vegetables. Accordingly, a diet is planned for the middle of the fourth week.
Wednesday:
- 1 spoon of low-calorie cottage cheese or low-fat cheese;
- steamed or boiled vegetables (a small portion);
- vegetable salad without dressing (in less quantity than in the previous two days);
- 1 piece of bread dried in a pan;
- 1 orange or grapefruit.
Thursday:
- half a boiled or steamed chicken;
- vegetable salad without dressing;
- 1 piece of white bread dried in a pan;
- 1 orange or grapefruit;
- any fruit of the same variety.
Friday:
- a pair of boiled chicken eggs;
- salad;
- 3 fresh tomatoes;
- 1 orange or grapefruit.
The last days of the diet
Saturday:
- 2 pieces of boiled chicken breast;
- some cottage cheese or feta cheese;
- 1 piece of white bread dried in a pan;
- vegetable salad seasoned with yogurt;
- 1 orange or grapefruit.
On the last day (Sunday), the Monday menu is repeated.
If you are allergic to eggs or oranges (grapefruits), perhaps the Maggi curd diet is perfect for you . The menu is similar to that presented in the article, but at the same time, eggs are replaced with 200 g of cottage cheese, and citrus fruits with any other permitted fruits. Reviews of the diet will certainly inspire you to begin the path to harmony: among those who followed the menu of all four weeks with accuracy, there were still no dissatisfied results!