Let's start with how to arrange a fasting day correctly. After all, the final result depends on it. Everything is important here, and morale, and physical fitness, and proper nutrition before and after.
Choose a convenient day for yourself. Such will be the day on the eve of which, or after it, and, accordingly, on the chosen day itself, trips to visit guests, restaurants or other events where a hearty feast is supposed are not expected. If you always actively relax on the weekend, then it will be ideal to choose a day among the week, for example, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Arrange a fasting day for weight loss can be from 1 to 4 times a month. May you be busy on this day with something that distracts you from thoughts about food and there will be no temptations. Do not go to grocery stores, so as not to make impulse purchases and not to abandon your plan.
You can offer someone to keep you company on this day, then you will get additional moral support. Together it is always more fun and easier to overcome the tasks.
What is the essence of this day
Fasting day for weight loss involves a limitation in the amount of food consumed. In general, it is very similar to a mono-diet, but for only one day, which does not harm health, but rather helps to restore the body and improve overall performance.
During the fasting day, you can drink plenty of clean water, alternating with tea. To add sugar to it or not, you decide in accordance with the task. If you want to prevent an increase or you need to slightly lose weight, then sugar can be eaten, but in limited quantities. In other situations, try to abandon it altogether.
The most effective fasting day will work if you limit yourself to 1-1.5 kg. any one product, you will drink only clean water. On the eve of the fasting day, cut your normal diet by half in the afternoon, in the evening by 2/3. After it, eat 2/3 of the usual portion for breakfast and lunch in the morning.
But even if during the day you will eat one product in small portions, it will not go in vain. The main thing is to try to eat as much as you need to kill the hunger. Let it be every half hour for 50-100 grams. You can also alternate meals with empty tea.
Products
On a fasting day for weight loss, you should eat low-calorie foods - diet and hypoallergenic. These include low-fat or low-fat cottage cheese, kefir, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini or squash, carrots, beets. From cereals, you can stop on buckwheat or rice without additives.
If it is very difficult for you to refuse sweets, then stock up on dried fruits. They are sweet, tasty and may very well replace sweets for tea. In addition, they are rich in vitamins and minerals, so they will help maintain the balance of vital elements at the proper level, without leading to depletion. People prone to excess weight, in general, it is better to replace them with sweets, chocolate and other sweets, even on ordinary days. After 1-2 months, just giving up other sweets in favor of dried fruits can pleasantly surprise you.
On a fasting day for weight loss, you can eat granola or multigrain cereal without sugar glaze. In dry form, not everyone likes them, but you can fill them with fat-free kefir, but milk is not desirable.
What to hope for
By arranging regularly fasting days, you can easily maintain yourself in the desired shape, fight extra pounds and significantly improve the general condition of the body.
During the fasting day, you can easily lose from 100 to 500 grams. weight, subject to proper entry and exit from it. To maintain the result and subsequent weight loss at each such day, it is recommended to make friends with sports.
It is not necessary to exhaust yourself with lengthy workouts. It is quite possible to do with regular (2-3 times a week) visiting the pool or performing 5-6 exercises for various muscle groups daily.