The goal of any girl who chooses a particular diet is to get rid of extra pounds in the shortest possible time. Over the past century, nutrition has advanced far: the basic principles of proper nutrition have long been known, which allow you not to gain extra pounds. Nevertheless, like mushrooms after rain, more and more diets appear. One such fresh popular food system is the one-hour diet. Reviews about it are contradictory: someone managed to achieve the figure of their dreams, and someone just made himself gastritis.
General Diet Information
This power system is quite rigid and original. The essence of the diet is one hour - it is allowed to eat almost anything, but only within a strictly allotted time period. Overweight people are usually happy when they learn about the ability to eat anything. However, in fact, it turns out that eating once a day is difficult - a feeling of severe hunger, weakness, dizziness quickly overtakes. Nutritionists warn that this nutritional system is suitable only for completely healthy people.
How is fast weight loss achieved? For an hour, it is almost impossible to exceed the allowable daily calories. And since in the remaining time it is forbidden to eat anything other than pure water, there is no risk of exceeding the recommended norm for the number of daily kilocalories.
The psychological point is important: a person does not need to torture himself with the complete absence of any favorite food. You just have to wait for the "golden hour" during which he will be able to satisfy his most sophisticated gastronomic needs. All foods and dishes are allowed for use, with the exception of those that contain sugar.
The Golden Hour can be arranged at any time of the day or night. Just keep in mind that this time is fixed throughout the diet. If you select an interval from 8 to 9 pm, then throughout the diet you need to eat only during this period of the day. Move the selected hour is prohibited.
The general rules of a one-hour diet imply that the duration of such a meal will be at least ten days and not more than thirty. If you adhere to such a diet for longer than one month, a deficiency of vitamins, minerals and amino acids may develop.
Contraindications to the use of diet
Nutritionists warn that people with excellent health can use this food system. If in the anamnesis there are diseases of the digestive tract, it is better to abandon the idea of ​​losing weight on a diet of one hour. Contraindications are the presence of the following diseases (both in remission and in acute condition):
- peptic ulcer of the intestine or stomach;
- cholecystitis;
- pancreatitis
- gastritis of any etiology;
- oncological neoplasms;
- erosion, polyps or neoplasms on the intestinal mucosa;
- diabetes mellitus of the first or second type;
- chronic alcoholism or drug addiction;
- toxic hepatitis, fatty degeneration of the liver, cirrhosis.
This is only a short list of the main diseases in which fasting in any of its forms is strictly contraindicated. A diet of one hour, in fact, implies interval fasting.
Side effects of using such a diet
In the first week at such an interval diet, almost all people experience weakness. Frequent dizziness and fainting indicate that this type of food is not very suitable for this person. In this case, do not torment yourself with a diet of one hour for a long time. A maximum of 10-14 days, otherwise a fainting state will be replaced by a loss of consciousness. Such an unlucky “slimming woman” runs the risk of having a new diagnosis - vegetative-vascular dystonia.
If a person tolerates a diet of one hour well: he does not experience dizziness, nausea, does not lose consciousness and does not suffer from darkening in his eyes, then you can safely tune in for a month in the regime of such a radical interval nutrition. The main thing is that the nervous system does not fail, there is no pain in the epigastric region, there are no constipation.
Interval fasting and hourly diet
Of particular interest is the one-hour diet in terms of the production of growth hormone - growth hormone. Athletes have long been experimenting with hourly nutrition, allowing for huge time gaps between meals. The principle is the same as with the hourly diet: take food daily only from one to five or from nine in the morning to twelve in the afternoon. The rest of the time is hunger.
This mode contributes to increased production of growth hormone - growth hormone. Many professional athletes inject this expensive hormone into themselves in order to rejuvenate the body, increase endurance, accelerate the growth of muscle tissue, and burn subcutaneous fat. Studies have shown that interval fasting promotes the production of endogenous growth hormone, i.e. the area of ​​the brain begins to independently produce somatotropin in greater quantities. Thus, we can conclude that a one-hour diet indirectly affects fat burning, muscle growth, and helps maintain a youthful appearance.
But there is a flip side to the coin: a high content of growth hormone in the body also contributes to the growth of tumors, if they are already there. So for people who have been diagnosed with cancer, "games" with interval fasting are strictly contraindicated.
List of allowed products
This food system is not strict: moreover, you can afford a lot of your favorite dishes, which are strictly forbidden on any other diet. Only sugar is prohibited. This restriction was introduced intentionally in order to exclude a violation of insulin resistance.
Allowed foods on a one hour diet:
- meat - any, but it is optimal to choose diet varieties with a small amount of fat (veal, chicken, turkey);
- any seafood and fish;
- any dairy products, it is permissible even to use cream, fermented baked milk and others with a high percentage of fat content;
- bakery products in which sugar is not added (of course, it is optimal to choose either Borodino or whole grain bread, but the diet also allows the use of white flour products);
- any fruits and vegetables;
- fast food and other harmful effects: barbecue, fried potatoes, burgers with spicy sauce;
- allowed dishes that conventional diets prohibit: meatballs, borscht and soups on a rich broth, cabbage soup with sorrel, goulash of pork and beef, fried fish, vegetable salads with mayonnaise.
As it became clear after reading this list, there are practically no restrictions on the food consumed. The main condition is that it should be eaten in one hour. For the rest of the time, it is permissible only to drink clean water - not tea, not coffee, not stewed fruit and not broth, otherwise it will be a violation of the diet.
What is strictly forbidden to eat
A categorical ban on diet imposes on the use of sugar. It is also not desirable, but permissible with a strong desire, the use of bakery products from white flour.
List of fully or partially restricted products:
- chocolate, sweets, caramel, candy, marshmallows;
- ice cream;
- cakes and pastries;
- butter and puff pastry and products from it;
- sweet cakes made from yeast dough (acceptable if sugar is not added to the dough and prepared, for example, with apples or berries);
- white bread with jam, jam, honey.
Stewed fruit, tea and coffee can be drunk with the addition of sweetener. This will help to comply with dietary rules and not provoke a feeling of severe hunger, which inevitably develops when eating sugar.
What can I drink on a one hour diet
The power system means a complete rejection of any alcoholic beverages. Beer, cocktails, wines and spirits are prohibited. They provoke a blow to the cells of the liver and pancreas, which already have "unsweetened" during the period of interval nutrition.
In order not to provoke jumps in insulin, you should abandon the use of tea, coffee, fruit drinks, compotes and juices of factory production with the addition of sugar.
The following drinks are allowed:
- natural freshly squeezed juices;
- tea and coffee, either sugarless or sweetened;
- mineral water with or without gas;
- drinks "Cola Zero" and "Pepsi Light" (no more than 200 ml per day);
- natural kvass.
How to deal with a constant feeling of hunger
Reviews of the one-day diet indicate that almost all people in the first week suffer from a feeling of severe hunger. But almost everyone is “warmed up” by the idea that the golden hour is nearing, during which you can eat your favorite dish - be it from meat, potatoes, with or without bread.
Most often, a strong, painful hunger indicates that the body experienced a strong jump in insulin. This happens most often after eating foods containing sugar. Sometimes a jump in insulin can trigger the ingestion of fruits that contain a lot of fructose. It is not as harmful as sucrose, and has a lower glycemic index.
Reviews on the diet of one hour of overweight girls
Positive reviews indicate that the diet was easy to keep. The girls were able to get rid of the bored 4-5 kg ​​in a couple of weeks, and after returning to their normal diet, the excess weight did not return again.
Negative reviews of the one-hour diet are most often associated with health problems that began after a change in your diet. No wonder nutritionists warn that the diet is shown only to completely healthy people. Reviews indicate that frequent pain in the epigastric region, constipation and nausea amid attempts to change your diet.
Obesity Diet Reviews
Obese people will not be able to get rid of twenty to thirty extra pounds even in a month of interval nutrition according to the principles of a one-hour diet. Reviews report that this style of nutrition can be used as part of complex therapy to get rid of obesity. Since in order to "eat" yourself obesity, you have to try for years or decades, then treatment cannot be carried out in a few months.
Reviews of obese people about a one-hour diet are not very positive. The body is in no hurry to produce growth hormone and trigger the mechanisms of fat burning, as the metabolism is too disturbed. In order to restore the proper functioning of the metabolism, you should at least for one year eat right and include at least rare sports in your life.
Reviews of professional athletes
As mentioned above, amateur and professional athletes adhere to the dietary rules of one hour during fat burning. True, they slightly change it for themselves: they eat mainly protein food, and not for one hour, but three or four.
Reviews about this diet are positive. Yes, it is very strict, and to withstand it requires remarkable health and willpower. But such nutrition can reduce the percentage of fat in the body to 10-12%. The result of a one-hour diet is impressive: the relief of even relatively small muscles becomes visible.
Reviews and opinions of doctors about such nutrition
Reviews about the one-hour diet of doctors are often negative. Since almost every person has an undiagnosed disease of the gastrointestinal tract, such nutrition often does more harm than good. Doctors against a radical change in nutrition.
Even if there is no official diagnosis yet, intermittent nutrition can provoke severe pain. A person goes for examination, during which they diagnose a whole "bouquet" of chronic ailments. For most people, fractional meals in small portions of healthy foods are preferred throughout the day.