The curd diet is not for everyone. This is the best option for product lovers. For those who do not like cottage cheese, it will be very difficult for them to eat just one such dish for several days.
Characteristics and principles of the curd diet
The cottage cheese diet has its own characteristics. Not only does it allow you to shed excess pounds, but it also helps strengthen the skeletal system, teeth, hair, nerves, and speed up metabolism. The short-term diet of cottage cheese does not cause stress in the body as it has all the necessary ingredients. Cottage cheese contains plenty of vitamins and easily digestible protein, in addition to giving a quick feeling of fullness.
Rules:
- The fermented dairy product must have a low fat content (up to 5%), otherwise you will not be able to lose weight. But it’s also not worth eating completely fat-free cottage cheese, it doesn’t work;
- during the diet should drink enough water - at least one and a half liters.
It is very convenient to organize fasting days on cottage cheese. Not only do they help with a little weight loss, but they also cleanse the body and speed up your metabolism.
If you do not trust a store product, you can make cottage cheese from village milk yourself:
- Place the fresh product in the refrigerator to separate the milk from the cream.
- Collect the cream.
- Place the milk in a warm and dark place to acidify.
- The resulting skim milk is poured into a pan and boiled, but do not boil. The product begins to curl.
- Once cooled, strain the mass through a cheesecloth. The cottage cheese is ready.
The serum can be used for other purposes.
Weight loss options
Cottage cheese slimming can be multi-product or single-component.
Therefore, everyone can choose the most optimal option for them:
- sleeping milk;
- cottage cheese and fruit;
- cottage cheese and milk;
- cottage cheese and eggs;
- cottage cheese and vegetables.
Only people with great willpower can sit on a monodiet. For the others, it is better to choose more lenient options with a not too narrow menu.
Recommended and prohibited foods
If ascetic foods don’t suit you, you can use other foods in addition to cottage cheese.
Among the approved foods, you can consume the following:
- walnuts (small quantities);
- leafy vegetables;
- greens;
- fruits (such as bananas or apples);
- kefir or other milk.
Adding additional foods to your diet will not allow you to interrupt your diet halfway. If you already have unbearable cottage cheese in its pure form, it can be used to make salads, omelettes, buns, casseroles.
You should not eat pastries, sweets, meat, fish, fast food or canned food.
Detailed menu for 3 and 7 days
Three-day fast mono diet option:
- Every day you should eat a pound of cottage cheese and you should drink about half a liter of kefir, this amount divided by 5 times. There is another variety: 400 g of cottage cheese and 1 liter of milk.
- You can also drink a glass of rosehips daily. Sugar-free water and green tea - unlimited.
The 3-day menu is quite cramped. If it is difficult to follow such a diet, you can add 2 more fruits a day (apple, banana, strawberry or grapefruit) to your diet. Weight loss occurs gradually. During this period, you can lose 2-5 kg.
A pleasant bonus is the reduction in stomach volume, as a result of which one begins to be satisfied with less food.
For a seven-day diet, breakfast is the same - a serving of cottage cheese, grapefruit and a cup of unsweetened green tea.
Other daily meals:
- Monday: lunch - 100 g of cottage cheese, bananas; dinner - a serving of steamed vegetables.
- Tuesday: at lunchtime - half a portion of fermented dairy product, a couple of steamed vegetable slices. You can eat carrot salad.
- Wednesday: second meal - 100 g of cottage cheese and radish salad with cabbage. In the evening - quinoa with vegetables.
- Thursday: for lunch - half a serving of cottage cheese and boiled beetroot salad. Dinner - vegetable puree soup.
- Friday: second meal - 100 g of fermented dairy products and a glass of vegetable smoothie; the third fried broccoli.
- Saturday: lunch - cottage cheese and rice with vegetables; evening - vegetable salad.
- Sunday: second meal - a little cottage cheese, a serving of vegetable soup; evening - salad of fresh seasonal vegetables.
You can take any vegetables except potatoes.
Exit rules
It is very important that you get out of your diet properly and do not spill on high calorie foods. Over the course of the week, you should gradually return to your normal diet and introduce steamed vegetables, soups, fried meat, and fish into your diet.
Who is contraindicated in such a diet?
You should not try to lose weight with the help of such a diet for pregnant mothers, breastfeeding women, and those with kidney disease.
Constipation is sometimes seen as a side effect. To eliminate this problem, the diet should be supplemented with fruits and vegetables to increase the amount of fiber.