6 petals - 6 days - 6 mono-diets. This system was developed by a nutritionist from Sweden Anna Johansson. The name reflects the concept that the author depicted as a six-petal flower. Petals correspond to diet days, in each of which only one product is allowed. If you correctly follow the sequence of days and products, then for a six-day cycle, you can lose up to 5 kilograms of excess weight.
6 petal diet - concept
The diet for six days is as follows:
• The first day - fish dishes. It is permissible to eat it raw, cook, bake, steam. But fried or canned fish is prohibited. Fish can be both oily and lean. Also allowed fish stock.
• The second day - dishes from vegetables. They have few calories, but many vitamins. They can be eaten raw or boiled, grilled. Soups and vegetable juices are also allowed.
• The third day is chicken. Just like fish, it is recommended to stew, cook, bake, but not fry. Peel must be removed. Chicken is not too high in calories, but nutritious due to the large amount of protein, so you definitely will not have to starve on this day.
• The fourth day - cereals (cereals, cereals). They also give a feeling of fullness for a long time. Since these are complex carbohydrates, it takes a lot of time to digest them. At the same time, cereals help cleanse the body. Croup can be poured with water and there is swollen. Or boil any cereal on the water, make cereal from cereal, which, incidentally, is allowed to add a few nuts that day - but not more than a handful.
• Fifth day - cottage cheese dishes. It is recommended to take low-fat cottage cheese, in addition to it - low-fat yogurt. Milk, kefir, also non-fat, are also acceptable. The curd diet can be varied with casserole or cheesecakes.
• The sixth day - fruits. Any, with the exception of bananas (too high-calorie) and grapes (it contains a lot of sugar). From fruits you can make smoothies, salads, stew them or bake.
Between breakfast, lunch and dinner, it is recommended to drink herbal teas, mineral water, vegetable, fish or chicken broth (on the corresponding days of the diet).
Thus, alternating protein foods and carbohydrates. This is the basis of the effectiveness of the diet. With this alternation, metabolism is accelerated, the body begins to expend fat deposits. In addition, such one-day mono-diets are essentially a form of separate nutrition. In this case, from each eaten product, our body takes only the substances it needs and does not transform excess calories into unwanted kilograms.
6 petal diet - the rules for successful weight loss
From 500 to 800 grams daily allows you to lose such a diet. However, for this it is necessary to strictly follow some principles:
• All day you need to eat only one diet-specific product;
• meals should be made frequent, eat in small portions, chew each piece very well;
• you can’t drink food, all liquids - only between meals;
• you cannot change the sequence of monodiet days established in this food system, otherwise the underlying principle of alternating carbohydrate and protein products will be violated;
• vegetable oil and salt - a minimum;
• under the ban - hot spices and all sugar-containing products, pastries, canned goods, smoked meats.
You need to go out of the diet of 6 petals wisely. Do not immediately eat everything. Diversify the diet should be gradual. It’s better to take only those foods that were in mono-diets for a few more days, trying to periodically alternate protein and carbohydrate foods. Flour and sweet in the early days are also recommended to be avoided. Then, since the body has already adapted to proper nutrition without junk food, it is also advisable to limit the amount of sweets, fatty and fried foods. Together with light physical exertion, this will help maintain the achieved effect.
You can repeat the six-day monodiet cycle no earlier than a month later.
Pros and cons of a 6-petal diet, contraindications
The main plus - there is no need to starve. It is also not too difficult to psychologically observe such a diet - nutrition, although it is one-component, but not uniform, is a new type of food every day that gives the body energy and the necessary substances. So you can lose weight without unnecessary stress from the restrictions on food. For better motivation, the creator of the system suggests cutting a flower from paper, signing the corresponding days of the diet on its petals and tearing off one by one daily. Thus, losing weight visualizes his success for himself.
Of the minuses, it is worth noting that a diet of 6 petals will not be easy to observe at work, in an office or production environment. After all, you need to take food fractionally, often, and eat only a certain product. So if there is no way to ensure a proper diet, it is better to postpone losing weight on vacation.
This diet has contraindications. Do not sit on it during pregnancy or lactation, as well as during an exacerbation of any disease. It is also not recommended for:
• anemia:
• problems with the stomach and intestines;
• diseases of the kidneys and liver;
• fever;
• diabetes.
Diet 6 petals - make up the menu
There is no need to invent any special recipes. Nutritionists recommend that familiar dishes be adapted to a 6-petal diet. Just do not put a lot of salt and oil, do without spices, eliminate sugar. In addition, you should give preference to cooking in a double boiler, baking in the oven, but you will have to refuse fried foods. You can add greens to dishes, drink unsweetened coffee (one cup per day) or tea. On the day of vegetable dishes, you can add olive oil to them (a tablespoon per day). It is allowed to season the cottage cheese with vanilla or cinnamon, and add a teaspoon of honey to the fruit. Also on fruit day you can drink compotes and juices.
Despite the fact that the diet of 6 petals does not establish a limit on the number of products for each day, nutritionists advise when compiling the menu to still consider the following recommendations:
• on fish, cottage cheese and chicken days, it is advisable to consume a total of no more than half a kilogram of the finished product;
• cereals (dry cereals) should be used during the day from 200 to 300 grams;
• fruits and vegetables can be eaten up to 1.5 kg.
An approximate diet for the days of the diet looks like this:
First day:
• grilled fish;
• fish in foil with greens;
• fish broth with a slice of fillet;
• steam fish cakes;
• boiled fish.
Second:
• vegetable stew;
• salad of cabbage and carrots;
• mashed potatoes (without milk and butter);
• grilled vegetables (eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes);
• salad of tomatoes, cucumbers and Beijing cabbage.
Third:
• boiled chicken;
• chicken breast stewed in its own juice slices;
• chicken broth with a piece of meat;
• steam chicken cutlets;
• oven-baked chicken.
Fourth:
• oatmeal on the water;
• millet porridge;
• rice porridge;
• buckwheat cutlets;
• multi-cereal porridge or granola.
Fifth:
• cheesecakes;
• cottage cheese with yogurt;
• a glass of kefir;
• cheese casserole;
• cottage cheese with kefir.
Sixth:
• fruit smoothie;
• baked apple;
• salad of peaches, apples, kiwi;
• freshly squeezed juice, fruit or berry compote;
• fresh fruits: grapefruit, pineapple, orange, pear and others as desired.
6-petal diet food examples
For a fish day:
Fish cutlets
A slice of fish fillet should be minced in a meat grinder. Refrigerate for twenty minutes. Then add a little salt to the minced meat, mold the cutlets and cook them in a double boiler or bake in the oven
Steamed red fish
Salt salmon, pink salmon or chum salmon fillet lightly. Put greens on top of the fish. Cook in a double boiler.
Baked fish
A piece of filet a little salt. Grind a clove of garlic. Finely chop the dill or parsley. Mix with garlic and spread on filet. Wrap in foil. Bake in the oven.
For a vegetable day:
Vegetable stew
• bow;
• carrot;
• eggplant;
• zucchini;
• cabbage.
First, finely chopped onions and grated carrots in a skillet. Dice the remaining vegetables. Add to pan. Slightly add salt, pour in a little water. Simmer until soft.
Foil Vegetables
Take any vegetables as desired. It can be eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, carrots. They should be wrapped in foil, add aromatic herbs and send to bake in the oven for about half an hour. Ready vegetables can be slightly flavored with quality olive oil.
Broccoli and Cauliflower with Herbs
Boil a few inflorescences of each type of cabbage with a small amount of salt. Make a sauce. To do this, mix lemon juice with chopped herbs. Dress the cabbage with the sauce.
For chicken day:
Baked fillet
Prepare a piece of chicken breast the night before: grate with herbs and a little salt, leave to marinate until morning. Then wrap with foil. Oven half an hour at 200 degrees.
Mashed soup
Boil the chicken. Part of it can be set aside for a separate meal. Paste the remaining meat with the broth with a blender. Finely chop the herbs, add to the soup.
Braised Chicken
Cut the meat into cubes. Add greens and salt, a little water. Simmer until soft.
For a cereal day
Oatmeal with nuts
Pour the cereal with boiling water. Leave for a quarter of an hour to swell. Then add a handful of walnuts, you can put a little cinnamon.
Buckwheat puree with herbs
Buckwheat in the evening pour water. The next day, she will cook faster. Beat the resulting porridge in a warm form in a blender along with aromatic herbs to your liking.
Buckwheat cutlets
Add greens to the boiled buckwheat. Punch with a blender. Blind cutlets. They will be cooked in the oven for 20 minutes.
For a curd day
Cheesecakes in the oven
To fat-free cottage cheese (200 g) add an egg and a tablespoon of semolina. Form cheese cakes and bake in the oven.
Steam casserole
To a pack of low-fat cottage cheese add 5 tablespoons of yogurt, an egg, a spoonful of semolina, vanilla. To mix everything. Cook in a double boiler.
Curd Chocolate Dessert
Add half a glass of milk, a teaspoon of cocoa, a little sugar substitute and half a teaspoon of coffee to a pack of cottage cheese. Whip everything.
For a fruit day
Baked pears or apples
Add a little vanilla and cinnamon to the fruit, if the apples are not sweet - a spoonful of honey. Bake in the oven until soft.
Smoothie
Fruit to your taste - mango, pineapple, orange, kiwi, grapefruit - cut into slices. Beat in a blender. Garnish with fresh mint.
Salad
Fruits (apple, kiwi, pear, orange) cut into small cubes. Season with lemon juice with honey.
