Although rolls and sushi seem to be on a diet and low in calories compared to other dishes, the Japanese diet for 14 days is not based on them. He got his name rather because his respect requires the stamina and fortitude of a noble samurai. She is really complicated. But the efforts are worth it: during this diet, kilograms are really lost, and in the future it is easy to switch to a classic healthy diet, which will not allow you to regain what you lost.
Japanese method of weight loss: menu and recommendations
The 14 day Japanese diet is very strict. It will break you out of your normal, "cleanse your receptors", and make you taste healthy food. Look at it not as a torment or an obstacle to overcome, but as an introduction to something unknown that has been under your nose all your life.
The main principles of this diet are categorical:
- salt is strictly prohibited, all other spices too;
- the menu is tightly controlled. Moreover, it is prescribed not only what to eat, but also exactly how much. In a gram;
- You cannot substitute equivalent analogues of products even in your opinion;
- It is advisable to take multivitamins throughout the diet, because of a limited range of foods, the body does not receive enough necessary substances;
- active sports are prohibited in parallel with the diet;
- after quitting the diet completed according to strict rules. If they are neglected, the body will be under a lot of stress, which can lead to problems.
If you follow all the rules, in 2 weeks the size of your stomach will decrease and after you leave the diet you will eat less food. The main thing is to continue eating in moderation so that it doesn't flare up again.
Probably, you already know what proper nutrition is: eating vegetables and meat diet without spices. If this seems bland and tasteless to you, the "Japanese" diet will surely change your opinion. You will start to taste food that seemed fresh before and learn to enjoy the juicy crunch of vegetables.
Recently, mini versions of the Japanese diet have appeared. They are designed for fewer days, so they may appear to last more easily. But it is not so. After a few days of "Japanese" nutrition, the body gets used to it and the food becomes comfortable. That is, the short version of the diet will give exactly the same amount of discomfort, and then end, giving less weight.
There is one more trick. In the early days of the diet, weight loss is mainly due to salt excretion and fluid loss. And only then the stomach shrinks and the metabolism changes, which allows you to keep the resulting form for a long time. If you stop at the stage to remove water and salt, they will simply return to their old place when you return to your normal way of eating.
Contraindications
The Japanese diet creates emergency conditions for the body, due to which it destroys fat reserves. It is not particularly diverse and many important substances will be temporarily missing. So the contraindications for the Japanese diet:
- period of pregnancy and lactation. The child must receive the necessary substances without restrictions; deficits lead to developmental disorders. Therefore, wait until your child starts eating on his own;
- problems with the circulatory system: a heavy load falls on it during a diet;
- diseases of the digestive and endocrine system.
List of approved foods
A particular advantage of the 14-day Japanese diet is that it is cheap. All the products are sold in every store, and they are not expensive at all compared to the banned ones.
It is best to go to the store before you start a diet and make a strategic reserve for the first time. Those who have tried the diet described say that it is especially difficult to survive its early days, and going to a store full of temptations can trigger a breakdown.
By the way, it is dangerous to break away from the salt-free regime: the body is in an acute salt deficit mode, and it is dangerous to increase its size sharply.
So here's what you need to eat for two weeks:
- Fresh fruits low in sugars: citrus, green apples, pineapples, plums, cherries and others;
- Fresh non-starchy vegetables: white cabbage, carrots, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes;
- Freshly squeezed tomato juice;
- Strictly unrefined olive or sesame oil;
- Yogurt without fillers, kefir;
- Cheese with minimal fat content, but without salt;
- The meat is extremely lean, a skinless fillet. Beef, chicken, fish;
- Eggs. By weight, one chicken egg corresponds to 5 quail eggs;
- Black coffee. You can't add anything; it is not desirable to replace it with solubles;
- Tea is also the simplest, most natural;
- Clean drinking water without gas;
- Rusks from slices of rye bread without dried fruit.
By the way, if you add lemon juice to unsalted food, you will get a very interesting taste that will make it easier to wean yourself from spices.
Prohibited Products
Strictly, all products not mentioned in the algorithm are prohibited. To be on the safe side, we will order what exactly is best to take out of the fridge and within easy reach before you start following the "Japanese" regime.
- Unauthorized vegetables and fruits;
- Salo;
- Dairy products;
- Smoked meat;
- baked goods, sweets;
- Any drinks bought in the shop, especially alcoholic drinks;
- Flavoring additives.
Full menu
It's hard to forget that the Japanese 14-day diet is one of the hardest to follow. After you decide to go through, stick to it for the entire prescribed period, don't interrupt or shorten it.
The algorithm assumes three meals a day without snacks and treats (w – breakfast, o – lunch, y – dinner).
- Monday
- h – Coffee;
- o – Cabbage salad, 2 eggs, juice from a few tomatoes;
- y – 200 g fish from a steamer.
- Tuesday
- h - Coffee and 1 cracker;
- o – Steamed fish, cabbage salad;
- y - 100 g beef, kefir;
- Wednesday
- h - Coffee and 1 cracker;
- o – A few eggplants, soaked with a minimum of oil;
- y - 200 g of beef from the oven, cabbage salad, a few eggs;
- Thursday
- h – Carrot salad;
- o - 200 g of steamed fish, tomatoes;
- y – Sour fruits;
- Friday
- h – Carrot salad;
- o - 200 g of steamed fish, tomatoes;
- y – Approved results;
- Saturday
- h – Coffee;
- o – Chicken fillet from the oven, carrot and cabbage salad;
- y - 2 eggs, raw carrots;
- Sunday
- h – Tea;
- o - 200 g of beef from the oven;
- y – Any offered for this week, of your choice, but without result.
Sticking to your diet may be difficult at first. But every day the body will get used to it more and more and will switch to a new mode of operation. The food will show its true taste. You will lose the habit of feeling full after eating. The first results of the Japanese diet will be noticed. This diet does not force you to starve, but gradually reduces the volume of your stomach, which prevents you from overeating.
So you have tasted victory, the work continues. Here is the schedule for next week (w - breakfast, o - lunch, y - dinner).
- Monday
- h – Coffee;
- o – Half a kilo of chicken fillet from the oven, cabbage and carrot salad;
- y - Any, except results, from last week;
- Tuesday
- h – Carrot salad;
- o - 200 g of steamed fish, a few tomatoes;
- y – Sour fruits;
- Wednesday
- h – Coffee;
- o – Carrot salad, egg, slice of cheese;
- y – Sour fruits;
- Thursday
- h – Coffee with crackers;
- o – Zucchini from the oven or raw;
- y - 200 g of beef from the oven, cabbage salad, a few eggs;
- Friday
- h – Coffee;
- o - 200 g of steamed fish, cabbage salad;
- y - 200 g of beef from the oven, yogurt;
- Saturday
- h – Coffee;
- o – Cabbage salad, 2 eggs, tomatoes;
- y - 200 g steamed fish;
- Sunday
- h – Coffee;
- o – 200 g of steamed fish and cabbage salad;
- y – 200 g of beef and a glass of kefir.
Cabbage salad consists of strictly 2 ingredients: crispy cabbage and 20 g of oil. Carrot - respectively, from carrots and 20 g butter.
I want to note how convenient the Japanese diet is for men. Even those who have no culinary talent can cope with preparing their own food without imposing new rules on their loved ones.
Aspects of following a salt-free diet
During a salt-free diet, the body will be in an unusual, almost extreme state of salt deficiency. This is one of the main secrets of its effectiveness. But for everything to work properly, you must follow important principles:
- Drink as much as possible. You will need to drink at least 2 liters of clean water per day in small portions. If you do 1 glass at a time, you will get about 8 approaches.
- It is best to drink the first glass of water in the morning, before breakfast. Even better, drink a few tablespoons of fiber with this glass. This is a nutritional supplement sold in any pharmacy. If taken regularly in this way it will improve bowel function and improve the effectiveness of the diet even more.
- Do not fad your diet even if you think you can. The maximum the human body can do without sodium chloride is 14 days.
- It is permissible to gradually introduce salt in the last days of the diet. You cannot immediately salt food according to its normal taste; for the first time, add a few salt crystals and increase the dose slightly.
- If necessary, tea can be substituted for coffee. But it is better to leave it as it is - coffee normalizes blood pressure and provides antioxidants to the body.
The rise of the Japanese diet
Within 14 days of following the diet carefully, you will definitely lose weight. Now it's your job to get the sodium chloride back right. But it's not just about the salt. The rules for transitioning from a diet to a normal life will allow you to keep your new size for a long time.
- Continue to eat according to the diet algorithm. Add new dishes to the menu strictly one after the other.
- Do not increase the serving size. Your stomach tightens a little and that's enough to fill you up. If you overeat, the walls of the stomach will stretch again, the stomach will increase, and the weight will start back.
- Add salt with great care. At first, just a little, then gradually return to normal over a few days.
- It is better to abstain from other spices for at least another month. They increase appetite and make it difficult to establish new healthy eating habits.
Effective diets often make you want to continue or return to them. But you can't do this with the Japanese diet. If you want to prolong the experiment, stop the diet wisely, add other vegetables to your diet, diversify your meat dishes, and you can strengthen your breakfast a little.
It is allowed to return to the Japanese diet only after six months.
Reviews of weight loss results
- "I did bravely and I'm very proud of myself. By the end of the first week it was a bit more familiar and then things got easier. The hardest thing was eating cakes and chocolate for so long. Well, I had to goget used to small parts. The rest is not scary. And you know, there are a few months until I'm getting fat. "
- "I found this diet when I was preparing for a wedding and I couldn't fit into a dress. I managed to lose 10 kg urgently in 2 weeks; no one believed in the success of this experiment untiluntil recently! At the wedding I wore a dream dress with a perfect waist. By the way, I've only gained a few kilograms now. "
- "I lost weight on "Japanese", and I don't think it's that heavy. I lost 7 kg. I switched from the diet to eating healthier than before, and I didn't gain weight. After 7 years, I got pregnant, and, of course, I had no time for my figure and I gained as much as 13 kg. Now I am breastfeeding my baby and I should eat whatwhich is good for him. As soon as we stop breastfeeding, I will definitely go through the 14 days of asceticism again in order to get back to my former form. I trust this diet 100%. "
