Fantastic result! On a skinny diet you can lose 7 kg in 1 week! Budget-friendly and without counting calories! Find out how best to prepare for the diet, its pros and cons, get diet options for 7, 14 and 20 days!
Author: Kristina Lobanovskaya, doctor, practicing nutritionist Article updated: 11/09/2020
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The skinny diet is one of those extreme weight loss techniques that significantly undermines your health, but gives amazing results. They say that in just a week you can lose about 7 kg. The diet is popular, causing panic among doctors. Is the hope for radical weight loss worth the dangers that “pitfalls” run through the entire program?
The essence
An extreme method of losing weight is nothing more than fasting. Low-calorie, fat-free foods with a small amount of carbohydrates are selected. The portion size decreases and the frequency of meals per day increases. The mechanism of action of the lean diet is as follows: the intake of calories decreases, the body begins to consume accumulated fats, and weight loss occurs. The goal of the program is to remove extra pounds in the shortest possible time. To maintain the results, you need to switch to proper nutrition in the future.
You are allowed to resort to a strict diet once a year, but you should periodically arrange fasting days. As soon as the mass begins to increase, you need to quickly correct the situation. In one day of fasting you can lose 1.5 kg of excess weight. The program has a number of contraindications and causes side effects, so it is not suitable for everyone.
The duration of the course depends on the initial weight, desired results, and chosen diet. There are weight loss programs for 7, 14, 20 days. The long-term method is more gentle, but results are achieved more slowly. Since the diet is unbalanced, you additionally need to take vitamin and mineral complexes. Physical activity should be avoided.
Fully or partially limited products
Like many diets, the skinny diet suggests giving up starchy foods, sweets, fast food, alcohol, etc. The main rule is low calorie foods and, as a result, little consumption per day, because you only lose weight if you consume fewer calories than you burn. Therefore, you need to give up any simple carbohydrates, proteins, and especially fats and make it a rule:
- drink unsweetened tea;
- only still water;
- no fried or smoked;
- no snacking on the street or eating sweets, bars, sandwiches;
- no salty.
Table of prohibited products
Proteins, g | Fats, g | Carbohydrates, g | Calories, kcal | |
Vegetables and greens | ||||
fried potato | 2,8 | 9,5 | 23,4 | 192 |
canned corn | 3,9 | 1,3 | 22,7 | 119 |
Fruits | ||||
canned pineapples | 0,1 | 0,1 | 14,0 | 57 |
Snacks | ||||
potato chips | 5,5 | 30,0 | 53,0 | 520 |
salted popcorn | 7,3 | 13,5 | 62,7 | 407 |
Flour and pasta | ||||
pasta | 10,4 | 1,1 | 69,7 | 337 |
pancakes | 6,1 | 12,3 | 26,0 | 233 |
vareniki | 7,6 | 2,3 | 18,7 | 155 |
Bakery products | ||||
bread | 7,5 | 2,1 | 46,4 | 227 |
Confectionery | ||||
candies | 4,3 | 19,8 | 67,5 | 453 |
meringues | 2,6 | 20,8 | 60,5 | 440 |
cookie | 7,5 | 11,8 | 74,9 | 417 |
Meat products | ||||
fried pork | 11,4 | 49,3 | 0,0 | 489 |
liver pate | 11,6 | 28,9 | 2,5 | 317 |
veal cutlets | 23,0 | 31,0 | 12,0 | 375 |
Sausages | ||||
boiled sausage | 13,7 | 22,8 | 0,0 | 260 |
sausage with/smoked servelat | 24,0 | 40,5 | 0,0 | 461 |
blood sausage | 9,0 | 19,5 | 14,5 | 274 |
sausages | 10,1 | 31,6 | 1,9 | 332 |
sausages | 12,3 | 25,3 | 0,0 | 277 |
Alcoholic drinks | ||||
vermouth | 0,0 | 0,0 | 15,9 | 158 |
white wine Muscat | 0,0 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 82 |
red dessert wine | 0,5 | 0,0 | 20,0 | 172 |
vodka | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,1 | 235 |
beer | 0,3 | 0,0 | 4,6 | 42 |
* data is per 100 g of product |
Advantages and disadvantages
The undoubted advantage of a skinny diet is rapid weight loss to the desired levels in a short time, regular inexpensive products. Everything else is cons.
- it is difficult to adhere to the recommended diet physically and mentally;
- there are strict restrictions on food;
- tormented by a feeling of hunger;
- irritability and nervousness appear;
- sleep is disturbed;
- exhaustion of the body and nervous system occurs;
- hormonal balance is disrupted;
- due to sudden changes, the result may be the opposite - weight gain is observed;
- the program is suitable for unemployed people, in other cases it is difficult or almost impossible to comply with it;
- it is necessary to take into account the individual characteristics of the body; in the presence of chronic diseases, a lean diet can provoke an exacerbation and lead to complications.
If the desire to lose weight quickly is so strong that you are not afraid of difficulties, you can start!
Nutrition rules
A weekly skinny diet or a longer one refers to fairly strict diets. In the middle of the diet, you may feel unwell, then you need to stop it and gradually restore your normal diet.
This reaction of the body indicates that it is not ready for a complex load, and a more gentle way of losing weight is needed. The European skinny diet originates from America. She promises a weight loss of 5-7 kg in a week. Due to its effectiveness and simplicity, it has become popular among many. The essence of the lean diet is low calorie content in the daily diet.
The diet includes mono-fasting days and low-calorie meals. One day is given to complete fasting with only plain water. Outside the plan, non-carbonated water up to 2 liters daily with a slice of lemon is recommended. Some variations of the lean diet replace lemon and water with unsweetened juice, green tea, or sugar-free dried fruit compote.
Heavy physical activity while following a diet is contraindicated, since the body is already subjected to a serious test associated with limiting the supply of nutrients and vitamins. Moral stress should also be avoided. It is better to do spa treatments and spend more time outdoors.
The allowed daily intake of products should be divided into 3-4 doses. It is advisable to chew longer and more thoroughly so that the stomach perceives food intake as normal.
Rules and preparation
Some followers of the extreme skinny program claim that no preparation is required. You are allowed to start at any time. However, it is not. A sharp change in diet and regime negatively affects the functioning of internal organs and systems. To soften the transition, you should gradually give up high-calorie foods, fats, and sweets over the course of a week. Slowly, metabolic processes begin to be restructured, and the calorie burning mechanism is launched.
Basic Rules:
- eat in small portions;
- last meal 3 hours before bedtime;
- drink at least 1.5 liters of liquid per day, mainly spring, non-carbonated mineral water;
- give up sugar, reduce salt intake;
- to make the dishes tastier, it is allowed to use natural seasonings - pepper, ginger, coriander, mustard, turmeric, etc.;
- strictly follow the menu, avoid failure, otherwise all your efforts will go down the drain.
If after a few days of fasting your health worsens, pain in the stomach or intestines appears, the program should be stopped.
Products
It is not difficult to guess that you will have to limit yourself in many ways. The diet is not just low-calorie, but extreme, almost starvation. It’s easier to give a list of permitted foods and drinks than to describe what you should avoid.
- spring, still mineral water;
- compote, fruit drink, green tea without sugar;
- unsweetened jelly;
- low-fat milk;
- fermented milk products with a fat content of no more than 1.5%;
- chicken, turkey, rabbit, beef;
- apples, red, green;
- boiled potatoes, in their skins;
- juices (except grapes, mango, peach, apricot, banana);
- vegetables.
Dishes are prepared from the list of permitted products. Cooking methods: boiling, stewing, baking.
Weight loss plans
There are several options for a skinny diet - hard, classic, gentle. The first option is designed for 7 days, the second – up to 20 days. In 7 days of classic fasting, they lose up to 17 kg of excess weight (according to supporters of the program). With a more varied diet, you can lose 7 kg in a week without much difficulty.
Losing weight on a skinny diet with strict restrictions - menu for the week
Days | Products, meals for the whole day, divided into 5 meals |
Monday | 1 liter of milk or kefir |
Tuesday | 800 ml fruit and vegetable juice, 100 g low-fat cottage cheese |
Wednesday | Unlimited liquid |
Thursday | 4 jacket potatoes, 800 ml fruit and vegetable juice |
Friday | 5 apples |
Saturday | Chicken, beef - 200 g, 800 ml juice |
Sunday | 1 liter of kefir or milk |
The program provides unrealistic weight loss - minus 7-12 kg per week. Continuing the course further makes no sense and is dangerous to health. Prolonged fasting leads to irreversible processes - hormonal imbalance, metabolic disorders, chronic diseases of the digestive tract.
A gentle version of a lean nutrition system
The menu is approximate, there is no strict list. You are allowed to choose your own dishes. You should eat 5 times a day.
Menu for 7 days
Days | Products, dishes |
1 | 200 ml yogurt, 1 liter milk or kefir |
2 | 200 g cottage cheese, 1 l juice |
3 | 200 g boiled potatoes |
4 | 200 g boiled fish, 800 ml juice |
5 | 1 kg apples |
6 | 200 g meat, 1 l juice |
7 | 200 g cottage cheese, 1 liter yogurt or kefir |
Drinking is allowed in unlimited quantities.
Menu for 14 days
Days | Products, dishes |
1 | Green tea without sugar |
2 | 1 l kefir |
3 | Mineral water |
4 | Green apple |
5 | 1 liter low-fat milk |
6 | Green tea unsweetened |
7 | 1 liter of milk |
8 | Green apple |
9 | 1 l kefir |
10 | 2 fresh cucumbers |
11 | Green tea without sugar |
12 | 1 liter of milk |
13 | 3 apples |
14 | Mineral water |
It is difficult to say why this diet is considered gentle, since the menu is even more meager than in the previous version.
Menu for 20 days
Days | Products, dishes (serving 200 g for each) |
1 | Meals are carried out according to the recipes of the seven-day diet |
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | |
6 | |
7 | |
8 | Lean meat, stewed vegetables, dairy products |
9 | cottage cheese |
10 | Boiled or stewed fish, shrimp |
11 | Potatoes, vegetable juice |
12 | 5 apples |
13 | Meat, juice |
14 | 1 l kefir |
15 | Any products from the list of permitted within reasonable limits |
16 | 5 apples |
17 | Meat, 800 l milk |
18 | 1 l kefir |
19 | cottage cheese |
20 | 1 apple, 1 liter of kefir |
If you stay on a lean diet program for 20 days, you can lose 17 kg. No diet will give you this result.
Features of the skinny diet
This way to lose weight is designed for a week or two (with release). Depending on the period during which you are ready to limit yourself in food, a set of products and the order of their consumption are selected. The result will be corresponding. During the entire period, you can drink still mineral water and green tea, as well as certain drinks (milk, kefir, juice - read on).
Juices can be grapefruit, apple, pomegranate or orange. The main thing is the absence of sugar in them. Especially concentrated ones (for example, from pomegranate) can be diluted with boiled water in a ratio of 1 to 2.
They lose weight with this diet due to the low calorie content of the diet. That is why only absolutely healthy people can resort to it. This method of losing weight is attractive for the following reasons:
- efficiency;
- efficiency;
- simplicity (no need to count calories or prepare meals at all);
- availability of products.
- an extreme way to lose weight is not suitable for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
- the feeling of hunger will be a constant companion to losing weight;
- Those suffering from acute chronic diseases should avoid this method.
However, in the end you can lose up to 20 kg of excess weight.
Recipes
This technique does not involve eating a large number of dishes. Fermented milk products can be bought in a store or market. To cook meat and fish, just boil water, throw in the food, and season the finished meat with spices. Vegetables are stewed in a slow cooker in their own juice. To do this, you need to cut it in a convenient way, throw it into the bowl, and set the “stew” mode. You can also make kefir and yogurt at home. Sourdough is sold in pharmacies and grocery stores. You need to boil the milk, cool to 40 degrees Celsius, add the starter, cover the pan with a lid, and put it in a warm place. If you have a yogurt maker, the products are prepared there.
Quitting the diet
With an extreme diet, weight comes off quickly, but also quickly returns. The thing is that the body works in a stressful state, after the usual diet begins, it will quickly restore what was lost. To prevent this from happening, you need to exit the diet correctly. You can’t rush to everything in order to satisfy the feeling of hunger, which has developed quite a bit over the course of 1-4 weeks. You need to introduce familiar foods into your diet gradually, in small quantities. In order for the results to last for a long time, you should continue to adhere to proper nutrition.
Duration
The bony diet is designed for a maximum of 10 days, but rarely does anyone stick to it to the end. Ideally, it is best to stop the course after seven days, but if you really need to lose a little more, you can endure the remaining days, but gradually supplementing your diet. But it is absolutely impossible to continue losing weight after a full ten days. There is mortal danger here. Wanting to quickly lose weight at any cost, women continue to starve themselves and develop a terrible disease - anorexia.
Contraindications
It is strictly forbidden to go on a skinny diet if:
- pregnancy;
- feeding;
- recovery period after illness;
- the presence of chronic gastrointestinal diseases;
- any exacerbations;
- weaknesses;
- chronic fatigue;
- loss of strength;
- high, low blood pressure;
- hormonal imbalance;
- adolescence.
You cannot continue the diet if your health worsens or if adverse events begin.
Side effects
A skinny diet for 2 weeks, 20 days cannot be called balanced. There are no carbohydrates, which are the main source of energy. As a result of prolonged fasting, the body becomes exhausted, loses strength, and the functioning of internal organs and systems malfunctions. You can notice negative changes by the following symptoms:
- weakness;
- decreased performance;
- inability to concentrate;
- fatigue;
- drowsiness during the day, insomnia at night;
- menstrual irregularities;
- dizziness, fainting;
- headache;
- nausea;
- flatulence, bloating;
- diarrhea;
- stomach ache;
- abdominal discomfort;
- decreased blood pressure;
- decrease in hemoglobin level.
If you ignore side effects after successful weight loss, you can end up in the hospital or develop chronic diseases. To prevent vitamin deficiency, it is recommended to take vitamin and mineral complexes, but this will not save the situation. Synthetic vitamins are better absorbed with food. With a skinny diet it is practically absent. In this case, the vitamins cause nausea, indigestion, vomiting, and are poorly absorbed.
Note! After a long fast, it will take a long time to restore hormonal levels, the monthly cycle, nails, hair, and skin.
Diet for 20 days
Such a limited diet can cause anorexia, bulimia, and gastrointestinal disorders. It is better to carry it out under the supervision of a nutritionist, and at the first negative manifestations for the body, stop:
- Week one completely repeats the menu of the seven-day diet.
- Day 8: stewed vegetables (200 grams), low-fat cottage cheese.
- 9th: freshly squeezed juice up to a liter, low-fat cottage cheese (200 grams).
- 10th: low-fat boiled fish (200 grams), tea.
- 11th: 4 boiled potatoes, freshly squeezed juice.
- 12th: 3 apples.
- 13th: boiled meat (200 grams), juice.
- 14th: low fat kefir up to a liter.
- 15th: moderate diet as desired.
- 16th: 5 unsweetened apples.
- 17th: boiled meat, low-fat milk up to a liter.
- 18th: low-fat kefir up to a liter.
- 19th: cottage cheese, tea.
- 20th: low-fat kefir up to a liter, apple.
Such a long and strict diet reduces the scales by 10-11 kg. It is quite difficult to return to a healthy diet without problems. Headaches, stomach cramps, and general malaise are possible.
Nutritionist opinion
Qualified specialists always oppose mono-diets and fasting. The correct method of losing weight is a balanced diet, physical activity, an active lifestyle, proper rest, and a good psycho-emotional state. With a skinny diet, this entire chain is disrupted. Physical activity is prohibited, a person cannot move because he has no strength, he cannot sleep because he is hungry, irritability is present because he cannot eat what he wants. There is exhaustion, exhaustion, and abuse of the body. A complete absence of carbohydrates in the diet and an insufficient amount of fat also disrupts metabolism, often leading to irreversible processes. The program is not supported by any qualified specialist.
How to create a menu and allowed products
The bone diet is a strict diet with a small amount of calories per day. There are two ways to formulate your daily diet. In the first case, there is a strict menu for ten days, in the second, you can choose from the proposed options what suits your taste preferences.
In addition to the products indicated on the menu, eating anything else is strictly prohibited. Particular emphasis in nutrition falls on:
- Chicken fillet;
- Eggs;
- Lean fish;
- Seasonal vegetables;
- Veal;
- Kefir.
Attention! You should not deviate from the volume and products offered in the diet. This is fraught with a lack of efficiency of the power system.
What products need to be excluded?
Most dishes are prohibited, especially spices and foods with carbohydrates. You will need to remove from the refrigerator:
- High-calorie cereals;
- Pasta products;
- Smoked meats;
- Pickles;
- Alcohol;
- Fruits;
- Sweet products;
- Milk;
- Beans and other legumes;
- Corn;
- Bakery products;
- Oil.
Pomegranate juice allowed during a diet is drunk only diluted one to two.
Important! The disadvantages of this type of diet include the low content of vitamins and nutrients, so it is advisable to select a vitamin complex together with a nutritionist, which will become a means that can support you during the weight loss process
Reviews and results of losing weight
Dear readers, was this article helpful? What do you think about the skinny diet? Leave your feedback in the comments! Your opinion is important to us, and it will be useful to our readers!
Irina
“With difficulty and excessive effort, I lost 6 kg in a week. It was very difficult, I wanted to eat. By the end of the week, weakness, nausea, and dizziness appeared. It is not recommended to stay on such a diet for any longer.”
Svetlana
“There is a result. Lasted 2 weeks. Lost 7 kg of excess weight. The condition is terrible. You always want to eat, your stomach is growling, your blood pressure drops, your head is dizzy, your performance level is at zero. I was on a buckwheat diet - the results are even better, it’s easier to tolerate.”
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