Candy diet. Pros and cons, execution tips

The candy diet is a very specific diet. The essence of the candy diet is that after 16:00 in the evening all food is replaced with candy. The duration of this diet is up to 5 days.

Whether the candy diet benefits the body or not is a complex question. Of course, if we compare what is better - to eat a plate of potatoes with meat before going to bed, or a few lollipops, then lollipops in this case seem to be the best option. It can be assumed that ideally, when developing the diet, it was assumed that a person simply needed to replace dinner and afternoon snacks with candy, and that’s basically it.

It turns out something similar to therapeutic fasting, which is often used to cleanse the body of toxins and general rejuvenation. And a few sweets eaten during the second half of the day serve as a good source of glucose for a person, which maintains normal well-being.

In this form, the candy diet seems reasonable at first glance. But in reality, few will adhere to it in this form. A person, as a rule, buys himself a kilo of candy, and begins to chew them intensively throughout the evening, comforting himself with the thought that he is on a diet. But this version of the candy diet is very harmful.

Let's look at the pros and cons of the candy diet.

Pros of the candy diet

1. During the diet, you will not want to eat sweets.

2. You will not experience dizziness or low blood pressure.

3. You are free to eat whatever your heart desires until 4 pm.

4. Eating the lollipop takes quite a long time, during which time you will most likely stop wanting to eat.

5. The lollipops make you feel thirsty and this will encourage you to drink plenty of water, which is very helpful when dieting.

Relevance

Against the background of a situation where most people cannot imagine their life without sweets, and almost all diets limit the consumption of confectionery products, a candy diet can be an excellent way out of the situation.

True, they came up with this diet not so much for gastronomic reasons as for practical reasons. It is believed that the caramel diet was invented by climbers who simply needed to stay alert and in good shape to endure long hikes. In addition, camping conditions are not conducive to cooking; you have to have a dry snack. Sweets turned out to be indispensable in such conditions.

Cons of the Candy Diet

1. Lollipops contain a lot of sugar, which negatively affects your teeth.

2. Lollipops purchased in the store contain a lot of dyes and preservatives, half of which have a negative effect on the human body.

3. If you want to eat regular candy instead of sugar-free candy to reduce the number of calories you ingest, then this is the wrong decision. Sugar-free lollipops contain sweeteners, which are very harmful to the liver.

4. Lollipops consumed on an empty stomach are just as harmful as chewing gum. The stomach receives a signal that you are eating food, gastric juice begins to actively secrete, but, as it turns out, there is nothing for it to digest, because you eat regular sugar, which immediately begins to dissolve in saliva. And if this starts to happen every evening, then you can easily get gastritis.

If you are still interested in the candy diet and want to try it for yourself, then listen to some advice.

Advantages

The caramel diet has significant benefits. Let's look at them.

As mentioned above, the diet is ideal for those with a sweet tooth. They do not need to limit themselves in sweets - now they can be consumed completely “legally”. Sweets in the diet allow you to consolidate the results obtained, because after a diet a person has no desire to pounce on sweets. On the contrary, he is already quite full of sweets.
A modest diet in the form of 75 grams of sweets does not contribute to stomach distension, as often happens with diets that involve eating various foods in large portions (even if they are low-calorie). After all, the stomach stretches not depending on the caloric content of food, but based on the volume eaten. As long as we are talking about low-calorie foods, this is not scary. However, upon returning to the usual diet, when a person switches to higher-calorie foods, and the stomach requires a large volume, this can not only negate efforts to lose weight, but also contribute to excess weight gain.
The caramel diet is a budget diet. Sweets are cheap, so you can even “patch up” your family budget on this diet. You won't spend a lot of money on candy.

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Sweet diet foods for weight loss

You don’t have to buy treats at the supermarket. It is much healthier to make them yourself, carefully selecting the ingredients, focusing on your own taste preferences.

What sweets can you eat when losing weight, homemade:

milk and chocolate puddings, panna cotta;
curd mousse;
low-calorie varieties of ice cream, sorbet;
fruit desserts;
bird's milk, marshmallows and marshmallows;
jellies and fruit jelly cakes;
candies and dried fruit bars;
fructose meringue;
yogurt and berry cakes;
baked apples with various fillings;
carrot and pumpkin pies,
diet cupcakes.

Fully or partially limited products

Despite the fact that the long-term candy diet for weight loss allows you to eat as usual until 16:00, you should still take care of your body and limit yourself to the following foods:

pasta, bakery products, confectionery products and other products with a high glycemic index - your body already receives enough simple carbohydrates in the form of sucrose , you should not consume them additionally, it is better to consume complex carbohydrates from cereals (rice, buckwheat, oatmeal, grain breads), eat more fresh vegetables to maintain normal functioning of the gastrointestinal tract;
do not snack additionally on nuts, chips, seeds, remember - now your snack is candy;
canned foods and sauces - more natural ones, because your body gets plenty of synthetic things from sweets.

Table of prohibited products

Proteins, g	Fats, g	Carbohydrates, g	Calories, kcal
Vegetables and greens
sauerkraut	1,8	0,1	4,4	19
canned cucumbers	2,8	0,0	1,3	16
canned tomatoes	1,1	0,1	3,5	20
Snacks
potato chips	5,5	30,0	53,0	520
caramel popcorn	5,3	8,7	76,1	401
salted popcorn	7,3	13,5	62,7	407
Flour and pasta
noodles	12,0	3,7	60,1	322
spaghetti	10,4	1,1	71,5	344
paste	10,0	1,1	71,5	344
Bakery products
loaf	7,5	2,9	50,9	264
buns	7,2	6,2	51,0	317
kalach	7,9	0,8	51,6	249
Confectionery
candies	4,3	19,8	67,5	453
meringues	2,6	20,8	60,5	440
cake	3,8	22,6	47,0	397
jam	0,4	0,2	58,6	233
Chocolate
alpen gold dark chocolate	5,7	28,5	58,7	517
ritter sport milk chocolate	8,3	31,4	55,6	538
white chocolate	4,2	30,4	62,2	541
Meat products
fried pork	11,4	49,3	0,0	489
salo	2,4	89,0	0,0	797
fried beef	32,7	28,1	0,0	384
liver pate	11,6	28,9	2,5	317
Sausages
boiled sausage	13,7	22,8	0,0	260
amateur smoked sausage	17,3	39,0	0,0	420
smoked sausage	9,9	63,2	0,3	608
pork chops	10,0	33,0	0,0	337

* data is per 100 g of product

Principles for choosing suitable sweets

Nutrition experts recommend eight ways to choose sweets and treats to include in a balanced diet.

Learn to make healthy choices

It's difficult to constantly count calories. But you need to do this because snacks and sweet treats can be healthy, not just high in calories. It's okay to get 25% of your daily calories from sugary snacks, but make sure they're nutritious. Choose treats or desserts that contain 100-200 kcal and contain vitamins and other valuable substances. For example, marshmallows are a really healthy sweet, because... its base is applesauce.

Read the label on the package, look for beneficial substances in the composition. Choose baked rather than deep-fried chips, low-fat baked goods, dark chocolate, and candies with nuts or dried fruit.

Move on to dessert

All sweet tooths love desserts, and you can indulge in them every day if they are healthy foods. Trust Mother Nature and choose fruit as the base for your desserts. A great example is apples baked with honey.

Fruits are sweet yet nutritious and everyone loves them. Serve fruit, cut into shapes. Or use them to bake angel cake or top low-fat pudding or ice cream. Fruit increases portion size and nutritional value of desserts.

There is nothing wrong with eating a small piece of cake, cookies or candy, which can be very high in calories. The problem is that they are easy to “overdose”, and a small portion is not able to satisfy a sweet tooth. If you have iron willpower and are able to completely control yourself, then you can easily allow yourself such “heavy” sweets once a day in an amount not exceeding 200 Kcal per serving.

Limit variety

Variety is the spice of life, but when it comes to calorie control, fewer choices are better. It has been proven that the more variety of dishes available, the more the appetite is stimulated. Narrow down your food choices in your home to reduce temptation. Make your treats consistent.

Place your store-bought sweets in bags of 100-200 calories each, one serving for each day.
Change up your home recipes.

To make your homemade baked goods healthier, replace half the fat in cookies or brownies with applesauce or canola oil. Use bran flour. Add dried fruits and nuts. Replace your favorite sweet dish with a healthy baked oatmeal recipe, any of them are no less nutritious, and the benefits from such a dish are greater than from the same butter bun. When you make your own sweet treat, you can easily cut down on fat, calories, and sugar.

Buy 1 serving of ice cream, cookies and chips

Many sweets are sold by the portion. Buy single servings, and you won’t have to torture yourself with abstaining from the available temptation.

Don't keep heavy treats at home

Some sweets are too tempting, and it is difficult to control yourself when they are within walking distance. Don't leave treats in the house that will tempt your inner sweet tooth. Too high-calorie sweets can appear in the house only on special occasions.

Freeze your favorite treats

Many products can be stored in the freezer and thus provide a tasty and healthy supply of treats. Try freezing single-serve containers of whipped homemade yogurt, fruit, or 100% fruit juice in small cups to provide a year's worth of summer treats that everyone loves.

Keep plastic bags of frozen fruits and berries on hand. They can be quickly defrosted in the microwave to add fruit filling to ice cream, smoothies, sorbet, or angel cake. An added benefit of cold treats is that they are more enjoyable because they are enjoyed slowly. People do this instinctively to avoid brain freeze. The result is prolonged pleasure.

How to prevent diet failure and overeating sweets?

If you're craving chocolate, you can indulge yourself. Not in the form of a whole bar, but in the form of chocolate sauce, for example, in which you can dip strawberries or other fruit. If you want candy, take marmalade (containing natural fruit juice and gelatin), not caramel (consisting only of sugar and chemical additives), etc.

When people are committed to eating healthy, losing weight, or dieting, junk food and sweets are the first to be eliminated from the menu to reduce calories. But this should not be done abruptly, but gradually.

If your family loves a sweet dessert after dinner, this tradition can be continued. Sweets can be included in a balanced diet as long as you control portions and know how to choose healthy treats. You just need to figure out which sweets you can eat while losing weight and which you can’t.

If you learn to control the amount of food you eat, its composition and calorie content, you can satisfy your inner sweet tooth every day.

A person should allow themselves a daily treat, and there is no reason why a 100- or 200-calorie sugary meal can't fit into a diet.

According to experts, sometimes you can afford a special treat containing several hundred calories. But then you must work it off with increased physical activity in order to immediately burn the calories received and prevent them from being deposited as internal fat.

Dietary sweets, their recipes and method of preparation

Anyone who decides to go on a candy diet sooner or later wants to find their own unique recipe. Diet candies made with your own hands are much healthier, and you know exactly what they contain, so it’s worth considering several ways to make lollipops, caramels and lollipops yourself at home:

Classic cockerels on a stick : to make these childhood favorite sweets you will need 8-10 tbsp. l. granulated sugar and water in equal proportions, 1 tbsp. l. apple cider vinegar, pumpkin oil for greasing the mold and the mold itself. First, mix sugar, water and vinegar in a saucepan with a fireproof coating, heat and stir the substance, when the syrup hardens, pour it into greased molds, placing “sticks” in advance, which can be matches, toothpicks, plastic or bamboo skewers.
Fruit lollipops: the preparation method is the same, but the syrup should include 3 tbsp. l. berry, fruit or other natural juice without pulp, 8 tbsp. l. sugar and 1 tsp. lemon/lime juice.
Honey dietary caramels : 250 g honey, 5 tbsp. l. butter, fruit syrup at least 4 tbsp. l., water 2 tbsp. l., the only point is that you need to boil the mixture by 2 times.
Ginger candies – 1 tbsp. l. dry Chinese lemongrass, 1 tbsp. l. twisted or grated fresh ginger root, 2 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. flower honey, water. First, ginger and lemongrass need to be boiled in water and the grounds filtered, then add the rest of the ingredients and cook until a thick syrup forms, pour into molds.

Menu (Meal Schedule)

Sample menu for a day of a long-term candy diet

Breakfast	150 g low-fat cottage cheese; dried fruits, nuts.
Lunch	toast and a cup of black coffee.
Dinner	stew or soup in meat broth with a piece of meat; grain bread; a glass of orange juice or tea with milk.
Dinner	3 vitamin lozenges; if you feel thirsty, drink only clean boiled, purified or mineralized water without gas.

Candy diet: minus 5 kg per week without feeling hungry