It's important not to hurt your health.
Another week and a half, and will begin the longest and most rigorous post - the Great. It will last from February 19 to April 7. Thus, neither much nor little - for 48 days - it will be necessary to abandon almost all products that make up the diet for many people. In such conditions, it's no wonder one day to break with such a "diet", and if you endure, then with unaccustomed you can be puzzled because of the eternal feeling of hunger and decline of strength. And then there's still work ... How can I fast with health benefits? The main thing, believes Boris Skachko, a nutritionist, a phyto-therapeutist, a medical blogger,. But it is important to follow a number of rules afterwards, and then the food "in a new way" will be a joy, reports Chronicle. info with reference to Today.
Create a protein depot In the remaining days before the fast, eat so as to create some protein depot. After all, even if you do not fast strictly, the animal protein, but only it contains all the essential amino acids you need, you will only have twice a week in your diet. Therefore, seven days before fasting, eat every day an egg and 150-200 grams of fish.
Become familiar with fiber. With unaccustomed gastrointestinal tract can react to the mountains of cellulose, which then will be the basis of your diet, increased gas production. Therefore, accustom the body to such a diet now: every morning, eat breakfast cereal, and let the mid-day snack consist of fruits or vegetables (one large fruit or two smaller ones is sufficient).
Pancakes, which you will surely bake in Shrovetide (week before the fast - from February 12 to February 18), also make "checkered": instead of wheat flour of the highest grade, use flour of coarse flour, as well as flour made from buckwheat or oatmeal. You can at least mix the unusual varieties with white flour in a 1: 1 ratio.
Cleanse the intestines Menu without animal products, although easier, but unusual for the gastrointestinal tract of most of us, and therefore can cause problems with digestion, because the body is accustomed to allocate more enzymes to digest protein food.
To prevent such a problem, dedicate the days remaining until the fast to the establishment of intestinal microflora. Better - sour-milk products: firstly, they will quickly colonize the intestines with useful bacteria, and secondly, you will savor them - after all, the sour milk is also banned in the post.
Every day, drink 200-300 ml of one of the drinks: live yogurt, bifidokefir or yogurt, and it's better if you prepare them yourself (the corresponding starter is sold in pharmacies and large supermarkets).
Do not be afraid of hunger In the post itself, with unaccustomed food only with plant food, one can at first feel hungry. It can be tamed as follows: with an irresistible desire to eat again, drink water in a snack with salt (a few grains per glass of water); cook food and eat from the dishes of red, blue, lilac and dark green colors - they reduce appetite; include in the diet dishes from apples, pumpkins, beans and nuts: chrome in them, too, will relieve the severity of hunger by increasing the sensitivity of tissues to insulin, and magnesium and zinc will reduce nervousness - a companion of hunger.
The "diet": what it will give "Chronic intoxication, which occurs when the intestine is clogged, is the reason for more than one hundred disorders in the body: from persistent migraine to early wrinkles. "Sor" is a badly digested food. First of all, animal origin: our body digests it longer and more difficult. This leads to putrefactive processes in the digestive tract, "says Boris Skachko. - Fruits, vegetables and cereals from whole grains will remove "garbage". The ban on fast food normalizes the balance of "good" and "bad" cholesterol, which is especially important for hypertensive patients, atherosclerosis and gout, as well as for everyone over 40. Another result - weight will decrease. After all, fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals are complex carbohydrates:
they give a long feeling of satiety, and the fasting person will not overeat. The ban on bakery, confectionery products will strengthen the normalization of weight, as they, on the contrary, stimulate its recruitment. Fasting obliges to eat more raw vegetable oil, and it is a source of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are indispensable in the process of hematopoiesis, the formation and regeneration of cells and the synthesis of hormones. As a result of the post you will go out noticeably freshened ".