Archive for October 2011
The Dukan diet
The creator of the Dukan diet is precisely Dr. Pierre Dukan, the diet is based primarily on a first phase called “attack” where you must eat only protein, meat, fish, eggs, bran and nothing else, where the weight loss is very fast and a second phase “soft” where you can add, on alternate days of simple starchy vegetables. To be clear in the Dukan diet … nothing but corn and potatoes in green vegetables like lettuce, celery, asparagus and zucchini, these are the two phases that make up the Dukan diet.
During the next step you should keep a food aimed at exchanging queens the two phases of the diet and therefore alternate between two days of “coupling” with two more days “soft” in which you add the vegetables and salad.
Finally there is the last phase, which is to be maintained forever, and is to follow these three simple rules, but non-negotiable:
1. Consume 3 tablespoons of oat bran a day.
2. Can exercise more and take all the ways to do it without going to the gym … always choose to take the stairs whenever possible!
3. Keep the “attack phase” where you only eat protein, one day a week (eg every Thursday).
On vacation are also granted the protein and the green salad, potatoes, pasta or rice no to, but you can treat yourself to a little ‘cheese, a piece of fruit, a glass of wine and two slices of bread every day.
With the Dukan diet you end up eating chicken breast, chicken breast and chicken breast! No pasta, pizza, chips and bread … I mean it takes courage!
5 Secrets to Staying Slim for the Winter
And customary to put on some extra pounds during the winter.
Usually the cold, go for a run out, as the warm season, it’s harder and eat more calories and comforting is on the agenda.
Enough of Capri and fresh salads, pasta with meat sauce and wide and hot chocolate, but if you suddenly realize you have more hungry and want food the most rewarding just do not have to worry about … even in winter, the tricks to stay slim and lean, there are abandoned!
What you do is take 5 tricks fast, to help maintain a healthy weight and stay active, let’s see how:
1. Prepare a soup
When it’s cold outside and after a day’s work, what you need is to relax and enjoy a nice dinner warming and satisfying, nothing better than something warm and good to comfort and pamper them with few calories.
A vegetable soup is good for you! No need to add cream or oil, but used to cook the vegetables in a little boiling water with dissolved into a die and you’re done! The soup is one of your best allies to warm the winter and fill your stomach without undermining the line at all.
2. Sweet and satisfying
Needless to say goodbye to all that is sweet and sugary to keep the line even …
It necessary to make smart choices and opt for lighter, but those ingredients sweet and beautiful as a piece of cake with whipped cream.
The perfect dessert to be prepared by you, nothing pre-packaged, using a yogurt or vanilla yogurt greek one, as a basis to delight your winter and arricchiscilo past with some apple pieces in a pan with the honey. It ‘a dessert very light but full of flavor.
3. Use legumes
Legumes are another essential ingredient if you want to warm up with very few calories. They are rich in dietary fiber, are low in fat and wonderfully rich in beneficial nutrients and antioxidants.
Try to match 1 120g tin of beans in strip of chicken and a few tablespoons of tomato paste. Cook for about twenty minutes, season with salt, pepper and seasonings of your choice and you’re done.
Calories? Well … very few, less than 230 per serving!
4. Sip a hot chocolate steaming
Have you always thought that a nice hot chocolate for you be out? You’re wrong.
If during those afternoons in winter, where it’s cold and raining outside, and is home to the warm syrup well, maybe you feel like a dense chocolate, steaming, not messed up thinking about what to do to not give in to temptation.
Even for those on a tight diet, now a sweet and satisfying time off did not tell anyone! Why use whole milk or partly skimmed milk? Use skimmed milk with only 32 calories per 100g.
Put a pan with 10g of cocoa powder and 5 grams of potato starch both sieved and a little ‘milk, just to melt it all better.
Then add more milk until you reach the 200ml, which serve for a nice cup of hot chocolate.
Stir with a whisk to prevent lumps and to add only 1 packet of sweetener or 5 / 10 grams of sugar, stirring constantly.
Once I started to boil, let it go for at least 4 / 5 minutes, until begin to thicken and, above all, the starch will be digested enough to be perfectly cooked, and you’re done!
Remove from heat and try to believe.
Calories? Only 121 calories for a cup of hot dense and creamy petted! It seems incredible huh?
5. Subscription to the gym open
The important thing is not to stop your workout. After the summer break, you absolutely must redo your membership at the gym.
It ‘important to be able to give you some out to dinner, from time to time, like a nice pizza all over your paranoia and have zero for the next day … you dispose!
