Archive for October 2011

Dukan Diet: Sample Menu for Phase Stabilization

If you got this far I congratulate you! This means that a huge milestone reached!

 

In this last phase, the rules are simple:

 

Throughout the week you can eat whatever you want and once a week you eat only proteins such as during the “attack”. You can choose any day of the week, but Dukan recommended on Thursday, because it is generally less busy day, guests without the cravings weekend or Monday, but it can also be any other day.

 

It ‘important to sports, but it is not necessary to become suddenly a fierce fan of the gym, if you do not do enough sports to keep you active during the day, use the stairs instead of the elevator and take a walk instead of driving.

 

The stabilization phase is also planned to eat more oat bran, as it helps digestion and reduces the amount of calories absorbed from food. In addition, not to be underestimated is the fact that the bran swells in the stomach so you feel more satisfied for much longer.

 

And if I were to increase a few pounds? Do not expect to earn too much, just blocks everything with only two days of protein and you’re done!

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Dukan Diet: Sample Menu for the Consolidation Phase

This phase begins once you’ve reached your ideal weight and should last for 10 days for every pound lost.

This is also the most difficult part of the Diet from the psychological point of view, because they are part of the new food completely with the knowledge that you will not have binge eating.

 

Will be introduced wholemeal bread (no more than two slices per day), potatoes, cheese, pasta, rice (no more than twice a week) and twice a week is allowed a delicious dinner with almost anything you want to eat … Yes, can be pizza or French fries and ice cream, provided that:

 

- The day after you return to the stage “attack”

 

- Do not make two dinners “free” in a row

 

- Never do it again the same dish.

 

The key thing of this phase, to be sure not to gain weight is to keep one day a week with just protein and nothing else as being in “attack” (es.il Thursday).

 

We say that the news of this phase are:

 

1. You can eat a serving of fruit per day: an apple, two kiwis, two ripe apricots, a large slice of watermelon and so on. The forbidden fruits are: bananas, grapes and cherries.

 

2. You can eat two slices of bread a day.

 

3. You can eat 40 grams of cheese per day.

 

4. Every week you can eat two servings of carbohydrates like pasta, rice and potatoes.

 

5. You can eat leg of lamb and pork.

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Dukan Diet: Menus for Phase Attack

phase attack recipesAny diet that respect has to start somewhere and the Dukan Diet menu kicks off with the attack phase.

 

The Dukan diet menu in the attack phase lasts 5-10 days depending on your current weight, with the main purpose of introducing good eating habits. It is also the stage with a higher result in weight loss.

 

The first days are always the hardest because you have to deal with your old eating habits, being established, are difficult to change, and is a good trick to stock up in advance of the products licensed from the diet, so that when you hear the desire to snack, you have allowed something at hand.

 

A basic rule is to introduce at least 20 minutes of exercise every day, from day one to establish a proper intake of water and eat at least 2 tablespoons of oat bran a day, in any form you like as in yogurt emulsified with eg.

 

Foods allowed in the menu of Dukan diet

 

Rabbit Chicken and turkey (without skin and wings)

 

lean ham

 

Beef, veal, or chicken liver

 

Seafood (except canned)

 

Shellfish and crustaceans

 

Eggs (up to two a day)

 

Dairy products with low fat

 

Vinegar, mustard, spices, herbs, garlic, onion

 

Sugar and ketchup (in moderation)

 

Sugar-free chewing gum.

 

Dukan Diet Sample Menu: Attack Phase.

 

Breakfast: Low fat yoghurt with oat bran, coffee.

 

Lunch: Grilled chicken breast.

 

Dinner: Shrimp and surimi with garlic and parsley.

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The Dukan diet

Best die planThe 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!

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5 Secrets to Staying Slim for the Winter

Tips to Staying Slim for the WinterAnd 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!

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