In the spring the nature wakes up, the metabolism accelerates, the organism doesn't need so many calories any more as in the winter. And now it is a high time to reconsider the diet and to begin to eat so that the superfluous, saved-up in cold season kilograms left quicker. The food which is picked up for a season will allow not only to keep symmetry of a body, but also will help to avoid such unpleasant phenomenon as avitaminosis, without resorting to the help of synthetic vitamin complexes.
As well as what products to choose in the spring to lose weight
First of all it is necessary to remember and write down everything that you ate and saw in a week or two till today. You can make for a start the approximate list of dishes, then more expanded list of products and methods of their processing.
Describe everything that prepared and ate houses and also restaurant or street food, having included in this list of bun, chocolate, cookies - a word all that made not only the main meal, but also having a snack.
Having described the food allowance previous weeks or two be going to keep a diary of food one more next week. Here surely add serving size and the number of meals in a day, including having a snack. Now you can read and analyze the obtained information. Look whether the sufficient amount of fresh fruit also is present at your daily menu.
Surely enter fermented milk products into a diet. They can be both animal, and plant origin. Reduce quantity of the consumed meat products, and completely exclude semi-finished products and sausages.
Also reduce quantity of the eaten bakery goods. Sweet fancy bread replace with simple buns from whole-wheat flour of a rough grinding, and instead of white loaf eshtebezdrozhzhevy bread from a germinated zernas various seeds. Such bread can be baked also in house conditions.
Don't refuse fats. Buy unrefined vegetable oils: sunflower, linen, pumpkin, ryzhikovy, olive, amarantovy, sesame, etc. However it is excessive you shouldn't be fond of oils as in the spring food can be less fat.
Enter fresh greens into a diet. Try to add mint, celery greens, rosemary to your dishes - will surprise you how different tastes the same products can have. The tarragon, parsley, fennel, wheat, cilantro can be grown up on a windowsill or a balcony all the year round, having bought seeds in the nearest supermarket. Don't forget about green onions and green garlic.
Green leafy vegetables is very useful: cabbage, spinach, sorrel, different types of salad.
Also keep the useful properties such vegetables as carrots, beet, pumpkin, onions, garlic at this time. And here potatoes already not only aren't useful in the spring, but also are harmful as at long-term storage this root crop develops and accumulate toxic agent - соланин.
For a dessert instead of heavy fat cakes, cakes, creams eat sweet fruit. Also there is a huge variety of syroyedchesky desserts which not only don't harm a figure, but also, on the contrary, help to fight against excess weight.
Drink more fresh water, replace tea and coffee with broths of dried fruits and herbal teas. At the same time the amount of the used liquid has to correspond to features of an organism.
Try to use vegetables fresh, thermally raw. As a last resort bake them or boil on couple. Completely refuse frying of products. Meat and fish can also be baked, steamed or on a grill.
Reduce consumption of table salt, and whenever possible completely replace it with sea salt.
Also reduce consumption of nuts, using instead of them seeds of pumpkin, sunflower, a thistle, a flax or sesame.
Pay attention to a variety of bean cultures: green and yellow peas, red and green lentil, different types of haricot, chick-pea, soy, actually beans which are a rich source of digestible protein. Prepare bean with vegetables, serve to them salad from a fresh vegetables and, of course, more fresh greens.
Fans of ostrenky can quite add fresh siliculose hot pepper as this vegetable warms blood to favourite dishes and accelerates a metabolism that definitely positively influences weight loss process.
What dishes choose in the spring to lose weight
Pea soup
Cut any pieces 200 grams of pumpkin and a cauliflower. Fill in 1.5 l. hot water, weld to softness on average fire. Add 2 glasses on 250 ml of ready pea puree, salt and spices to taste, bring to the boil, remove from fire and pour in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Wipe soup by means of the submersible blender and give, having strewed with fresh chopped greens.
Fast okroshka
Crush a garden radish in number of 5 - 6 pieces on a large grater. Take any greens to taste and surely green onions and cut small. The cut greens has to be about the same as the crushed radish. Salt a vegetable mix, being guided by the taste. Crush a quarter of a glass of the cleaned sunflower seeds of sunflower by means of the coffee grinder. Fill in the crushed sunflower seeds of 300 ml of cold water and shake up the blender. Fill in with this mix the prepared vegetables, mix.
Vegetable envelopes with a stuffing
Crush the cleaned sunflower seeds of pumpkin or sunflower in the coffee grinder. Mix with the carrots grated on a small grater, squeeze out garlic segment in mix. Here you can add crude champignons which need previously to be sliced thin, straws or cubes. Add some salt to weight and add any fresh crushed greens. Wrap a tablespoon of this stuffing in the washed-out and dried lettuce leaves.
Paste from sunflower seeds
Fill in with water 1 glass of the cleaned sunflower seeds of sunflower and leave for the night. Drain water, to taste add lemon segment, salt, greens to sunflower seeds. Here put 1 segment of garlic. Add on the 2nd tablespoons of water and vegetable oil. Together wipe everything by means of the blender before receiving uniform paste.
Vegetable stew without potatoes
Take any vegetables, roots, in advance cooked haricot to taste. Crush vegetables, mix together with boiled haricot. Add salt. Bake in an oven at a temperature of 200 degrees within 30 minutes. Then water 3 - 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil, strew with spices and prepare 10 more minutes.
Banana apple pie
Crush 2.5 glasses of the sunflower seeds of sunflower which are already cleaned in the coffee grinder. Clean 200 grams of dates from stones. Dates fill in 100 ml of water and put 1 banana cut by circles. Wipe with the blender. Add ground sunflower seeds, mix. Lay out in the form covered by food wrap, level and at once turn a cake layer on a dish. Decorate apple pie with circles of bananas.
Avoid long starvation, eat food fractionally, small portions. Meals has to be 5-6 in day.