In wake of the new season of The Biggest Loser, let’s talk Shrimp Diets!
The bases of this diet are shrimp – the most easily digestible and low-fat protein.
For the week of shrimp diet, you can lose 4 to 6 lbs, but you can not follow this diet for longer than three weeks per cycle.
In one day is allowed to eat 8 ounces of shrimp, in boiled form, and 30% of the daily requirement can be consumed in fried form (provided that the shrimp will be cooked in vegetable oil).
Perfect garnish – any vegetables except potatoes, corn, and all beans. Just resolved a green salad, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots – total weight of these products can reach up to a kilogram a day. Once in every two days is allowed to eat 150-200 grams of sugar beet. Fresh herbs – dill, parsley, celery, onion and garlic – can be used without any restrictions.
Shrimp is recommended to serve with a little olive oil (the norm – 1 tbsp. a day), mixed with lemon juice. Flour, cheese sauces and salt from the diet should be deleted.
During the shrimp diet is best to drink mineral water without gas, citrus, pineapple, apple and pomegranate juices and skimmed milk no more glasses per day. Total per day is recommended to consume no more than 8 cups of fluid.
While you are dieting, it is necessary to exclude from the diet of all fruit, except for some. Firstly, it is necessary to eat lemons. The fact that iron, which is contained in shrimp, poorly absorbed without vitamin C, so after each meal to eat at least a slice of lemon and its juice fill salads.
If desired, the lemon can be replaced by kiwi – it contains no less useful vitamins. Secondly, is permitted to include in your diet green apples and wild berries (up to 300 g per day).
DO NOT EAT:
- Any flour products. Remember that if you violate this rule, the diet will have to begin anew!
- Hot dogs, frankfurters, sausages. But once in 2-3 days you can afford a slice (150 g) of cooked meat. As a rule, it is necessary for those who find it difficult a feel of hunger.
Shrimp diet – Sample menu for the day:
Breakfast: 1 cup of orange juice, 1 kiwi.
Lunch: soup of shrimp, a salad of shrimp with vegetables, 1 cup of mineral water without gas.
Afternoon snack: a salad of carrots and cabbage and greens (without limitation), 1 cup of pomegranate juice.
Dinner: baked shrimp, any vegetable salad, 1 glass of milk.
Before you begin this shrimp diet you should be exactly sure that there is no shrimp allergy.