How can this be achieved? Many will respond - a reliable diet and a fitness club. It is difficult and useless to argue that fitness classes are useful not only for improving the figure, but also for health. But with diets is quite another matter. Nutritionists have repeatedly made accusatory speeches against various diets, urging them to abandon them once and for all. It is better to turn to the experience of our ancestors instead of diets.
We all heard about the Orthodox posts. Fasting for a believing person is, first of all, working on oneself, spiritual cleansing, communion with God, and fasting dishes, low-calorie food is just part of the fast, symbolizing the rejection of earthly pleasures. In addition, because the custom of fasting was conditioned by the way of life of the peasants. Our ancestors completely depended on the annual agricultural cycle. And it was the posts that helped the peasants correctly distribute their food reserves throughout the year and prepare the body for the new labor year, and also served as a kind of prevention method for many diseases.
If you want to cleanse the body and improve the figure by spring, follow the customs of our ancestors, fast, at least a little. Your well-being will be affected even by short-term adherence to Orthodox traditions. Try at least a short time to abandon the "optional" products, and you will notice how this exacerbates the taste sensations. Fasting will help you relax from heavy food and take the first, decisive step towards health and understanding the real needs of your body.
But do not forget that in any case the measure is important! Dare to observe fasting - do not overdo it. You need to enter the diet smoothly, especially if you are engaged in physical or mental work. Determine your diet, and strictly observe it. Take food only in the allotted hours, do not snack on the go. Remember that food should be varied. In order to provide the body with necessary vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates and amino acids during the diet, find in advance several recipes for cooking lean dishes. The most familiar for you, at first glance, a dish of a lean menu may seem porridge. But, take any cookbook based on the traditions of Russian cuisine. You will undoubtedly find in her the recipes of such cereals, which you may not even have heard of. I will mention only a few recipes for preparing porridges: rice porridge with mushrooms, millet porridge with pumpkin, millet porridge with beetroot. In order to adhere to the lean diet, you must provide yourself with domestic preparations: pickled and salted mushrooms, vegetables, compotes and jams. Potatoes, beets, carrots, radishes, pumpkins and cabbage retain their nutritional value almost the whole year. Instead of meat, you can enter into the diet beans and nuts. Mushrooms will increase the body's resistance. Rye bread will provide access to the body of vitamins of group B. Several times a week you can afford fish dishes and seafood.
Dare once for a lean diet, you will notice that it strengthens your health, improves immunity, improves the figure, and the preparation of lean dishes does not take much time.
I will list a few recipes to prepare lenten dishes:
Pea soup
Ingredients:
2 cups of peas,
1-2 bulbs,
1-2 carrots,
Root of parsley or celery,
Vegetable oil, salt to taste.
Preparation:
Rinse the peas soaked for 4-5 hours in cold water and boil in the same water, adding salt at the end of cooking. Carrots, onions and parsley sauté in butter, add to peas and bring to a boil. Pea soup is recommended to serve with croutons or white breadcrumbs.
Porridge in monastic style
Ingredients:
1 cup of buckwheat,
1 cup of rice,
1 cup of pearl barley,
1 cup of millet,
2-3 bulbs,
2-3 carrots,
200-300 g of mushrooms,
vegetable oil.
Preparation:
Boil the cereals separately until half cooked, fry onions, carrots and mushrooms in oil. In a large pot, lay layers of porridge and vegetables, add water depending on the desired consistency, salt, bring to a boil and simmer until ready.
Fish with lemon
Ingredients:
500 g of cod fillet or other fish,
0.5 glasses of water,
1 onion,
1 carrot,
1 parsley root,
1 slice of celery,
1 lemon,
vegetable oil,
cumin, bay leaf, greens to taste.
Preparation:
Rings of onions, carrots cut into slices, parsley root, celery and seasonings cook on low heat for 15-20 minutes, having salted in the end. Lubricate the thick-walled frying pan with oil, lay the fish, pour the broth with vegetables, lay with lemon wedges. Stew in the oven for 15-20 minutes.