What are the benefits of fasting days?
Unloading days are especially necessary and useful in the following cases:
severe overeating and elimination of its consequences;
with weight loss process;
to reduce the volume of the stomach, because, as a rule, portions of food on a fasting day are minimal;
to consolidate the results of weight loss.
How to choose the right loading day
With the desire to reduce the amount of extra pounds, it is worth considering about how to allocate one day a week for your stomach for a fasting day. For this, do not neglect the advice of a nutritionist. Even with good health, there is a risk of improperly picking up products for a fasting day and thereby provoking unpleasant consequences for themselves, and sometimes even the development of diseases.
Do not confuse the fasting day with hunger, because the body does not experience stress, receiving a certain, albeit minimal amount of food. Food on fasting days should be limited to a couple of natural products.
In each specific case, the nutritionist selects the appropriate unloading day. This is really important, because with the right selection, the organism can tolerate this day in a psychological and physiological sense. Whether it's buckwheat or kefir, it's also recommended that these foods be loved by the patient himself.
What are the fasting days?
Unloading days are classified as follows:
carbohydrate group - this is rice, cucumber, apple, buckwheat days;
the protein group is kefir, cottage cheese, meat, fish;
fat group - it's creamy, dairy unloading days.
How to spend unloading days?
There are general recommendations, regardless of the type of unloading day, which must be followed:
during the unloading day, the number of times a meal is increased to 8 or even 10 times;
The important point is the use of water. For the whole day you need to drink at least 2.5 liters;
it is necessary to alternate the food of the day of discharge.
It is important to know!
There are diseases in which it is not possible to pick up a fasting day, for some types of severe diseases of a psychological or neuralgic nature, these days are contraindicated. All other patients can choose a day of relief, given the specific features of the individual organism. With kidney diseases, for example, you should not unload the body with eggs and protein foods, with peptic ulcer disease - should avoid citrus and vegetables, people suffering from constipation should not arrange rice unloading days.