It is difficult to say why the diet is called Japanese - half of the foods recommended for eating are exotic for the Japanese.
My experience of sitting on a diet is such that I rarely resort to this self-torture method voluntarily. If not for a "but": I've personally seen results from sitting on the "Japanese" diet for two weeks. Just like in the magazine: "before" and "after". Still, the principle of beauty and health perhaps works best.
It is difficult to say why the diet is called Japanese - half of the foods recommended for eating are exotic for the Japanese. According to legend, the diet was developed by specialists of the Japanese clinic "Yaeks", but no other traces of this office were found on the English-speaking Internet.
lyric emotional subject
I must say that I admire the courage of people who can feel the weight loss recipe found on the Internet and immediately try it on themselves. I myself am wary of diets. Life brought me together with them twice.
The first time - severely, when I got some kind of stomach infection in the mountains and was at an altitude of 3000 meters for three weeks, I couldn't eat: he wanted everything to come back immediately. The second was when I decided to limit my diet to 1000 calories per day. For almost a month, my diet consisted of morning coffee with ice cream handy for lunch and frozen vegetables for dinner. I learned much later that the diet had to be balanced.
So the first question I asked was: How balanced is the Japanese diet? "More or less, but not enough amino acids, " replied a biochemist friend, "you will be vengeful - fear at gunpoint. "Her fears about my hypothetically increasing infertility did not come true. During the first two days, the body was put under pressure by the sudden disappearance of normal food from his life. And realizing that it was a long time, but not forever, he became silent and indifferent.
Charm and disappointment
As with any experiment I have done on myself, I have accumulated a list of temptations and disappointments. More precisely, the discomfort and pleasure of diet.
Discomfort #1
The diet is strict. Because, according to its authors, it is designed to alter metabolism. Therefore, the slightest deviation from the course (even a crouton, even an apple) - and the expected effect is not guaranteed. And this is what is expected: separation by 5 - 8 kilograms and stabilization of weight in the future.
Discomfort #2
It's hard to come to a business dinner and flirtly ask me for two boiled eggs and 200 grams of grated carrots. Often such requests remain unfulfilled. Therefore, you will need to carry all your supplies in your bag. And most likely, prepare diet meals the day before.
nice number 1
13 days on the Japanese diet will cost you about 2 times less than a daily business lunch or lunch at work. And more - the purchase of food for the home.
nice number 2
In general, it is better not to start a strict diet if at least half of the foods it contains bothers you. And since I ate fish, boiled beef, carrots and kefir and cabbage with great enthusiasm and "in normal life", it was frankly cheerful to see them on my table.
Many people ask questions about drinking coffee every morning - isn't it harmful? If you have heart problems or high blood pressure, coffee can have a negative effect. And before starting a Japanese diet, it is worth consulting with your doctor.
A full spectrum of sensations
During the first two days of the diet, a vision haunted me: As soon as I closed my eyes, a finely baked pancake that spontaneously rolled into a tube appeared before my inner gaze. Then someone gently dipped it in strawberry jam and brought it to my face. There were no olfactory hallucinations. After chasing me for two days, the pancakes are behind me.
A stony indifference and calm attitude towards culinary delights emerged, which continues to this day. This doesn't mean that if I'm offered to try something delicious, I will refuse it harshly. But nervous tremors caused by the fact that "there is a lot of food there" are no longer observed.
I didn't shed much - only 4 pounds, but the weight is not regaining it. I do not know who to thank for this: the developers of the Japanese diet, or myself - for exercising twice a week. The only detail: you noticeably lose weight during the diet and towards the end it becomes problematic to open an unopened bottle of mineral water. But then power is quickly restored.
The long-awaited recipe
1 day
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:2 boiled eggs, boiled cabbage salad with vegetable oil, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish.
2 days
Breakfast:black coffee, croutons.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish, vegetable salad, cabbage with vegetable oil.
Dinner:100 grams of boiled beef, a glass of kefir.
3 days
Breakfast:black coffee, croutons.
Dinner:large fried zucchini in vegetable oil.
Dinner:2 boiled eggs, 200 grams of boiled veal, fresh cabbage salad with vegetable oil.
4 days
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:1 raw egg, 3 large boiled carrots with vegetable oil, 15 grams of hard cheese.
Dinner:fruits.
5 days
Breakfast:Raw carrots with lemon juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fruits.
6 days
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:Salad of half boiled chicken, fresh cabbage or carrots.
Dinner:2 boiled eggs, a glass of raw carrots with vegetable oil.
7 days
Breakfast:Tea.
Dinner:200 grams of boiled beef, fruit.
Dinner: Except the 3rd day (boiled crab can be used).
Day 8
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:Salad of half boiled chicken, fresh cabbage or carrots.
Dinner:2 boiled eggs, a glass of raw carrots with vegetable oil.
Day 9
Breakfast:Raw carrots with lemon juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled large fish, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fruits.
10 days
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:1 raw egg, 3 large boiled carrots with vegetable oil, 15 grams of hard cheese.
Dinner:fruits.
11. Day
Breakfast:black coffee, croutons.
Dinner:1 large fried zucchini in vegetable oil.
Dinner:2 boiled eggs, 200 grams of boiled veal, fresh cabbage salad with vegetable oil.
12. Day
Breakfast:black coffee, croutons.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish, vegetable salad, cabbage with vegetable oil.
Dinner:100 grams of boiled beef, a glass of kefir.
Day 13
Breakfast:black coffee.
Dinner:2 boiled eggs, boiled cabbage salad with vegetable oil, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish
You can drink mineral water or just boiled water between meals without restriction. And - let me remind you - never deviate from the prescribed diet.