Three-Food Diet: What It Is
There are several diets known under the name "three-product diet".
The first contains only oatmeal, cottage cheese and apples. The second contains buckwheat, chicken breasts and cabbage, the third contains vegetable soup for weight loss, lean meat and apples.
Sometimes this is also the name for a diet based on fermented milk products, fresh vegetables and green apples, but a more correct name for this diet is the Protasov diet.
However, in any case, 3 products are recommended to be eaten for only 7-14 days, and perhaps you will be able to lose 0.5-1 kg per day.
Three Food Diet Ration
To begin, you should cook a glass of oatmeal, stock up on 200 g of low-fat cottage cheese and 1 kg of apples for each day. Divide the oatmeal in half. The first "half" is eaten for breakfast, along with three apples. The second - for lunch, with a teaspoon of honey, 100 g of cottage cheese and a couple of apples.
Dinner will consist of 100 g of cottage cheese and three apples. Actually, if you are tired of cottage cheese-oatmeal-apples, you can have a green salad for an afternoon snack.
The advantages of this diet: it is quite easy to tolerate, especially if a person does not exercise.
The large amount of fiber in apples and oatmeal fills the stomach, apples relieve cravings for sweets, and cottage cheese provides some protein. It is morally easier to sit on this for a week than on oatmeal alone, or apples alone, or cottage cheese alone.
Cons: everything else. The diet is unbalanced in proteins and fats, and contains too few carbohydrates.
It can be safe for health only for a short period of time. Several cycles of such a diet in a row are a sure way to slow down your metabolism.
If you are used to a varied diet, it will be difficult to lose weight. In addition, the diet does not give any skills for proper nutrition in everyday life, you will not eat only cottage cheese, oatmeal and apples all the time, will you?
The buckwheat-chicken-cabbage version looks like this:
For breakfast – 200 g of boiled buckwheat, with a teaspoon of soy sauce
For lunch - 100 g buckwheat, 100 g chicken, and 200 g cabbage, can be stewed without frying, in the form of a salad or steamed;
For dinner – 100-200 g chicken breast and cabbage salad again
Pros: This diet contains slightly more protein, due to the combination of chicken breast and vegetable protein buckwheat. It is easier for physically active people to tolerate, and is more reminiscent of the usual "meat, salad, side dish" diet. Quite a quick effect.
Cons: too few calories, protein requirements will be met only if you weigh very little and do not exercise. Does not cover the body's needs for fats, with long-term (more than 7-14 days, once a season) use can provoke amenorrhea and problems with conception in the future.
The diet soup option looks like this:
Breakfast: a portion of vegetables boiled in water in the form of soup, any vegetables are taken, strictly without potatoes
Lunch: a serving of soup, plus chicken breast, 100 g
Dinner: green apple and chicken breast.
Pros: quickly relieves constipation, contains the smallest amount of calories, but quite a lot of fiber, is easier to tolerate than a vegetable mono-diet, and does not have the same negative effects as a diet of only apples or only meat.
Cons: low calorie and unbalanced. This diet cannot remain effective for a long time. It can lead to a slowdown in metabolism and the weight loss process along with it. That is why it is better to use "3 products" with soup when you are already finishing the process and are ready to switch to a maintenance diet.
Well, the opinions of nutritionists regarding the advisability of such diets differ. Some experts write that it is morally easier for a person to limit his diet if he has few options to choose from.
Others believe that there is nothing wrong with choice, and the sooner a person learns to choose healthy dishes from a variety of food on their own, the easier and faster they will become slim and healthy.
