Woman’s Passions

No doubt: our organism consists of things we eat and drink. Skin, especially facial one, reacts to your stomach contents keenly. Dietitians advise us eating healthy food, drink less alcohol, tea, coffee. We understand it, but many of us have weaknesses incident to human nature. Some time ago plumpness considered a symbol of female beauty, but nowadays all conceptions turned upside down. Women have to think about every eaten piece of food, worry about their figures.

Looking slender and fit - this is a woman’s dream. How to make it come true? It seems, there’s nothing more correct, than truth, derived by modern dietitians, confirming that our organism can be healthy and strong only due to healthy food. And this means, attractive figure, exultant mood and luck will accompany business and love.

How to reach it, if cast-iron will and capacity for hours of trainings - is not your hobby?

To keep to certain weight, you need to eat subcaloric products daily. For example, lemon juice contains no calorie and is a wonderful remedy, rich in vitamin C. It’s good to season vegetable salads with it, and grated lemon peel will add a pleasant taste to a dish.

Use only vegetable oils, better olive one, for cooking. Non-fat yogurt is good for a light breakfast and in case, if you need to have a quick snack. It contains many proteins, calcium and some zinc, moreover little fat.

As a rule, we want to drink some tea with sweets after a substantial meal. You shouldn’t take drink after food. It’s better to replace tea with sugar by freshly brewed herbal decoction - sage, mint, pansy. Such drink will help to lead out slags, cheer you up and put off your appetite for sweets.

You can drink herbal tea 30 minutes after meal.

Fresh cucumber - is a champoin among subcaloric products. It contains less than 12 calories in 100 g. Don’t lose an opportunity to include fresh cucumbers in your daily allowance in summer. Ideal food for those who are striving to lose weight - is usual cabbage. It contains almost no calories, but it causes a stable feeling of satiety.

If you like cheese, eat hard pressed, not processed one - it’s rich in calories. Use less salt, as it detains liquid in organism, salt already cooked food and better with iodine-treated salt - it stimulates metabolism.

Arrange at least one fasting day per week. This will give you an opportunity to lose almost 6 kg during a month. Try to appease your hunger and quench your thirst with a special drink during a day. It’s recipe is known to several female generations: put one table spoon of usual black tea in a thermos and pour with 1 liter of hot milk. In 30-40 minutes a drink is ready-to-serve.

You can drink 1-1,5 liters of kefir or eat some boiled rice with dried fruits during fasting days. “Apple” days are undesirable as fasting ones, they excite appetite significantly.

Hunger, especially between breakfast and lunch, can crush even most resolute man. And a bun you ate during this time apprehensively will reduce whole week’s efforts to zero. So you should replace tempting dishes by subcaloric and more wholesome ones. Mineral non-aerated water with fruit or vegetable juice (not tomato one, as it increases hunger) will be good for it. Carrot or black currant juices are substantial and useful for skin.

Lemon-orange juice with green tea: mix 1 table spoon of lemon juice, 2 table spoons of orange juice, 1 table spoon of strong green tea, 1 table spoon of mint extract, add honey to your taste. Add cold boiled water.
Sea-buckthorn juice with mint and honey: a glass of sea-buckthorn juice, 1/3 glass of boiled water, 2 table spoons of mint extract, honey to your taste.

Apple juice with radish and sour cream: 2 table spoons of black radish, grated apple, 2 glasses of apple juice, 2 table spoons of sour cream, some lemon juice.

Of course, these are various sandwiches, including burgers. Appetite roll with cutlet and cheese contains many fats and carbohydrates, and it appeases your hunger only for an hour. So, before you decide to eat a sandwich, think about calories and make a decision…

Dietitians consider that soup - is the most appropriate dish for those, who decided to grow thin. Of course, we mean vegetarian soup or with lean meat. The main qiality of soup is that it fills most part of stomach, creating feeling of satiety. Don’t forget to season your soup with parsley, tarragon, fennel, to add spicy taste to it.

Made soup: put potato, cut in cubicles (100g) in boiling water, add carrot circles in 10 minutes (100g), 5 minutes later - chopped onion (100g), parsley root, cauliflower (100 g), and pumpkin (100g), cut in cubicles. Salt. Add hashed green, lemon peel and some red pepper to a ready soup.

Soup of fresh vegetables with mint and rice: wash 80 g of rice and put it in boiling water, salt. Stew hashed onion (100g) in vegetable oil with slices of tomato (500g) and pour in broth. Put cut fennel and parsley green in soup, add pepper, fennel seed and 2 bay leaves. Crumble mint leaves in each plate before serving up.

You should drink at least 2 liters of water per day - about nine 200g glasses. You should increase quantity in summer season also in case you have big overweight. Then add a glass of water for every 10 g of overweight. Drink water with pleasure. It will repay you with wonderful skin, general invigoration of organism and keeping slender figure.

Don’t forget about cellulose. When vegetable fibers, contained in porridges and cereals, come to stomach, they create feeling of satiety for a long.

Smells of red pepper and grapefruit help to lose excess kilograms. These scents stimulate secretion of particles, burning fat in organism.

Boil tea of valerian root - 1 liter of water for 10 g of root. It will reduce sense of hunger suddenly. Drink a glass of such cold tea without sugar 30 minutes before meal.

Let’s start with breakfast. It should consist of light fruit salad and toning drink. To cook salad, you will need rolled oats or semolina, honey, nuts and berries or fruits. Soak 2 table spoons of rolled oats in 4 table spoons of cold boiled water. In 5 minutes add a table spoon of honey, puree of 200g of fresh berries (strawberry, raspberry, currant, cherry, gooseberry, plum) and 2 table spoons of grinded walnuts.

Another variant: combine 2 table spoons of rolled oats (cook the same way) with 2 grated apples, 1 table spoon of honey, 1 table spoon of concentrated milk or cream.

And another one: soak 2 table spoons of semolina in 4 table spoons of cold boiled water. In 5 minutes add 2 grated apples, 2 table spoons of grated carrot, 2 table spoons of grinded walnuts and a table spoon of honey.

Dietary lunch can be traditional, but 15-20 minutes before meal, you should drink a glass of soda non-aerated water, this is literally “life-giving water”. You should start lunch with any green salad. Choose an appropriate recipe.

Salad of carrot with marrows: grate carrot and marrows in equal parts, add seasoning - lemon juice, cream, onion and stir.

Of lettuce: mix 100 g of lettuce, 2 table spoons of unrefined vegetable oil, 2 table spoons of grinded walnuts, 2 table spoons of sour milk, fennel.

Of apples and tomatoes: Cut tomatoes (300 g) and apples (300g) in slices, onion (100 g) and bell pepper (30g) - in straws. Mix, salt, add lemon juice, pour with sour cream on top (100g).

Dietetic supper. After a stressed working day it’s qiuite time to try a toning cocktail. To cook it you will need milk, raw egg yolk, honey and fruit juice. In ancient times doctors called milk a “life-giving juice”, nowadays they call it “elixir of youth”. As for egg, it’s just irreplaceable in these wholesome cocktails for skin.

Cocktail 1. Whip 1 egg yolk, 2 table spoons of honey, 1 table spoon of lemon juice, 2 table spoons of carrot juice, 6 table spoons of apple juice and half-glass of boiled water.

Cocktail 2. Mix 1 raw yolk, half-glass of cold milk and 1 table spoon of honey.

For those who cannot stand milk: grind 3 shoots of fresh mint with 2 table spoons of honey, add half-glass of birch sap and half-glass of lemon juice.

French women forbid themselves eating canned food. They restrict usage of salt, and also various spicy seasonings and spices (pepper, mustard, vinegar). They try to avoid biologically dead products, such as meat, animal fats, sugar. They also be careful of milk and dairy produce.

Cereals, vegetables and fruits are considered to be most valuable. French dietitians recommed healthy woman to eat at least 50% of cereals (porridges) daily, other half - is vegetables and ftuits both in raw and boiled form.

For sick and senescent women they recommend 100% usage of cereals - liquid porridges on water with mineral addition of common salt.

As soon as a diet course is over, many are surprised with the fact that kilograms they lost before start returning little by little, and in quite a short period of time. It is little wonder - a “quick diets” law snaps into action: as soon as organism receives normal quantity of food, it starts accumulating excess kilograms and does it so industriously, that overweight returns.

To remain slender and beautiful after diet too, you probably will have to refuse from many things in further. Anyway, gluttony and laziness should dissapear from your life for ever, and healthy food and physical exercises, on the contrary, occupy a deserving place in it.

Don’t hope to grow thin quikcly. Your goal - is to learn eating correctly and with pleasure! In your striving to “grow thin at any price”, you will become irritated, not finding concrete results of losing weight in your look. We shall do everything at the proper time, be patient. The main is that you should balance your nutrition correctly, it should be frequent - 5-6 times per day and in small portions. Remember about general rules, due to which you won’t damage your figure, for example, that you should not eat before going to bed, go too far with alcohol, sweets, farinaceous foods.