Why the diet is called Japanese is hard to say - half of the foods recommended for eating are exotic to the Japanese.
My diet experience is such that I would hardly resort to this means of self-torture voluntarily. If not for a "but": I personally saw the results of a two-week sitting on a "Japanese" diet. Just like in the magazine: "before" and "after". And yet the principle of beauty and health works, perhaps, best.
Why the diet is called Japanese is hard to say - half of the foods recommended for eating are exotic to the Japanese. According to the legend, the diet was developed by the specialists of the Japanese clinic "Yaeks", but no more traces of this office were found on the English-speaking Internet.
Lyrical sentimental deviation
I must say that I admire the courage of people who are able to feel the recipe for weight loss found on the web, and immediately try it on yourself. I myself am wary of diets. Life brought me together with them twice.
For the first time - in severe form, when I caught a stomach infection in the mountains and for three weeks, at an altitude of 3000 meters, I just could not eat: everything immediately wanted to return. The second time was when I decided to limit my diet to 1000 calories a day. For almost a month, my diet consisted of morning coffee with ice cream, which is convenient for lunch, and frozen vegetables for dinner. I learned that the diet should be balanced much later.
So, the first question I asked was: How balanced is the Japanese diet? "More or less, but not enough amino acids, " replied a friend of the biochemist, "you will be vicious - horror with a gun. "His fears of my hypothetical heightened depravity did not materialize. For the first two days, his body was depressed by the sudden disappearance of normal food from his life. And realizing that this had been a long time, but not forever, he became quiet and indifferent.
Charm and disappointment
As happens in the course of each experiment on me, I accumulated a list of delights and disappointments. Or rather the inconvenience and enjoyment of the diet.
Inconvenience # 1
The diet is strict. Because, according to its authors, it is designed to change metabolism. Therefore, the slightest deviation from the course (even a crouton, even an apple) - and the expected effect is not guaranteed. And this is expected: separation of 5 - 8 kilograms and weight stabilization in the future.
Inconvenience # 2
It is very difficult to come to a business lunch and flirtatiously ask for two hard-boiled eggs and 200 grams of grated carrots. Usually such requests remain unfulfilled. That's why you will have to carry all the provisions with you in your bag. And most likely prepare diet meals the day before.
Nice number 1
13 days of the Japanese diet will cost you about 2 times less than daily business lunches or lunch at work. And even more - buying 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 consists of are unpleasant for you. And since I eat with great enthusiasm in the "normal life" and fish, and boiled beef, and carrots, and kefir, and cabbage, then to see them on my table was, frankly, joyful.
Many people ask questions about drinking coffee every morning - isn't it harmful? If you have heart problems or high blood pressure, then coffee can have an adverse effect. And before you start a Japanese diet, it is worth consulting your doctor.
A complete set of sensations
During the first two days of the diet, I was haunted by a vision: as soon as I closed my eyes, a thinly baked pancake appeared in front of my inner gaze and spontaneously rolled into a tube. Then someone kindly dipped it in strawberry jam and brought it to my face. There were no olfactory hallucinations. After chasing me for two days, the pancake fell behind.
There was a stony indifference and a calm attitude towards culinary temptations, which continues to this day. This does not mean that I will refuse rudely if I am offered to try something tasty. But the nervous trembling of the fact that "there is so much food" is no longer observed.
I did not throw so much - only 4 kilograms, but the weight does not return. I don't know who to thank for this: the developers of the Japanese diet or myself - for sports twice a week. The only detail: during the diet you noticeably lose weight and towards the end it becomes problematic to open an unopened bottle of mineral water. But then the strength is quickly restored.
The long-awaited recipe
Day 1
Breakfast:Black coffee.
Dinner:2 hard-boiled eggs, a salad of boiled cabbage with vegetable oil, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish.
Day 2
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 3
Breakfast:black coffee, croutons.
Dinner:large fried zucchini in vegetable oil.
Dinner:2 hard-boiled eggs, 200 grams of boiled beef, fresh cabbage salad with vegetable oil.
Day 4
Breakfast:Black coffee.
Dinner:1 raw egg, 3 large boiled carrots with vegetable oil, 15 grams of hard cheese.
Dinner:fruits.
Day 5
Breakfast:raw carrots with lemon juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fruits.
Day 6
Breakfast:Black coffee.
Dinner:half a boiled chicken, a salad of fresh cabbage or carrots.
Dinner:2 hard-boiled eggs, a glass of raw carrots with vegetable oil.
Day 7
Breakfast:tea.
Dinner:200 grams of boiled beef, fruit.
Dinner:what you want from the evenings, except on the 3rd day (boiled crabs can be used).
Day 8
Breakfast:Black coffee.
Dinner:half a boiled chicken, a salad of fresh cabbage or carrots.
Dinner:2 hard-boiled eggs, a glass of raw carrots with vegetable oil.
Day 9
Breakfast:raw carrots with lemon juice.
Dinner:large fish, fried or boiled, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fruits.
Day 10
Breakfast:Black coffee.
Dinner:1 raw egg, 3 large boiled carrots with vegetable oil, 15 grams of hard cheese.
Dinner:fruits.
Day 11
Breakfast:black coffee, croutons.
Dinner:1 large fried zucchini in vegetable oil.
Dinner:2 hard-boiled eggs, 200 grams of boiled beef, fresh cabbage salad with vegetable oil.
Day 12
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 hard-boiled eggs, a salad of boiled cabbage with vegetable oil, a glass of tomato juice.
Dinner:fried or boiled fish
Between meals you can drink mineral water or just boiled water without restriction. And - let me remind you - never deviate from this diet.