Importance Of Cleansing Diet?
You will get
better results – no matter which diet you finally select from the ones given
here – if you try this out for the first three days:
First thing in the morning
Drink a glass
of water with the juice of half a lemon
Breakfast
1 large glass
of unsweetened orange or grapefruit juice, or
2 oranges
1 slice toast
1 glass skim
milk
First thing in the morning
Drink a glass of water with the juice of half a lemon
Breakfast
1 large glass of unsweetened orange or grapefruit juice, or
2 oranges
1 slice toast
1 glass skim milk
Mid-morning
8 ounces of tomato juice
Mid-afternoon
A glass of tomato juice
Lunch
Hot vegetable broth
Chopped vegetable salad without dressing
Fruit (no bananas though)
THE SUGAR- FREE DIET
Breakfast : ½ grapefruit or unsweetened grapefruit juice, eggs (any style), coffee or tea (without cream or sugar)
Lunch : ½ grapefruit, large helping of meat (any style), salad (as much as you want)
Dinner : ½ grapefruit, large helping of fish (any style), any green, yellow or red vegetable and salad (as much as you want of both)
Bed- time : Tomato juice.
What more could you possibly want? The diet completely eliminates sugars and starches which form lipids. Lipids form fat. Fat does not form fats, but helps burn them up. So you can cook your eggs in butter and use butter in your vegetable as well. With this menu, you can eat what the rest of the family is having, except for dessert, bread, white vegetables to compensate. There will be no weight loss in the first four days, but you will suddenly lose about five pounds on the fifth day. You will lose a pound a day till about the tenth day and from then on you will lose about a pound and a half every two days, till you achieve your ideal weight
HOW TO BE HAPPY ON 1000 CALORIES A DAY
Being obese often means having high cholesterol. This diet is especially good in that case. All the more if you are a vegetarian and prefer Indian-style meals.
Vegetarian
Breakfast
Cornflakes or 1 spoon cooked porridge with 200 gm of milk 1 slice bread with 1 spoon jam or 15 gm
1 cup tea with milk
Cottage cheese
Mid-morning
1 small glass of lemonade/orange juice/tomato juice/grapefruit juice/1 cup tea or coffee
Lunch
Salad of cabbage/lettuce/carrots/cucumber/tomatoes/radish 200 gm curd (plain or raita of mint/cucumber/tomatoes/cabbage)
1 medium chapatti (or equivalent)
Tea Time
1 cup tea
1 toast or a tomato/ lettuce/carrots/cucumber sandwich made with 1 slice bread
Dinner
Clear tomato/spinach/mixed vegetable soup 25 gm dal
Cauliflower/ brinjal/ spinach
2 slices bread or one small chapatti
1 portion of fruit
Oil allowance for one day: 10 gm
Non-Vegetarian
Early Morning
1 cup of tea (with milk if desired)
Breakfast
1 egg
1 slice (20 gm) white bread with butter
1 cup milk
Mid morning
1 small glass lemonade/orange juice/ tomato juice/ grapefruit juice/ 1 cup tea or coffee
Lunch
Clear vegetable or meat soup (if desired)
70 gm lean meat/poultry/game or 1 egg or 30 gm cheese
Large helping of salad or vegetables
2 slices (40 gm) bread with butter or 1 chapati
1 portion fruit
Tea Time
1 cup tea or coffee
Dinner
Clear soup
70 gm lean meat/poultry/game or 90 gm fish or 1 egg or 30 gm cheese
50 gm potatoes
100 gm cabbage/cauliflower/carrots/spinach
1 cup tea or coffee
Oil allowed for a day : 15 gm butter or margarine
Dieting
A word of caution though. One should not exceed 48 to 64 ounces of liquid per day. Excessive liquids dilute the body’s store of essential salts (potassium, calcium, sodium).
If one eats a balanced diet, one gets one to two pints of water from solid food, so you must drink at least three pints of water or other liquids daily.
Drinking less than two pints a day can lead to the kidney malfunctioning as the waste products build up. Thirst is actually the best guide to how much water your body needs. If you are uncertain about your intake, measure the food - those hard to assimilate, ‘fatty’ food one could call it and easy assimilate, or ‘skinny’ food.
If you eat more than one hard-to-assimilate, or ‘fatty’ food at one meal, chances are you will not digest it. This is because the combination is that one hard-to-assimilate or ‘fatty’ item must be combined with two easy-to-assimilate or ‘skinny’ items. For example, the potato is a hard-to-assimilate or ‘fatty’ vegetable.
If you eat mutton which is a protein hard to assimilate it will not be easily digested. This does not mean that one cannot eat mutton or potatoes. But one has to have the right combination.
If eating mutton, combine it with cabbage or If a vegetarian, one should choose one vegetable from the hard-to-assimilate group, and two from the easy-to-assimilate group. Have paneer, dal and soya products, which are high in protein. Plain yogurt is very good too but should not be had at night. salad as these are easy-to-assimilate or ‘skinny’ vegetables. When you want to have potatoes, balance them with baked chicken or barbecued tandoori-style chicken or fish. Plan lunch and dinner ahead of time.
For vegetarians, one vegetable should be chosen from the ‘fatty’ vegetable list and balanced with two vegetables from the ‘skinny’ list. It would be a good idea to include Masur dal, paneer, or Raita in the menu for lunch or dinner.
This will be a source of protein. Try to have the paneer or Raita at lunch time instead of dinner as they are dairy products and dairy products should be avoided after 4 p.m.
Chapatis (if very thin and light) can be had along for lunch, but should be avoided at dinner. If the chapatis are light and thin you can have two, but if they are heavy and thick, only one. Even if you feel hungry a couple of hours after you’ve had a meal, it does not mean you have digested the food. The food simply moves from your stomach and is stored as fat in all the fat pockets all over your body.
The stomach is empty true, but not the way it should be, if you’ve been eating food which is not combined right.