In spring, nature wakes up, metabolism accelerates, the body no longer needs as many calories as in winter. And now is the time to revise your diet and start eating so that the extra pounds accumulated in the cold season will go away as soon as possible. Nutrition, selected according to the season, will not only allow you to maintain a slim body, but also help to avoid such an unpleasant phenomenon as vitamin deficiency, without resorting to the help of synthetic vitamin complexes.
How and what products to choose in spring to lose weight
The first step is to remember and write down everything that you ate and drank a week or two before today. You can start by making an approximate list of dishes, then a more extensive list of products and methods of processing them.
Describe everything that you cooked and ate at home, as well as restaurant or street food, including buns, chocolate, cookies - in a word, everything that was not only the main meal, but also a snack.
After describing your diet for the previous week or two, prepare to keep a food diary for the next week. Here, be sure to add serving size and number of meals per day, including snacks. Now you can read and analyze the information received. See if there is enough fresh fruit on your daily menu.
Be sure to include in the diet. They can be of both animal and plant origin. Reduce the amount of meat products consumed, and completely eliminate semi-finished products and sausages.
Also, cut back on the amount of baked goods you eat. Replace the sweet pastry with simple wholegrain buns, and eat different seeds instead of white bread. You can also bake this bread at home.
Don't skip fat. Buy: sunflower, linseed, pumpkin, camelina, olive, amaranth, sesame, etc. However, you should not get too carried away with oils, since food can be less fat in spring.
Enter into the diet. Try adding mint, celery, and rosemary to your meals - you will be surprised how different the same foods can taste. Tarragon, parsley, dill, wheat, cilantro can be grown on a windowsill or balcony all year round by purchasing seeds at the nearest supermarket. Don't forget green onions and green garlic.
Very useful: cabbage, spinach, sorrel, various types of salad.
Also, vegetables such as carrots, beets, pumpkin, onions, and garlic retain their useful properties at this time of the year. But potatoes in the spring are no longer only not useful, but also harmful, since during long-term storage this root crop produces and accumulates a poisonous substance - solanine.
For dessert, instead of heavy fatty cakes, cakes, creams, eat. There is also a huge variety, which not only do not harm the figure, but, on the contrary, help fight excess weight.
Drink more, replace tea and coffee with decoctions of dried fruits and herbal teas. In this case, the amount of fluid consumed must correspond to the characteristics of the body.
Try to eat vegetables fresh, not thermally processed. As a last resort, bake them or steam them. Avoid frying food completely. Meat and fish can also be baked, steamed or grilled.
Reduce consumption of table salt, and replace it completely if possible
: green and yellow peas, red and green lentils, various types of beans, chickpeas, soybeans, actually beans, which are a rich source of easily digestible protein. Cook legumes with vegetables, serve with fresh vegetable salad and, of course, plenty of fresh herbs.
since this vegetable warms up the blood and speeds up the metabolism, which definitely has a positive effect on the process of losing weight.
Cut 200 g pumpkin and cauliflower into random pieces. Pour 1.5 liters. hot water, cook until soft over medium heat. Add 2 cups of 250 ml of ready-made pea puree, salt and spices to taste, bring to a boil, remove from heat and pour in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Wipe the soup with a hand blender and serve with a sprinkle of fresh chopped herbs.
