The diet. Instructions and first recipe.

This post is going to have a different style that the one I intend to give this blog. The idea is to have a little story about my "journey" to get fit and adding the dishes included in my diet. But this post is to explain the system itself. It is very simple:

- Choose 12 dishes for the week (6 lunches and 6 dinners). Any recipe serves both lunchtime and for dinner. It is recommended not to repeat any dish.

- Choose a breakfast and a snack each day. It can always be the same or change every day, it's up to you.

- There is a day off, AKA cheat day. It's useful to cheat the body to not store more than necessary when it "realizes" the change in the diet. There will be a post about this.

- Drink plenty of water. I drink between 2 and 3 liters of water a day.

As you can see, it's very simple, and when you see the list of dishes, perhaps you will recall the maintenance phase that most of the diets have. So basically, this diet is about eating healty, with variety and suitable proportions. When you reach the desired weight, it´s only needed to change slightly the quantities. 

The recipe

Well, let's go for the first recipe. One of the tips which I will mention is that if you do not know how to cook, you have to learn. And one of the reasons is that I can cook but  I can't write recipes, I put salt at my will, also the oil, I cut the vegetables however I feel like in the moment. That´s why I could not write a prescription for someone who can not cook. And I've tried, I assure you. What I will do is writting the amount of the basic ingredients of the recipe and a brief explanation.

Recipe 1. Spirals with chicken.

Ingredients:

- 60 grams crude spirals (or any type of pasta).

- 1 chicken leg.

- 1 small onion

- 1/2 yellow pepper

- 1 cucumber with salt as accompaniment.

Explanation:

Boil in salted water, the pasta for about 8 or 9 minutes. The cooking time is usually written on the package.

At the same time prepare the onion and pepper in a pan with a little, more or less a table spoon,

of oil. When they are cooked, add the chicken, cut into pieces, and mix everything until the chicken is done.

Add the pasta to the pan and cook all together for a couple of minutes.

Pasta with chicken

Almost all recipes will meet these proportions, so if you want you can go on creating your own recipes, varying the types of pasta or rice, and changing the chicken by another meat or fish.

Bon appetit!