The diet. A quick explanation

The idea is to eat in a controlled way during 6 days and have a day off. This day off is when you can eat whatever you want and as much you want. The explanation is similar to the same idea that of drinking a lot of water (I drink between 2 and 3 liters a day), to avoid the body to retain more than necessary. Especially at the beginning, the body "realizes" that you are taking fewer calories than usual, so it tries to keep as much as possible, and that would cause weight and fat loss much slower. This day of we cheat our body to it doesn't keep anything that is not needed. This “cheat” day can be adjusted, the idea is to make at maximum 2 or 3 "uncontrolled" meals per week. I usually do it in one day, it helps me to have everything under control.

The portions, for the controlled meals, usually are around 60 grams raw rice or pasta, around 100 grams of meat and/or fish, plus another part of vegetables and/or fruit. Throughout the blog I'll show the different recipes (you saw the first one already), there´s Spanish omelet, spaghetti ala carbonara, Cuban rice, rice with cod, rice with chicken, pasta salad, and some other recipes that I “created” by myself. But as you see, all these recipes are quite usual (at least in Spain). But the portions are what they are.

I have eliminated fried foods, refined sugar and refined flour products. So, I don´t eat sweets, cakes or sugary drinks, and always whole-grain bread. The latter helps to make the digestion slower, so it takes longer to feel hungry. So breakfast is no longer based cakes, cereals and now consists of a chicken, or turkey, breast sandwich. In brief I’ll talk about the possible breakfast.

Between meals I take a handful, 20 units if you don’t know how much is a handful, of toasted almonds. They are very easy to prepare, but it can be also raw almonds or some nuts, or a yogurt. The idea is to eat, just a little, every two or three hours. So that the stomach is constantly working (burning calories), and we’ll never feel hungry, the great enemy.

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And finally, it is good to always carry the same schedule. This is easier when you are working, at university for example it was a bit more complicated, because every day I had a different schedule. As an example, here is my schedule:

•     8am - 9am Breakfast
•     12h            Lunch
•     15h            Portion of almonds
•     17h-18h     1 yogurt
•     20h-21h     Dinner

In short, the second recipe or the breakfasts, we'll see.