Zigzag Diet

Zigzag diet, or carbohydrate sequencing program, has overtaken on popularity practically all modern techniques for growing thin.

Initially, the program was used exclusively by bodybuilders, because with the help of it they could lose excess weight without destroying the muscles. In addition, athletes constantly felt a surge of energy and strength.

The essence of zigzag weight loss system ^

The author of the zigzag diet is German scientist Karl Noorden. Nutritionists, having studied the peculiarities of the zigzag technique, appreciated it and transformed it so that it helps ordinary people to lose weight without problems.

The essence of the zigzag technique is the alternation of the amount of carbohydrates that slimming uses for food: first you need to minimize the use of carbohydrates, then load them with the body, and then monitor the balance of nutrition. With the help of such nutrition, metabolic processes in the body are improved.

Zigzag - the program for losing weight lasts from 1 to 2 months. This period is divided into cycles of 4 days each.

• The first two days of the cycle are low-carbohydrate, that is, the consumption of carbohydrates is reduced to 0.5 grams per 1 kg of weight, and the protein intake is increased to 3-4 grams. In these days, the glycogen reserve is consumed, and fat is consumed along with it. By the end of the second day, there is no glycogen in the body, and fat is used as fuel.
• On the third day the food changes dramatically: carbohydrates - 5-6 grams, protein - 1 gram. Consumption of carbohydrates increases dramatically, an organism that is not yet accustomed to this development of events, continues to break down fats and, at the same time, accumulate glycogen in the liver and muscles.
• The fourth day of the zigzag ration is balanced: the amount of carbohydrates and proteins consumed is 2-2.5 grams. Such a day is necessary in order to completely replenish glycogen reserves.

The dietary zigzag technique has undeniable advantages:

• By consuming a variety of foods containing both proteins and carbohydrates, a sense of satiety appears for a fairly long time.
• Carbohydrates, which the body receives in the amount provided by the diet, do not allow the body to use muscles for energy consumption. Exchange processes in the body are accelerated, rather than frozen, as with low-carb slimming programs.
• The diet is varied, so there is no getting used to the monotonous nutrition of the body.
• Zigzag diet is very easy to use: it's easy to start and just finish without harm to health. In psychological terms, it is ideal, because it allows you to use different products.
• During weight loss, intensive physical activities are allowed and recommended.
• Zigzag technique allows you to lose hated kilograms in a fairly short time.

Thanks to a balanced diet, the dietary zigzag technique is suitable for almost everyone who wants to lose weight effectively without causing harm to health. But, like any other technique, a zigzag diet has contraindications. It is contraindicated to people:

• with chronic diseases;
• with kidney and pancreas diseases;
• with a problematic metabolism.

Diet Zigzag calories: approximate menu for 4 days ^

Zigzag diet on the Noorden on some days assumes the maximum reduction in the diet of certain products. But in order to successfully lose weight, it is necessary to make a zigzag menu correctly.

It is impossible to eat eggs and meat in protein days, and carbohydrates - one biscuit. It is important to eat as much food as the body needs for good health. Calculate the number of proteins and carbohydrates can be based on the weight of losing weight. At a weight of 60 kg on protein days, you need to eat 180 g of protein( 60 kg * 3 g) and 60 g of carbohydrates.

For more convenience, you can use an approximate zigzag menu, but depending on habits, features and preferences, you can change it. Every day you need to eat 3 times a day at about the same time.

Day 1,2 - low-carbohydrate

• For breakfast, vegetable salad, low-fat cottage cheese and eggs are best. Vegetables are better to choose non-starchy, that is, to avoid the use of potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, horseradish, zucchini, etc. Non-starchy vegetables include: parsley, dill, celery, beetroot. Radish, cabbage, cucumbers, garlic, peas and others.
• The lunch menu can consist of boiled chicken fillet, boiled beans or other vegetables.
• For dinner it is recommended to cook fish with vegetable salad. To fill salads is allowed a spoonful of vegetable oil.

Day 3 - High Carbohydrate

• On this day of the zigzag diet cycle, namely in the morning, you can please yourself with oatmeal flakes, adding raisins to the porridge, and a slice of whole bread.
• Lunch will be quite satisfying if you cook a cup of any kind of rice and eat it with a snack with boiled chicken fillet and a light salad of vegetables.
• Dinner can consist of macaroni from durum wheat, seasoned with low-fat sauce.

Day 4 - normal reception of carbohydrates

• The breakfast of the last day of a zigzag cycle can consist of oatmeal with raisins, like the previous day, but the bread can be replaced with a portion of fat-free cottage cheese.
• For lunch it is preferable to eat a portion of boiled rice with chicken breast and spring salad. Portions of meat and vegetable dishes should be approximately equal.
• You can have supper by making a fish, salad, slicing a few slices of bread coarse. Fish can be boiled or baked in the oven.

Results, reviews of weight loss and doctors about the zigzag diet ^

The results of zigzag diets are great, because for a couple of months really get rid of 10 kg of excess weight. Dietitians refer to the zigzag-food system positively, because it does not harm the body, which is quite possible due to slow weight loss and excellent diet. Depending on whether a person wants to gain weight or lose, only the menu changes.

Positive feedback from athletes, stars and ordinary people indicates its effectiveness and good portability. Zigzag program differs little from the usual diet, according to it it is necessary only to exclude harmful products.

To stick to a zigzag diet is allowed throughout life, modify and adjust to yourself. After a long break in the zigzag program, you can return. Zigzag diet is a great option for people who are striving for a healthy lifestyle and want to have a perfect body. At the same time, beauty and attractiveness are not accompanied by deterioration of physical and psychological health.

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