“At dinner you have to stay light”. Diet or no diet, how many times have they repeated this phrase to you? Certainly several, also because if the stomach is not overloaded and is not engaged in the digestion of “difficult” foods, one sleeps much better. The diet we are about to tell you about, as you guessed from the name ‘fasting diet in the evening’, does not include dinner at all. The main rule, in fact, is to eliminate solid foods after 5 pm. In this way, we also read on the Di Lei website, you can lose up to three kilos in fifteen days and, another benefit in addition to that of deflating , it is less difficult to sleep.
But beware, rule number one is that it is not recommended to follow it for more than two consecutive weeks. Having made this necessary premise, it is a diet that involves eating normally (but without exaggerating, of course) from breakfast to the afternoon snack and then taking only plenty of liquids, such as herbal teas, from 17 onwards. (Continue after the photo)
This diet is based on a low-calorie regime whereby you avoid ingesting too many calories at the time of day when you burn less (in the evening), and in which you should therefore eat less. From a nutritional point of view, in fact, dinner is in fact the least important meal but it is also the one in which the most ‘cheats’ are risked. Firstly, because you arrive at the table hungry (not everyone makes the sacrosanct afternoon snack) and then because at the end of the day we tend to be more relaxed, therefore to eat more, perhaps even in front of the TV. (Continue after the photo)
In the two weeks that you have decided to follow this diet, you are expected to fill up on vitamins for breakfast, with fresh fruit, skim milk or low-fat yogurt sweetened with a teaspoon of honey. Snacks? Healthy yes, but not too light. Like a wholemeal sandwich stuffed with 100 grams of spreadable cheese and some walnuts, with 150 grams of cow’s milk ricotta and some hazelnuts, with a pound of roasted chicken breast and a little salad. Or even 200 grams of low-fat yogurt with two tablespoons of muesli or for a smoothie made with 500 ml of skim milk, a banana and a teaspoon of honey. (Continue after the photo)
Lunch must also be sufficiently nutritious. Examples: a pound of grilled turkey with 60 grams of wholemeal bread, grilled vegetables and an apple; 200 grams of roasted sea bass with 200 grams of boiled potatoes and a fruit; 80 grams of tomato pasta with a small bowl of lettuce and an apple. Or, again, a dish of rice with peas or ricotta and spinach ravioli seasoned with butter and sage. A normal meal, in short, followed by a snack. At dinner, green light for herbal teas. From that with fennel to that with lime, from that with red fruits to carcadè.
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