How to lose weight in winter: tips that really work

In winter, the human body requires a lot of vitamins, especially if you decide to lose weight . But it is not necessary to eat vitamins and gain weight; in this article we will learn how to eat and effectively lose weight. It’s a paradox, but strictly following your chosen diet, you can easily lose excess weight (up to 10 kg!).

The diets were compiled by Italian nutritionist Raffaella Govoni. Each diet is designed for approximately one thousand two hundred calories, which is enough for a healthy body!

Winter diet. Diet No. 1

Your breakfast . Three slices of grain bread, on which you can spread a small amount of jam (or marmalade); 200 grams of freshly squeezed cranberry juice (berries can be purchased fresh frozen in the supermarket); a cup of barley coffee, or tea, which should contain brown sugar (beet sugar). Read more about the right breakfast for weight loss here.

Your lunch . If you are thirsty during the day, you can replenish the number of calories in your body by eating: twenty grams of Parmesan cheese; two pieces of dried apricots; a small amount of almonds.

Your lunch . You can have lunch with boiled chicken fillet (about 150 grams) and a salad of any vegetables, for example, the “Brush” salad is perfect. Sliced ​​piece of rye bread.

Your afternoon snack . For an afternoon snack, you are allowed to eat plain yogurt and homemade oatmeal cookies.

Your dinner . For dinner, prepare about two hundred grams of octopus salad, boil one large potato and eat a slice of fresh pineapple.

Duration of the diet: On the “winter diet No. 1” you need to sit for from 5 to 18 days, strictly following its diet. It is also worth taking time for sports “plus”: at least once a day, walk briskly in the park for at least 30 minutes.

Arrange fasting days

How to eat in winter to actually lose 10 kg? On days when you don't work and don't use a lot of energy, it's a good idea to make them fasting days.

During a fasting day, it is not at all necessary to remain hungry, but you should save only lean types of meat, fish and dairy products, vegetables, and buckwheat in your diet.

You can also add unsweetened apple varieties to your food. This diet will allow your stomach to rest and gain strength.

Diet for the winter. Diet No. 2

Your breakfast . A fried piece of white bread (toast), on which you put a small piece of cheese, or better yet, ham. You can wash this down with a cup of tea, but without sugar.

Your lunch . As in diet number 1, you can snack by eating twenty grams of Parmesan cheese or one large kiwi.

Your lunch . According to the recommendation of nutritionist Raffaello (the one who compiled these diets), for lunch it is recommended to eat two plates of lentil salad, cooked with Parmesan, dill and tomatoes. After lunch you can eat one piece of fresh pineapple.

Your afternoon snack . The afternoon snack is strict. You can eat just 1 banana, preferably not a big one.

Your dinner .
Fry or boil two choice eggs. If for some reason you don’t want to eat eggs, then you can make a vegetable salad, for example, known to us as “Brush”. Eat eggs or salad with a piece of bread (rye bread is perfect).

How much did it all cost?

(February 2021)

The amount on the check is 3290 rubles. But if you count accurately, then this amount is less, since some of the food will not be eaten this week, but will be saved for the next one. For example, I need 50 g of semolina for the menu. But you have to buy 900 g (the smallest package). Accordingly, if you count the cost of only those products that are needed on the menu, you will get 2,745 rubles.

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Losing weight in winter is easy. Diet No. 3

We're having breakfast . We make ourselves a sandwich, we can nibble on dried nuts or make ourselves a tasty and juicy beef steak. As a drink - coffee or tea, which is more pleasant. Try not to consume sugar unless it is beetroot (brown).

For lunch . At lunch you can eat boiled rice, without spices or meat. Just boiled rice. About 200 grams.

Let's have lunch . It is advisable to have a vegetable lunch. More precisely, make some kind of vegetable salad, then you can eat 100-200 grams of fried chicken or rabbit meat. We recommend steaming vegetables; don’t forget to add onions and garlic, they are very useful in winter. As in the two previous diets for weight loss, we eat only grain bread (rye, oats).

For afternoon tea . We prepare a fruit salad from apples, oranges, bananas (and anything else you can afford), topped with one block of creamy ice cream.

Let's have dinner . One hundred to two hundred grams of boiled fish with a slice of rye bread. You can eat a slice of fresh pineapple at night.

Meat, poultry, offal, fish, eggs, milk and dairy products

Diet for 4 winter days. Diet No. 4

We're having breakfast . Dairy products are very useful in winter, so let's not forget them. For breakfast - cottage cheese with berry puree (you can buy fresh frozen berries in supermarkets, grind them and add a little sweetener, for example, stevia), a glass of milk. As a drink - cocoa, coffee or tea. Sweeten drinks with beet sugar.

Your lunch . Red apple, but only half. A piece of Parmesan cheese. Walnuts or two small ham sandwiches (take the more expensive one).

Let's have lunch . We buy brown rice and cook it with lentils (buy fresh frozen). You can eat half a grapefruit.

For afternoon tea . Plain store-bought yogurt without filler, or kefir if you want to lose weight even faster. Or one ice cream “seal”.

Let's have dinner . Stew freshly frozen vegetables (we buy vegetable stew, such as “Mexican”). A piece of rye bread. Before bedtime, you can drink a glass of herbal tea.

Part 2. Foods that do not need to be cooked – RUB 2,081

Of course, the dishes that are on our menu are not the only thing we eat. Another significant part consists of ready-made products (for example, bread). Or foods that do not need to be cooked: fruits, cottage cheese, tea, etc. They cost another 2,081 rubles.

Diet for December. Diet No. 5

A diet for the New Year's month will help you quickly lose weight or simply keep yourself in good shape.

Your breakfast . Rye cookies with hot tea, and in honor of the New Year's mood, you can eat a piece of cottage cheese casserole. Instead of tea, you can drink coffee or citrus juice.

For lunch . For lunch, the nutritionist recommends yogurt with pieces of berries (for example, freshly frozen cherries) or cereal.

Your lunch . For lunch, a small amount of meat is allowed, the main thing is that the meat is tender and does not contain fat. Beef tenderloin is perfect. It needs to be fried with Parmesan cheese. We eat it with rye bread.

Your dinner . We buy 100-200 grams of fish that needs to be boiled. Let's make a simple vegetable salad. Before going to bed, drink a herbal infusion or weak black tea without sugar.

Visit the sauna and bathhouse

Saunas and steam baths are a great way to relieve stress and fatigue, as well as tone the body. Increased air temperature in a bathhouse or sauna can protect against colds and remove toxins from the body. When going to the bathhouse, you can take your favorite scrub or cream and ask your partner to give you a massage.

It is useful to know how to quickly lose weight in winter and not gain extra pounds again. If you regularly follow these recommendations, you will very quickly notice a pleasant change in your reflection in the mirror.

Winter diet. Diet No. 6

An original and very simple, moderately strict diet for the three winter months of December, January and February.

We're having breakfast . We prepare coffee without milk, preferably less sugar. Are you ready? You can drink it with a croissant.

Lunch . Two fried slices of rye bread with a slice of ham.

Let's have lunch . We make a simple salad with Parmesan cheese and chicken (boil and chop the chicken fillet), adding celery. A slice of rye bread. If the situation allows (you are not driving or at work), then you can drink some red wine and eat a red apple.

Afternoon snack . For an afternoon snack, we eat a green apple, depending on your appetite and desire to lose weight, as well as 3 almonds.

Let's have dinner . Cooking vegetable stew. We eat it with a piece of rye bread. At night we drink hot tea, sweetening it slightly with stevia.

Don't choose starvation diets

It is common for women to want to lose weight in a couple of days. To do this, they are ready to go on strict diets and choose only low-calorie foods.

Any diet is a very big stress for the body. Especially if the desire to lose weight manifests itself in the fall and winter, when due to a lack of vitamins and macroelements in foods, the diet already looks meager.

Strict diets can be harmful. At first, water will leave the body and it will seem that the process of losing weight has begun. However, in reality, dehydration will occur, which will negatively affect the entire body.

The skin will gradually become dry and wrinkled, the kidneys will stop flushing out excess sand and may begin to ache. Due to a malfunction of the liver, the face may become yellow from toxins entering the body. Don't joke with your health.

The body may ultimately not have enough strength to restore the immune system to its previous form.

Seven-day diet for the winter. Diet No. 7

The diet, as you guessed from the name, is designed for seven days. The diet is very simple; this is the diet Ferro recommends to use before the New Year.

For breakfast . A glass of milk with a piece of rye bread.

For lunch . Thirty grams of Parmesan cheese, one small kiwi.

For lunch . Vegetable salad with tomatoes. We eat the salad with rye bread.

For afternoon tea . Any fruit you find. But know that you shouldn’t eat too many of them. Citrus fruits are perfect.

For dinner . Vegetable salad, green apple. We wash down a slice of cheese with tea.

Part 1. What to cook = 2745 rubles

The most convenient way to plan a menu is using magnetic recipe cards for the refrigerator. Especially for this menu, I chose economical but tasty recipes from my collection of cards. So last week my menu on the refrigerator looked like this:

It’s difficult to understand at first glance, but the menu is laid out according to a 2x2 scheme. That is, two dishes for two days. This means that every day I prepare breakfast + 2 dishes for two days. On even days - soup and dessert for two days. On odd days - main course and salad for two days. In total, every day I have 5 dishes: breakfast, soup, salad, main course and dessert.

So that you can see the whole picture, I moved several cards of dishes that were prepared on Sunday to Monday (spaghetti carbonara) and Tuesday (salad with carrots and cabbage).

Diet “Minus 8 kg” over the winter. Diet No. 8

This diet is gentle, designed so that during the winter, namely three months, you should lose 8 kilograms.

We're having breakfast . A piece of cottage cheese casserole, a cup of coffee or freshly squeezed juice (orange, for example).

Lunch . Fruit salad. All winter fruits can be used.

Let's have lunch . Salad of vegetables and meat products. Cut the ham into cubes, sweet pepper (paprika) and Chinese cabbage into strips. Mix everything and season with vegetable oil. We definitely eat all this with rye bread (1 slice).

Afternoon snack . Yogurt without filler and one oatmeal cookie.

Let's have dinner . Vegetable salad with cheese (for example, “Greek”) and two slices of rye bread.

Authorized Products

The basis of the winter diet consists of:

• Lean red meats, chicken and rabbit, boiled, baked or steamed.
• Fermented milk/dairy products (cottage cheese, cheese) with low fat content.
• Chicken eggs (egg white).
• Low-fat river and fatty sea fish, seafood.
• Whole grain/rye bread.
• Low-starch vegetables (onions, garlic, bell peppers, spinach, asparagus, lettuce, green peas, zucchini, cucumber, green beans, cabbage, except cauliflower), celery greens, garden greens in all forms. Unsweetened fruits.
• Cold-pressed vegetable oils (olive, flaxseed, sunflower), seeds, nuts of various types.
• Rosehip decoction, herbal/green tea, still mineral water, freshly prepared juices from permitted vegetables.

Table of permitted products

Winter diet for weight loss. Diet No. 9

The penultimate weight loss diet on our list. Diet number nine out of ten.

Breakfast . Beef jerky sandwich. You can choose either juice or coffee, you can also have tea.

Lunch . Homemade yogurt without filler.

Dinner . Baked fish with vegetable salad (the dish should not exceed 200 grams). You can add one potato. A piece of rye bread. Glass of water.

Afternoon snack . There is no afternoon snack in this diet.

Dinner . Egg and preserved fish (fish in plastic containers). Choose low-fat varieties of fish. The delicacy must be eaten with a piece of rye bread.

Reviews and results

The winter diet, according to most reviews, allows you to maintain your shape and usual body weight, and, if necessary, get rid of extra pounds. Some reviews are negative, mainly because it relies on a slow and gradual reduction in body weight. According to most reviews, the winter diet gives good results and there is practically no feeling of hunger.

• “... I really liked the winter diet for weight loss, because it allows you to maintain your weight in the autumn-winter period at a stable level and without the need to go on strict diets in the spring to correct your weight. The diet is not strict, it has a wide list of permitted foods. Thanks to this diet, I gained virtually no excess weight over the winter. I recommend to all".
• “... I practiced a strict winter diet for a week to get myself back to normal for the New Year holidays. I had to sharply limit myself in sweets, fatty and fried foods, flour and confectionery products. In 7 days I lost 3.8 kg, now I’m thinking about how to keep my new weight at a new level.”