Natalia Vodianova’s diet is an express weight loss method that allows you to get rid of 5-10 kg in 2 weeks. This nutrition system helps the Russian supermodel stay slim, despite the birth of five children and a busy work schedule. The peculiarity of the method is that with its help you can lose weight without denying yourself fried potatoes, sweets and other high-calorie foods.
What is the diet based on?
To stay slim, Natalia Vodianova follows a pulse diet, combining a hearty breakfast with a light lunch and a meager dinner. The model resorts to it before fashion shows and other important events.
Until 10 o'clock in the morning, Vodianova allows herself to feast on any dishes. Calories that enter the body along with food at this time of day are completely burned throughout the day and are not stored in fat reserves. High-calorie foods eaten for breakfast take a long time to digest, leaving you feeling full until the evening.
By treating herself to indulgences in the morning, the model sharply limits her diet for the rest of the day. Her lunch consists of a portion of vegetable salad, and for dinner she is content with only tea.
The trick to the pulse diet is that before 10 o'clock in the morning a person cannot eat much, since his appetite is reduced at this time. Even if you allow yourself to indulge in high-calorie foods after waking up, the energy value of breakfast will not exceed 1000 kcal. A vegetable salad eaten for lunch contains no more than 200 kcal, and herbal tea drunk in the evening has no calories at all. As a result, the energy value of the diet for people following the Vodianova diet will be only 1200 kcal per day.
Dizzying success
In 1999, at the annual competition of the Madison agency, Vodianova was noticed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. The famous designer insisted that the girl get second place and personally offered her a contract.
From that moment on, Natalya began to receive invitations from leading fashion houses and was invited to high fashion week in New York. This was followed by participation in shows of such brands as Gucci, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent. Photos of the model began to appear on the covers of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and Harper's Bazaar magazines.
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In 2001, Natalya starred in a movie, but this role went unnoticed. In 2002, at the New York Fashion Week, Vodianova presented the collections of 19 designers. Around the same time, she became the face of the Calvin Klein brand.
A real recognition for a girl from a small town was shooting for Pirelli magazine in 2004. Only the most beautiful women on the planet received such an offer. In 2007, the model became the official face of the Chanel cosmetics house.
Natalia Vodianova's nutritional rules
Before breakfast, the model drinks a cup of warm rosehip infusion. The fruits of this plant are a rich source of vitamin C, which helps speed up metabolism. In addition, the decoction increases immunity, which decreases during weight loss, improves the functioning of the digestive system and has a tonic effect. Thanks to its diuretic effect, the drink removes excess water from the body.
For breakfast, Natalya likes to treat herself to dumplings, chops, pilaf, pies and other dishes that cannot be called dietary. It does not limit portion sizes. In the morning, the model also eats a salad made from cabbage, which provides the body with the fiber necessary for normal intestinal function. Breakfast ends with a cup of hot tea.
The model prepares a vegetable salad intended for lunch without vegetable oil. She uses lemon juice or low-fat yogurt as a dressing.
Vodianova brews tea for dinner from herbs that promote weight loss (mint, sage, coltsfoot, etc.). It must be drunk without sugar.
Natalya is not happy with snacks between meals. Still water helps her get rid of hunger in the afternoon. Her model drinks at least 2 liters a day. In addition to water, you can drink tea (herbal, black or green) or coffee. At the initial stage of the diet, you can add a little skim milk and honey to drinks.
To ensure that the lost weight does not return after finishing the diet, you need to exit it gradually. During the first week, plant-based products should predominate in the diet. They can be consumed raw, boiled, baked or stewed. Also during this period, it is useful to drink low-fat fermented milk drinks, which will provide the body with B vitamins, which have the ability to speed up metabolism. After leaving the pulsating diet, it is advisable to completely stop consuming sugar and animal fats for at least a month.
What to remember
- Believing the tabloids, which often come up with diets for stars themselves, risks harming your health.
- To be beautiful and slim, any star, in my opinion, needs to adhere to the healthiest diet plan possible. A model will never look thriving if she is on an exhausting diet.
Whether you follow the methods described in the article is up to you. As usual, I wish you to always be healthy and slim and recommend subscribing to blog updates so as not to miss new interesting and useful articles. See you again!
As you know, Natalia Vodianova has a significant fortune, which allows her to own large apartments in England and America. All this was the result of working with famous fashion houses. Although few people know that when N. Vodianova’s career growth was just beginning, everything was not so ideal, and there were few people who could offer her a job, since the young lady was overweight, which did not meet the standards of a modern model. Today, many want to know how N. Vodianova was able to lose weight, which allows her to shine so luxuriously on the catwalks.
Pros and cons of the diet
The Russian supermodel’s weight loss technique has a number of advantages:
- Easily tolerated due to the absence of strict dietary restrictions.
- Helps reduce the size of the stomach, so that after completing the diet a person stops overeating.
- Helps achieve rapid weight loss in a short time.
- Does not require the purchase of special products. The menu can include everything that is in the refrigerator.
- With a properly designed menu, it allows you to provide the body with the necessary nutrients.
Vodianova’s express diet also has many disadvantages. The most significant of them include the following points:
- Long periods between meals can provoke the development of stomach ulcers and other diseases of the digestive tract.
- The nutrition system is not designed for a long time, so it is not suitable for people who are overweight more than 10 kg.
- Diet can provoke metabolic disorders in the body.
- With a sharp decrease in weight, stretch marks appear on the body.
- Due to the low caloric content of the diet, a person losing weight in the evening may experience complaints of weakness, fatigue, dizziness and other unpleasant symptoms.
At the call of the ancestors
As the top model claims in one of the interviews she gave to The New York Times, she is not a fan of diets, however, she still has a diet, and she calls it the blood type diet.
The essence of this method is:
Do not eat foods that are prohibited for your blood type.
For example, according to the rules, Natalia cannot eat chicken, but she can eat turkey or rabbit.
Vodianova has the fourth blood type, so according to the rules there are no special restrictions, and she tolerates those that exist quite easily.
Menu from time immemorial
The principle of the blood diet, which was invented by American nutritionists, is as follows:
Each blood group has developed its own “character” in the course of evolution, which requires an individual gastronomic approach. That is, four groups - four nutrition styles. And what is good for one group may be contraindicated for another.
- For example, people in the first group are shown to eat a lot of meat. They are representatives of the very first people on earth, whom the creators of the diet called “hunters,” and therefore they can and need meat.
- The second blood group is people who descended from the first farmers. They need a lot of vegetables, but you have to be careful with red meat.
- The third group is representatives of the descendants of nomads, people with a strong immune system and an unpretentious stomach. They can have a little bit of everything, but you should watch out for dairy products - they are considered lactose intolerant.
- The fourth group is a rather rare type, which is why nutritionists call it a “mystery”. They, like Natalia, can combine products from the first and second groups.
These are the tricks for losing weight. I will also note that the girl also has carbohydrates (even harmful, fast or simple ones) on her menu, including buns (her mother already spoke about this in an interview). But at the same time, of course, she controls herself, preventing overeating.
Sample daily menu
You can create a pulse diet menu yourself, guided by its general principles and your own taste preferences. At the same time, it is important to ensure that during weight loss the body does not experience a deficiency of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The approximate diet menu for 1 day is as follows:
- 10-15 minutes before breakfast you need to drink 200 ml of rosehip decoction.
- Breakfast: 100 g spaghetti with sauce, 1 fried cutlet, 2 egg omelette, 50 g white cabbage salad, toast with butter, 1 orange, 200 ml green tea.
- Lunch: a cup of tea with 1 tsp. honey
- Lunch: 200 g of salad of tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers with the addition of fresh herbs and lemon juice.
- Afternoon snack: a cup of tea with a slice of lemon.
- Dinner: 200 ml herbal tea.
At the initial stage of losing weight, many people feel hungry in the evenings. To get rid of it, in the first days of the diet, dinner can be supplemented with grapefruit.
Contraindications
Not all people can follow the Vodianova diet. Contraindications to it are:
- pregnancy;
- breastfeeding period;
- age under 18 years;
- acute and chronic diseases of the digestive system;
- kidney disease;
- diabetes;
- infectious diseases;
- exhaustion of the body.
People who have no contraindications to the diet should consult a doctor before starting to lose weight.
Reviews
Evgenia, 32 years old, Nizhnevartovsk : Before going to the sea, there was a need to lose a few extra pounds. There was little time left, so I decided to use Vodianova’s express diet. I lost weight strictly according to the rules. I can’t say that it’s easy to follow the diet: although I didn’t feel hungry before lunch, in the late afternoon I had difficulty restraining myself so as not to break down. However, the result is worth the effort, since in 10 days I began to weigh 5 kg less.
Natalya, 30 years old, Ivanovo : Vodianova’s diet is convenient for me for two reasons: firstly, I always have a hearty breakfast, since I work all day and it’s not always possible to have a full lunch, and secondly, I don’t need to prepare special dishes for it. I periodically use this weight loss method to lose the 2-3 kg that I accumulated during the holidays or vacation. It has never failed me, but I don’t follow it for more than 7 days, because I’m afraid that I could harm my health. Everything is good in moderation.
Inna, 25 years old, Cherepovets : Although with the help of the pulsating diet I got rid of 7 kg in 2 weeks, I do not recommend it to anyone. After it I started having headaches and stomach problems. I had to go on a diet again, but this time it was a therapeutic one. It's better to eat small meals several times a day. The effect will be no worse, but without causing health problems.
Polina, 27 years old, Vsevolzhsk : The pulsating diet is a godsend for those with a sweet tooth like me. When I followed it, every day I treated myself to breakfast with chocolates, favorite cakes and other delicacies that were harmful to my figure. I ate all high-calorie foods in limited quantities, I constantly counted calories, but it was still mentally easier to follow a diet, because you can indulge yourself. The first 4 days were the most difficult, since it was inconvenient to fall asleep on an empty stomach, but gradually I got used to it and no longer felt hungry. In 2 weeks I lost 6 kg.
Metamorphoses of a supermodel
During her fourth pregnancy, Natasha’s figure changed noticeably – the model gained a lot. Vodianova returned to form almost instantly. Fans began to wonder what exactly she did for this and how she was able to regain her girlish slimness in just a couple of months.
Now Natasha weighs 52 kg with a height of 176 cm, that is, her model parameters are ideal. By the way, at the start of her career at the age of 16, the model’s body weight was only a couple of kilograms less. Vodianova says that she never took Thai pills or resorted to super-aggressive methods to lose weight - the author’s nutritional system and regular exercise in the gym were enough for her.
Natasha believes that nothing is impossible for those who want to achieve something - in the case of an ideal body, the main tool in the fight for victory was the pulsating diet.
