The “Saucer” diet is designed to save us from the eternal torment of weighing food, counting calories, fiddling with tables and online meal planners. In fact, you can reduce the amount of energy entering the body in various ways. It is absolutely not necessary to memorize the calorie table or check calories every time before eating. After all, the grocery list can be prepared in advance, and some more affordable measure can be used to change portions. For example, an ordinary saucer like the one on which you are used to placing a tea cup. For aesthetes, this is a dessert plate.
The secret to losing weight on a plate
The Blyudechko diet allows you to quickly lose extra pounds thanks to the following nutritional rules:
☀ Those who chose it should eat often, but little.
☀ A saucer with a diameter of 10 cm must be used as a plate.
☀ You need to eat as much as will fit into it. Apply without slide.
Such a diet is justified from a psychological point of view. If you eat from a large plate, but fill half of it, the brain signals to the body that it has been deprived, and the stomach will demand more. The sight of a small but full plate “deceives” the brain - as a result, the body does not feel deprived.
According to statistics, on average, citizens of our country eat 2 times more than they need. You need to get rid of the habit of eating large portions.
☀ You cannot skip meals.
☀ You need to eat 4 times a day.
☀ You can afford almost anything you want, even a cake or a chocolate bar - the main thing is that it fits into a saucer.
All diets in the world
I spend it on myself, and you look at yourself. Switch to 2 meals a day for a month. As a result, I am sure, because I saw the result of 2 meals a day on a close relative. But on another person it’s one thing, but on yourself it’s another. What should be the result of the experiment?
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I shouldn’t lose weight, since I weigh 60 kg with a height of cm. Therefore, it will simply not be decent. But the energy should be added. Will it be as difficult for me as it is for you? But I think we can handle it. Not even a mantra, but an axiom! Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to lead a healthy lifestyle? There is no scientific basis confirming the correctness of the theory of 5 meals a day, it is a myth. Metabolism is a complex biochemical process, in my own words, this is not a popular science magazine aimed at producing energy.
As I write this, I understand that it even sounds stupid, but few people think about it. It is clear that we are designed quite wisely - we have a signaling system well developed by nature. We feel thirsty - we drink. If we want to go to the toilet, let's go, excuse me. If we are hungry, we eat. We sweat - we cool down... Etc... Unmotivated eating without desire, and therefore without the slightest pleasure, is the same nonsense as if we went to the toilet for hours, regardless of the contents of our bladder.
I deliberately give such an absurd example, because there is a timer - at the same level of absurdity. When I described my diet on the 5 meals a day program, I noted how difficult it was for me to switch to 5 meals a day and in the end I convinced myself that it made sense, but I never understood what it was.
Eating on a timer turned my life into a nightmare.
What is usually prescribed here? Rice cakes with nut butter? These breads taste like toilet paper, but oh well. Okay, we pushed it in, set a timer. Let's eat again! And now you can’t bear to wait for each subsequent meal. And this is all the time. Now I’ll talk about who benefits from pushing the myth about 5 meals a day.
Isn't this obvious? Of course, big business. A huge industry is profiting from this myth!
By adhering to the principles of this diet, you will not have to constantly calculate the amount of food you eat, grams per day, or frantically look for the energy value of a particular dish in calorie tables. To successfully fight excess weight on this diet, you only need a real desire to lose weight and an ordinary small saucer, which will become for some time the measure of all the food entering the body of a losing weight person.
Let's start with supplements and sports nutrition. I myself, damn it, a simple woman, really believed that I needed to drink protein shakes and supplements after workouts! Of course, food delivery services are growing like mushrooms - of course, 5 or 6 times a day.
Let's look at the menu of one such service and try to understand why a person needs all this? What does this give him? Why does a person need a snack of salad with cabbage and celery? What about broccoli with green beans? Oh, yes - for the sake of fiber! But my goal is not to criticize someone’s food delivery service - after cabbage and celery with an apple, in an hour I’ll be ready to gobble up a jar of nut butter, but that’s not what I’m talking about.
And about the business that serves this myth about 5 meals a day. Scientific studies of not just hundreds, but thousands of them do not find confirmation that for the same calorie intake there is any difference in whether these calories are divided into 3 meals or 6. How you distribute calories is up to you and depends on your life and eating habits.
Is eating 5 meals a day better for your metabolism than eating a healthy 3 meals a day? Let's find out!
Stages of the Saucer diet
At the first stage
diet, you must get used to the fact that you need to eat in small portions. You can eat whatever you want. The first stage can last 1-2 weeks.
Second phase
diet is aimed at learning to choose healthy and wholesome foods. At the second stage, we also eat small portions, but we eat only what is allowed. For example, for breakfast you can eat porridge with water, an omelet or low-fat cottage cheese. Lunch should consist of a vegetable side dish and meat (50/50 ratio). During the afternoon snack we eat any fruit, fruit puree or yogurt. For dinner you can treat yourself to fish or cottage cheese.
The second stage can last until you achieve the desired result.
The good thing about the “Saucer” diet is that we don’t deny ourselves almost anything. We simply learn not to overeat and choose the right foods that our body needs to function properly and do not cause it any harm.
When following the “Saucer” diet, you must remember that everyone has different needs for food and vitamins. In addition, we have different energy consumption. Therefore, it is possible that someone may not have enough such small portions for active life and normal functioning of the body. It makes sense to select the amount of food you eat at a time individually.
Pros and cons of the diet
The main advantages of the “Saucer” diet are:
- Avoiding hunger due to frequent meals. This is very beneficial for metabolism - when food comes often and a person does not feel hungry, the body does not enter a stressful state and does not begin to accumulate fat.
- Improving the functioning of the digestive system due to the fact that it is not overloaded with excessive amounts of food - the digestive organs have time to digest food, it does not rot in the intestines and is not stored in fat reserves.
- Reducing the size of the stomach, which visually reduces the size of the waist and abdomen, so weight loss occurs not only due to weight loss, but also due to a decrease in volume and a change in proportions.
- Complete freedom in creating a menu and the opportunity to eat your favorite foods - if these are sweets and something very high in calories, then in the morning during breakfast or the first snack.
- Psychological comfort - when a person eats a full bowl of food, he does not experience suffering due to the fact that he is limiting himself. Through a visual picture, his brain perceives a small hollow plate as a full portion.
- Due to psychological comfort and unlimited possibilities in selecting products, the risks of failure are minimal.
- The diet gives lasting results, thanks to which the skin has time to adapt completely.
- This approach to weight loss is suitable for all age categories: children, teenagers, adults, elderly people, pregnant women, lactating women, people with various diseases.
- “Saucer” will not lead to a deficiency of vitamins and various essential microelements and, with proper menu preparation, will contribute to health improvement.
The diet has very few disadvantages:
- It is difficult to follow for people who are accustomed to systematically overeating - in this case, experts recommend reducing portion sizes gradually - by 30-50 g per week, until the filled saucer is enough.
- Such a diet with frequent meals requires effort and organization - you need to make sure that food is always at hand.
- The diet does not give quick results - on average, weight loss occurs by 1-2 kg per month, so it is not suitable for those who need to say goodbye to excess weight quickly.
“Saucer” diet menu for 7 days
Day 1
Breakfast
: coffee (tea, juice - 200 g), toast (whole grain bread) with cheese plus tomato.
Dinner
: a mix of boiled vegetables (100-150 g) with sour cream dressing (sour cream can be replaced with light mayonnaise).
Afternoon snack
: fruit mix (100-150 g).
Dinner
: fish (100 g), cooked in the oven with lemon and asparagus (green beans).
Day 2
Breakfast
: hard-boiled egg, coffee plus some yogurt.
Dinner
: a slice of meat (boiled) plus a vegetable mix.
Afternoon snack
: a slice of cinnamon roll with kefir (yogurt - 100 g).
Dinner
: vegetable stew.
Day 3
Breakfast
: muesli with dried fruits (50 g or 5 tbsp.) with yogurt dressing, coffee.
Dinner
: vegetable soup (100-150 g), rye bread croutons.
Afternoon snack
: Banana-Strawberry smoothie (100 g), half a standard chocolate bar.
Dinner
: sandwich (tuna-salad-cucumber).
Day 4
Breakfast
: omelette (beaten eggs, tomato, spinach).
Dinner
: vegetable mix with the addition of ham.
Afternoon snack
: cottage cheese (0-1% fat) plus fruit.
Dinner
: poultry fricassee plus a side dish of peas and carrots.
Day 5
Breakfast
: oatmeal porridge with dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots) plus whole grain toast.
Dinner
: puree soup - main ingredients - chicken and mushrooms.
Afternoon snack
: fruit milkshake (can be replaced with ice cream and crackers).
Dinner
: fish stew with vegetables (salmon plus tomatoes).
Day 6
Breakfast
: sandwich (rye bread-ham-salad-cheese), coffee.
Dinner
: stewed veal liver (100 g) with apples.
Afternoon snack
: kefir (100 g) with a slice of fruit pie.
Dinner
: cheese and beetroot mix (it’s better to take homemade cheese) with olive-lemon dressing, coffee.
Day 7
Breakfast
: “fried egg”, sprinkled with cheese, toast, tea (coffee).
Dinner
: broth with meat and lentils, seasoned with sour cream.
Afternoon snack
: fresh berries wrapped in a pancake.
Dinner
: “Improvisation” mix (you can use any raw vegetables as ingredients).
How to end a diet correctly
This diet does not require any special ceremony during the transition to the usual way of eating. The thing is that after two weeks you will become so accustomed to eating little and often that it will become a habitual way of life for you, and you will simply fall in love with this way of healthy eating.
And after staying on such a diet for a month, you will not only lose extra pounds, but also consolidate the result for a long time.
By the way, experts claim that thanks to fractional meals you can lose up to one kilogram per week. Such volume is a sign of healthy and proper weight loss.
Quitting the diet
One of the main advantages of the “Saucer” diet is that you don’t have to leave it, but continue to adhere to this lifestyle forever. At various events accompanied by feasts, this approach comes in handy - you can eat everything tasty without overloading the body with excessive amounts of food. But if you still want to return to the lifestyle that preceded the diet, you need to follow these rules:
- Increase portions and introduce new products gradually - add 30 g to a portion and a new product once a week and allow the body to adapt.
- First of all, diversify the menu with cereals and dairy products, only then introduce everything harmful.
- Try to eat foods that are dangerous to your figure and health: sweets, baked goods, sausage, sauces and unhealthy snacks no more often than once every 7-10 days.
- Continue to follow the drinking regime.
- Stay on fractional meals - often and in small portions.
- Continue drinking drinks to speed up metabolism and cleanse the body.
- Drink alcohol minimally.
- Ideally, the end result would be for a person to follow a healthy diet with cheat meals—planned disruptions to a healthy diet in order to speed up metabolism.
