The diet of the cross. From pumpkin to Cinderella and back

Modern aesthetics of a person's appearance suggests that a beautiful body must first of all be slender. But not everyone can boast of a rapid metabolism in the body, when food is converted into energy and consumed at the highest speed.

Plentiful food, lifestyle of office plankton, laziness, endocrine diseases and seizing of stress became a scourge of modern man, reflecting on his appearance and health.

Health or quick results?

The fight against excess fat should be conducted on many fronts. The first front is motor activity. Exhaustive loads in the gym or leisurely daily walks in the fresh air, swimming or cycling, in short, what suits a particular person.

The second front is proper nutrition. Compliance with the principles of a healthy diet, cooking without the abundance of oil, refraining from fast food is the main weapon in the field of weight loss.

The fight against excess weight on both fronts will be both long and difficult, but the result will be sustainable, but the energy and strength will increase. The day will be the 25th hour. But from the person this state of things will require leaving the zone of comfort and maintaining a healthy lifestyle day after day.

Many lovers of quick and effective results choose for themselves a different way to improve their body.

The number and variety of diets for weight loss, so widely in demand among our contemporaries, is amazing. One of the popular on the web today is the cross diet.

General characteristics of the diet

The diet of the cross suggests an intricate and, at first glance, illogical alternation of days of fasting, overeating, as well as periods when you can use only:

• Specific fruits in a certain amount;
• Vegetable juice of not more than one liter;
• Boiled meat;
• Milk or dairy products;
• Sweets, for example chocolate.

The diet is characterized by a cross-emphasis on carbohydrate food, which is not quite usual for the nutrition schemes recommended by those who want to lose weight. The daily imbalance of the diet for the composition of nutrients is another unattractive feature.

The cross diet lasts thirty-one days, most of which must be done by drinking tomato, cabbage or carrot juice or water and tea, and even refraining from food altogether.

Such an ascetic type of eating behavior is diluted during the month by two days on an all-inclusive system, when it is allowed to eat and drink anything you want and as much as you want.

Efficacy of the diet

The diet of the godmother today finds a lot of enthusiastic supporters who claim that during the 31 days of observing its rules, they really got rid of the extra centimeters. The result of weight loss was different, from three to twenty two kilograms, and depended on the original parameters.

Even a cursory analysis of the diet makes it clear that its effectiveness is due to a sharp and long-term decrease in the amount of calories consumed right up to starvation. Therefore, to maintain vital forces the body is forced to "open the bins" urgently, spending its own reserves.

Why is weight so fast?

The first effect, which is provided by the diet of the cross, is the results from an unexpected shake-up for the organism that has become accustomed to the abundance. Restriction in food and waiting for hungry days the brain perceives as stress, which often leads to weight loss (unless you try to get rid of it with the help of delicacies).

The second link in the effectiveness of diet is the reduction in the amount of intestinal contents as a result of the actual fasting of the body. Looking at the arrows of the scales, losing weight should not be flattered by rapid successes, because they are caused not so much by loss of fat as by the absence of food lumps in the intestine.

The third link of success is fluid loss. Indeed, a person consists of water more than seventy percent. Unnecessary fluid is retained in the tissues due to excessive salt intake. The diet of the godmother prescribes abstinence from it, as a result of which the water leaves the body in a natural way.

It should be noted that with simple abstinence from table salt for one month you can get rid of a few kilograms of water in your body without any diets.

Effects

Irritability, drowsiness and loss of efficiency will be guaranteed to those who believe that the diet of the godmother will help them in the fight against excess fat. The responses of strong-willed young ladies who have gone through the monthly way of overcoming the natural desire to eat, are quite enthusiastic, but most of them casually point to the problems with the kidneys, stomach, pale complexion and constant fatigue, coupled with headaches, not to mention problems with the stool.

All these arguments make it unlikely that the diet of the cross was developed by a professional dietitian, and this indirectly and follows from its name. Professional nutritionists unequivocally state that there are no universal nutrition systems. Diets can indeed be effective and have a healthy effect, but for this they must be made individually, taking into account all the characteristics of a particular patient, his lifestyle, health and character.

Therefore, the popularity that the diet of the godmother enjoys, reviews, results, often exaggerated, and other theses about its effectiveness that are not confirmed by medical science should not replace the common sense of a person who dreams of becoming slim and healthy.

Without an understanding of the laws of biochemical processes in any given case, any diet will become only a short-term forced starvation, after which a discouraged organism will be stocked with fat for future use in case of a repeated onset of heavy times.