Some women dream of losing weight so badly that they are ready to go to "extreme measures" for this - up to a complete refusal to eat. They are the ones who resort to various exotic and risky diets, the menu of which is unbalanced and can negatively affect health. Unsurprisingly, such diets sometimes bring their victims to the hospital bed.
Some women dream of losing weight so badly that they are ready to go to "extreme measures" for this - up to a complete refusal to eat. They are the ones who resort to various exotic and risky diets, the menu of which is unbalanced and can negatively affect health. Unsurprisingly, such diets sometimes bring their victims to the hospital bed.
Drinking diet is also dangerous. In order not to be unfounded, we will analyze the essence of this diet point by point and provide a detailed critical explanation of all its key points. And it's up to you to decide whether the struggle with the extra pounds of such victims is worth it.
The essence of the diet
If the recommendations for most diets suggest eating at least something, some kind of limited list of foods, there is nothing at all in this diet. You only need to drink - and this is at least one and a half liters of water per day.
In addition, it is permissible to consume milk, liquid fermented milk products, juices, mineral water, cocoa and broths, mashed soups, tea, coffee (by the way, there is no clarification anywhere about whether sugar can be consumed). Menu "a la blockade Leningrad", and on a voluntary basis.
The authors of the drinking diet take care of the health of their "wards" in a peculiar way, stipulating that soda is harmful to the body and should not be consumed.
This diet is proposed not for a week, or even two - but exactly thirty days. The creators of the diet talk about wonderful sensations and a feeling of incredible lightness that comes in a couple of weeks.
The pioneers of the method claim that the severity of the diet is that we cannot force ourselves not to chew food, but only drink. Supposedly we seize our stress - and hence our problems. They prove to gullible and dreaming of losing weight women (and men, although there are fewer of them) that there are enough calories in such a diet for life, and the discomfort from the diet is only psychological.
The authors promise to cleanse the hollow organs at the beginning of the drinking diet. Moreover, what kind of organs they have in mind remains a mystery. After all, the bladder, in fact, is also a hollow organ. On the same days, the appearance of secretions from the body and the formation of mucus in the tongue are promised (most likely, the authors had in mind plaque).
Further, the developers talk about cleansing the dense organs - liver and kidneys. Therefore, a feeling of slight discomfort in their area is promised. At the last stage of the diet, cleansing is promised at the cellular level.
In addition, the authors give a weakness to those who are losing weight and allow them to compose a "diet" at their own discretion - taking into account, of course, the promised one and a half liters of water per day. The apotheosis of this description is the phrase "You need to watch your chair" - they want it to be regular! As a result, a weight loss of 10 to 15 kg is promised, but at what cost?
Benefits of a Drinking Diet
According to doctors, the only advantage of this diet can be called the formation of willpower, with which you can force your body not to eat for thirty whole days, although in practice it is a deliberate hunger strike. The diet does not carry any more positive aspects for a person, and especially for his health.
If the authors recommended such fasting days, allowing only to drink all the ingredients used, as a discharge (one or two days a week or month) - this would be common sense. But deliberate starvation of the body for a month is masochism.
Harm of drinking diet
It is worth talking about the dangers of such a "diet" in detail - perhaps it will make those losing weight wonder whether they need such health sacrifices, and calculate the costs of treatment when leaving such a "diet".
Fasting itself is stress and a slow mortification of the body, the loss of cells in some organs of the body becomes irreversible. During fasting - even partial, as in this diet - dystrophy of internal organs occurs and they lose up to 75% of their activity.
In the future, it will take at least another half a month to get out of this diet, otherwise the body will refuse to eat at all, anorexia will develop - a dangerous disease involving the psyche.
Stories about cleansing internal organs are pure deception. There is no cleansing of hollow organs (bladder, stomach and intestines), there is nothing to cleanse for a whole month, they are therefore hollow, which can be filled and emptied as needed - several times a day.
To cleanse the stomach and intestines, it is enough to take a laxative or make a fasting day on kefir or apples. Drinking clean water is enough to cleanse your bladder.
Next, the authors talk about the appearance of selections. Mucus speaks of damage to internal organs and the inflammatory process in them. A white-coated tongue is a sign of gastritis and duodenitis, usually with a decrease in secretion, or inflammation with a violation of the digestive function of the intestine.
With a monthly intake of only liquids, mucosal atrophy and a lack of enzyme formation for digestion are formed. Further, the body will refuse to take solid food, vomiting and diarrhea will immediately occur. It will take years of your life to develop enzymes.
Due to the disruption of the intake of fats (if you do not use vegetable oil), the skin will lose its nourishment and become dull, dry and rough, it will crack. Due to the abundance of juices and allergens, you may develop skin and intestinal allergies, which will not add beauty and attractiveness.
This is protein starvation, which means that the function of hematopoiesis will suffer with the development of anemia, sexual function and immunity. On such a diet, many girls lose their periods, develop severe infections and pneumonia, even in summer.
The authors recommend keeping an eye on the stool. But, to their great regret, there will be no need to monitor him - he will either be absent for the first time, while the remnants of the enzymes will still cope with the incoming liquid, or in a week or two diarrhea will develop profuse diarrhea due to disruption of the pancreas - this will inevitably leadto dehydration and toxicosis. And then - to get to know the resuscitator in the intensive care unit.
As a result of protein loss and active drinking load, "hungry" edema will occur. After all, the expression "swell with hunger" is a real medical pathology. Therefore, all the liquid drunk will remain in the tissues, forming edema in them, and weight will be lost slightly, only due to the splitting of its own tissues.
Won't the weight go away?
Of course, even the most fat and thrifty bodies lose weight during a month of hunger strike. But health leaves you with weight. In addition, when you leave the diet, extra pounds can return to you threefold. Health, however, may not return to you at all - is it worth 15 kilograms of such sacrifices? After all, there are more balanced and gentle methods.
Is it really impossible?
In this form - in no case. However, there is a healthy grain in this method. Using only drink, you can spend fasting days. You will not be able to drink a large number of high-calorie drinks, which means that one or two days (but not in a row) a week you can unload your body.
On average, a course of such impulse fasting can be carried out 3-4 weeks in a row, choosing certain days of the week. For example:
- during the first week we do not eat on Monday and Friday,
- for the second - on Wednesday and Saturday,
- on the third - on Monday and Thursday,
- on the fourth - on Tuesday and Saturday.
In general, the opinion of doctors about this type of "diet" is categorical: in the form described by the authors - one hundred percent "no", as fasting days - perhaps, but only by agreement with the doctor.