Some women dream of losing weight so much that they are willing to go to "extreme measures" to do so, even completely refusing to eat. They are those who resort to various exotic and risky diets, whose menu is unbalanced and can negatively affect health. Unsurprisingly, these diets sometimes land their victims in a hospital bed.
Some women dream of losing weight so much that they are willing to go to "extreme measures" to do so, even completely refusing to eat. They are those who resort to various exotic and risky diets, whose menu is unbalanced and can negatively affect health. Unsurprisingly, these diets sometimes land their victims in a 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 give a detailed critical explanation of all its key points. And it is up to you to decide whether the struggle with the extra pounds of such victims is worth it.
The essence of diet
If the recommendations for most diets suggest eating at least something, some kind of limited list of foods, there is nothing on 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 allowed to consume milk, fermented liquid dairy products, juices, mineral water, cocoa and broths, pureed soups, tea, coffee (by the way, there is no clarification on whether sugar can be consumed). Menu "a la siege 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 soft drinks are harmful to the body and should not be consumed.
It is proposed to follow this diet not for a week, not even two, but exactly thirty days. The creators of the diet speak of wonderful sensations and an incredible feeling of lightness that comes in a couple of weeks.
The pioneers of the method argue that the severity of the diet is that we cannot force ourselves not to chew food, but only to drink. We supposedly consume our stress, and therefore our problems. They prove to gullible women and dreaming of losing weight (and men, although there are fewer) that there are enough calories in such a diet for life, and that the discomfort of the diet is only psychological.
The authors promise to clean the hollow organs at the beginning of the drinking diet. Also, 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 on the tongue are promised (most likely, the authors had plaque in mind).
Also, the developers talk about cleansing dense organs - liver and kidneys. Therefore, a feeling of mild discomfort is promised in your area. In the last stage of the diet, cleansing is promised at the cellular level.
Also, the authors give 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 liter and a half of water per day. The apotheosis of this description is the phrase "You have to watch your chair": they want it to be regular! As a result, a weight loss of 10-15 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 training 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 more positive aspects for a person, and especially for their health.
If the authors recommended such fasting days, allowing only to drink all the ingredients used, as a download (one or two days a week or a month), this would be common sense. But deliberate starvation of the body for a month is masochism.
Harm from drinking diet
It is worth talking about the dangers of such a "diet" in detail; Perhaps it will make weight-losers wonder if they need such health sacrifices and calculate the costs of treatment in leaving such a "diet. "
Fasting in 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, the internal organs degenerate and lose up to 75% of their activity.
In the future, it will take at least another half month to get off this diet; otherwise, the body will refuse to eat and anorexia will develop, a dangerous disease that involves the psyche.
Stories about cleaning internal organs are pure deception. There is no cleaning of hollow organs (bladder, stomach and intestines), there is nothing to clean for a whole month, therefore they are hollow, which can be filled and emptied as needed, several times a day.
To cleanse the stomach and intestines, just take a laxative or go on a fast day with kefir or apples. Drinking clean water is enough to clean your bladder.
Next, the authors talk about the appearance of the selections. Mucus speaks of damage to internal organs and the inflammatory process in them. A tongue with a white coat is a sign of gastritis and duodenitis, usually with a decrease in discharge or inflammation with a violation of the digestive function of the intestine.
With a monthly intake of only fluids, atrophy of the mucosa and lack of formation of enzymes for digestion is formed. Also, 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 interruption of fat intake (if you do not use vegetable oil), the skin will lose its nutrition and become dull, dry and rough, it will crack. Due to the abundance of juices and allergens, you can develop skin and intestinal allergies, which will not add beauty and attractiveness.
This is protein starvation, which means that the function of hematopoiesis with the development of anemia, sexual function and immunity will suffer. On such a diet, many girls miss periods, develop severe infections and pneumonia, even in summer.
The authors recommend monitoring the stool. But, to your great regret, there will be no need to keep an eye on you: either you will be absent for the first time, while the remains of enzymes can still cope with the incoming fluid, or in a week or two you will develop profuse diarrhea due to the disruption of the pancreas, This will inevitably lead to dehydration and toxicosis. And then - get acquainted with the rescuer in the intensive care unit.
As a result of protein loss and active drink loading, a "hungry" edema will occur. After all, the expression "bloating with hunger" is a real medical condition. Therefore, all the drunk liquid will remain in the tissues, forming an edema in them, and a little weight will be lost, just by the division of its own tissues.
Won't the weight disappear?
Of course, even the fattest and most thrifty bodies lose weight during a month-long hunger strike. But health leaves you with the weight. Also, when you quit the diet, the extra pounds can return to three times. However, health may not return to you at all, is 15 kilograms of such sacrifices worth it? After all, there are more balanced and gentle methods.
Is it really impossible?
As such, in no case. However, there is a healthy grain in this method. Using only drink, you can spend days fasting. You won't be able to drink a lot 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 this type of impulsive fasting can be done 3 to 4 weeks in a row, choosing certain days of the week. For example:
- in the first week we don't eat on Mondays and Fridays,
- for the second: Wednesday and Saturday,
- the third, Monday and Thursday,
- the fourth, Tuesday and Saturday.
In general, the opinion of doctors about this type of "diet" is categorical: in the way described by the authors - one hundred percent "no", like days of fasting - perhaps, but only by agreement with the doctor.