The most important handicap for people who are on diet is not consuming the foods that are liked most. You should put alternative delicious tastes instead of high calorie foods.

People who are on diet want to loose weight in short time. Most of them prefer shock diets instead of healthy diets in order to loose weight. According to dieticians in order to stay on the same  weight you should balance your intake and consuming energy. It is easy  and fast to take energy but consuming it  needs time and effort.

Contemporary living conditions make people to gain weight. The reasons of gaining weight are malnutrition, less exercising and leaving any meal out. People who are on diet should drink water at least 3 liters a day and eat 6-7 meals a day. You should increase the energy amount that you consume. You should not drink alcohol and carbonated drinks. If you take overdose food do not be panic and try to consume more energy. Do not eat anything after 07.00 P.M. Do not eat fruit after meal.

The idea of  ‘If I eat less I will give more weight’ is wrong. If your intake energy is not enough so your metobolism will slow down. Do not drink water during meals. And here are some healthy alternatives for you:

-Consume almond or nut instead of chocolate

-Consume roasted chickpeas or popcorn instead of chips

– Consume wallnut or honey instead of sugar

– Consume toasted sandwich  instead of flan or savory pastry

– Do not drink carbonated drink

– Prefer desserts made by milk instead of oily and patty desserts

– Use olive oil and lemon instead of mayonnaise

– Prefer baked or grilled foods instead of fried foods

Drinks with ginger is nutritive and strengthens the immune system. Here are two recipes:

Fresh Lemonade With Ginger: 

Boil 1 table spoon of grated ginger in 1 liter of water. Add 1 table spoon of honey in it and put in the fridge to become cooler. Before drinking it add a lemon in it.

Ginger Tea: Boil water and add 4 sliced fresh ginger in it. Wait to be steeped for a while and drink as tea.

And also if you want to hasten your metabolism. You should eat 6-7 meal in a day. Walking is good exercise for loosing weight. Do not forget to drink 3 liters water and 2-3 cup of green tea in a day. And add red pepper flakes in your meals in order to hasten your metabolism. In healthy menus main spices should be:- For meat use thyme

– For salads use carrot, olive oil and pomegranate molasses

-For soups use mint

-For windy foods use cumin

BROWN RICE is full of Vitamin B. It scraps the protein and fat. It enables the digestion.

GRAPEFRUIT hastens the metabolism and redouble the body resistance.

RED GRAPE cleans the digestion system. It contaiıns vitamins, minerals and fibre so it causes to fall down cholesterol.

CUCUMBER is rich from fibre so it gives the sense of glut.

POMEGRANATE balances the hormones so it makes  easier for you to control your weights. At the same time it is powerful anti-oxidant. It helps to lower the high blood pressure.

SMALL RED BEAN is the bean which has less fat ratio among beans. It keeps excess water in the body so it does not make you feel hungry and it enables loosing weight.

BROCOLI  is full of fibre and Vitamin C. Also it involves calcium which enables to loose weight and also calcium is good for liver and it helps digestion. Brocoli also contains chrome which protects insulin balance so you do not feel hungry.

APPLE activates gut.It has pectin in its peel so it makes you feel full.

CHERRY has effect of laxative. It enables to loose weight.

GRUEL gives the sense of glut. A cup of gruel which you eat in the breakfast, enables to bind 3 cup of water in the body.

Diet and exercise are very important in loosing weight and the foods that are mentioned above will help you in your diet for loosing weight.

You are always hungry and you want to gooble. Sometimes you can think as you wanted to eat anything that would kill your appetite. In fact this is possibble. here are some foods that kill your appetite.

EGG is source of protein. It makes longer the glut period. If you eat an boiled egg in the morning will be filling you.

RED HOT PEPPER  involves kapsaisin which hastens the metabolism that kills your appetite. You can add hot red pepper in your salads and meals.

GREEN TEA is powerful anti-oxidant. It hastens the metabolism. You can consume 1-2 cup of  green tea in a day.

FISH involves iodine which is necessary for thyroid hormone and you do not feel hunger.

ALMOND is rich from mineral and dregs. It involves Omega 3 which protects the heart health. According to the researches, if you eat almond without overdoing you will feel glut. So you will loose weight easily. If you eat two handful almond every day you will feel glut.

VINEGAR  involves acedic acid which damps digestion speeed. For this reason your blood sugar will ascend static and you will feel glut eternity. Put vinegar in your salads.

CINNAMON has characteristics of balancing blood sugar. It is useful for diabetics and people on diet. If you consume half or one tea spoon of cinnamon you will feel glut in long period and you will balance your diabetes.

OLIVE OIL is very useful for your health. If you consume olive oil you will feel glut and you will give weight easily.

LINDEN TREE If you drink it before meals this will kill your appetite.

SOUP WITH MEAT, MILK AND EGG will make pressure in your stomach and make you feel gut. The soups which have high protein value will help to feel glut.

 CHEESE involves proteins. It kills your appetite. And also because of high calcium content it helps to loose weight. If you take deficient calcium this will harden your loosing weight.

 DETOX DIET

Detox is nutrition with liquids or vegetables/fruits only. Body waste more energy during digestion so the aim of detox is to stop the digestion as possible in order to make the body to use this energy for re-generating cells. In this way the immune system is getting strength and the body is loosing weight through water. If you continue to have healty nutrition after detox and perform detox in regular times your body will be tough against diseases.

If you decide to perform detox in a day your programme will end the next day at the same time. For an example, you began detox on Monday at 2:00 pm it will end on Tuesday 2:00 pm.If you perform liquid detox you should not chew anything even chewing gum. You can drink vegetables soups without grains without limit. Fresh vegetables and fruit juices are free. But if you think that you cannot do detox only with liquids you can choose chewable option. The important thing is not to use the liquids detox or solid detox together. If you begin with liquids continue with liquids, if yo begin with solids continue with solids.

An example for detoxs programme:

 Breakfast: Liquid detox: 2 big glass of water

1 glass of fresh vegetable or fruit juice

Solid detox:   Breakfast  with tomatoes, cucumber and olive.

Lunch:  Liquid detox: Mixed vegetables soup

Solid detox:  Salad with big cucumber, tomatoes,spinach, lemon and olive oil.

Dinner: You have to eat it before  6,00 P.M.

Liquid detox: Soup or vegetable or fruit juice

Solid detox: Salad, vegetable or grilled fish

 Meal breaks: Liquid detox:   Fresh vegetable or fruit juice

  Solid detox: Carrot, cucumber.

Detox Tea from Dr.Ender Saraç

Indegridents:

1-2 green apple

1,5 dessert spoon of apple vinegar

1 dessert spoon of honey

 Instructions:  Cut the outher parts of green apple and boil them for 6-7 minutes. Leave this water to become cooler. After 5-10 minutes later add  apple vinegar and honey to this water. Drink this tea before breakfasts and dinners,  If you have stomach disease do not drink this tea. 

Sources: İpek Koşan ‘Detox and exercising ‘