Losing weight requires great motivation to endure the restrictive diets, the physical exercises that cause you a thousand and one cramps not to mention the many sudden cravings of high caloric dishes that can haunt your mind. The tuna and rice diet is a diet that is based on alternating consumption of these two foods, while maintaining a healthy diet for the food choices that can accompany them.
This diet allows you to lose up to 6 Pounds in just one week. Just stick to it. The key to keeping your motivation optimal is to visualize the extra pounds you could lose in a matter of days. The rice diet was invented by Dr. Walter Kempner, a German scientist and researcher at Duke University in the Department of Medicine. He was interested in the effect of diet on diseases. looked at the benefits of rice when he realized that it helped prevent some health problems, including hypertension and diabetes. The effectiveness of this method, original to tell the truth, has inspired several diets that still exist today, including the tuna-rice diet.
How does rice help you lose weight?
The rice used by Dr. Kempner was white rice. But with the appearance of the complete rice, it is more judicious to use the latter. First, it must be understood that behind its reputation for anti-diet food, hides a low-calorie food. Indeed, 100 grams of whole rice contain only 1.1 g of fat! It also gives you a feeling of satiety superior to that of bread and helps you regulate the level of sugar in your blood.
The rice also has the faculty to maintain the good state of your intestinal flora, which makes it possible to improve your transit and by the same way, to promote the loss of weight. It also contains resistant starch, which limits the storage of fat in your body.
Tuna contains proteins that increase your satiety, helping you reduce the amount of food you eat during your meal. These proteins will also give you the energy needed for your physical activity and help you to have a better energy expenditure.
The tuna-rice diet
Here's a typical one-day menu under this diet:
Breakfast: a cup of green tea or coffee and two relatively low sugar fruits (kiwi, apple, pear, strawberry ...)
Morning snack: 1 Greek yogurt with two handfuls of granola. To prepare your granola at home: mix two cups of oatmeal with a teaspoon of honey, a tablespoon of date paste, goji berries, hazelnuts and almonds. Stir and bake at 170 ° for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.
- Lunch: 50 g tuna and 150 g (cooked weight) whole rice
- Afternoon snack: a vitamin smoothie (apple, kiwi, lemon, pineapple, mint)
- Dinner: 50 g tuna and 100 g (cooked weight) whole rice, a fruit of your choice
You can of course vary snacks and breakfast but trying to maintain a relatively low caloric intake. This diet can not be extended for a long time, but you can still adopt the complete rice as an accompaniment for your vegetable or animal proteins. This will allow you to benefit from all its benefits and maintain your weight. For tuna, it is best to use tuna in water and do not forget to hydrate yourself enough during the day and maintain a minimum of 30 minutes of physical exercise at least 3 times a week.
To know also that a medical opinion is essential before starting a diet to evaluate your state of health.
