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Oat diet

The oat diet means replacement of one or two meals in day on usual porridge. It is below – the description of a diet and the five-day menu.

It is known that porridge has a number of advantages to health among which: weight reduction, decrease in level of cholesterol, potential reduction of risk of some types of cancer. Therefore that a diet healthy, there are no doubts.

However, there is an extreme understanding of such diet. It when people do not eat anything, except porridge. Doctors to follow such version do not advise. Let's consider good, healthy option of the Oat diet.



Three phases of an oat diet

The first stage
Lasts 1 week. Keeping to a diet do not eat anything, except porridge. For each meal it is possible to do porridge half-cups about a floor by a glass of skim milk.

Only the natural product is allowed, it is better to avoid instant porridge and muesli. In the subsequent stages it is admissible, but within the first week only the raw product is necessary.

In day the caloric content of food is 900-1200 calories.

The second stage
Lasts the next 30 days. Three times a day need to be eaten a half-glass of porridge in addition to usual food.

Now instant porridge is allowed. It is possible to increase caloric content to 1000-1300 calories a day.

As having a snack the following options are offered: in the morning – half a glass of fruit, for an afternoon snack – a half-glass of crude vegetables.

The third stage
After 30 days of the second stage it is possible to begin usual food, at the same time it is desirable to do oat one meal and one having a snack.

Council at this stage: to limit consumption of fats to keep results of a diet.



The recommended products
As a result, after the first stage the menu can include dishes from the following products: porridge, skim milk, berries, bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, carrots, red pepper, a celery, salad, spinach, chicken breast, fish, coffee, tea, soda water, a pudding without sugar.

The recommended exercises
The emphasis is not placed on them. But if you are a sporty person and cannot without physical activity, then the fitness 30 minutes 3-5 days a week is recommended.

Pluses and minuses of an oat diet
+ Porridge – a product with the high content of cellulose that allows to keep for a long time sense of fulness after a meal.
+ Porridge – an available cereal, a diet not expensive.
+ The oat diet can reduce the content of "bad" cholesterol, without influencing levels of "good" cholesterol. Porridge is also effective for decrease in level of "bad" cholesterol as the medicines reducing it.
+ Porridge – a good source of carbohydrates with the low glycemic index, promotes the stable level of sugar in blood.
+ Oats contain phytonutrients under the name of a lignana which are useful to health of heart.

- Doctors warn that food caloric contents at an oat diet very low what is not safe for health.
- The diet is not various that can affect psychological state and low motivation.
- The first week of a diet is especially dangerous, it is very similar to harmful yo-yo of a diet.
- To sustain the first stage very difficult. And doctors do not advise at all to stick to the first stage, and at once to start the second.

The approximate menu for the 2nd stage of a diet

The first day
Breakfast
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of skim milk
- 1 tablespoon of raisin
- half teaspoon of cinnamon
- coffee or tea

Morning having a snack
- half glass of bilberry

Lunch
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of the fat-free yogurt
- 1 banana

Afternoon snack
- half a glass of the crude vegetables (cut by straws)

Dinner
- 120 g of fried chicken breast
- big green salad
- half glass of porridge

Evening snack
- a pudding without sugar

The second day
Breakfast
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of skim milk
- 1 tablespoon of a dried cranberry
- half teaspoon of cinnamon
- coffee or tea

Morning having a snack
- 1 average apple

Lunch
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of the fat-free yogurt
- 1 cup of strawberry

Afternoon snack
- almonds handful

Dinner
- 120 g of fried fillet of fish
- 1 cup of broccoli
- 1 glass of wild rice

Evening snack
- 1 glass of sticks selderya

The third day
Breakfast
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of skim milk
- 1 banana
- half teaspoon of vanilla
- coffee or tea

Morning having a snack
- 2 small kiwis

Lunch
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of the fat-free yogurt
- quarter of a glass of walnuts
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon

Afternoon snack
- 1 apple

Dinner
- 120 g of meat of a turkey for burger
- roll for burger
- 1 cup of the baked vegetable marrows

Evening snack
- 1 glass of jelly without sugar

The fourth day
Breakfast
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of the fat-free Greek yogurt
- 1 cup of bilberry
- quarter of a teaspoon of nutmeg
- coffee or tea

Morning having a snack
- almonds handful

Lunch
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of skim milk
- half glass of a dried cranberry
- 1 teaspoon of a spoon of cinnamon

Afternoon snack
- 1 banana

Dinner
- 120 g of fillet of meat
- 3 cups of salad
- 2 tablespoons of the facilitated gas station for salad

Evening snack
- 1 orange

The fifth day
Breakfast
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of skim milk
- half glass of raisin
- half cup of a schernosliv
- coffee or tea

Morning having a snack
- 1 apple

Lunch
- half glass of porridge
- half glass of the vanilla fat-free kefir
- quarter of a glass of walnuts

Afternoon snack
- 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
- 4 sticks of a celery

Dinner
- Chicken soup
- 2 cups of vegetables

Evening snack
- half a glass of a pudding with a small amount of sugar.

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