The Dukan Diet, Slim Secrets of French Women

You may often hear that no French woman who was fat. They remain slim despite eating whatever they like. The secret turned out to lie in their diet. They apply what is known as The occupation Diet.

When a French nutritionist, Dr. Pierre occupation, introducing his book The Diet occupation 10 years ago, this book soon occupy the top spot in the French best-seller list. Today, more than 1.5 million French women apply a dramatic decrease in body weight and the results are only temporary.


The former doctor was nervous spent 35 years researching and perfecting the various elements of the diet pattern. "Obviously for me over the years is that counting calories is not going to work. Your brain does not work like that," he said.

Counting calories does it mean to set quotas, dosage, and serving meals. But experts recommend a diet that might forget to count calories, "That the people who must follow it's made of flesh and blood, with emotions and instincts," he continued. That is, it is not humane.

Occupation diet program is designed to root into the brain dieters. Occupation diet consists of eating four different programs which follow one another. Beginning with a rapid weight loss and dramatic, which produces a simple meal arrangements, structured, and valid in the long term, to ensure you will not regain the weight that you lose.

The most important element that links the four stages of the program is to eat only protein for days. You just pelru eat foods high in protein, low calorie, and reduce appetite. The absorption of the body against the protein will lead to burning calories, and allow weight loss without losing muscle strength.

The fourth phase of the program are:
* Phase "attack" pure protein, where you only eat protein such as meat, poultry, fish, seafood, and fat-free dairy products. This phase lasted for 3-10 days, depending on your target. Balance of protein intake by drinking 3 liters of water a day.

A diet rich in protein in the short term will be cleaning the tissue from excess water, reducing appetite (when only eat protein, the body produces cells ketonik which is a natural appetite suppressant), while still maintaining the form of muscle and skin smoothness.

* Phase vegetables. As in the first phase, you only can add vegetables to the protein. These types of foods to avoid are foods that contain starch (like potatoes, sweet corn, peas, lentils, green beans, etc.). Then you must implement these two phases alternate until you reach your desired weight (maximum weekly basis may only be reduced by 1 kg).

You can start to eat with a salad or soup, followed by a pan-fried meat or fish with vegetables. Weight loss will decrease by approximately 900 grams a week.

* Phase of consolidation. After reaching a healthy weight you want, you need to return to normal diet later may be to avoid the influence of yo-yo dieting. Your previous reintroduce foods that you avoid (bread, rice, pasta, cheese, etc.) gradually, for 10 days for each kilogram that disappeared from your body.

This phase is designed to stop you to go back to old eating habits, and regulate your body's balance with the new.

* Phase stabilization. When the consolidation period is over, and begin your weight is stable, you are free to eat and drink what you like. You may eat normally by applying two rules: set one day a week to eat pure protein (preferably on Thursdays) for life, and eat three tablespoons of oats and wheat bran every day.

Foods that are allowed during the first phase:
Meat (beef and veal), poultry without skin, lean ham, fish, seafood, fat-free dairy products, water, tea, and coffee can be consumed in any amount you want. Other foods should be avoided.

Foods that are allowed during the second phase:
Food mentioned above, accompanied by vegetables (except potatoes, rice, sweet corn, peas, lentils, green beans, and avocado).

The bad effects:
The first phase guarantees weight loss in large quantities and fast. Many patients Dr. occupation losing weight up to 3.1 kg in five days. But because of diet in this phase is very low in fiber, you may experience constipation. In addition, you can also nutritional deficiencies. You are advised to take supplements of vitamins and minerals to prevent this problem. Conversely, because you are free to eat eggs and meat during this early phase, your cholesterol levels can rise.

Now, the book The occupation Diet is ready to be launched into the UK, becoming the first English-language edition. As in France, British women also seem enthusiastic about this new diet.