German Diet

This effective diet lasts for seven weeks. Despite so long period, this diet is not very complicated. With every week you should add one day with specific food. Other days in the week you eat as usual. Finally you will go to the week with all special days.

Week 1: water (one day).

Week 2: water (first day), oranges (second day).

Week 3: water (first day), oranges (second day), apples (third day).

Week 4: water (first day), oranges (second day), apples (third day), juice (fourth day).

Week 5: water (first day), oranges (second day), apples (third day), juice (fourth day), yogurt (fifth day).

Week 6: water (first day), oranges (second day), apples (third day), juice (fourth day), yogurt (fifth day), pineapple (sixth day).

Week 7: water (first day), oranges (second day), apples (third day), juice (fourth day), yogurt (fifth day), pineapple (sixth day), water (seventh day).

During all days of the diet you can drink non-carbonated water. Oranges can be replaced with grapefruits.

For seven weeks overweight goes out gradually, without harm for the body. Your metabolism normalizes. If it is necessary, the diet should be repeated in a month. During diet alcohol is strictly excluded.

How to Calculate Your Body Mass Index (BMI)?

The Body Mass Index (BMI) formula was developed by Belgium statistician Adolphe Quelet (1796-1874), and was known as the Quetelet Index. BMI is also referred to as 'Body Mass Indicator'.

BMI is a worldwide used important parameter in determining any kind of weight related problem. In other words, BMI is a measurement tool that links your height and your weight and provides an indication of whether you are overweight, underweight or at a healthy weight for your height.

For those who wish to manually calculate BMI here is a BMI formula for both standard and metric measures. Body Mass Index calculation is very easy. Calculating body mass index involves only two measurements, height and weight. There are two formulas for calculating BMI. The first one measures weight in pounds and height in inches.

BMI = [Weight (in Pounds) / (Height in inches) x (Height in inches)] x 703

The second formula measures the BMI in Kg/m2; measuring height in meters and weight in kilograms.

BMI = (Weight in Kilograms) / (Height in Meters) x (Height in Meters)

Below is the procedure of calculating BMI in simple steps. Weigh yourself on your bathroom scales. Then measure your height in inches using the yardstick. Use the pencil, paper and calculator to perform the next BMI calculation. Take your height in inches and square the number, (multiply the number of inches by the same number of inches). Split your weight in pounds by your height in inches squared. Multiply that answer by 703. The answer is your Body Mass Index (BMI).

Choose BMI category your personal BMI result belongs to: Underweight < 18.5; Normal (healthy) weight = 18.5 - 24.9; Overweight = 25 - 29.9; Obesity > 30;

Three Rules for Slim Figure. Rule 3.

The regular exercises

To begin loosing weight you need at least three fitness trainings per week. If you want to achieve the better result, then make exercises five times a week. But the workouts must be different by its directions and efforts.

Actually the best effect can be achieved as follows: three workouts per week with the weighting (dumbbells, weight-lifting exercises such as squatting, thrusts, push-ups, because they involve the great muscle groups).

The other two days load should be weaker and it must be with the other direction - aerobic, which burns calories. For this kind of fitness use a treadmill, exercise bike, jumping the rope, and step aerobics.

If you do not like aerobics, then in these two days you can choose (on the advice of a coach) two or three simple exercises and do them a great number of repetitions in up-tempo without any weighting. And you will get the same aerobic effect.

Remember, two classes per week only help to maintain muscles in the tone. If you are unable to go workouts in the gym, spend at least 10-15 minutes for exercises at home. Really it's better than doing nothing at all.

Three Rules for Slim Figure. Rule 2.

The dietary habits

Keeping the eating habits, we give the body a chance to digest and to assimilate all eaten food, but not to save food for future use. Thus, debugged dietary habits are the main enemy for body fat. In addition, your bowels will work like clockwork. Natural cleansing of the body also plays an important role in weight loss.

It is desirable to follow this scheme of meals:
- Breakfast (porridge, eggs)
- Second breakfast (cottage cheese, tea)
- Dinner (meat, vegetables, soups)
- Snack (fruits)
- Supper (18.00-19.00 - fish, soup, porridge)
- Kefir or milk at night

Make the time interval of two or three hours after each meal. This time you can drink tea, camomile infusion or unsweetened compote.

The components of your diet:
1. Cereal (porridges: buckwheat, pearl-barley, corn, oats, and millet).

2. Lean meat (always in combination with raw or stewed vegetables).

3. Sour milk products (cottage cheese, yogurt, milk, kefir, etc.).

4. Soups.

5. Fish, seafood.

6. Fruits, dried fruits.

7. Drinks (green tea, jelly, juice, chicory, camomile).

8. Vegetables (raw, cooked) as a garnish and salad.

9. Honey.

10. Dessert: chocolate, meringue, raisins, jams, marsh-mallow, fruit candy.

11. All kinds of nuts, seeds.

12. Eggs.

Three Rules for Slim Figure. Rule 1.

Follow three simple rules that will help you to lose weight and to become healthier. Make them the principles of your life!

Rule 1. Choose foodstuffs and watch the amount of eaten food.

Rule 2. Keep the dietary habits.

Rule 3. Load your muscles regularly.

Well, as for the first rule, come to minimum or remove from the diet completely the next foodstuffs:

-- all products made from white flour, including second hot dishes (for example, ravioli, cakes or pancakes);

-- all products fried in oil (cakes, potato, pancakes, fish, eggs);

-- any sweet carbonated beverages;

-- any sweets "three in one" ("three in one" is a dessert, where there are three ingredients together: flour, sugar, fat);

-- smoked products (smoked sausages, smoked meat, smoked fish);

-- lard, fat meat, chicken skin, chicken legs (whole), fat kinds of cheese.