Famous TV presenter Ksenia Borodina became a model for all the fair sex, who want to get slender forms: after the birth of her daughter, she quickly returned the grace to her figure, losing weight by 12 kg. It is a feat not every young mother can do. It is not surprising that many would like to know what is the secret of such a successful weight loss to Xenia Borodina. On the Internet, there are a lot of different assumptions on this score, sometimes quite absurd. There are also many variations of diets. Most often in the role of a secret means to combat excess weight is another variation on the topic of a cucumber diet, one of the most popular express ways to achieve an ideal figure.
Cucumber diet - the secret method of losing weight Xenia Borodina?
In the network, you can often find the assertion that a cucumber diet is precisely the secret weapon that helped to cope well-known TV presenter with excess weight. Even given an approximate daily menu, a diet designed for 1-2 weeks:
- breakfast: rye, or whole wheat bread - 1 slice, 2 fresh cucumbers. You can make a salad of vegetables, adding greens and a teaspoon of olive oil, you can make a sandwich, or eat everything separately;
- lunch: vegetable soup, cucumber salad;
- dinner: cucumber salad, or cucumber in kind.
The menu is more than lean, so it is suggested to supplement it with polyvitamins to prevent a decrease in immunity.
Frankly speaking, there are some doubts that Ksenia Borodina really made this method of losing weight the main, especially as, as the presenter in her book confesses, she does not take too well into such "emergency" diets, and believes that they need only resort to their help in the most extreme case.
The program of losing weight Xenia Borodina
The very same leader in her book "We Lose Weight With Ksenia Borodina", from 2011, claims that her weight loss is not based on any miracle diets, but is the result of daily work on yourself, and the observance of fairly well-known and time-tested dieticians' advice:
- The amount of calories received in the body should be less than their consumption.
- You can not tolerate a feeling of hunger, you need to eat often and in small portions - about 200 ml (rule 1 cup).
- It is necessary to increase physical activity, this will allow you to achieve greater calorie consumption and help to maintain the muscles of the body in tone.
- You need to lose weight, not hurrying: the physiological norm is a weight loss of 0.5 - 1.5 kg per week.
- Caloric content of a daily diet should be about 1200-1500 kilocalories for women, and 1500-2000 for men.
- You need to drink plenty of water, at least 2 liters per day, this will allow the body to quickly remove
products of the decomposition of fatty deposits from the body. - Eat healthy food by properly forming your diet: 70% slow carbohydrates (cereals, vegetables), 20% - proteins (lean meat, eggs, dairy products, beans), 10% - fats, with 2/3 of them - vegetable oils.
Here, perhaps, and all the secrets. It's trite, some will say, maybe even so, but these seemingly simple recommendations helped not only to lose weight to many people, but also to preserve the result. In addition, this way to lose weight is not harmful to health, but on the contrary, helps to keep it for many years.