- Fat Burning Mechanism
- Benefits and Risks
- Contraindications
- Choosing
- Recommendations
- Options
For many, it is surprising that in dietetics a chocolate day of fasting is offered for fast and enjoyable weight loss. Can this high-calorie and sweet product help reduce weight? It turns out such miracles happen, and we still don’t know much about our bodies. If you are afraid of bland starvation, this option is a true find.
Fat Burning Mechanism
The chocolate day of fasting was developed a long time ago by nutritionists, and its effect on the body has been studied far and wide. Weight loss is possible thanks to cocoa beans, which:
- prevent the development of insulin resistance (it is the most common cause of obesity) and improve the regulation of glucose consumption;
- support a healthy microflora of the intestine, thanks to which food is digested faster;
- eliminate any centers of inflammation in the body that can trigger weight gain;
- reduce depression, so that it’s no longer necessary to “seize” stress;
- accelerate metabolism;
- efficiently break down fats, removing them from the body (however, this is a rather protracted process that cannot be completed within one day, but, at least, you will start it).
As a result, it turns out that despite its high calorie content (more than 500 kcal per 100 g), chocolate is as useful for weight loss as many other dietary products. The results of such fasting days prove this. If you do everything right, you can lose up to 1.5 kg.
Origin of the name. The word “chocolate” comes from the Mayan language, where “xocolatl” meant “bitter water”.
Benefits and Risks
If you want to lose weight with this sweet treat, you need to imagine what benefits it can bring, and where the catch is.
Benefits:
- prevents cardiovascular diseases;
- reduces the risk of strokes and heart attacks, preventing thrombosis;
- prevents diabetes, as it controls the process of glucose absorption by the body;
- normalizes blood pressure;
- promotes vascular elasticity;
- facilitates the course of autoimmune diseases;
- stimulates intellectual activity, improves memory, activates thought processes;
- antioxidant substances prevent the formation of tumors;
- polyunsaturated acids remove harmful cholesterol.
Risks:
- damages tooth enamel;
- causes food addiction;
- high calorie content;
- the minimum daily portion makes you feel hungry – it can be very difficult to withstand;
- monotony of the diet;
- side effects include nausea and dizziness;
- fainting is possible;
- often triggers gastrointestinal disorders;
- contributes to skin rashes.
You can feel the obvious harm from such fasting days only in extreme cases: if contraindications were ignored or the recommended dosage was increased.
Additional information. Chocolate improves heart function, strengthens, and cleanses blood vessels from cholesterol plaques.
Contraindications
You should not try chocolate fasting days if you have the following contraindications:
- cocoa bean allergy;
- pregnancy;
- diabetes;
- obesity;
- hypotension;
- gout;
- urolithiasis;
- joint diseases;
- insomnia;
- metabolic disorders.
Of course, 100 g of a chocolate bar eaten per day will not trigger an exacerbation of gout or osteochondrosis, but negative side effects are quite possible.
Did you know that… chocolate contains “theobromine” – a substance that makes this product poisonous to animals?
Choosing
The choice of chocolate is so diverse today that the problem of choice is inevitable. Porous, dessert, vegan, diabetic, powdered, liquid… Which variety contributes to maximum weight loss as part of a fasting day? After all, if you make a mistake in this matter – instead of losing extra weight, you can, on the contrary, gain weight.
- Dark/ Bitter/ Black
The best option recommended by nutritionists is to lose weight on dark chocolate. The percentage of cocoa beans, which are responsible for weight loss, is the highest: more than 55%. It is better to choose products with a percentage starting from 75% – there will be more benefits. This is the product that is called “dark”. If the numbers are lower, the packaging will say “dark” or “black”.
- Milk
Undoubtedly, losing weight on milk chocolate is much more pleasant, since it has a very soft and delicate taste, literally melting in your mouth. However, the content of cocoa beans in it is minimal, meaning that all the hardships of fasting day may be unnoticed. Moreover, powdered milk or cream with a fat content of 2.5% in its composition is far from being dietary, and there is practically no benefit from them. Thus, nutritionists do not recommend this type.
- White
You can find anything on the Internet. Even such a paradox as a fasting day menu with white chocolate. Although the composition of this treat does not contain a single gram of cocoa beans, which trigger all the processes of weight loss in the body. Thus, nothing more useless for fighting extra kilos can be found.
Other varieties are also of no use in weight loss, so you can safely avoid them.
Interesting fact. The most expensive chocolate is “Chocopologie by Knipschildt”. 453g of this delicacy costs $2,600.
Recommendations
To achieve the result, learn how to hold the fasting day correctly and get out of it without harming your health.
Preparation
A chocolate hunger strike is a real stress for the body, which may not react to it as expected. That is why it is so important to prepare your body for this event in advance. Take the following measures 2-3 days prior.
- Start drinking plenty of water.
- Gradually exclude alcohol, carbonated drinks, fried, pickled, smoked, fatty or salty products, and fast food from the diet.
- Switch to five meals a day.
- Eat 20-30 g of dark chocolate daily.
- Get enough sleep.
- Exercise.
- On the day before the hunger strike, dinner should be as light as possible, and before going to bed it is better to drink a glass of fat-free kefir.
Hunger strike
- Recommended daily volume: 100 g of dark chocolate.
- Usage schedule: divide into 5 equal portions, which must be eaten at equal intervals.
- Drinks allowed are: green tea (no
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