Maggie's egg diet got its name from its creator Margaret (abbreviated as Maggie) Thatcher. It was in her old notebook that records were found about the nutrition system in which breakfast consisted of eggs and grapefruit. Read about this simple but incredibly effective way to become slimmer in our article.
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Features of Maggi's Egg Diet
Maggi's egg diet promotes the activation of biochemical reactions during which fats are broken down. For this, chicken eggs are necessarily included in the daily menu. The method involves the use of a significant amount of protein. Sugar is consumed in extremely small quantities.
An important feature of the Maggi diet is that disruptions in it are not permissible. If you gave yourself free rein, violated the recommended diet, or mistakenly used an unacceptable dish, the method will have no effect.
Rules and principles of nutrition
If you doubt your discipline, then you should not try this method, since the Maggi diet is effective only if the following rules are observed:
- drink 2-3 liters of water per day;
- you can’t change the order of dishes in the menu (for example, if you need to eat an egg in the morning and meat in the evening, you can’t eat meat for breakfast, and egg for dinner);
- during the diet, daily walks are required;
- snacking is prohibited;
- salt should be limited;
- if the diet was disturbed, the diet is started again.
Vegetables and fruits are necessarily included in the diet.Therefore, if you used them extremely rarely, in order to avoid digestive problems, these foods should be introduced into the menu a little before the start of the diet.
Recommended and Prohibited Products
The method involves the use of the following foods:
- dietary meat and offal;
- lean species of fish: lemonade, cod, pollock, tuna;
- seafood;
- quail eggs;
- unsweetened sour-milk products (kefir and fermented baked milk are allowed only from 4 weeks);
- vegetables (excluding potatoes and legumes);
- greenery;
- fruits and berries: citrus fruits, apples, pears, peaches, pineapple, plums, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries;
- bakery products: biscuits, bread rolls, crackers;
- drinks: drinking water, unsweetened coffee and teas (anytime)
- spices and spicy food within reasonable limits.
This method of losing weight implies a ban on the following products:
- pickled or salted vegetables;
- potatoes and legumes;
- fatty meats: lamb, pork, goose, duck
- fried foods;
- mushrooms;
- sweets and honey;
- fat and other fatty foods;
- dried fruits and fruits rich in sugars: bananas, raisins, grapes, persimmons, figs, pomegranates, mangoes, cherries;
- alcoholic drinks.
Permitted plant foods are consumed both raw and after heat treatment.
Menu for 2 and 4 weeks in the table
The duration of the egg diet is 2 or 4 weeks. A sample menu for each day for both variations is presented in tabular form.
Maggi Diet for 2 weeks
The daily breakfast consist of 2 hard boiled eggs (can be replaced with 4 quail) and half a citrus (orange or grapefruit).
| Day of the week | First week | Second week | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | |
| Monday | Apples to saturation | Beef Steam Meatballs | Cabbage salad, stewed liver | Assorted vegetables, boiled egg, 1 orange |
| Tuesday | Steam chicken | 2 boiled eggs, assorted raw vegetables, half an orange | Meatballs, cabbage salad, cucumbers | 2 eggs, 1 grapefruit, cucumbers with herbs |
| Wednesday | Cheese bread, vegetable salad | Braised Alaska Pollock Fillet | Steam veal with pumpkin and zucchini | 2 egg omelet (steam) |
| Thursday | Plums until saturated | Baked meat with pumpkin | Cottage cheese with apricots and plums, cheese | 2 boiled eggs |
| Friday | 2 boiled eggs, vegetable salad | Chicken zrazy, 1 grapefruit | Braised cutlets with onions squid, toast | Pears until saturated |
| Saturday | Apricots until saturated | Greek salad, veal (stewed or steamed) | Steamed meat, eggplant sauté | 2 eggs |
| Sunday | Turkey meatballs with vegetable side dish | Assorted boiled vegetables | Chicken thigh fillet, baked foil with vegetable side dish | Boiled vegetables, 1 citrus |
A longer version of the diet is designed for 28 days. The first couple of weeks, breakfast, as in the previous variation, consists of 2 hard-boiled eggs and half a citrus. An example of a Maggi egg diet menu for 4 weeks is presented below.
First and second weeks
| Day of the week | First week | Second week | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | |
| Monday | Kiwi to satiety | Broccoli stewed rabbit | Cabbage stewed hearts | 2 egg omelet (steam) |
| Tuesday | Stewed Chicken | Beetroot appetizer | Minced vegetable stew | 2 boiled eggs, 1 grapefruit |
| Wednesday | Cheese biscuits | Beef meatballs, lettuce | Cottage cheese with strawberries, toast | 2 boiled eggs, 1 orange |
| Thursday | Apples to saturation | Baked turkey fillet with dill | Flounder baked with cauliflower | Fruit salad, 1 boiled egg |
| Friday | Fruit salad, cottage cheese | Steam Chicken Fillet | Vegetables, beef patties | 2 boiled eggs, 1 citrus |
| Saturday | 2 boiled eggs, white cabbage and tomato salad | Hake cutlets with vegetable side dish | Sweet Pepper, Tomato and Cabbage Salad, Braised Chicken Fillet | Pears until saturated |
| Sunday | Boiled beef with cherry tomatoes | 2 eggs, 1 citrus | Turkey Stew with Vegetable Garnish | 2 eggs, 1 citrus |
In the third week, the diet becomes much tougher, and the types of products (you can use them in any quantity) are distributed by day.
Third week
| Day of the week | Products |
|---|---|
| Monday | Apples, Nectarines, Plums |
| Tuesday | Cauliflower, tomatoes, broccoli, zucchini, pumpkin (boiled, stewed, steamed) |
| Wednesday | Apricots, melon, cucumbers, white cabbage, tomatoes |
| Thursday | Tilapia, carrots, zucchini, broccoli (steamed, stewed) |
| Friday | Chicken, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage (steamed, stewed) |
| Saturday | Apples, Plums, Raspberries, Nectarines |
| Sunday | Apricots |
In the fourth week, the diet softens. The body is preparing for its completion. A certain assortment and volume of products are offered for the day, which are divided into 5 meals.
Fourth week
| Day of the week | Products |
|---|---|
| Monday | 1/4 broiler chicken, 2 tomatoes, 2 bread rolls, 2 tangerines |
| Tuesday | 200 g ground beef, 1-2 cucumbers, 2 apricots |
| Wednesday | 200 g of hard cheese, assorted boiled vegetables, 1 biscuit, 2 tangerines, 1 small piece of grain bread |
| Thursday | Half chicken broiler carcass, 2 tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, 2 biscuits, 1 grapefruit |
| Friday | 2 eggs, assorted raw vegetables, 1 orange, 3 tomatoes |
| Saturday | 200 g Lemonema, 100 g cottage cheese, 100 ml ryazhenka, vegetable sandwich from rye bread, 1 grapefruit, 1 cucumber |
| Sunday | 200 beef, sautéed eggplant, 1 toast with cheese, 1 orange, 1 cucumber, 1 tomato. |
The detailed menu presented in this section can be changed taking into account taste preferences within the framework of diet rules.
Cooking recipes
There are many dishes that can be prepared during the Maggi diet. Below are some easy and tasty recipes.
Eggplant saute
Ingredients:
- 2 eggplants;
- 3 tomatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 1 bell pepper;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- salt.
Step by step cooking:
- Wash and chop vegetables.
- Lay them in layers in a stewpan, sprinkling each layer a little with salt, add 100 ml of water.
- Sprinkle with chopped garlic on top, pepper if desired.
- Simmer over low heat under a lid for half an hour.
Before use, it is recommended to sprinkle the dish with chopped parsley.
Casserole of chicken, broccoli and cauliflower.
Ingredients:
- 200 g of broiler chicken meat;
- 100 g of cauliflower;
- 100 g broccoli;
- 1 egg
- 1 pinch of chopped dill;
- salt, pepper to taste.
Step by step cooking:
- Disassemble cauliflower and broccoli into inflorescences, cook in salted water until tender. Use a blender to mash them.
- Wash the fillet, cut into “worms”, place on the bottom of a small baking dish (pre-grease the bottom with sunflower oil).
- Mix beaten egg with mashed potatoes. The resulting mixture is distributed over the meat.
- Cook in the oven at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for half an hour.
If desired, only one type of cabbage can be added to the casserole.
Zucchini and cauliflower soup puree
Ingredients
- 1 young zucchini;
- 150 g of cauliflower;
- salt to taste.
Step by step cooking:
- Cut the zucchini, divide the cabbage into inflorescences.
- Boil until soft in a small amount of salted water, then grind using a blender without draining the broth.
Before serving, in a soup puree, you can add a chopped boiled egg.
Using permitted products, you can cook holiday dishes. Below are the recipes for the original appetizer and flavor roll.
Shrimp, grapefruit and cheese salad
Ingredients:
- 100 g of feta cheese;
- 20 boiled king prawns;
- 1 bunch of green salad;
- 1 grapefruit
- 2-3 tablespoons of unsweetened yogurt.
Step by step cooking:
- Finely chop the feta cheese.
- Peel citrus, remove films, cut.
- Shrimp peel.
- Mix everything, season with yogurt and put on lettuce leaves.
Instead of feta cheese, you can use feta. With her, the dish will be more tender.
Meatloaf
Ingredients:
- 300 g of ground beef;
- 1 onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 20 g finely chopped dill;
- 2 eggs;
- salt pepper.
Step by step cooking:
- Chop the onion and garlic and mix in the meat. Salt, pepper, add greens, mix.
- Spread the minced meat on a flat surface and form a “cake” out of it. In the center, one after another, lay peeled whole hard-boiled eggs.
- Form a “sausage”. Wrap in foil and bake at 200 degrees for about an hour.
These recipes will help to diversify your table, and dishes prepared according to them will not harm the process of weight loss.
Exercise with the Maggi Diet
During any diet, adequate physical activity gives a good effect. In this case, walks lasting at least 1 hour, swimming, fitness classes are perfect. Training in gyms should be supervised by a specialist.
How many kilograms of excess weight you can lose
The result of the diet depends on the state of the body. If all the rules are followed, up to 10 kg of weight can be lost in 28 days. During the Maggi egg diet, you can lose 4-5 kg in 2 weeks.
Contraindications
The main contraindication to the use of this method of weight loss is egg intolerance.
In addition, the method is unacceptable in the following conditions and diseases:
- atherosclerosis;
- gastrointestinal pathology (including liver disease);
- pregnancy and lactation;
- age to 18 years.
Judging by the reviews on the Web, Maggi's egg diet is a fairly effective way to deal with extra pounds. If you have strong willpower, then this method will certainly help you become slimmer.
