Rotation Diet

Do you wish to reduce weight? However, does the thought of missing out on your favorite food hold you back every time you start off with the diet plan? If yes, then why don’t you go for a rotation diet instead? Normal diet plans tend to get monotonous over a period of time. Moreover, due to reduced intake of food, symptoms like nausea, headache and constipation pop-in. So, wouldn’t it be great to trim down the increased waistline without tampering with the metabolic rate of your body? This is the secret behind rotation diet, a concept developed by psychologist and obesity expert Martin Katahn. With three weeks of calorie restriction in a month, the fourth week is supposed to be a vacation from the diet, with no restriction on what you eat. Katahn’s theory comprises of the researched fact that the body's metabolism slows down with adjustment to the diet change after three weeks. This is the very purpose of a rotation diet. The vacation week is permitted to make a person stick to the diet plan for a long time. If you religiously follow the rotation diet plan, you are bound to reduce weight with such calorie restriction over three weeks. Moreover, not being deprived of your guilt pleasures is an added zing to stick by the rules. Let us now see what exactly a rotation diet plan comprises of.

 

A typical rotation diet focuses on low calorie content for the first three days followed by moderate calorie diet or the next four days. A small level of calorie control in the diet is maintained in the week ahead. The diet cycle is to be repeated for the third week. Besides this, a minimum of thirty minutes of exercise is also advised to maintain a healthy body. Since men and women have different caloric requirements, the diet plan is framed accordingly. The first three weeks being a low calorie week, a person should avoid high calorie foods with high fat and carbohydrate content. If one wants effective results in a month, a big NO to carbohydrates in the initial 3-4 days is the key strategy. A small amount of it in the fourth day and then again a cut-off for the next 3-4 days will help one slim down quickly. A rotation diet plan is an effective means to control allergy towards certain food items. Besides preventing new allergies, it also helps one to identify the food that is causing allergy. Allergy rotation diet plan includes the intake of biologically related foods like eggs, prawns, beef and shrimps for 2-3 days, waiting for the next 3-4 days to observe the result. Through this process, one gets to know the allergen and hence can control further aggravation of allergy by preventing the particular food type.