The Maggi Diet is a low-calorie weight loss diet designed to last for 4 weeks.The daily diet consists of high-protein foods with limited intake of fats and carbohydrates.
The diet's name comes from the name Margaret, as the nutritional plan was developed by experts at the Mayo Clinic in the 1980s specifically for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
There are two dietary options: the egg diet (based on eating eggs, fruits, vegetables and meat) and the cheese diet ("dacha").The Maggi Cottage Diet is used to treat egg allergy and involves replacing each egg with 100 grams of cottage cheese.
dietary rules
If you follow all the dietary rules, you can lose 3 to 5 kilograms per week.Generally speaking, weight loss will occur during the first week as swelling decreases and excess water is released from the body, and then the weight loss process may slow down.
To make the Maggi Egg Diet 4 Weeks more effective, you must follow the following recommendations to organize your meal nutrition:
- The daily diet should include three main meals.In case of severe hunger, you can eat a non-starchy vegetable (carrot, cucumber), but not earlier than 2 hours after the main meal.
- Do not consume sugar in any form.
- The menu contains only foods allowed on the diet and does not disrupt the order of meals.
- You need to drink at least 1.5 liters of water throughout the day, including unsweetened tea and coffee.
- Do not use vegetable oil, butter or other types of oil when preparing dishes.
- Don't overuse spices as they contain essential oils that increase appetite.
What you can and cannot eat (table)
Products that can be consumed during dieting are low-calorie because they contain minimal fat and carbohydrates.In addition to protein products such as eggs and meat, vegetables, mainly raw, are also allowed in the menu.
The Magi diet should include a minimum amount of fruits and berries that are low in fructose.On average, you can eat up to 300 grams of one type of fruit and berries per day.
| Product display | what can you eat | What not to eat | |
| flour products | Yesterday’s whole wheat bread | Breads and pastries made from white flour, pasta from soft and hard wheat | |
| meat, poultry | Turkey, chicken, rabbit, veal | mutton | |
| fish | Low-fat fish (flounder, cod, cod, pollock, cod, etc.), seafood | Mackerel, herring, beluga, halibut, saury, sprat, burbot, sturgeon | |
| dairy products | Low-fat cheese (not low-fat), low-fat cheese | Full-fat cottage cheese, cottage cheese, sweetened yogurt, heavy cream | |
| egg | boiled eggs | ||
| cereals | all types of grains | ||
| vegetable | Green peppers, broccoli, various cabbages, fermented sauerkraut, carrots, onions, garlic, cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans, mushrooms, spinach, green salad, sorrel | Potato | |
| fruit | Apricots, cherries, plums, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, lemons, limes, raspberries, strawberries, apples, pears | Banana, grapes, melon, watermelon | |
| dried fruit | Dates, figs, and other types of dried fruits | ||
| drinks | tea,coffee | Alcoholic beverages, sugary drinks |
4 Weeks Original Maggi Diet Menu
A feature of the first and second weeks of the Maggi diet is the same egg and fruit breakfast, which helps the body adapt to the change in diet.
Eggs contain protein, healthy fats and vitamins that ensure long-term satiety, so your daily breakfast for the first 14 days should include 2 hard-boiled eggs, grapefruit, and unsweetened tea or coffee.
From the beginning of the third week until the end of the diet, breakfast may include other dishes, depending on recommendations and personal preference.
first week
Monday
- Lunch: a fruit.
- Dinner: Grilled lean meat with vegetable salad.
Tuesday
- Lunch: Boiled chicken breast with vegetables.
- Dinner: Whole wheat crackers, two eggs, cucumber salad, oil-free tomato salad, grapefruit or orange.
Wednesday
- Lunch: 30-50 grams of cheese, whole wheat toast, tomatoes.
- Dinner: Steamed fish (300g) with vegetables.
Thursday
- Lunch: 350 grams of one fruit.
- Dinner: Boiled meat, herb and vegetable salad.
Friday
- Lunch: 2 eggs, 300 grams of dishes of your choice (green peas and carrots or beans and zucchini).
- Dinner: 200 grams of fish (grilled, grilled or boiled), vegetable salad with cucumber and Chinese cabbage, grapefruit.
Saturday
- Lunch: up to 300 grams of fruit.
- Dinner: 250 g of meat, green salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and dill.
Sunday
- Lunch: chicken breast, 150 grams of stewed vegetables (cabbage, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers), fresh tomatoes, 1 grapefruit.
- Dinner: One vegetable (cabbage or zucchini), boiled or stewed.
Week 2
Monday
- Lunch: Green salad (cucumber, green salad, onion) and chicken breast.
- Dinner: two eggs, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers and vegetables, grapefruit.
Tuesday
- Lunch: Boiled or grilled meat, fresh vegetables (including vegetable salad).
- Dinner: Two soft-boiled eggs, grapefruit or orange.
Wednesday
- Lunch: Grilled meat with cucumbers and tomatoes.
- Dinner: Same as the day before.
Thursday
- Lunch: stew (cabbage, zucchini, carrots), 30 grams of cheese, 2 eggs.
- Dinner: Two boiled eggs.
Friday
- Lunch: Appropriate amount of boiled fish.
- Dinner: Two soft-boiled eggs.
Saturday
- Lunch: meat, tomatoes, and a grapefruit.
- Dinner: fruit salad.
Sunday
- Lunch: stewed or boiled vegetables (carrots, beets, cabbage), poultry, grapefruit.
- Dinner: Same as lunch.
Week 3
At this stage, the Maggi diet is limited to a prescribed list of products per day, from which 4 meals are independently formed.
Monday: Unlimited fruit.
Tuesday: Any number of vegetables (raw and stewed) allowed.
Wednesday: Fruit salad, raw vegetables and stewed vegetables.
Thursday: fish, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Friday: Meat or poultry, cooked vegetables.
Saturday: Eat one fruit all day.
Sunday: Same as the previous day (different types of fruit can be chosen).
Week 4
As in the third week of the Maggi diet, the daily rations are shown on the menu, divided into three meals in any order throughout the day.
Monday
- 200 g of meat, fish or poultry,
- 1 slice of bread in the form of toast or croutons,
- tomatoes (3 pcs),
- Cucumber (4 pieces),
- Grapefruit or orange.
Tuesday
- Everything except the fruit is the same as the day before,
- Choice of two fruits (grapefruit, orange, apple or medium pear).
Wednesday
- 1 tablespoon cheese,
- 200 g low-fat cheese,
- vegetable stew,
- 2 cucumbers and tomatoes,
- toast or bread
- Grapefruit.
Thursday
- Eat half a boiled chicken a day,
- 3 tomatoes
- 2 cucumbers,
- 1 whole wheat toast,
- Grapefruit and other fruits of your choice.
Friday
- Salad with fresh vegetables of your choice,
- 2 boiled eggs,
- 3 tomatoes
- Grapefruit.
Saturday
- 2 cooked briskets,
- Cottage cheese or feta cheese (150 g),
- a cup of curd,
- 3 cucumbers and tomatoes,
- Grapefruit or orange.
Sunday
- canned tuna with juice (1 can);
- Stewed vegetables (200 g);
- 1 tablespoon cheese;
- toast or bread;
- two tomatoes and cucumber;
- Grapefruit.
quit dieting
A long-term low-calorie diet is a serious burden on the body, so at the end of the fourth week, follow-up nutrition must be properly organized.
After completing the Maggi diet, as with other carbohydrate-restricted eating plans, the likelihood of overeating starchy and sugary foods increases.
To avoid overeating after a diet, you must add foods to your diet according to the following principles:
- Increase slow carbohydrate foods (buckwheat, bulgur, quinoa, soy bran, whole wheat rye bread) by 20-25 grams every 3 days until the total weight of carbohydrate foods per day reaches 250-200 grams;
- Non-starchy vegetables should make up half of your daily diet;
- You can eat one large fruit or berry every day, the quantity is 100 grams;
- Don’t include sweets in your diet because your body has been weaned off sweets during the diet, so you shouldn’t get addicted again;
- Eat 3-4 times a day and try to reduce the number of snacks at other times;
- Don't eat 3 hours before going to bed.
Contraindications
Since the Maggi diet contains high amounts of protein products, which can put additional stress on the functioning of the kidneys and liver, people with the following conditions should not use this diet:
- kidney failure;
- Increased levels of uric acid in the blood; gout.
Additionally, the Maggi diet should not be used in people with eating disorders (ED), i.e. people who are prone to anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating, as the low-calorie nutrition can exacerbate the eating disorder problem.