The Maggi Diet: Menu, Rules, Benefits and Harms to the Body

The Maggi diet is a quick way of weight loss which becomes more and more popular, because promises loss of up to 10-15 kilograms per month. It looks tempting, especially for those looking for quick results and not ready for long-term restrictions. But not everything is so clear-cut. Another side is hidden beyond the rave reviews – such diets are not always safe.

Before going on any diet to lose weight, you should understand that none of them is universal and each of them has its set of contraindications and can negatively affect your health and well-being.

Quality weight loss is always a slow road requiring awareness and readiness for re-building your lifestyle. While strict limitations, regardless of the probability of losing extra pounds in record time, often end in breakdowns and returning to marks even worse than the starting ones.

What is the Maggi diet, and why is it so effective?

The Maggi diet is a variant of protein diets based on daily eating eggs, cottage cheese and other high-protein foods.

In the classic version of the protein diet the main role is given to meat, in the Maggi diet it’s given to eggs and cottage cheese. They are valuable sources of protein; here are the reasons why they positively affect weight loss:

• protein is the main building material for the human body;
• protein provides the completion of all chemical reactions, providing useful microelements “transportation”;
• protein foods give quick saturation helping to reduce appetite;
• protein requires more energy resources to be processed, and this speeds up metabolism and fat breakdown process;
• finally, protein foods are responsible for muscles growth, which combined with training lets you not only lose weight but also model the body of your dreams.

There are different versions of the Maggi diet menu – egg, cottage cheese, combined. The diet supporters claim that it helps to lose weight without unbearable hunger thanks to the long-term saturation given by protein foods.

How can we strengthen the effect of egg and cottage cheese Maggi diet?

To ensure maximum results of losing weight on this diet, you should strictly follow all recommendations. Further in this article, you’ll find the everyday menu. Now, mind the rules of the diet:

• drink as much water as possible (it’s better to distribute evenly your daily norm during the whole day);
• exclude snacks;
• exclude alcohol, sugar, oil, mayonnaise, and other sauces;
• do not replace or rearrange the products in your daily menu;
• if you stray or break down, the diet should be restarted.

Physical activity will help to accelerate and consolidate the diet’s results. Even if you don’t have the possibility to go to the gym, add to your daily routine morning exercises, walking on foot or yoga.

A weight loss diary will help you stay motivated. Fix your victories – this will add confidence in your abilities. To understand your progress, note not only your weight but also belly and hips marks.

What can you eat on the Maggi diet?

The base of the Maggi diet is eggs and cottage cheese, but its menu also includes other products for weight loss:

• lean meat (poultry, beef and veal);
• low-fat varieties of fish;
• legumes;
• fruits, except bananas, pears, grapes, and sweet apples;
• vegetables (preferably green ones – broccoli, leaf lettuce, arugula, green peas);
• nuts and seeds;
• dairy products (besides low-fat cottage cheese, it’s allowed to consume milk, kefir, unsweetened yogurt without fillers)

It’s allowed to eat small amounts of unsweetened buckwheat and oat porridge, boiled with water. Any pastries should be excluded; the only exception is whole grain bread in small amounts.

The method of cooking is also important – the products should be boiled, baked or stewed, but not fried.

Approximate weekly menu

The menu on the Maggi diet is quite monotonous. Here is one of its versions for 7 days:

Monday

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, half of a grapefruit.

Lunch: one type of fruit allowed on this diet (except grapes, bananas and sweet apples), in any amount;

Supper: lean meat (poultry or veal), boiled or baked.

Tuesday

Breakfast: egg white omelet, an orange.

Lunch: lean meat.

Supper: vegetable salad without oil, a piece of whole grain bread.

Wednesday

Breakfast: low-fat cottage cheese, half of a grapefruit.

Lunch: fruits in any amount (preferably one type).

Supper: 2 soft-boiled eggs, stewed vegetables.

Thursday

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, unsweetened tea.

Lunch: low-fat boiled or stewed fish.

Supper: a glass of low-fat kefir or yogurt, an orange.

Friday

Breakfast: low-fat cottage cheese, a piece of whole grain bread.

Lunch: boiled or stewed meat, fresh carrot salad without oil and spices.

Supper: stewed or steamed vegetables.

Saturday

Breakfast: low-fat kefir, yogurt or soured milk.

Lunch: fruits of one type in any amount.

Supper: stewed lean meat, vegetable salad without oil and spices.

Sunday

Breakfast: 2 soft-boiled eggs, unsweetened tea.

Lunch: fruits of one type in any amount.

Supper: low-fat boiled or stewed fish with stewed beans.

It’s a base for a week from which we can make a menu for the whole month of diet. A more loyal version of the diet allows us to include more dairy products and legumes onto the menu.

Why do such diets give such quick results?

The main reason for quick loss of weight is severe restriction of calories and carbohydrates. In addition, protein foods require more energy for processing. But in the long term, such an approach to nutrition may appear not so effective, and sometimes even dangerous.

What are the dangers of the Maggi diet?

Imbalance

Such restrictions as proposed on this diet cannot be compensated even by the presence of vegetables and fruit. The Maggi diet is poor; therefore, the body will experience a deficiency of the nutrients it needs.

Kidney strain

High protein content in any diet creates an increased load on the liver and kidneys. Therefore, the Maggi diet is strictly prohibited for people with chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, weakened due to past illnesses, nursing mothers, children and elderly people.

High breakdown risks

Too strict limitations during the diet very often lead to overeating after its end, and this is one stress factor more for the organism.

How to finish the diet properly and without harm?

If you still have decided to try the Maggi diet you should know how to finish it properly:

• do not immediately return to high-calorie and fatty foods;
  
  
• step by step add complex carbohydrates (porridges, whole grain bread), oils and butter;
  
  
• increase the proportion of vegetables and water in your diet.

But the main thing – revise your eating habits and don’t consider such diets to be a reliable weight loss tool on a permanent basis.

So, is it worth trying?

It’s up to you. If you want to lose several kilograms in a short time and have no contraindications, this diet may be effective. But you should count on stable and safe changes only in case you:

• switch to a healthy balanced diet;
• form healthy eating habits that will replace temporary restrictions;
• add physical activity, for example, fast walking on foot or morning exercises;
• start to take care of your mental and psychological wellbeing, because, as we all know, one of the reasons why you can’t lose weight is the increased levels of stress and of cortisol hormone in your body;
• listen to your body's needs – for example, with my Bot’s help called to assist you to determine your needs in accordance with the phases of your menstrual cycle. Start it and receive daily recommendations on your well-being improvement, including rational nutrition, developed specially for you.