The 80-10-10 diet for weight loss is actually not a diet but a series of rules to try to control your body weight, eat better and maybe even lose a few pounds of fat.
Eat better to feel better: it is precisely on this foundation that the 80-10-10 rule, thought of as “nutrition education” for those who are trying to get back into shape but don’t want to undergo overly restrictive diets.
To lose weight, eat better! There’s no need to fast
We have a long list of benefits related to fasting, in all its forms. But if you don’t want to give up food (too much), if you don’t want to submit to a diet that requires effort and sacrifice, then know that There’s no need to starve but to eat the right calories and then burn them.
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The 10% of calories are burned during digestion. Movement also helps burn calories, about 30%. The remaining 60% is burned during normal vital activities.
However, if you eat few calories, or the wrong ones, your body has less energy to draw on and your metabolism slows down, you feel hungrier and end up giving in to temptation and bingeing in the wrong way.
80-10-10 diet: to lose weight, what to eat
The name of this diet, that is, of this rule, gives an indication of what to eat. In general, this approach involves the use of foods that are as natural as possible, i.e. minimally processed.
One of the unwritten rules of many diets is this: cook what you want to eat. This will lead you to choose the ingredients, to select the foods and not to rely on anything “ready” but to cook fresh and natural foods.
The 80-10-10 diet for weight loss goes like this:
- eats 80% “natural” and minimally processed foods that you like: meat, fish, eggs, milk, nuts, seeds, fruit, vegetables, potatoes and legumes. The only exception is protein powder which, even if highly processed, is good for you
- eats 10% of “natural” and minimally processed foods that you don’t like much but they still don’t make you feel nauseous just thinking about it. This way you don’t always limit yourself to the same foods but maintain a varied diet
- eats 10% of what you want. It’s a kind of reward for being good at following the first part of the diet. You can give yourself this gift once a day or accumulate 10% daily to use it all together on the weekend. If you are not sure whether a food is natural or processed, consider that the more ingredients and components it has, the more processed it is
