The Maggi diet is a low-calorie diet for weight loss that is designed for 4 weeks.The daily diet includes foods with a high protein content, and the consumption of fats and carbohydrates is limited.
The name of the diet comes from the name Margaret, as the meal plan was created by specialists at the Mayo Clinic specifically for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
There are two variants of the diet: the egg diet (based on eating eggs, fruits, vegetables and meat) and the cottage cheese diet ("dacha").The Maggi cottage cheese diet is used for egg allergies and involves replacing each egg with 100g of cottage cheese.
Diet rules
If you follow all the rules of the diet, you can lose 3 to 5 kilograms per week.As a rule, in the first week, weight is lost due to the reduction of swelling and the release of excess water from the body, and then the weight loss process may slow down.
To make the Maggi egg diet for 4 weeks more effective, you should adhere to the following recommendations for organizing a diet meal:
- The daily diet should consist of 3 main meals.In case of severe hunger, it is allowed to eat one non-starchy vegetable (carrot, cucumber), but not earlier than 2 hours after the main meal.
- Do not consume sugar in any form.
- Include in the menu only foods allowed on the diet and do not break the sequence of meals.
- Throughout the day, you should drink at least 1.5 liters of water, including tea and coffee without sugar.
- You cannot use vegetable, butter or other types of oils when preparing meals.
- Do not overdo it with spices, as spices contain essential oils that increase appetite.
What you can and cannot eat (table)
Products that can be consumed during the diet are low-calorie, as they contain a minimum of fat and carbohydrates.In addition to protein products such as eggs and meat, it is allowed to include vegetables in the menu, mostly in raw form.
The magic diet should include a minimum amount of fruits and fruits with a low fructose content.On average, you can eat up to 300 g of one variety of fruits and berries per day.
| Products | What you can eat | What not to eat | |
| Flour products | Yesterday's whole wheat bread | Bread and pastries from white flour, pasta from soft and durum wheat | |
| Meat, poultry | Turkey, chicken, rabbit, beef | Lamb | |
| Fish | Low-fat fish (flounder, hake, cod, pollock, pollock, etc.), seafood | Mackerel, herring, beluga, halibut, saury, sprat, mihalitsa, sturgeon | |
| Dairy products | Low-fat cottage cheese (not low-fat), low-fat cheeses | Full-fat cottage cheese, cheese, sour milk with sugar, cream | |
| eggs | Hard boiled eggs | ||
| Cereals | All types of cereals | ||
| vegetables | Peppers, broccoli, all types of cabbage, sauerkraut, carrots, onions, garlic, cucumbers, tomatoes, green peas, mushrooms, spinach, lettuce, sorrel | Potatoes | |
| Fruits | Apricot, cherry, plum, blueberry, blackberry, cranberry, lemon, lime, raspberry, strawberry, apple, pear | Bananas, grapes, cantaloupe, watermelon | |
| Dried fruits | Dates, figs and other types of dried fruit | ||
| Drinks | Tea, coffee | Alcoholic drinks, drinks with sugar |
Menu of the original Maggi diet for 4 weeks
A feature of the first and second week of the Maggi diet is the same breakfast of eggs and fruit, which helps the body adapt to changes in the diet.
Chicken eggs contain proteins, healthy fats and vitamins, which guarantees long-term satiety, so your daily breakfast for the first 14 days should include 2 hard-boiled eggs, grapefruit, tea or coffee without sugar.
From the beginning of the third week until the end of the diet, breakfast can consist of other dishes, depending on the recommendations and individual preferences.
Week 1
Monday
- Lunch: some kind of fruit.
- Dinner: roast boiled lean meat with vegetable salad.
Tuesday
- Lunch: boiled chicken breast with vegetables.
- Dinner: whole grain cracker, two eggs, cucumber salad, tomato salad without butter, grapefruit or orange.
Wednesday
- Lunch: 30-50 g of cheese, whole grain toast, tomatoes.
- Dinner: steamed fish (300 g) with vegetables.
Thursday
- Lunch: 350 g of fruit of one kind.
- Dinner: boiled meat, vegetable salad with herbs.
Friday
- Lunch: 2 eggs, 300 g of a dish of your choice (boiled carrots with green peas or stewed zucchini with beans).
- Dinner: 200 g of fish (grilled, baked or boiled), green salad with cucumbers and Chinese cabbage, grapefruit.
Saturday
- Lunch: up to 300 g of fruit.
- Dinner: 250 g of meat with a vegetable salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and fennel.
Sunday
- Lunch: chicken breast, 150 g of stewed vegetables (cabbage, zucchini, tomato, pepper), fresh tomato, 1 grapefruit.
- Dinner: vegetables of one type (cabbage or zucchini) prepared by boiling or stewing.
Week 2
Monday
- Lunch: vegetable salad (cucumbers, lettuce, onion) and chicken breast.
- Dinner: two eggs, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and vegetables, grapefruit.
Tuesday
- Lunch: boiled or roasted meat, fresh vegetables (including green salad).
- Dinner: two soft-boiled eggs, grapefruit or orange.
Wednesday
- Lunch: grilled meat with cucumbers and tomatoes.
- Dinner: same as the previous day.
Thursday
- Lunch: stew (cabbage, zucchini, carrots), 30 g of cheese, 2 eggs.
- Dinner: two hard-boiled eggs.
Friday
- Lunch: any amount of boiled fish.
- Dinner: two soft-boiled eggs.
Saturday
- Lunch: meat, tomato, one grapefruit.
- Dinner: fruit salad.
Sunday
- Lunch: stewed or boiled vegetables (carrots, beets, cabbage), poultry, grapefruit.
- Dinner: as lunch.
Week 3
At this stage, the Maggi diet is limited to a list of certain products for each day, from which they independently form 4 meals.
Monday: unlimited fruit.
Tuesday: allowed vegetables in any quantity (raw and stewed).
Wednesday: fruit salads, raw and stewed vegetables.
Thursday: fish, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Friday: meat or poultry, boiled vegetables.
Saturday: one type of fruit all day.
Sunday: same as the previous day (you can choose another type of fruit).
Week 4
As in the third week of the Maggi diet, the menu shows the daily ration, which is divided into meals during the day in random order.
Monday
- 200 g of meat, fish or poultry,
- 1 piece of bread in the form of toast or crouton,
- tomatoes (3 pcs.),
- cucumbers (4 pcs.),
- Grapefruit or orange.
Tuesday
- Everything but fruit, as the day before,
- two fruits of your choice (grapefruit, orange, apple or medium pear).
Wednesday
- 1 tablespoon of cottage cheese,
- 200 g of low-fat cheese,
- vegetable stew,
- 2 cucumbers and tomatoes,
- Toast or bread
- grapefruit.
Thursday
- Eat half a cooked chicken all day,
- 3 tomatoes
- 2 cucumbers,
- 1 whole wheat toast,
- Grapefruit and other fruit of your choice.
Friday
- Salad with fresh vegetables of your choice,
- 2 hard-boiled eggs,
- 3 tomatoes
- grapefruit.
Saturday
- 2 cooked breasts,
- Cottage cheese or feta cheese (150 g),
- A glass of boiled milk,
- 3 cucumbers and tomatoes,
- Grapefruit or orange.
Sunday
- canned tuna in its own juice (1 can);
- vegetable stew (200 g);
- a tablespoon of cottage cheese;
- toast or bread;
- two tomatoes and a cucumber;
- grapefruit.
Giving up the diet
A long-term low-calorie diet is a serious burden on the body, so at the end of the fourth week, the next meal should be properly organized.
After completing the Maggi Diet, like other carb-restricted meal plans, the likelihood of overeating starchy and sugary foods increases.
To avoid overeating after a diet, you should include foods in your diet according to the following principle:
- every 3 days, increase the amount of foods with slow carbohydrates (buckwheat, bulgur, quinoa, bean bran, whole grain rye bread) by 20-25 g, until the total weight of carbohydrate foods reaches 250-200 g per day;
- the amount of non-starchy vegetables should be half of the total daily diet;
- Every day you can eat one large fruit or fruits in the amount of 100 g;
- do not include sweets in your diet, because during the diet the body has weaned itself from sweets, so you should not create an addiction again;
- eat 3-4 times a day and minimize the number of snacks the rest of the time;
- do not eat 3 hours before going to bed.
Contraindications
Since the Maggi diet consists of a large number of protein products that create additional stress on the functioning of the kidneys and liver, this diet should not be used by people with pathologies such as:
- kidney failure;
- increased levels of uric acid in the blood;gout
Also, the Maggi diet should not be used for eating disorders (ED), namely people prone to anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating, as a low-calorie diet can worsen the eating disorder problem.