Maggie's diet is a low-calorie food for weight loss that lasts 4 weeks. The daily diet uses foods high in protein, and the intake of fats and carbohydrates is limited.
The name of the diet comes from Margaret's name, as the diet plan was created by the Mayo Clinic specifically for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
There are two options for the diet - egg (based on the use of eggs, fruits, vegetables and meat) and cottage cheese ("dacha"). The Maggi cottage cheese diet is used for allergies to chicken eggs and involves replacing each egg with 100 g of cottage cheese.
Dietary rules
If you follow all the dietary rules, you can lose 3 to 5 pounds a week. As a rule, in the first week the weight disappears, reducing the swelling and removing excess water from the body, and then the weight loss process can be slowed down.
To make the Maggi Egg diet more effective for 4 weeks, you need to follow these dietary guidelines:
- The daily diet should consist of 3 main meals. In cases of severe starvation it is allowed to eat a non-starchy vegetable (carrot, cucumber), but not earlier than 2 hours after the main meal.
- Do not use sugar in any form.
- Include in the menu only foods that are allowed in the diet and do not violate the sequence of meals.
- Drink at least 1. 5 liters of water throughout the day, including tea and coffee without sugar.
- Do not use vegetable, butter and other oils in cooking.
- Don't overdo it with spices, as spices contain essential small amounts that improve appetite.
Right and not (table)
Foods that can be consumed during the diet are low in calories because they contain a minimum of fat and carbohydrates. In addition to protein products such as eggs and meat, it is allowed to include vegetables, mostly raw, in the menu.
The minimum amount of fruits and fruits with low fructose content should be included in Maggie's diet. On average, you can eat up to 300 g per day of a variety of fruits and berries to choose from.
| Food | What you can eat | What you can't eat | |
| Sweets | Yesterday's wholemeal bread | White flour bread and pastry, soft and hard wheat pasta | |
| Meat, poultry | Turkey, chicken, rabbit, beef | Lamb | |
| Fish | Low fat fish (flounder, hake, cod, pollock, etc. ), seafood | Mackerel, herring, beluga, flounder, sauri, sprat, rib, sturgeon | |
| Dairy products | Low fat cottage cheese (fat free), low fat cheese | Fatty cottage cheese, cheese, sugar yogurt, heavy cream | |
| Eggs | Hard boiled eggs | ||
| Cereals | All types of cereals | ||
| Vegetables | Peppers, broccoli, all kinds of cabbage, fermented 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, melon, watermelon | |
| Dried fruits | Dates, figs and other dried fruits | ||
| Drinks | Tea, coffee | Alcoholic beverages, sugary drinks |
4 weeks Original Maggie's Diet Menu
A feature of the first and second weeks of Maggie's diet is the same egg and fruit breakfast that helps the body adapt to changes in diet.
Chicken eggs contain protein, healthy fats and vitamins to ensure long-lasting 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 may consist of other elements, depending on the recommendations and individual preferences.
Week 1
Monday
- Lunch: a kind of fruit.
- Dinner: roasted low-fat cooked meat with vegetable salad.
Tuesday
- Lunch: boiled chicken breast with vegetables.
- Dinner: wholemeal croutons, two eggs, cucumber salad, unheated tomatoes, grapefruit or orange.
Wednesday
- Lunch: 30-50 g cheese, wholemeal toast, tomatoes.
- Dinner: steamed fish (300 g) with vegetables.
Thursday
- Lunch: 350 g of one type of fruit.
- Dinner: boiled meat, vegetable salad with herbs.
Friday
- Lunch: 2 eggs, 300 g dish of your choice (boiled carrots with green peas or stewed zucchini with beans).
- Dinner: 200 g fish (grilled, roasted or boiled), green salad with cucumbers and Chinese cabbage, grapefruit.
Saturday
- Lunch: up to 300 g of fruit.
- Dinner: 250 g meat with vegetable salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and dill.
Sunday
- Lunch: chicken breast, 150 g stewed vegetables (cabbage, zucchini, tomatoes, black pepper), fresh tomato, 1 grapefruit.
- Dinner: vegetables of the same kind (cabbage or zucchini), cooked or stewed.
Week 2
Monday
- Lunch: vegetable salad (cucumber, lettuce, onion) and chicken breast.
- Dinner: two eggs, fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and herbs, grapefruit.
Tuesday
- Lunch: boiled or roasted meat, fresh vegetables (including lettuce).
- 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 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 cooked vegetables (carrots, beets, cabbage), poultry, grapefruit.
- Dinner: Like lunch.
Week 3
At this stage, Maggie's diet is limited to a list of foods listed for each day, of which they independently form 4 meals.
Monday: Unlimited fruit.
Tuesday: permitted amount of vegetables (raw and stewed).
Wednesday: Fruit salads, raw and stewed vegetables.
Thursday: fish, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Friday: meat or poultry, cooked vegetables.
Saturday: One fruit all day.
Sunday: same as previous day (other fruits allowed).
Week 4
As in the third week of the Maggie diet, the menu contains the daily ration, which is divided into meals throughout the day in random order.
Monday
- 200 g of meat, fish or poultry,
- 1 slice of toast or crouton bread,
- Tomatoes (3 pcs. ),
- Cucumbers (4 pcs. ),
- Grapefruit or orange.
Tuesday
- Everything except the fruit as on the previous day
- two fruits of your choice (grapefruit, orange, apple or medium pear).
Wednesday
- 1 tablespoon cottage cheese,
- 200 g low-fat cheese,
- Vegetable stew,
- 2 cucumbers and 2 tomatoes,
- Toast or bread,
- Grapefruit.
Thursday
- Eat half a boiled chicken all day,
- 3 tomatoes,
- 2 cucumbers,
- 1 wholemeal toast,
- Grapefruit and other fruits to choose from.
Friday
- Fresh vegetable salad of your choice,
- 2 hard-boiled eggs,
- 3 tomatoes,
- Grapefruit.
Saturday
- 2 boiled breasts,
- Cottage cheese or feta cheese (150 g),
- A glass of yogurt,
- 3 cucumbers and 3 tomatoes,
- Grapefruit or orange.
Sunday
- canned tuna in own juice (1 can);
- vegetable stew (200 g);
- tablespoon cottage cheese;
- toast or bread
- two tomatoes and a cucumber;
- grapefruit.
Stop the diet
The long-term low-calorie diet is a serious burden for the body, so at the end of the fourth week the next meal should be properly organized.
After completing Maggie's diet, as well as other limited carbohydrate eating plans, the likelihood of overeating with flour and sugary foods increases.
To avoid overeating after a diet, you should include foods in your diet as follows:
- every 3 days increase the number of slow carbohydrate dishes (buckwheat, bulgur, quinoa, bran, rye wholemeal bread) by 20-25 g until the total weight of carbohydrate food reaches 250-200 g per day;
- the amount of vegetables without starch should be half of the total daily diet;
- you can eat one large fruit or berries in the amount of 100 g every day;
- do not include sweets in the diet, because during the diet the body has lost the habit of sweets, so you do not have to re-form an addiction;
- eat 3-4 times a day and minimize the number of snacks at other times;
- do not eat 3 hours before bedtime.
Contraindications
Because Maggie's diet consists of a large number of protein foods that put extra weight on the kidneys and liver, this diet should not be used by people with pathologies such as:
- renal failure;
- increased uric acid in the blood; gout.
Also, you should not use Maggie's diet for eating disorders (eating disorders), namely people prone to anorexia, bulimia and overeating disorder, as a low-calorie diet can worsen the eating problem.