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Osama Hamdy's diet

Characteristic of a diet	Final assessment
Prodolzhitelnost:4 weeks	3,5 of 5 The popular egg diet developed by doctor Osama Hamdy for the diabetics needing considerable weight reduction. The diet is very effective for weight loss, but demands discipline and observance of rules.
Recommended частота:раз in a year
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Initially Osama Hamdy's diet was developed for patients with a diabetes mellitus, persons in need in considerable weight reduction, her creator – professor, the doctor of medicine, the nutritionist, famous in the USA.

Osama Hamdy's diet belongs to proteinaceous, it still call egg (eggs – a key product of a diet) or a chemical diet (works by change of chemical processes in an organism). Weight loss happens not due to decrease in caloric content of a diet, and because of increase in contents in a protein diet at simultaneous reduction of carbohydrates. The organism receives usually main part of energy from carbohydrates. In case of their deficit, it is forced to receive energy from fat, as leads to an expense of the saved-up fatty deposits.

References of a cottage cheese diet of Osama Hamdy which is identical egg meet, only instead of eggs cottage cheese is used. Such diet is recommended to those who do not transfer some egg. However, unlike the considered egg diet, Osama Hamdy's authorship concerning a cottage cheese diet is not confirmed.

On Osama Hamdy's diet it is important to follow the following rules:

If in the menu the exact amount of food is not specified, it is possible to eat before saturation, but it is impossible to eat too much;
Vegetables prepare without addition of salt and oil;
In day it is necessary to drink about 2 liters of pure still water;
It is forbidden to change quantity and structure of dishes which are specified in the menu, to add to a diet or to remove from it products, to change meal time;
Intervals between the main meals it is not less than two hours, the last reception of food – not later than in two hours prior to a dream;
At strong feeling of hunger it is possible to eat several tomatoes or cucumbers, but not earlier than in two hours after the previous meal;
If for any reason it was necessary to interrupt a diet, it is not continued, and start over again, from the first day.

It is recommended to control weight reduction, carrying out daily weighing after a morning toilet. It is for this purpose better to use electronic scales since they are more exact.

The diet has to be followed by a regular, but moderate exercise stress.

If Osama Hamdy's diet is well transferred and there is a need for further weight reduction, it can be prolonged for 4 weeks, in this case in the 1 and 2 week the menu of the first week, in 3 and 4 weeks – the menu of the fourth is used.

Диета Усамы Хамдий – популярная яичная диета, разработанная доктором для диабетиков

Advantages

Osama Hamdy's diet is highly effective, it helps to get rid of a significant amount of excess weight. There is an opinion that by means of Osama Hamdy's diet it is possible to lose big weight within a month - 20-30 kg. However specialists deny a possibility of so sharp weight loss. If to assume that it would be possible, the damage to an organism would be huge, and for health it was not necessary to speak about advantage. Real figures of weight reduction on an egg diet – 10-12 kg in a month.

Thanks to dominance of proteinaceous food in a diet there is no loss of muscle bulk that interferes with emergence of flabbiness of muscles and a strong obvisaniye of skin.

The diet is suitable for patients with a prediabetic state and a diabetes mellitus.

Shortcomings and contraindications

The main lack of a diet of Osama Hamdy – need of strict following to rules. At any deviation the diet needs to be started anew.

The menu has strict restrictions therefore quite often (especially in the beginning) there is a strong feeling of hunger that is fraught with failure.

Osama Hamdy's diet is contraindicated at diseases of biliary tract and other bodies of a GIT, diseases of kidneys, and also at an allergy to eggs and a citrus.

At any chronic diseases before a diet consultation of the doctor is necessary.

What products are resolved?

Eggs;
Fast meat, chicken (without skin);
Fish;
Low-fat cheese, sheep cheese, skim cheese;
Vegetables;
Fruit;
Bread in the form of a wholegrain or rye toast.

As seasonings salt, pepper, garlic and onions are allowed, but you should not abuse them. From drinks clear water, grass infusions, tea and coffee in moderate quantity are resolved.

What products are prohibited?

Under a ban sugar, rich pastries, greasy, fried food. Also potatoes, bananas, grapes, a fig, dates, mango are excluded.

First day	Lunch: fruit. Dinner: the chicken fillet or beef made on a grill.
Second day	Lunch: meat of a chicken, tomato, small orange. Dinner: 2 eggs, fresh vegetables salad, rye toast, orange.
Third day	Lunch: cheese, rye toast, small tomato. Dinner: the chicken fillet or beef made on a grill.
Fourth day	Lunch: fruit. Dinner: meat, fresh vegetables salad.
Fifth day	Lunch: eggs, boiled vegetables (carrots, zucchini, green peas). Dinner: fresh vegetables salad.
Sixth day	Lunch: fruit. Dinner: meat, fresh vegetables salad.
Seventh day	Lunch: chicken meat, fresh vegetables, orange. Dinner: boiled vegetables.

Menu of the second week:

From the first to the third day	Lunch: beef or chicken meat, fresh vegetables salad. Dinner: 1-2 boiled eggs, half of orange or grapefruit.
Fourth day	Lunch: boiled eggs, firm cheese, vegetables. Dinner: boiled eggs.
Fifth day	Lunch: sea fish boiled or prepared on a grill. Dinner: boiled eggs.
Sixth day	Lunch: meat, tomato, orange or grapefruit. Dinner: fruit salad from a peach, orange, a melon and tangerine.
Seventh day	Lunch: beef or chicken meat. Dinner: beef with boiled vegetables, a tomato, orange.

The menu of the third week, the specified products are used during the day:

The menu of the fourth week, the specified products are used during the day in any sequence and in any combination:

First day	A half of a boiled chicken, 4 tomatoes and 4 cucumbers, tinned tuna (in own juice), grapefruit or orange.
Second day	200 g of a boiled chicken, 2 wholegrain toasts, 4 tomatoes and 4 cucumbers, orange, melon, peach or pear.
Third day	Cottage cheese spoon, portion of boiled vegetables, 2 tomatoes and 2 cucumbers, grapefruit.
Fourth day	Half of a boiled chicken, 1 cucumber, 3 tomatoes, fruit of one look.
Fifth day	2 boiled eggs, lettuce leaf, 3 tomatoes, orange.
Sixth day	Boiled chicken breast, 2 cucumbers, 2 tomatoes, 120 g of cottage cheese, wholegrain toast, yogurt, grapefruit.
Seventh day	Cottage cheese spoon, tinned tuna (in own juice), boiled vegetables, cucumbers, tomatoes, orange.

Useful tips

Council 1: It is not necessary to neglect an exercise stress, it promotes maintenance of metabolism at the necessary level and supports muscles in a tone. Occupations swimming, yoga, water aerobics, Pilates are optimum.

Council 2: Boiling can be replaced with processing by steam, preparation on a grill or roasting in an oven.

Council 3: Instead of a tinned tuna it is possible to use any other fish in the boiled, steamed or baked look, and also in the form of canned food in own juice (without oil addition).

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First and second days	Fruit.
Third day	Vegetables crude or steamed.
Fourth day	Fish, cabbage salad, vegetables.
Fifth day	Meat and vegetables.
Sixth and seventh days	Fruit.