A flexible diet is a type of diet that allows you to eat a variety of foods and ingredients flexibly and without strict restrictions.This system aims to achieve balance and diversity in food, and meet the body's needs for various vitamins and minerals.
This system allows the consumption of some animal products in moderation, with a focus on increasing plant foods, reaching 80% and 20% for animal products, such as fish, meat, eggs, and dairy products, taking into account avoiding packaged and highly processed foods, as follows:
1.Eat mostly fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices.
2. Eat meat and animal products from time to time, preferably lean meat and fish.
3. Focus on plant proteins such as soybeans,legumes, and quinoa instead of animal proteins.
4. Eat more natural foods and less processed foods.
5. Limit the use of refined sugar and sweets.
Benefits of a flexible diet
1.
The flexible diet has a set of benefits that it provides to
the body, since it depends on fats,carbohydrates,and protein. Among the
benefits of this system are the following.
2.
The effectiveness of the system is its most important
benefit.There are some other diets that people can follow, but they do not
work and do not give the desired results.
3.
The most important point in any diet is losing body weight,
and you must know that reducing calories is necessary in order to lose
weight,as well as the quality of calories.
4.
But quantity is considered the biggest factor behind weight
gain or loss,and this system is for those who suffer from an excess of
calories,so that person must eat healthy foods.
5.
The element of guesswork and pursuit of the desired goal
must be eliminated for the system to be effective.
6.
Flexibility is one of the benefits of a flexible diet,by
eating all foods instead of eating only one type of food.You can
achieve your weight loss goals and still enjoy eating different foods.
7.
A person who follows this diet can eat cake, cupcakes, or
chocolate but he must only count the calories of all the foods he eats and
eat them only according to the body’s need.
8.
Another benefit of the system is that it does not force a person
to eat one food, as that makes a person bored, even if that food is
grilled chicken or tuna.There must be a variety of food,but the only condition
is to calculate macros.
- Count macros
Macros are the nutrients that make up the meals you eat. There are 3 main units: carbohydrates, protein, and fats. One gram of each macro includes immediate calories.
- A gram of carbohydrates equals 4 calories
- A gram of protein equals 4 calories.
- A gram of fat equals 9 calories.
Instead of counting calories,doctors specializing in flexible dieting explained that the body needs2,000 calories per day.
He advised each of them to eat 80 grams of fat,50 grams of protein, and 170 grams of carbohydrates,so that the final total of calories is 2,000 calories, so it affects your weight loss and body building as well.
nots.
Flexible dieting can help guide you toward a balanced, nutrient-dense diet. You'll focus on adding more plant foods while slowly reducing your intake of animal foods.
