Get slim for summer
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bikini body
If the warmer weather and shorter hemlines are giving you body anxiety, try our simple 10-day diet plan. It follows the fundamental principles of The Harcombe Diet to help you shed a few pounds and gain more energy ready for summer. The Harcombe Diet works by sticking to natural food rather than gimmicky chemical-ridden diet snacks that do nothing but leave you feeling hungry. You\'ll also notice that each meal doesn\'t mix fats and carbs, to help optimise weight loss within the 10 days and to give you quick results. The options in bold are ‘fat\' meals and the lighter ones are ‘carb\' options. Read on for 10-days to a slimmer, happier new you...
Day 1
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Salad nicoise
Breakfast: bacon and eggs
AM snack: natural live yoghurt (NLY)
Lunch: Salad Niçoise (a tin of tuna, or a tuna steak, on a bed of salads. You may like to add hard boiled eggs and anchovies - optional)
PM snack: 1-2 pieces of (lower sugar) fruits (*)
Dinner: Vegetarian curry & brown rice
Top Tip (*) Lower sugar fruits are apples, pears and citrus fruits. They keep your blood sugar more stable than higher sugar fruits (like bananas and tropical fruits).
Day 2
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Porridge
Breakfast: Porridge with water (or skimmed/semi milk)
AM snack: 1-2 oat biscuits (ingredients should be oats, oil, salt/pepper and nothing else)
Lunch: Cold brown rice salad (a good portion of brown rice, with lots of chopped extras - peppers, spring onions, celery slivers - anything else you can find in the fridge)
PM snack: Crudités (sticks of carrots, celery, peppers etc)
Dinner: Roast chicken with any amount of vegetables (not potatoes) (*) and salad
Top Tip (*) Don\'t think of potatoes as vegetables - think of them as a staple carb, which should form the basis of a meal on its own.
Day 3
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Yoghurt
Breakfast: Plain, cheese or ham omelette
AM snack: NLY (*)
Lunch: Chef\'s salad (a large mix of salads, grated carrots, grated beetroot - be really creative, with cold cuts of meat and/or diced cheese cubes)
PM snack: 1-2 pieces of (lower sugar) fruits
Dinner: Brown rice and stir-fry vegetables (and tofu - optional)
Top Tip (*) Natural Live Yoghurt (NLY) is an absolute wonder food. It is important to get a ‘live\' version (bio means the same) so that we get all the benefits of the good bacteria, which kill off nasty parasites in the digestive system.
Day 4
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Salmon with salad
Breakfast: Brown rice cereal (100 per cent puffed rice cereal, like kallo) - with or without skimmed/semi milk.
AM snack: 1-2 oat biscuits
Lunch: Baked potato and low fat cottage cheese
PM snack: Crudités (sticks of carrots, celery, peppers etc)
Dinner: Fish steaks (salmon or cod, etc) with vegetables and salad, strawberries and NLY (*)
Top Tip (*) Berries are the only fruits that you can happily eat after other foods. Other fruits make you bloat if you eat them for dessert.
Day 5
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eggs
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs (no toast)
AM snack : NLY
Lunch: Roast or grilled chicken and salad and/or vegetables; Berries (eg, strawberries) and cream or NLY
PM snack: 1-2 pieces of (lower sugar) fruits
Dinner: Rice pasta (*) in 15 min tomato sauce
Top Tip (*) Wheat is such a common food intolerance and food intolerance makes people crave the foods to which they are intolerant! Products like rice cereal and rice pasta are excellent alternatives to wheat, which we just eat too much of and too often in the typical British diet.
Day 6
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Fish
Breakfast: Porridge with water (or skimmed/semi milk) (*)
AM snack: 1-2 oat biscuits
Lunch: Chargrilled vegetables (Slice courgettes, aubergines, peppers, onions etc and place them on a baking tray brushed with olive oil and grill them until they are charred!) and brown rice
PM snack: Crudités (sticks of carrots, celery, peppers etc)
Dinner: A large whole fish like trout or mackerel with plenty of vegetables and salad
Top Tip (*) We have porridge again today as it is, quite possibly, the perfect breakfast. Just made with water it is the perfect slow release carb and easy to digest. With milk, it has added nutrients and calcium but some adults find milk difficult to digest. If you are OK with milk - get those vitamins and minerals down you!
Day 7
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Roast lamb
Breakfast: Boiled eggs and crudité soldiers (sticks of carrots, celery, peppers etc)
AM snack: NLY
Lunch: Roast lamb, pork, beef or chicken. Selection of vegetables (*)
PM snack: 1-2 pieces of (lower sugar) fruits
Dinner: Vegetarian chilli & brown rice
Top Tip (*) If you start the plan on a Monday, as most dieters do, this will be Sunday lunch, with a difference! No Yorkshire pudding or roast potatoes. These carbs just enable any meat that you eat to be stored as fat, while the carbs are used for energy.
Day 8
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Fruit salad
Breakfast Fruit platter (with yoghurt dip - optional). Make this look as sensational as it is going to taste: slices of oranges, apples, strawberries, grapes, blueberries, slices of melon - whatever you can lay your hands on. (*)
AM snack 1-2 oat biscuits
Lunch Baked potato and ratatouille (a tin of tomatoes with onions, courgettes, aubergines and a sprinkling of herbs cooked on a low heat until mushy and soft)
PM snack Crudités (sticks of carrots, celery, peppers etc)
Dinner Char grilled tuna or barbequed fish kebabs with vegetables and salad; berries & cream or NLY
Top Tip (*) Fruit is a wonderfully nutritious food, but we don\'t recommend too much of it as even fruit sugar can upset the natural gut flora and cause bloating and all sorts of other nasty symptoms.
Day 9
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stuffed peppers
Breakfast: Bacon & Eggs (*)
AM snack: NLY
Lunch: Four-cheese salad (large bowl of chopped/grated salad ingredients with cubes of cheddar, edam, feta, cottage cheese - whatever you fancy.
PM snack: 1-2 pieces of (lower sugar) fruits
Dinner: Stuffed peppers - boil some brown rice, stir fry chopped, mixed, vegetables in olive oil and then mix the rice & veg and fill a de-seeded pepper shell. Bake in a medium oven for 20-30 mins, until the pepper is soft to a fork touch.
Top Tip (*) Not many dieters think of bacon and eggs as an option. Eaten alone, with no carbs, the body has to use the fat/protein for energy and it has to work hard to get energy with no carbs present - all good news for someone trying to lose weight. It will also keep you full till lunchtime.
Day 10
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Fruit salad
Breakfast: Brown rice cereal (100 per cent puffed rice cereal) - with or without skimmed/semi milk
AM snack: 1-2 oat biscuits
Lunch: Fruit lunch box - apple, pear, some grapes - a selection of (ideally) the lower sugar fruits
PM snack: Crudités (sticks of carrots, celery, peppers etc)
Dinner: Stir fry vegetables with strips of chicken and/or beef; cheese platter for dessert (no crackers)
Top Tip (*) You\'ve learned to go without sugar or wheat for 10 days now. You should feel clear headed, not bloated and have more energy than you have felt for ages. Plus, you could have lost pounds - keep up the great work!
Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight: The Harcombe Diet by Zoë Harcombe, is available from Amazon, all good book shops and www.theharcombediet.com
