Le Forking: A Diet For Those Who Are Ready To Go Without Dinner

2023 Author: Amber Richards | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-22 00:24

The Americans are haunted by the figures of French women Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard and Vanessa Paradis. How can they eat cheeses, fatty sauces, high-calorie croissants, drink red wine and still not weigh a hundred kilograms ?! The French reveal their own secrets - in the book Dîne avec une fourchette! The Le Forking Diet, or Fork It! (the second is the American name) is more of a way of eating food. The rule is: you need to eat three times a day. But for dinner (until 6 pm), you can only eat what you can pick up on a fork. Plus, you must remember the French proverb: breakfast like a king, dine like a prince, and dine like a poor man.

Fork's Rule applies only to dinner - the creators insist that the rest (two) meals can be dispensed with. Because the most difficult thing in all diets is restrictions, and the more there are, the more difficult it is to hold out for long enough. And here it seems like you only need to keep track of dinner, which should not be so painful.

If you can't go without dessert in the evening (because you have nightmares without sweets), the book advises you to brush your teeth with some tasty fruit paste (with the aroma of mint, strawberry, gum) right after dinner, and if even the paste did not give you a feeling of satiety, you need to brew yourself a kettle of tea - herbal, fruit, aniseed - and drink it without sugar, honey and jam.

I decided to go on this diet right after my trip to Texas, where you can put hamburgers, pizzas and steaks on either a fork or even an agricultural pitchfork. In my first forked dinner, I got salmon (I had to pick it with a fork - you can't use a knife) and a bowl of green salad. By the way, consistent adherents of this diet insist that dinner should be cooked with a fork - no knives, ladles and rolling pins! In general, I usually eat dinner without a diet - with the only difference that now there is some kind of idea in all this … Besides, no grabbed cheese or apple in the process - I now live by the rules. The next day, in the morning and at lunch, I was already actively wielding a spoon and a knife, but still tried to adhere to the recommendations of the Le Forking diet. For breakfast - scrambled eggs from two eggs and tea with honey. For lunch, minestrone soup and vegetarian burrito. For dessert - fruit salad. There was a mistake with dinner - I ate it at nine, not six, because I usually have lunch at five or six. Why I can't eat artichokes, avocados, radishes and pumpkin now, I understand (I can't handle them without a knife and hands), but I can't accept. They're useful!

Is it effective? Of course. Like any other diet - especially at first. Plus there is a control whose name is "fork". But the main thing is not to snack! Therefore, nuts, chocolates, dried fruits are left out. Plus no alcohol in the evening. You can't even a glass of wine, because in red, for example, there are 80 kcal! (Although, if you dine with wine alone, you are unlikely to become very fat …) Now I don't go to parties because I don't drink. In general, all nutritionists scold alcohol, they say that it nullifies our efforts. (Only the Germans are kind to me, who invented the wine diet.)

Of course, Le Forking is better than, for example, the "After Sunset" diet that my friend is on. She only eats when the sun hides behind the horizon. No, she is not a Muslim and is not Ramadan now. And better than "Traffic Light", when only red foods are allowed for breakfast (tomatoes, carrots, beets, raspberries, cherries, strawberries, pomegranates, salmon fish, shrimps, lobsters), for lunch - yellow foods (potatoes, yellow peppers, banana, citrus, persimmon, omelet), and for dinner - green (dill, green onions, cucumbers, cabbage, green beans, peas, apples, gooseberries, kiwi, grapes).

The fork diet has one "but" - you need to be honest with yourself and really eat at dinner only what is permissible in a decent society to eat with a fork without a knife (Buckingham Palace rules do not count!). Yes, you can chop a whole chicken and a chop on it - it will look like a pig, but when you want to eat, you can neglect it …

The founders of this diet are Ivan Gavriloff and Sophie Troff. Ivan is not a nutritionist, but the director of a consulting firm. He put on weight and had to figure out a way to lose weight. He collected everything he had gained from years of personal struggle, and his conclusion on the benefits of a fork diet found a favorable response among nutritionists. Sophie has nothing to do with dietetics either - she writes songs and compiles crosswords for women's magazines. But they promise that with the help of their Fork Rule you will lose two and a half kilograms in a month. A little, but in the coming months the weight will melt at a faster rate.

Le Forking rules:

Three meals a day - it's important that breakfast and lunch don't turn into a feast.
For dinner, you can only use a fork - no knives, spoons, hands or other objects! Food should also be prepared using a fork.
Dinner menu: pasta, legumes, cereals, fish and almost all types of vegetables. In a more gentle version - salad, pieces of white chicken fillet, seafood (mussels, oysters, snails, shellfish), eggs (boiled, poached, omelette).
In the evening, it is strictly forbidden to eat nuts, chips, sausages, pizza, pies, soup, half-raw eggs, avocado, cold meat, hummus, pate, as well as sandwiches, burgers, steak, sausage, fried and stewed meat.
Dinner should be without dessert: cookies, chocolate, ice cream, jelly, pancakes and waffles, and even without fresh and dried fruit, yogurt.
For dinner, you will have to do without bread, sauces, butter, cheese, mustard and ketchup.

Alternative to the fork

In addition to Le Forking, there are other diets that closely monitor what kind of dishes you have at home.

CHINESE STICKS The main condition is to eat only with chopsticks (breakfast, lunch, dinner and even M & M's just for happiness)! Plus a few more serious restrictions. For example, salt is absolutely prohibited! Because it retains excess fluid in the body, which causes excess weight, cellulite and swelling in the morning. Sugar is not allowed - "ears" and "barrels" at the waist, back and hips come out from it. And, as always, no alcohol is allowed. Not a gram of wine, not a drop of beer … And everything that is made from premium flour is also prohibited.

PALM Serving size should fit in the palm of your hand. So you have to eat like a bird. One meal is one palm, and you can eat no more than three to four times a day. And what you put there - condensed milk, a handful of rice or a piece of meat - is on your conscience. You can drink, but only water - as much as you like.

PLATEAt Champneys English Country Resort, food is measured in plates. But there is one "but" - the plate must be divided into four parts and filled according to the instructions. Half plate: vegetables and salad. A quarter is for potatoes, pasta, rice or couscous to replenish the carbohydrate supply. On the last quarter, put something protein: meat, chicken, fish, eggs (for vegetarians - beans, lentils, tofu, soy). You can afford two such plates a day, and the break between them should be strictly four hours. In between, a glass of skim milk, kefir and a slice of whole grain bread, oiled with vegetable or olive oil, are allowed. For dessert - a glass of berries or fruit. If you can't stand it, don't scold yourself - a piece of marshmallow, a piece of candy, a piece of sausage or a quarter of a sausage won't spoil the picture much. By the way,4-slot plates are sold in all health food stores in America and Europe.

FIVE TABLE SPOONS This magic number is the secret to weight loss - according to the European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians. Five tablespoons (150-200 grams) is enough not to faint from hunger and stay energetic. Plus, by taking a dose of only five tablespoons of food, the stomach will gradually begin to shrink. There should be at least three hours between meals. You can eat whatever you want - only sweet soda is prohibited. Tea, coffee, cocoa - as much as you like, but without sugar. In a week at such a rate, you will lose 4-6 kilos, in a month - 15-20!

COCKTAIL ENERGY DIETThis American brand of instant dietary food concentrates is the most popular brand today. Strictly speaking, these are products not only for weight loss, but also for gaining muscle mass. They are composed of complex carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Manufacturers assure that with Energy Diet, the restoration of metabolism will take from eight days to six months, and in just 30 days you can completely renew your wardrobe. The project is divided into three phases. First, you lose weight on a moderate calorie diet. At the same time, ordinary food is completely replaced by Energy diet cocktails, soups and omelets. In the morning - a full portion of the cocktail, second breakfast - half, for lunch you can make soup or omelet from concentrate, afternoon snack - half a portion of the cocktail, dinner - a portion of the cocktail and a portion of non-starchy vegetables like celery, tomatoes,green salad and cucumbers. The second stage provides for a balanced lunch and breakfast and replaces only snacks and dinners with cocktails. Well, the third stage, calculated before the end of the day, is fruit during the day and a portion of the Energy diet in the evening instead of dinner. In addition to cocktails, you need to drink two liters of water, tea and coffee without sugar per day. During the stages of the diet when regular food is allowed, it is necessary to limit the carbohydrates with a high glycemic index - white rice, pasta, bread, semolina - and not eat fatty meats at all. Sweet is impossible at all - at all stages. But you can have chocolate or vanilla cocktails. In addition to cocktails, you need to drink two liters of water, tea and coffee without sugar per day. During the stages of the diet when regular food is allowed, it is necessary to limit the carbohydrates with a high glycemic index - white rice, pasta, bread, semolina - and not eat fatty meats at all. Sweet is impossible at all - at all stages. But you can have chocolate or vanilla cocktails. In addition to cocktails, you need to drink two liters of water, tea and coffee without sugar per day. During the stages of the diet when regular food is allowed, it is necessary to limit the carbohydrates with a high glycemic index - white rice, pasta, bread, semolina - and not eat fatty meats at all. Sweet is impossible at all - at all stages. But you can have chocolate or vanilla cocktails.

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