Chocolate diet for weight loss - results in just 7 days

General rules

Choco diet - what is it?

The chocolate diet for weight loss is a new find for those with a sweet tooth who want to lose a couple of extra pounds in a tasty way and in a short time. Also, it is ideal for our current rhythm of life, when some meals are consumed “on the go.” It’s very simple: just stock up on a bar of chocolate for the whole day, and in a week you’ll hardly recognize yourself in the mirror!

What kind of chocolate can you eat?

Today there is a huge variety of chocolate on store shelves: milk, bitter, white, with raisins, hazelnuts, peanuts, berries, cookies. But this does not mean that each of them will help you lose weight.

Each chocolate contains ground cocoa beans, sugar and cocoa butter. In dark bitter chocolate, cocoa content dominates; its content is written on the packaging. In addition to cocoa and sugar, milk chocolate contains cream or milk powder. And white chocolate doesn’t use cocoa at all, that’s why it’s white.

Is it possible to eat dark chocolate?

To profitably lose weight, you must eat only dark dark chocolate, which contains at least 70% cocoa beans. Why is this so important?

• The increased content of cocoa beans helps in the production of serotonin and endorphin - the well-known hormones of happiness and joy.
• Plant substances such as flavonoids contained in dark chocolate significantly reduce the negative effects of ultraviolet radiation and the likelihood of cancer. In addition, chocolate helps maintain youthful and beautiful skin.
• Cocoa beans have been proven to improve brain performance. Therefore, it is not for nothing that students are advised to take a bar of good chocolate with them to the exam.
• Don't worry that dark chocolate can cause tooth decay. On the contrary, it has antiseptic properties and helps resist plaque.
• Chocolate is a powerful aphrodisiac. There is an opinion that Casanova himself always carried chocolate with him. Indeed, the wonderful aroma of chocolate creates a feeling of intoxication.

However, with all its wonderful properties, you should be wary of regularly overeating it. Even dark chocolate will be converted into fat deposits if you eat more than 30 grams with a classic diet.

How does the chocolate diet work?

So, you are determined to lose a couple of extra pounds. The daily intake of chocolate will be no more than 100 g. In addition, chocolate should always be washed down with black coffee without sugar, and drink plenty of water during the day. You will notice the result within a few days: by abstaining from salt, a lot of water will leave the body - this will be the bulk of the lost kilograms.

Since this diet is an extremely strict mono diet, it is best to prepare and have a fasting day beforehand. It is also recommended to exit the shock diet extremely gently, gradually increasing the caloric content of food every few days. In turn, a breakdown after a seven-day fast will result in the lost kilograms returning instantly.

If you are thinking about how you can replace chocolate on this diet, then we will answer right away: it is impossible! Since chocolate is the main product and its properties are important here, it is impossible to replace it, and, in fact, there is nothing to replace it with. The only thing you can experiment with is the varieties of chocolate: aerated, white, milk, filled, or even homemade.

The effect of dark chocolate on hormones

Dark chocolate is a natural antidepressant that increases the synthesis of endorphins and serotonin - the hormone of happiness, and reduces the production of cortisol - the stress hormone.

It is no secret that stress and nervous tension, feelings of loneliness and inferiority often cause overeating. A person begins to eat up problems, find solace in the form of relaxation available to him - food, and gradually gain weight. A good mood and stress prevention help you to be more confident, monitor your own weight and not break your diet.

Cortisol is a hormone that causes excess weight gain. It stops protein synthesis, breaking down muscle fibers, and increases the percentage of visceral fat. Eating dark chocolate helps slow down the production of the stress hormone and activate the synthesis of the happiness hormone, promoting fat burning and weight loss.

Varieties

Which chocolate diet should you choose?

Chocolate drinking diet

Here you will need to give up any solid foods and consume exclusively liquids: tea, water, coffee, hot chocolate, cocoa.

Cocoa in its pure form is very beneficial for the human body, and its effect is much milder than that of caffeine . The main rule that the chocolate-drinking diet promotes is do not add sugar to drinks. The drink can be brewed with water or skim milk, and you can also add spices, such as ginger, pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, which is very tasty and aromatic.

Reviews about the shock-drinking diet:

• “... I arranged a 3-day shock-drinking diet for myself in winter. It’s very comfortable and cozy: it’s cold outside, you can’t go out anywhere, you wrap yourself in a blanket and drink natural cocoa all day long. In general, in 3 days I lost 2.5 kg without much effort. I was very pleased with the result!”

The actual chocolate diet

There are 2 options for duration: chocolate diet for 7 days and for 3 days.

With the help of a shock diet, which will last 3 days, you will lose up to 3 kg of excess weight and, judging by the reviews, easily and painlessly. And also the three-day one has much fewer side and unpleasant effects.

A 7-day chocolate diet will help you say goodbye to 5-9 extra pounds, but it is somewhat more difficult to tolerate, and, in addition, has a lot of negative consequences.

To avoid the harm of such a diet, we advise you not to drink coffee on an empty stomach in the morning, but first of all drink a glass of plain water. And in general, it is best to always replace coffee with green tea, because the effect is the same, but the benefits are much greater.

Chocolate diet in Italian

This diet option is designed for two weeks and differs significantly from the previous one in the variety of the menu: it includes complex carbohydrates, vegetables and fruits (except for grapes and bananas). You can prepare various pastas with durum wheat pasta, seasoned with vegetable sauce, all kinds of vegetable salads with lean meat or seafood. Also, here it is invariably necessary to drink a lot of water daily, more than 1.5 liters. As for chocolate, you are allowed to eat no more than 30 g per day, using it not as the main product of the diet, but rather as a daily reward for your efforts.

Thus, in 14 days of such a pleasant diet, you can successfully say goodbye to 5-8 extra kilos.

Recommendations

The chocolate diet is allowed after preparatory procedures. To do this, 2-3 days before switching to a restrictive food system, you need to drink a lot of water, give up junk food and switch to 5 meals a day. You need to eat 20-30g of dark chocolate per day, get enough sleep, and exercise. On the eve of the hunger strike, dinner should be very light, and before bed you should drink a glass of low-fat kefir.

If you decide to lose weight using a chocolate diet, you must follow the following recommendations:

1. eat a maximum of 100g of dark chocolate per day, dividing it into 5 meals;
2. choose only natural chocolate for your diet. This is a bitter bar with a cocoa content of at least 72%.
3. follow the duration of the diet (maximum 7 days);
4. Drink coffee with milk, green tea without sugar and 2 liters of clean water per day. You can add a slice of lemon to tea;
5. take a multivitamin complex;
6. be physically active, do exercises, run, often walk in the fresh air;
7. if negative reactions appear in the form of dizziness, intestinal disorders, abdominal discomfort and insomnia, stop the diet;
8. stick to the chocolate diet no more than once every 30 days. There is an opinion that it is better to maintain an interval of 2-3 months or more.

Chocolate diet, permitted foods

The classic version of the diet for seven days involves only drinking dark chocolate, coffee without sugar or green tea, and an unlimited amount of water.

The Italian version of the chocolate diet has plenty of room to roam! It lasts two weeks, and the basis of the diet is pasta (necessarily from durum wheat), vegetables and vegetable sauces, fruits, herbs, and sometimes in minimal quantities poultry, fish, and seafood. And only 30 g of dark chocolate per day, mainly in the first half of the day, when metabolic processes in the body are most active.

Vegetables must be consumed fresh. If you make a salad from them, season with oil and spices sparingly. You can eat all vegetables except potatoes in any form and corn.

You can also eat any fruit, except bananas and grapes. The Italian version of the diet includes snacks, so wonderful dishes can be made from sweet fruits: salad dressed with natural yogurt, baked apples, and so on. Of course, there is a lot of variety here.

Table of permitted products

Chocolate diet, completely or partially restricted foods

The classic version of the diet is convenient because you can’t eat anything else except the permitted dark chocolate and coffee. For the Italian version, the basic prohibitions apply for those who decide to eat healthy and balanced.

It is necessary to avoid fast food, white bread, large amounts of salt, alcohol and carbonated drinks. We also advise you to say goodbye to various purchased sausages, smoked meats and semi-finished products. For the sake of your healthy and beautiful body, do not be lazy to prepare these products yourself.

Table of prohibited products

Chocolate diet menu for weight loss

The menu of the chocolate diet itself is very simple and does not require absolutely any culinary delights, and you can diversify it only with different types of chocolate. If you really want to dilute the menu, you can prepare dietary desserts based on dark chocolate, which we will talk about in the next section of the article.

Be sure to consume dark chocolate with a percentage of cocoa beans of more than 70%, but a couple of times during the 7 days of the diet you can treat yourself to milk chocolate with cream or fruit additives.

The diet involves consuming 100 g of chocolate and coffee or green tea per day. You are more free than ever in shaping your meals: you can eat the entire bar at one time, or you can spread it out over 6 approaches.

The Italian version of the chocolate diet is no longer inclined towards a short-term diet, even if it is designed for 2 weeks, but towards a complete nutrition system. If desired, and we are sure that you will have it, the Italian chocolate diet can be converted into a Mediterranean diet: according to the menu plan, they are very similar, but fish, meat, poultry, bread and wine are added.

Here is an example menu for this diet option:

By the way, the Italian chocolate diet is the safest and most balanced, in contrast to the chocolate diet itself, which has a fairly large list of contraindications.

What chocolate should you choose for your diet?

Always choose a dark type of chocolate for this diet. The composition consists of 65% cocoa. The cocoa structure has received a natural shell. There is a lot of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and other useful elements. Without the use of a chemical composition, chocolate acts on the body:

• Boosting immunity.
• Cleansing the walls of blood vessels from harmful cholesterol.
• Stimulating brain concentration.
• By increasing hormones that are responsible for a good mood.
• Prevents cardiovascular diseases.
• Slows down aging.

The most suitable type of chocolate is bitter. You cannot exchange for sweets, chocolate cakes, or diet cakes.

Chocolate diet: recipes

Diet chocolate recipe

Few people, when going on a chocolate diet, think about the fact that the main product - chocolate - is very easy to make yourself, with any harmless and natural additives, with the right amount of sugar and your favorite form.

To do this, you will need 30 minutes of time and ingredients that are easy to find in any store near your home:

• 1 tablespoon unsweetened low-fat cocoa powder;
• 1 egg yolk;
• 2 tablespoons skim milk;
• 7 tablespoons skim milk powder;
• 3 tablespoons stevia or fructose;
• 7 drops vanilla extract;
• 20 grams of cocoa butter;
• nuts, dried apricots, prunes, fresh berries, pieces of fruit.

First melt the cocoa butter in a water bath, since it does not melt at room temperature. Then mix all the ingredients thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Add crushed nuts, finely chopped dried fruits, and fruits to the mixture. Whatever your heart desires! Pour the chocolate into molds and refrigerate for several hours. After that, you can start actively losing weight with the help of chocolate!

Diet chocolate cake

The recipe for this cake is very valuable: we advise you to save it for the future, because it can be prepared not only as part of a diet. It is prepared without flour, which reduces its calorie content significantly - only 170 kcal per 100 g.

For the biscuit you will need:

• 6 pieces of chicken eggs;
• 4 tablespoons chocolate pudding powder;
• 4 teaspoons baking powder;
• 4 tablespoons sweetener;
• a pinch of salt.

For the cream you will need:

• 0.5 kg low-fat cottage cheese;
• 2 tablespoons sweetener;
• vanillin.

For the glaze you will need:

• 3 tablespoons low-fat cocoa powder;
• 3 tablespoons low-fat milk;
• 2 tablespoons low-fat cottage cheese;
• 2 tablespoons sweetener.

The cake requires 2 layers, the dough must be prepared separately for each. Prepare the first one from half the ingredients for the sponge cake: mix all the dry ingredients with the egg yolks. Next, beat the whites into a strong foam and fold them into the finished mixture very carefully so that they do not fall off. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Do the same for the second cake layer.

For the cream, whisk all ingredients. Cut both cake layers lengthwise and spread curd cream on each layer except the top one.

For the final element of the cake - glaze, mix all the ingredients and simmer over low heat. The consistency should resemble liquid hot chocolate.

Cover the top layer of the cake with chocolate frosting. It is advisable to put the cake in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours so that it is soaked in cream. It will turn out even tastier if you add berries to the layer: blueberries, cherries, lingonberries, strawberries - whatever your heart desires.

Chocolate mousse

For this dessert you will need:

• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder;
• 0.3 kg low-fat cottage cheese;
• 100 ml natural yogurt without additives;
• 10 g gelatin;
• sweetener.

Prepare the gelatin in advance: pour warm water over it for 30 minutes, then heat it in a water bath until it dissolves. Place all ingredients except gelatin in a blender and start blending, gradually pouring in melted gelatin. Pour the resulting mass into the required molds and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. The calorie content of this chocolate mousse is only 89 kcal per 100 g.

Diet cupcakes

• 1 chicken egg;
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder;
• 1 cup oatmeal;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder;
• 3 g vanillin;
• 50 g low-fat cottage cheese;
• 1 green apple;
• 50 ml freshly squeezed apple juice;
• any natural sweetener (stevia, fructose);
• 2 tablespoons olive oil.

Mix cocoa powder, oat flour, vanilla and baking powder with egg yolk. Next, add apple juice (if you don’t have a juicer, you can use a grater), peeled and finely chopped apple, low-fat cottage cheese and olive oil. Lastly, add the egg white with sweetener, whipped into a thick foam, and mix gently.

Fill the molds halfway with dough and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 30 minutes. One such cupcake contains only 110 kcal. Bon appetit!

In case of failure

Of course, on such a strict diet, breakdowns are possible. You need to be as positive as possible about your diet and be prepared for the fact that you will eat exclusively dark chocolate for 7 days in a row.

So, if you fail, there will be nothing surprising in the case of this diet. If hunger, stress or idleness have caused you to break down, we advise you to simply go for a walk and extend the diet itself by one day. If this doesn’t help, and you break down again and again, seriously think about changing your diet and switching to a more thoughtful and complex diet, where there will be a lot of useful substances and there will be no feeling of hunger.

Quitting the chocolate diet

The coffee and chocolate diet for weight loss is one of the most strict methods, bordering on starvation, so exiting it should be as careful as possible.

These rules will help you get out of this diet correctly and maintain the results achieved:

• The ideal dish for the next breakfast after finishing the chocolate diet would be a salad of fresh cabbage and carrots, you can season it with olive oil and add a little salt. This salad needs to be chewed very carefully and slowly.
• Since with this diet your body will not receive useful substances, it is necessary to restore what was missing all week: drink freshly squeezed juices, eat more vegetables, eat 5-10 nuts a day, eat any fish, herbal teas, compotes more often , light soups, protein fermented milk products, chicken, eggs. But be sure to keep your coffee consumption to a minimum.
• To prevent the weight from returning, carefully control the portions you eat. Eat little, but often, according to the principle of fractional meals. Moreover, by adhering to this rule, you will not only not gain weight again, but you are also guaranteed to lose weight and become healthier.
• Be sure to play sports! If your body does not expend more energy than you eat, you will begin to gain weight again. Swap the elevator for taking the stairs, a few bus stops for a walk - it's elementary. And the next step will be running in the morning or exercises, dancing, fitness, swimming pool or gym.
• Say goodbye to unhealthy foods. Why do you need fatty and salty potato chips when you can crunch on apple chips? Why go out for fast food when you can buy a banana?
• Remember that there is always an alternative to junk food that is in no way inferior in taste, but is much healthier.

Pros and cons of the chocolate diet

Possible harm

Chocolate has a large list of contraindications that you need to familiarize yourself with before using a nutrition system based on this product for weight loss. It is not allowed to consume chocolate if you are prone to allergic reactions, have diabetes, cholelithiasis, hypertension, liver pathologies, gastrointestinal diseases, as well as during pregnancy and lactation.

The use of chocolate is prohibited in case of obesity, sleep disorders, nervous and mental disorders, gout and addiction to sweets.

The use of chocolate is not recommended for people with metabolic disorders. The chocolate diet is completely unbalanced; it does not contain the amount of fats, proteins and carbohydrates required for the human body, which should be present in the daily diet in order to normalize metabolic processes.

Chocolate diet: reviews and results

Of course, reviews of the chocolate diet, as well as the results, are very ambiguous: after losing excess weight, other, more unpleasant problems arise. Photos of the results achieved after finishing the diet encourage many to try it. However, people who lost weight on chocolate complained of stomach pain, heart problems, and deterioration in the appearance of their skin and hair. And this is true, because chocolate together with coffee can never replace nutritious and healthy food.

That is why almost all nutritionists are of the unequivocal opinion that such diets should be avoided. And here’s what those who have experienced the chocolate-coffee diet say about it:

• “... I love chocolate very much, so after reading reviews about the chocolate diet and basic information, I immediately decided to lose weight with it. I decided to eat not only dark chocolate, but also milk chocolate, and bought enough for a whole week at once, so as not to go to the store again and not tempt myself. Before the diet, the weight was 71 kg, in the morning of the eighth day the weight became 69 kg. This is a very bad result, in my opinion. I followed the diet itself from start to finish, but I didn’t like it. Plus, indeed, my face and back were covered in acne. Then I got rid of them for another month”;
• “...And I lasted exactly three days on the chocolate diet for weight loss. The result for these days is minus 1 kg. Then I realized that it was a crazy decision to lose weight on chocolate, and I just started eating healthy and balanced. Perfect before summer! But I don’t recommend losing weight on the shock-drinking diet; already on the first day I felt terrible.”

Contraindications

It is absolutely clear that such a diet is designed for people who find it very difficult to give up sweets. However, before you decide to use it, you need to find out whether there are any contraindications. Chocolate is a product prohibited for many diseases, so it is important to know for sure whether such a diet will be beneficial. It is quite possible that with the lost kilograms other problems will appear, which will take much longer to solve.

Who can and who should not use the chocolate method? Before you start losing weight, it is important to examine the liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, and heart. It is prohibited to use diets if:

• liver diseases;
• hypertension;
• diseases of the cardiovascular system;
• diabetes mellitus;
• allergies to chocolate;

Diet price

To calculate the cost of several options for a chocolate diet, we took as a basis the menu proposed above, as well as the average prices for products necessary for the diet in large cities of Russia.

So, a chocolate-drinking diet for 7 days will cost about 500-700 rubles: low-fat milk, cocoa powder, spices to diversify the taste of cocoa.

The chocolate diet itself will also cost a little more than the drinking version - about 1000-1200 rubles: for 7 days, 7 bars of good dark chocolate, coffee or green tea.

The Italian version of the chocolate diet has a balanced menu and is more varied. One day of such food can cost about 300-700 rubles: whole grain pasta, vegetables, fruits, chocolate, possibly poultry.

In general, of course, the diet is very economical, but at the same time it is somewhat dangerous for the body. Therefore, we advise you to approach the choice of such a diet very carefully and weigh all its positive and negative sides.

How to lose weight with chocolate

For weight loss, chocolate contains about 55% cocoa beans and 33% cocoa butter.
This is a classic bitter. The dark one contains 40% cocoa beans and 20% cocoa butter. The more of these components there are in chocolate, the healthier it is, and the more tart its taste.

There should be no white residue on the tiles. You cannot take chocolate that contains hydrogenated fat, flavorings, refined sugar, or dyes. White contains only cocoa butter, but practically no cocoa beans, so it cannot be used for diet. Basic rules of the “Chocolate” diet:

• Exclude vegetables, fruits, alcohol, carbonated drinks, juices.
• Drink liquid (green or black tea, water) no earlier than 3 hours after eating chocolate.
• In some versions of the chocolate weight loss system, you are allowed to drink a cup of unsweetened coffee immediately after taking sweets. This speeds up metabolism by 1-4%.
• You need to drink at least 1.5 liters of clean water per day.
• Chocolate can be consumed at a convenient time, but not more than the portion specified in the diet rules. The daily norm is 1 tile weighing no more than 100 g. It is divided into 5-6 doses.
• A day before starting the diet, give up fast food, everything fatty, sweet, and salty.
• Be physically active as much as your diet allows: go to the gym, do exercises in the morning, go jogging.