The Good Mood Diet, Staying Fit with a Smile

Talking about diet during the Holidays should be forbidden, we know: but what if it were the " good mood diet "? You understood correctly, you can follow a diet with the idea of ​​being healthier and maybe even losing a few extra pounds, while remaining smiling and serene.

Let's see who invented it and how you can continue the good mood diet.

Who invented it and how does the good mood diet work?

What makes a diet fail? This is the question that started from the French nutritionist Marc Messegué, son of Maurice Messegué, inventor of a famous slimming method and supporter of the importance of herbal teas and medicinal herbs as a support to the diet. Messegué argues that a diet that is too restrictive, that allows you to eat too little or only certain types of tasteless foods, will necessarily lead to a state of bad mood and nervousness , and then to the failure of the process itself.

So, excessive food restrictions and cataloging foods into “good” and “bad”, “allowed” and “slip-ups” would be wrong, it would actually be the best way to not be able to resist long enough to get results. Worse, it could even lead to developing a bad relationship with food itself .

So, what to do? Everything would start from following a healthy and balanced diet, varied and tasty, not low-calorie, with the help of herbal teas and superfoods like green tea to ensure hydration and purification. This for 6 days a week out of seven: only one day, instead, would be affected by a lower caloric intake .

Being satisfied, well-disposed and not hungry, in a good mood, would be the key to success. And you can get help from fresh and healthy foods that help regulate the levels of serotonin, the hormone of good mood, in the blood. Some examples? Bananas, oats, dark chocolate, berries, dried fruit, coffee and blue fish are true allies of smiling at the table!

Benefits and contraindications of the 1 day a week diet

The benefits, according to Messegué, would be notable: in practice, by doing so you are on a diet for 52 days a year , since the year is made up of 52 weeks. This number would be enough to create a healthy and consistent eating plan, perfectly sustainable in the long term and non-traumatic , therefore easy to follow.

To be effective, of course, it must be understood in the right way: it does not mean being able to eat excessively for 6 days and then fast for a day, not at all. It means having a varied diet and without deprivation, but always healthy and balanced, for 6 days, and then slightly reducing the calories introduced on the seventh day.

Furthermore, sport and beauty treatments would be fundamental as adjuvants. Walk at least half an hour a day, run , train with weights , do Pilates : choose the discipline you prefer and practice it consistently, perhaps also treating yourself to a nice draining massage every now and then or that body wrap spirulina which is so good for your legs.

The contraindications? Certainly few, as there are no forbidden foods or magic drinks to take. Perhaps the only element not to be underestimated is Don't overdo it with sports during your calorie deficit day : too intense a sporting activity could cause a drop in blood pressure or risk raising your appetite levels too much, boycotting the only day of moderate restriction.

Sources:

• https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/mood-food
• https://www.repubblica.it/moda-e-beauty/2021/09/17/news/dieta_dimagrante_buonumore_detox_messegue_park_hotel_cappuccini_gubbio-317243589/