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 perhaps even losing a few extra pounds, while remaining smiling and serene.

Let's see who invented it and how the good mood diet can be continued.

Who invented it and how does the good mood diet work

What makes a diet fail? It is from this question that the French nutritionist Marc Messegué started, 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 maintains that an overly restrictive diet, which allows you to eat too little or only certain types of unappetizing foods, will necessarily lead to a state of bad mood and nervousness, and then to the failure of the process itself.

Therefore, excessive food restrictions and the categorization of foods into "good" and "bad", "allowed" and "bad" would be wrong, it would actually be the best way to fail to resist long enough to obtain results. Worse, it could even lead to developing a bad relationship with food itself.

So what to do? Everything would start from carrying out a healthy and balanced, varied and tasty, non-low-calorie diet, with the help of herbal teas and superfoods such as green tea to ensure hydration and purification. This is for 6 days a week out of seven: only one day, however, would be affected by a lower caloric intake.

Being satisfied, well disposed and not hungry, in fact 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 good mood hormone, in the blood. Any examples? Bananas, oats, dark chocolate, berries, dried fruit, coffee and oily fish are true allies for a smile 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 soyou are on a diet for 52 days a year, given that the year is made up of 52 weeks. This number would be sufficient to create a healthy and constant food plan, perfectly sustainable in the long term and non-traumatic, therefore easy to follow.

To be effective, obviously, it must be understood in the correct way: it does not mean being able to eat excessively for 6 days and then fast for a day, at all. It means having a varied diet 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. Walking at least half an hour a day, running, train with weights, do pilates: choose the discipline you prefer and practice it consistently, perhaps even treating yourself to a nice draining massage every now and then or that compressspirulina which is so good for your legs.

Contraindications? Certainly few, as there are no forbidden foods or magical drinks to take. Perhaps the only element not to be underestimated is not to overdo it with sport during the day of calorie deficit: too intense sporting activity could cause some drop in blood pressure or risk raising 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/