How to switch to fractional nutrition. The principles of proper nutrition

), but there are still a lot of questions, so we will continue to understand.

In this article I will talk about how to choose the right foods for fractional nutrition.

The article turned out to be voluminous, so please be patient 🙂

To begin with, let me remind you that before switching to fractional nutrition in order to reduce weight, you need to calculate the daily caloric intake that will allow you to safely reduce weight. This issue has been discussed in detail.

You should also remember that weight loss will take place without harm to your health, provided that the following proportion of the main components of nutrition is observed:

no more than 20% of the daily calorie content, preference for vegetable fats;
at the rate of 1-1.5 grams per kilogram of your current weight;
about 60% of daily calories, while simple carbohydrates (chocolate, sugar, honey) should account for up to 10% of daily calories.

If everything seems very complicated to you now, do not rush to get upset, just read on and everything will become clear!

Fractional nutrition. Learning to select products

Fractional nutrition involves a combination of proteins, fats and carbohydrates of good quality. In order for you to better understand the principles of choosing products, I will tell you a little more about the main components of nutrition and give some tips.

Proteins in fractional nutrition

- a vital component of food. In our body, protein reserves are practically absent, and new proteins can only be formed from amino acids that enter our body with food.

The importance of proteins for our health can hardly be overestimated - enzymes, hormones, the immune system - all these are proteins, now think for yourself: what are the consequences of a lack of protein in the body.

However, excess protein is just as dangerous as its lack. An excess of protein leads to an increased load on the kidneys, liver, poisoning of the body with decay products, and as a result, to edema, drowsiness, fatigue, and delayed weight loss.

To fully provide the body with proteins, its daily intake should be 1-1.5 grams per kilogram of your current body weight (not the ideal one you are striving for, but the current one). For example, for a woman weighing 80 kg, the ideal amount of protein per day would be 80 X 1.5 = 120 grams.

For anyone who is losing weight, proteins are a subject of special attention. Why?

protein gives a feeling of sustained satiety that lasts up to 5 hours;
protein digestion requires a large amount of energy, which is taken just from fat reserves;
proteins in our food help to speed up metabolic processes, which means that the accumulated fat will be consumed faster.

What foods should be used to meet the body's need for protein:

Seafood - squid, mussels, clams, shrimp, scallops. All these products have a low calorie content, in addition to good quality protein, they also contain important trace elements;
Fish - pike perch, cod, herring, trout, salmon, hake, capelin, telapia, sole, sprat, saury, crucian carp, perch, silver carp, mullet, pike. These products contain not only protein, but also essential fatty acids (herring, all types of red fish), which contribute to the breakdown of animal fat.
Bird - turkey, chicken, quail, goose, duck. Poultry meat is considered dietary, contains a minimum amount of fat (with the exception of goose, duck and poultry skin). The minimum number of calories contains white meat.
Meat - beef, pork, rabbit, nutria, lamb, horse meat - a good source of protein. preference should be given to lean types of meat (beef, rabbit, nutria) and during cooking, always try to remove all visible fat.
Eggs are a good source of protein and contain small amounts of saturated fatty acids. Only 3-4 eggs per week will bring benefits to your body.
Dairy- in addition to protein, they contain calcium, which is very important for the body. Preference should be given to low-fat dairy products - cottage cheese, milk, kefir, fermented baked milk, low-fat cheeses. Please note that industrial yoghurts and cheese curds are not at all useful for harmony - they contain a huge amount of sugar and very little milk protein.
vegetable proteins- soybeans, lentils, peas, beans, chickpeas, nuts - in addition to protein, they also contain the fiber necessary for the body, which contributes to rapid saturation, regulates bowel function.

My advice:
An excellent way to cook fish is to bake without oil (in the oven, in foil) and boil. Smoked, salted and dried fish may contain an excess amount of salt; canned food may contain not very useful preservatives and flavor enhancers.
To make poultry dishes less caloric, remove the skin;
When cooking meat, remove all visible fat, the taste of the products will not deteriorate, there is hidden fat in the meat, which compensates for the taste of the removed visible fat;
Sausage, sausages, semi-finished meat products can be called a source of protein only with a very big stretch. These products have almost everything except the meat itself.
If you often buy ready-made minced meat, then give preference to dark-colored minced meat, the lighter the minced meat, the more fat it contains.
Carbohydrates in fractional nutrition

All carbohydrates are an indispensable source of energy for our body. With food, complex and simple carbohydrates enter our body. Complex carbohydrates include starch, glycogen, fiber and pectin. To simple - glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, lactose.

Carbohydrates play an important role in weight loss. Why?

carbohydrates prevent weakness, loss of strength, drowsiness.
Carbohydrates are the fuel that the body needs during weight loss. No wonder they say that fats burn in the flame of carbohydrates.

The daily dose of carbohydrates during weight loss should be at least 50-60% of the daily diet, including simple carbohydrates should account for up to 10%.

What foods should be used to meet the body's need for carbohydrates:

Cereals - oatmeal, buckwheat, oatmeal, barley, barley, dark rice. Almost all cereals are an excellent product for anyone who is losing weight. They contain a large amount of fiber, give good saturation. The exceptions are cereals that have undergone deep technological processing - semolina and white rice.
Bread made from wholemeal flour or whole grains - contains a large amount of fiber and trace elements.
Vegetables - cauliflower, white cabbage, Brussels sprouts, sea cabbage, beets, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, spinach, eggplant, green beans, peas, bell peppers. All of them are low-calorie, rich in fiber, voluminous, due to which they quickly saturate. They contain a huge amount of trace elements and vitamins, most of which, with gentle heat treatment, are stored in sufficient quantities.
Fruits and berries - strawberries, sea buckthorn, pears, raspberries, apples, oranges, tangerines, gooseberries, bananas, melons, watermelons, cherries, cherries, currants, cranberries. Rich in vitamins and minerals. With fractional nutrition, they are great for quick snacks.
Potatoes are a product containing a large amount of starch and have an excellent saturating ability. Most useful when baking without oil and boiling.
Pasta- rich in starch, well absorbed, but due to the lack of fiber, they do not saturate very well.
Dried fruits - apricots, prunes - are easily digestible carbohydrates. Due to dehydration, they have a fairly high calorie content, but at the same time they are very useful due to vitamins, trace elements and fiber. With fractional nutrition, it is good to use for snacks and as an alternative to industrial-made sweets.
Honey, sugar - simple carbohydrates, indispensable in the process of weight loss. High-calorie, if there is no allergy, then preference should be given to honey.
Chocolate is a high-calorie product that belongs to the group of easily digestible carbohydrates. Contains substances that promote the production of serotonin, which is also called the hormone of joy. Preference should be given to bitter varieties of chocolate containing less fat and sugar.
Sweets of industrial production - cakes, pastries, sweets, pastries, ice cream, cookies, gingerbread. They are high in calories due to their high fat content. They do not contain fiber, due to which the sugar from these products enters the blood very quickly. In an amount not exceeding 10% of the daily diet, these products will not harm your harmony.

My advice:
Give preference to fresh fruits, not juices. There is practically no fiber in juices, due to this, with an equal number of calories with fresh fruits, they saturate much worse;
When choosing bread, give preference to dark varieties made from wholemeal flour;
If you like sweets, choose marmalade, marshmallows, marshmallows - they have a lot of pectins and little fat (more on cravings for sweets);
When choosing pasta, give preference to varieties made from durum wheat, and do not be too zealous with mayonnaise-based sauces. As pasta sauces, it is better to use vegetables and tomato-based sauces;
If you don't really like vegetables, you don't need to drastically increase their amount in your diet. Do it gradually, try to find a new way of cooking for yourself, for example, baking with spices and herbs or steaming.

Fats in fractional nutrition

Friends, no matter how we strive to get rid of our own fat, we still cannot do without food fats.

Fat must be present in the diet of any person, and even more striving for harmony. Why?

lack of fat in food leads to skin problems;
fats provide the absorption of a number of important vitamins;
fat deposits are involved in physiologically important processes of thermoregulation;
regulate the level of pressure, increase immunity.

In our body, fats can be formed from proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Moreover, this process is very fast and without large energy costs. That is why every extra drop of fat that enters our body with food very quickly enters the adipose tissue.

As I said, you can’t do without fat in food, but if you want to lose weight, then you need to limit animal fats in your diet. It is to limit, but not to exclude, while it is better to give preference to vegetable fats and fats contained in fatty fish species.

With weight loss, “healthy” fats should be up to 20% of the daily calorie intake.

What foods should be used to meet the body's need for fats:

Vegetable oils- sunflower, olive, corn, pumpkin, hemp, sesame, walnut oil;
Nuts, seeds;
Fatty fish species- trout, salmon, mackerel, herring, salmon. These products are rich in useful Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which prevent thrombosis, increase immunity, and help prevent cardiovascular diseases;
Lard, very fatty meat, semi-finished meat products They are very high in saturated (unhealthy) fats. During the period of weight loss, the number of these products should be reduced to a minimum;
Margarine and sandwich oils- contain trans fats (very harmful). It is better to refuse these products in the period of weight loss completely.

My advice:
Please note that trans fats are found in large quantities in chips, waffles, chocolate bars, "long-playing" pastries (muffins, rolls). Keep this in mind when shopping.
As a healthy source of vegetable fat, in addition to vegetable oils, I recommend the avocado vegetable. This is not yet a very common product in Russia, but you can buy it in most large supermarkets. This vegetable is great for salads and sandwiches. A little imagination and a tasty and healthy snack is at your disposal.
Remember that vegetable oils completely lose their beneficial properties when heated, moreover, they become harmful to the body. Therefore, you will get the maximum benefit from vegetable oil by simply adding it to a vegetable salad or porridge.

Friends, a reasonable combination of the main components of the daily diet, together with fractional meals, will make the weight loss process correct and safe.

Now you know everything you need about the basic rules for choosing foods for fractional nutrition, you understand which foods are more beneficial for slimness and which are not, in what proportions they should be present in your diet.

I told you about the "ideal" ratio of nutrients in the diet. Understand correctly, I do not urge you to calculate the amount of protein or fat in your diet with maniacal accuracy to the milligram. Believe me, this is impossible, besides, how can such an approach to weight loss be called comfortable?

Of course not!

But, in order to approach weight loss correctly and, finally, solve this problem, it is necessary to have an idea about the basics of a balanced diet.

In the next article, I will teach you how to use the knowledge gained today in order to easily and quickly create your own correct diet for the period of weight loss.

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The article gives the concept of a healthy diet, contains the principles of a proper diet.

The principles of healthy eating seem difficult to many. However, according to the World Health Organization, the life expectancy of a person, as well as the preservation of his activity in old age, by 60% depends on what and when we eat. The rules of natural nutrition are simple, and the benefits of observing them are in preserving the youth of the spirit and tone of the body, and the absence of diseases.

Correct food composition

All the food that we consume carries a certain set of substances.

This is not only proteins, fats and carbohydrates, but also a vitamin-mineral complex and water.

With the participation of the latter, almost all processes in the body take place, and its volume in the human body is up to 75%. Therefore, it is so important to replenish the norm of fluid every day.

Products that we buy in a store or grow ourselves can conditionally be divided into useful and harmful. Useful - these are completely natural products of plant and animal origin, grown without chemical additives. Harmful include processed, modified food, full of toxic additives.

Nature has created a variety of plant and animal food that nourishes man and allows him to live a full life. Using convenience foods, store-bought sauces, pickles, canned food, sausages, sweet soda, fast food, refined oils, margarine, etc., we replace natural "building blocks" with useless, and often destructive products. As a result, the human body undergoes micro changes, which over time are transformed into serious diseases.

IMPORTANT: Malnutrition diseases - hypertension, obesity of various degrees, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, etc. It has been proven that the transition to healthy food significantly reduces the manifestations of these ailments, and is also a prevention of their occurrence.

For a full existence, a person needs a balanced diet. In the absence of diseases and individual indications, the scheme of the amount of nutrients for an adult for each day is as follows:

proteins - 20-30%;
fats - 20-30%;
carbohydrates - 50%.

In addition, it is important what kind of proteins, fats and carbohydrates we get. Here are the basic rules for a healthy daily diet.

Monotonous food depletes the body, so it is important to consume a variety of foods. There should be more plant foods among them. The fiber contained in plants contributes to normal digestion and protects against diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Fruits and vegetables should prevail over other foods. Do not get carried away with exotic fruits. Scientists have proven that the vegetation of his native places brings more benefits to a person.

IMPORTANT: A sufficient amount of plant foods controls glucose and "bad" cholesterol in the blood, saturates the body with vitamins and minerals.

For proper life, fats are needed, which, wanting to lose weight, women often refuse, which is fundamentally wrong. Fatty acids are best obtained from vegetable oils and fatty fish. But it is better to refuse heavy animal fats. Opt for lean parts of poultry, beef, pork, rabbit. The norm of fats should not exceed a third of the daily diet.

Include low-fat dairy and sour-milk products in the menu. It is better not to use completely skimmed milk and products from it, since calcium is poorly absorbed from them.
Minimize your sugar intake. This product is absolutely useless for the human body, which is a source of empty carbohydrates.
Switch to sea salt or buy regular salt with added iodine. Excessive salt intake increases the risk of high blood pressure and the development of other serious ailments. The daily dose of salt is 1 tsp, and most of this volume is contained in prepared foods - bread, cheese, etc.

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IMPORTANT: Give up alcoholic beverages, which are not only a toxic substance, but also an appetite stimulant. A drunk person does not care about how much and what he “eats”.

Basic rules of healthy eating

Chew food well. Wetting with saliva is the primary processing of food, without which it will be absorbed worse.
Eat slowly and thoughtfully so as not to overeat. The feeling of satiety comes 10-15 minutes after a meal.
Physical activity is not recommended immediately after a meal. Relax by doing quiet work. But experts do not advise sleeping, especially drowsiness usually occurs as a result of overeating.
Drink at least 1.5 liters of pure water per day.
Eat often, 4-6 times a day. This will keep the metabolic rate at the same level.

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Compatible and incompatible products: compatibility table

Different foods are digested at different rates and also require their own specific environment for processing. When we eat vegetables, soup, bread, and dessert in the form of a cake at a time, the result of such a meal is a rotting food mass. Not a single product from this mass will be absorbed by 100%. That is why many experts advise dividing products into groups that are combined with each other to one degree or another.

Sweet fruits. Compatible within their subgroup, as well as with a subgroup of semi-acidic fruits. It is optimal to consume sweet fruits separately from other foods.
Semi-acid (sweet and sour) fruits. They are combined with all fruit categories, with sour milk products, as well as foods rich in vegetable and animal fats. Combining with meat and starchy foods is not only undesirable, but also dangerous.
Sour fruits. They can be mixed with any fruit, except for sweet ones, with sour milk products and fatty "milk".
Vegetables that can be paired with any category other than whole milk. This is the majority of vegetables.
Vegetables that mix only with categories of fats, starches, other vegetables. This is cauliflower, many stale (overwintered) vegetables, eggplant, green peas.
Starches. Combined with subgroups of vegetables, fats, with herbs.
Squirrels. Protein should not be mixed with milk, starches, fruits and sweets. But vegetables and herbs carry out intoxication of protein products and contribute to their better absorption.
Vegetable and animal fats, which are better not to combine with each other. The negative combination is made up of fats with sugars. An excellent option is fats and fruits, berries, vegetables, starchy foods.
Sahara. These are sugar, fructose, honey, jam, etc. Sweets are best absorbed when eaten out of combination with other categories.

Separate food: pros and cons

Separate meals are based on a food combination table. The main position of the theory of separate nutrition says that food is useless, which, like someone else, gets stuck in the stomach or intestines and emits toxins, instead of nourishing the body. Moreover, such food is dangerous to health, as it is deposited in the form of toxins and toxins.

Advantages of product separation:

body detoxification;
weight loss;
fixing body weight on one indicator (separate nutrition acts as a kind of prevention of extra pounds);
improving well-being;
increased energy and performance.

The minus of the theory can be called a special mode of life and a change in eating habits that you need to get used to. Many doctors are against this technique, as they consider it an interference with the natural nature of human nutrition.

Healthy food: 5 colors of vegetables and fruits

Each fruit or vegetable contains certain phytonutrients. These are special natural substances, thanks to which the health, activity, youth of the human body is maintained. Phytonutrients are divided into groups that surprisingly match the color of the vegetable. There are 5 basic colors of plant foods.

IMPORTANT: The "rosier" your plant-based diet, the more useful elements you get from vegetables and fruits.

How to drink water correctly?

It is a well-known fact that water is the source of life. A person is two-thirds liquid. Moisture accompanies almost all metabolic reactions that occur in the body. The lack of liquid affects the quality of these reactions. As a result, metabolism slows down, and a person feels lethargic, sleepy, irritable, and his ability to work decreases.

How much water should you drink per day and when?

Calculate your individual daily fluid volume. To do this, multiply 30 ml by each kilogram of your weight.
Drink more water in the morning and at lunch, for dinner and before going to bed, leave a smaller part. If you use a lot of moisture at night, in the morning your face may swell or swelling of the limbs will appear.

Drink 200 ml of pure drinking water on an empty stomach before breakfast. The liquid will help wake up your body, start metabolic processes, and prepare the gastrointestinal tract for eating.
Drink water at room temperature. Cold moisture is practically not absorbed by the body.
Half an hour before each meal, drink 200 ml of water. Drinking food is not recommended, as well as drinking after it.

IMPORTANT: Water is considered exclusively pure drinking water without gas. Juices, carbonated drinks, tea, coffee, broths, etc. are also liquid, but they are not included in the volume of those 2 liters of water that you need to drink every day.

Fractional nutrition

Fractional nutrition involves eating food often, but in small portions. There are several ways to feed.

First way is to satisfy your hunger every time you feel an appetite. With this option, you can eat at least every fifteen minutes, but tiny portions - an apple, a mini sandwich, etc. At the same time, the gastrointestinal tract is too overloaded, since the whole day for it is a continuous meal. With this regimen, it is difficult to monitor the balance of the diet. Therefore, experts do not recommend eating so often.

Second way involves eating up to 6 times a day. As a rule, these are equal portions of 200 ml, which are eaten every 4 hours. In this situation, it is easy to follow a full menu, and it is easy to fit a five or six meals a day into your daily routine.

Remember that food is fuel for the body, and not the cult in which it is erected by many people. Natural food will give you a quality life, while toxic additives and modified foods will reward you with many diseases. “We are what we eat,” Hippocrates once said. So don't turn your stomach into a trash can, but treat your body with respect.

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Any person, attending to the problem of excess weight, begins to look for a suitable way to lose weight. Having tried many diets that give short-term results, do not despair.

In order to successfully reduce weight, it is not necessary to experience a painful feeling of hunger and constantly control yourself, refusing your favorite food. It turns out that you can lose weight, but at the same time eat often and varied. In this light, a joke saying "What to eat to lose weight?" takes on a new meaning.

What is the fractional nutrition method?

Fractional nutrition involves small, but fairly frequent meals. Its essence lies in the fact that a person eats during the day at least 6 times, while the volume of each serving is quite small.

Strictly speaking, this type of food cannot be called a diet, because it regulates the number of meals and their size, but not the composition of the diet.

Adhering to the fractional nutrition system, of course, you will have to give up a number of products. But basically it will be food that does not bring absolutely no benefit to the body: snacks, sweet drinks, confectionery with a lot of fats and fast carbohydrates.

In addition, you need to understand that fractional nutrition has nothing to do with diets that promise fast weight loss. With it, it is impossible to lose 10 kg of excess weight in two weeks, because such weight loss is obviously unhealthy.

Fractional nutrition is aimed at the gradual restructuring of eating habits and the activation of metabolic processes in the body, which allows you to further spend incoming calories, and not store them in fat reserves.

Fundamental principles of fractional nutrition

Fractional nutrition, like any food regimen, is based on certain rules:

Must eat at least six times: three main meals and three snacks.
Meals should be organized with a break of about 3 hours. It is advisable to develop a meal schedule, so it will be easier to follow this principle.
Snacks should be light: fruits, guest nuts, a little cottage cheese, a glass of kefir.
Small portions.
We drink about two liters of clean drinking water.
Increasing the proportion of foods containing fiber and healthy fats.
The total caloric content of the diet should meet the needs of the body or create a small calorie deficit if the goal is to lose weight.

Pros and cons of fractional nutrition for weight loss

The transition to fragmentation in nutrition has a number of undeniable advantages:

the metabolic rate increases;
the right eating habits are developed, which then remain for life;
there is no feeling of hunger;
frequent meals in small portions are suitable for both healthy people and those with gastrointestinal diseases (gastritis, colitis, ulcerative processes);
maintains stable blood sugar levels;
light and sparse food contributes to a good physical tone;
regular intake of balanced nutrients allows you to lose weight precisely by reducing fat mass, and not muscle, as happens with low-calorie and express diets;

There are also disadvantages, but they are not associated with the influence of the diet on the body, but with the possible difficulties of its technical side.

These include:

possible difficulties in following the meal schedule;
the need to bring food to work;

How to eat according to the method of fractional nutrition?

As mentioned above, fractional meals contribute to weight loss by reducing the total number of calories while increasing the quality and quantity of meals.

If you are used to eating three times a day, then your portions are likely to be quite voluminous. When switching to fractional meals, the size of the usual portion should be divided in half, so you get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe new volumes of food in the main meal. Throw in three extra light snacks.

With this way of eating, the body does not experience hunger, because you have to eat every 2-3 hours. Small portions are psychologically easy to carry, because we know that we will eat in a short period of time.

Thus, fractional nutrition successfully fights the two main enemies of a beautiful figure: hunger and overeating.

The meal schedule is selected individually, because it depends on the person's lifestyle, his work and other factors. As a starting point, you can use the plan below, in which the time of the main meals and snacks is determined conditionally.

07:30. Breakfast. In this meal, emphasis should be placed on foods rich in complex carbohydrates: cereals with fruits or dried fruits, muesli, cottage cheese casseroles, etc. They will energize you for the whole day. In addition, it is at this meal that you can afford your favorite treats, the abuse of which adversely affects the figure.

So, if you cannot imagine life without sweets, allow yourself some marshmallows, marmalade, jelly, dark chocolate in the morning. Small portions will not do harm, but will help not to abandon the new regimen. But it is better to completely refuse industrial confectionery products (cakes, cakes) containing a large amount of fats and carbohydrates.

10:00. Snack number 1. Do not forget that the snack should be light. Fruits, nuts, a glass of yogurt, small portions of vegetable or fruit salads, kefir or fermented baked milk, whole grain bread, cheese, dried fruits, cottage cheese are perfect for him.

12:30. Dinner. This meal should be balanced in terms of nutrient composition. It is recommended to stick to protein foods in the diet in combination with vegetables (stewed or fresh).

15:00. Snack number 2. The same rules apply here as for the first snack.

18:00. Dinner. Evening meals should be predominantly protein. If we use incoming carbohydrates in the morning and afternoon as a source of energy, then in the evening they will directly replenish fat reserves. The best choice for dinner would be chicken or turkey fillet, protein omelette, fish. They can be supplemented with vegetables and a couple of whole grain breads.

20:30. Snack number 3. This is the last meal of the day. They should not be neglected. Firstly, it will help you fall asleep without tossing and turning from hunger. Secondly, prolonged absence of food triggers the process of saving energy and storing fat. Therefore, the last meal should be 2-3 hours before bedtime.

Evening snack should contain as few carbohydrates as possible. Therefore, before going to bed, it is better to give preference to kefir, homemade yogurt, as well as low-fat varieties of cottage cheese or cheese.

In addition to observing the rules of nutrition, it is necessary to consume a sufficient amount of water, on average about two liters per day. Of particular benefit will be the habit of drinking a glass of water half an hour before meals. This will improve the digestion process and keep the metabolism at a high level.

To achieve a greater effect, you should slightly adjust your diet by refusing some products:

foods high in fat (except fish, nuts, and other sources of healthy fats);
dishes prepared by frying in oil;
semi-finished products and canned food;
snacks (chips, crackers, etc.);
carbonated drinks;

How to switch to fractional nutrition for weight loss?

When switching to a new power system, a natural question arises: where to start?

First you need to choose the right time. It is advisable to switch to fractional nutrition during the holidays or at least on weekends. So it will be easier to remember about meals on schedule than in the bustle of work and running around.
Make a convenient schedule where each meal will be scheduled for a specific time, and hang it in a conspicuous place. In order not to accidentally deviate from it, you can create a corresponding reminder on your mobile phone.
From the first day you need to strictly monitor the amount of servings. Nothing good will happen to the body if it remains the same, and the frequency of meals doubles. Habitual portions should be halved, and light snacks should be organized between them. Given the fact that you will have to eat often during the day, it will be difficult to stay hungry.
It is necessary to correctly distribute food depending on the time of its intake. For breakfast, it is better to eat complex carbohydrates. Daily meals should be balanced in terms of nutrient composition: they should contain both proteins and carbohydrates. After 17:00, it is better to limit yourself to protein foods (cottage cheese, eggs, fish, poultry meat). An excess of carbohydrates or fats in the evenings is a direct path to excess weight.
We must not forget about the need to drink enough water. To do this, you can collect water in several small bottles and put them in each room: in the kitchen, at the computer desk, and whenever water catches your eye, take a few sips.

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Fractional nutrition for weight loss: an approximate menu for a month by week

Week 1

Breakfast: Muesli with milk or natural juice, Oatmeal porridge with apple, Pancakes with honey, Porridge with cottage cheese and nuts, Cottage cheese casserole, Sandwiches with cheese and vegetables, Cheesecakes baked in the oven.

Snack 1: Apple, Cottage cheese, Yogurt, Baked apples, Fruit salad, Nuts, Vegetable salad.

Dinner: Stew with garnish Boiled egg, vegetable salad, bread rolls Vegetable stew with beef Pea soup-puree, bread rolls Stewed cabbage with chicken fillet Fish soup, bread rolls Soup with meatballs, bread rolls.

Snack 2: Nuts, Fruit salad, Bread with low-fat cheese, Dried fruits, Vegetable salad, Baked apples, Cottage cheese with berries.

Dinner: Chicken breast with vegetables, Fish baked with vegetables, Protein omelet, Stewed vegetables with poultry, Lean meat cutlets, Vegetable salad, Protein omelette, Fresh vegetables, Boiled egg with vegetable salad and bread.

Snack 3: A glass of kefir, Low-fat cheese and bread, Vegetable salad, Cottage cheese, A glass of kefir, Vegetable salad, Yogurt.

Week 2

Breakfast: Bread sandwiches with cheese and vegetables, Oatmeal with dried fruits, Porridge with cottage cheese and nuts, Pancakes with honey, Cheesecakes baked in the oven, Muesli with milk or natural juice, Cottage cheese casserole.

Snack 1: Cottage cheese, Yogurt, Apple, Dried fruits, Nuts, Fruit salad, Yogurt.

Dinner: Vegetable stew with beef, Meat casserole, Fresh vegetables, Stew with garnish, Soup with meatballs and bread, Stewed cabbage with chicken fillet, Pea soup-puree and bread, Fish soup.

Snack 2: Baked apples, Vegetable salad, Yogurt, A glass of kefir, Cheese bread, Yogurt, Nuts.

Dinner: Baked fish with vegetables, Stewed vegetables with poultry meat, Protein omelette and fresh vegetables, Boiled egg and vegetable salad with bread rolls Boiled poultry meat and fresh vegetables, Chicken breast with vegetables, Lean meat cutlets and vegetable salad.

Snack: 3 Bread with cheese, Low-fat cheese and bread, A glass of kefir, Cottage cheese, Yogurt, A glass of kefir, Vegetable salad.

Week 3

Breakfast: Pancakes with honey, Cheesecakes baked in the oven, Cottage cheese casserole, Oatmeal porridge with apple, Muesli with milk or natural juice, Porridge with cottage cheese and nuts, Sandwiches from bread with cheese and vegetables.

Snack 1: Baked apples, A glass of yogurt, Fruit salad, Fruit chips and dried fruits, Vegetable salad, Apple.

Dinner: Boiled egg, Vegetable salad and crispbread, Stew with garnish, Fish soup, Vegetable stew with beef, Lean meat cutlets and vegetable salad, Meatball soup and crispbread, Braised cabbage with chicken fillet.

Snack 2: Yoghurt, Crispbread with cheese, Nuts, Vegetable salad, Cottage cheese, Pea soup-puree, Yoghurt crispbread.

Dinner: Protein omelet and fresh vegetables, Boiled poultry meat and fresh vegetables, Chicken breast with vegetables, Fish baked with vegetables, Boiled egg, vegetable salad, Breadsticks Stewed vegetables with poultry meat, Boiled poultry meat and fresh vegetables.

Snack 3: Cottage cheese, Kefir, Low-fat cheese and bread, Yoghurt, Kefir, Yogurt, Cheese bread.

Week 4

Breakfast: Curd casserole, Porridge with cottage cheese and nuts, Bread sandwiches with cheese and vegetables, Pancakes with honey, Muesli with milk or natural juice, Cheesecakes baked in the oven, Oatmeal porridge with dried fruits.

Snack 1: Dried fruits, Apple, Cottage cheese, Dried fruits, Nuts, Fruit salad, Vegetable salad.

Dinner: Pea soup and crispbread, Low-fat pilaf Meatball soup and crispbread, Meat casserole and fresh vegetables, Vegetable stew with beef,

Fish soup, Stew with garnish.

Snack 2: Cottage cheese, Nuts, Crispbread with cheese, Baked apples, Yoghurt, Vegetable salad, Baked apples.

Dinner: Baked fish with vegetables, Stewed vegetables with poultry meat, Lean meat cutlets and vegetable salad Boiled egg and vegetable salad with bread, Boiled poultry meat and fresh vegetables, Chicken breast with vegetables, Protein omelet and fresh vegetables.

Snack 3: A glass of kefir, Cottage cheese with berries, Low-fat cheese and bread, Yoghurt, Cottage cheese, Yogurt, A glass of kefir.

Why eating by the clock for weight loss helps?

Fractional nutrition allows you to reduce the usual calorie content to the level necessary for weight loss, but at the same time the body does not feel hunger.

Frequent meals contribute to the fact that when we take another meal, we do not have time to get hungry properly and are saturated with a very small portion.

With the usual three meals a day, a person sits down at the table "working up" an appetite, and as a result, he eats more than he should.

In addition, the feeling of hunger for our survival instinct signals that hungry times have come.

Since the subconscious mind does not know how long they will last, the body reacts in a special way:

slows down all metabolic processes;
intensively replenishes fat reserves;

Thus, the more often we have to experience hunger, the slower the metabolism and the more fat our body stores. It is this effect that various semi-starvation diets give.

Of course, at first on such diets, weight will decrease, but this happens due to the removal of glycogen and water reserves from the body (one gram of glycogen binds four grams of water). So it turns out that the weight seems to be decreasing, but the fat does not become less.

With fractional nutrition, such processes do not occur, because a person simply does not have time to get hungry between meals, even if he has consumed fewer calories than usual. The body is constantly full, and, therefore, there is no need to store fatty tissue.

In addition, fractional nutrition provides the best conditions for the full functioning of the digestive system. Abundant food creates a serious load on all organs of the gastrointestinal tract, and eating in small portions facilitates their work and, as a result, increases the absorption of nutrients.

Fractional nutrition is an optimal dietary regimen that has no contraindications. In addition to weight loss, it contributes to a high physical tone and well-coordinated work of the digestive tract. You can stick to this way of eating throughout your life.

Fractional nutrition is a great opportunity not only to lose extra pounds, but also to improve your health. The diet will be especially useful for people with problems of the stomach, intestines and liver. Due to lack of time and fatigue, we eat improperly, often consuming very little food for breakfast, some fast food for lunch, and a huge portion of different foods for dinner. Because of this overload, problems often arise in the body, which even manifest themselves in the form of nervous breakdowns.

If you want to live life to the fullest and be as healthy as possible, you need to eat fractionally. This is actually not as difficult as it seems. Fractional nutrition system is not just a diet. If a person has already tried on such a technique, then it is always necessary to continue.

Diet fractional nutrition

Do not confuse fractional and separate meals. Fractional eating means eating small portions of food frequently. Smaller portions of food, getting into the stomach, are better and much easier to digest, and then clog the intestines less, which reduces the risk of diarrhea, nausea, bloating, feeling unwell and heaviness inside.

The principles of losing weight on a fractional diet

The principle of the diet is that the body gradually gets used to frequent and small portions of food, digestion improves, the normal size of the stomach is restored if it is distended, and the work of the gastrointestinal tract and liver is stabilized.

It must be remembered that 3 meals a day is very little. Every 4 hours, another portion of food should enter the body. Maybe even more often. So, for example, we do not eat at night, but we need to consume food at least 6 times a day. In this case, it is necessary to observe the optimal serving sizes: no more than 1 glass at a time.

It is difficult to rebuild your body, and after the transition period you will feel great. Moreover, you can eat almost anything. The main thing is to respect portion sizes and eat more often.

Doctors usually prescribe such a diet for ulcers and other patients with stomach problems. But if you yourself feel that you are not eating properly, then you should think about fractional nutrition until there are problems with the body.

Signs of malnutrition:

discomfort in the body
frequent vomiting or diarrhea
bloating,
colic in the abdomen,
pain and cramps in the intestines, stomach, liver.

You should not wait until it gets worse, you need to immediately change your diet. You need to start accustoming yourself to eat in portions. Firstly, you will definitely be able to stabilize your normal weight: 1-1.5 extra pounds go away in a week. And secondly, you will forget about what discomfort is after eating. Eating small meals will teach you how to learn how to eat small meals for the benefit of your body.

Fractional diet rules

The basic rules to follow are not complicated:

Eat at least 5-6 times a day.
A serving should fit in a glass (250 grams).
You need to eat every 3.5 - 4 hours (and until the body is used to a new diet, you need to force yourself to do this, even if you do not feel hungry yet).
Gradually reduce your daily calorie intake to 1200-1600.
Monitor the ratio of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, especially fiber.
Refuse fast food and other harmful types of snacks.

All these rules must be observed when drawing up the daily routine and your menu. You can’t be lazy, take pre-prepared food with you to work and set a reminder on your phone until you get used to your schedule.

Also, any diet system involves physical activity. At a minimum, you should increase the number and time of your walks, prefer stairs to elevators, and do morning exercises. To get the best possible result - add 2-3 hour workouts per week to your schedule, whether it's fitness, yoga, step or pool, it's not so important.

Diet products

The main products of the diet are low-fat, low-calorie meals. Basically, these are a variety of soups, dietary lean meat, chicken and fish, cereals, whole grain bread and cereals. Milk, kefir, yoghurts and cottage cheese of low fat content are also well suited. But such as condensed milk, sugar, chocolate, sweets, fast food is not recommended.

The main products of fractional nutrition

Vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, white, Beijing and red cabbage, zucchini, eggplant, onion, carrot, asparagus, cucumber, tomato, radish, beet.
Fruits: apples, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, kiwi, pomelo, pomelo, peach, pear, pineapple, currant, strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry, blueberry, blackberry, watermelon, melon, strawberry.
Greens: spinach, sorrel, dill, arugula, parsley, lettuce, fennel, basil, celery.
Dairy products: yogurt, kefir, milk, fermented baked milk, curdled milk, whey, low-fat cottage cheese.
Fish and meat: chicken, turkey, veal, pork liver, flounder, chum salmon, smelt, river perch, blue whiting, hake, cod, pike perch, tuna, squid, crab.

Prohibited Products

Under the ban is sugar, coffee, sweets (sweets, rolls, cakes, dried fruits, halva, condensed milk, chocolate, cookies, cakes). You should also avoid dishes fried in oil or smoked meats, they are very high-calorie and harmful to all organs of the digestive tract.

Fast food and frozen foods are strictly prohibited: cutlets, pancakes, dumplings, dumplings and other semi-finished products.

Dishes containing a large number of calories are not allowed to be eaten: almonds, walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, cashews, sunflower seeds, herring, cod liver, fatty pork, lard, goose, lamb, rabbit, peas, soybeans, beans, lentils, dried apricots , raisins, prunes.

Carbonated drinks and store-bought juices in bags are also not to be drunk.

Fractional meals menu for the week

Breakfast: oatmeal with an apple, after half an hour you can drink a cup of tea with lemon balm or any herbal tea.
Snack: fat-free yogurt and bread.
Lunch: Chicken broth soup with vegetables, natural juice.
Snack: fresh vegetable salad: Beijing, onion, cucumber, 1 boiled egg, herbs, green tea.
Dinner: vegetable stew of eggplant, zucchini, bell pepper, tomato, cabbage, carrots and onions.
Snack: fat-free cottage cheese with honey, green or black tea without sugar.

Breakfast: buckwheat porridge with kefir, chicory or tea with a spoonful of honey.
Snack: pomegranate, apple.
Lunch: fish baked with vegetables, boiled rice, berry jelly.
Snack: grated carrots with an apple.
Dinner: chicken meatballs in tomato sauce, tomato, green or black tea without sugar.
Snack: bio yogurt

Breakfast: bran steamed with pear and kiwi, herbal tea.
Snack: vinaigrette, orange.
Lunch: pumpkin puree soup, a glass of freshly squeezed juice.
Snack: boiled fish and cucumber.
Dinner: chicken salad, lettuce, tomato and greens, seasoned with olive oil, tea.
Snack: a glass of low-fat yogurt.

Breakfast: bio yogurt, bran bread.
Snack: a few peaches
Lunch: Boiled chicken breast, tomato, cucumber, fruit tea.
Snack: carrot and cabbage salad with olive oil and herbs.
Dinner: buckwheat porridge with stewed fish, boiled beetroot.
Snack: mango or melon.

Breakfast: omelette of 2 eggs, sweet pepper, green or black tea.
Snack: kiwi and tangerine.
Lunch: Soup with meatballs and a slice of black bread, jelly.
Snack: fruit puree from an apple and half a banana.
Dinner: wheat porridge with gravy and a piece of turkey, herbal tea.
Snack: fat-free kefir and bread.

Breakfast: oatmeal with muesli, chicory or any tea with a spoonful of honey.
Snack: 150 grams of tuna and a few tomatoes.
Lunch: soup with vegetables and mushrooms, a few slices of black bread.
Snack: Boiled beets and 1 boiled egg.
Dinner: Chicken fillet baked with vegetables, unsweetened fruit tea.
Snack: fat-free cottage cheese with a spoonful of honey.

Breakfast: rice milk porridge or with pasta, green tea or chicory.
Snack: grapefruit
Lunch: stewed hake and Gornovka porridge, natural apple juice.
Snack: bio yogurt, bread.
Dinner: vinaigrette, 1 boiled egg, a slice of black bread, tea.
Snack: grapes and pear.

Fractional Diet Recipes

Omelette with bell pepper

Ingredients:

2 eggs,
100 ml milk
1 pepper,
a pinch of soda
a pinch of salt,
greenery.

Cooking method:

Beat eggs with milk with a mixer, adding soda and salt there. Drizzle a frying pan with oil and put the bell pepper cut into thin slices on the bottom, then pour in the beaten eggs with milk and reduce the heat to a minimum. Don't forget to cover the pan with a lid. The omelet will be fried for 7-10 minutes. When ready, sprinkle with herbs.

Soup with meatballs

minced chicken 100 grams,
1 small onion
1 carrot
2 potatoes
greenery,
seasoning and salt to taste.

Cooking method:

Take a small saucepan, pour water into it and put on fire. Finely chop the potatoes by pouring them into the water. Grate the carrots and cut half the onion, lightly fry, pour into the pan. Add a little salt, pepper and raw onion to the minced meat. Form balls of minced chicken by throwing them into boiling water. The soup is cooked for no more than 30 minutes. At the end, add greens.

Pumpkin Soup Puree:

pumpkin 150 grams,
potatoes 3 pieces,
onion 1 pc,
carrot 1 pc.
salt and seasoning.

Cooking method:

Peel all the vegetables, chop finely and pour into a saucepan, adding a small amount of water (so that the vegetables are covered with it and a couple more centimeters). Boil them over low heat and after they become soft (after 20-30 minutes), beat the entire contents of the pan with a blender. Then boil the puree, stirring thoroughly, for another 10 minutes and, when ready, add parsley, finely chopped.

How many kg can you lose weight on a fractional diet

A fractional diet was created not only for weight loss, but also to improve the condition of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract. If you want to get rid of the unpleasant consequences of malnutrition: diarrhea, nausea, heaviness in the abdomen, colic and cramps, you should resort to a fractional diet option. For a month of such a simple diet for health, you can get rid of 5-7 extra pounds.

And in six months it will take more than 20 kilograms. This is an excellent result, given that fractional nutrition is a principle for life, and not a one-time for weight loss. With this diet option, the weight will not come back and the unpleasant symptoms of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver will disappear.

Svetlana Markova

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Content

Proper nutrition is the basis of a person's well-being, helps to maintain health, and contributes to weight loss. Some time ago, doctors came to the conclusion that a healthy diet, in which foods are divided into small, frequent portions, has a beneficial effect on the body - it helps to cure gastritis, stomach ulcers, and prevents their occurrence. This system of food consumption is called fractional nutrition. After some time, it began to be successfully used not only during treatment, becoming an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

What is fractional nutrition?

The essence of this diet is to eat 5-6 times a day, not exceeding the daily caloric intake (up to 1600 kilocalories). Nutritionists recommend taking breaks between meals for no more than 3 hours, distributing the daily ration into 6 main meals: main breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, snack an hour before bedtime. A second breakfast with an afternoon snack should be taken as snacks between main courses, and a fractional portion of a low-calorie product before bedtime can be completely avoided.

Fractional meals help to reduce the amount of calories consumed by reducing the feeling of hunger. This is due to the fact that with frequent meals, the hormone responsible for appetite does not have time to be produced. If you take long breaks, as happens with the breakfast-lunch-dinner nutrition system, hunger is felt much more strongly. This causes a person to eat much more than the body actually needs, which contributes to the accumulation of fats, overload during the digestive tract, and an increase in blood sugar levels.

Although fractional meals include snacks between main meals, they should not consist of unhealthy foods: fried, sweet, salty, spicy, so it’s better to forget about chips and cakes. You need to choose tasty healthy foods, for example, a large green apple, a glass of natural yogurt or freshly squeezed juice, a little cottage cheese. It would be ideal to completely switch to a healthy diet. However, beginners do not have to strictly adhere to all the rules, especially if the goal is not to lose a lot of weight or cure a disease.
The system of fractional nutrition will help to avoid the feeling of drowsiness and heaviness after eating. Surely, many have noticed how, after a hearty lunch, working capacity decreases, you want to lie down to rest, but it doesn’t work out at all. This is due to the fact that the blood rushes to the stomach to digest food, draining from the brain, muscles, heart. With a fractional division of food, it will be possible to avoid lethargy, because. the stomach will not be overloaded with food, the body will receive natural saturation, so the tone and strength will not leave a person after a delicious meal.

Fractional nutrition is a food intake system that reduces the number of calories eaten per day, improves metabolism, normalizes the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, thanks to the frequent intake of food in small portions, maintains a stable weight or loses weight and provides constant energy support to the body.

The benefits of fractional nutrition for weight loss

Fractional nutrition mode is great for losing weight. This system promotes slow but steady weight loss. If you do not adjust the diet, in a month the weight can drop to 1-3 kg, and if you follow the right diet and the right combination of products, a person can lose approximately 5 to 8 kilograms. It is recommended to combine fractional nutrition with physical exercises in order to further promote weight loss, build muscle mass, and avoid the appearance of stretch marks and skin laxity. Nutrition benefits for weight loss:

You don’t have to limit yourself in products - the main thing is to give up fried, too spicy and salty foods, sweets, flour products, and alcohol. It is permissible to drink one glass of dry red wine per week with a fractional separation of food.
Calorie content decreases gradually. If you initially consume more than 1600 calories, then when you switch to fractional meals, there will not be a drastic change.
Decreased appetite. Due to the fact that the hunger hormone will no longer have time to be produced, losing weight will not feel a strong desire to eat, which is usually the case with low-calorie diets.
Consolidation of results. Thanks to the "acceleration" of metabolism, the result of losing weight will last much longer if you do not switch to the previous type of nutrition.
The usefulness of fractional nutrition gives a person the opportunity to follow such a diet even in the presence of chronic diseases, diabetes, because the sugar level drops. However, it is important to consult with your doctor.
Each person creates a mode of fractional meals for himself, given the workload of the day, the main condition is a break in food from 2 to 3 hours.
Psychological effect. Thanks to the short breaks between meals, losing weight will not experience discomfort.

There are several rules that must be followed by those who are losing weight and obese, following the fractional meal system. Firstly, you can’t lower the number of calories, the lower limit is 1200. Secondly, it is important to constantly replenish the body’s water balance by drinking 1.5 to 2 liters of clean filtered water (a glass half an hour before meals). Thirdly, it is necessary to observe the correct distribution of proteins-fats-carbohydrates throughout the day, and it is better to refuse simple carbohydrates. Do not forget about taking vitamins necessary for diets.

Basic principles of fractional nutrition

To improve the body, it is important to follow the basic principles of fractional nutrition. The correct approach to the system will achieve the fastest possible results. It should be understood that not all products are suitable for fractional consumption. If you eat a bag of chips for 6 servings, there will be no benefit from such a meal. Fractional nutrition primarily means dishes containing all the necessary substances for the normal functioning of body systems. Other principles:

Even if you do not feel hunger, it is imperative to observe the meal.
Snacks with fractional separation of food should consist of healthy, non-fatty foods.
Drawing up a daily menu, an approximate schedule of meal times will help to adhere to the nutrition system.
The size of the fractional portion should be small, otherwise there is a chance to overload the stomach.

Serving Size

To saturate the body, you need a small fractional portion of food every 3 hours. The optimal volume is one glass that fits in the palm of your hand. It is recommended to abandon the usual dinner plates, preferring small bowls with saucers, and replace the appliances with dessert forks and teaspoons. This will not only help to adhere to the volume of dishes, but also contribute to the quality of chewing food, as a result - its better assimilation. Watch the video, which explains why you need to eat in fractional portions, how this type of food is useful:

Diet

A proper diet implies the presence of all the necessary trace elements for the normal functioning of the body:

A fractional breakfast should contain the highest amount of carbohydrates to give energy for the whole day;
For a second breakfast (as in an afternoon snack and before bedtime), you should eat light, low-fat foods saturated with useful substances;
Lunch is served hot, carbohydrates are allowed during it (but less than during breakfast), but it is better to give preference to proteins, as well as foods rich in fiber;
Dinner should be made up of protein foods.

Sample menu for the week

A good example of a menu designed specifically for fractional meals will help you navigate when switching to this type of meal. Do not forget about drinking water half an hour before a fractional meal or half an hour after. If physical exercises are performed, the break from meals should be at least an hour. The correct fractional division of food throughout the week:

Breakfast: oatmeal / muesli with milk / bran porridge, whole grain bread with butter, apple / orange, tea / weak natural coffee.
Second breakfast: one large apple / a glass of natural yogurt / 70 grams of low-fat cottage cheese with a spoonful of honey / a slice of whole grain bread with cheese.
Lunch: a piece of meat with a salad of green vegetables / a portion of soup with a piece of bran bread, lean fish / a small piece of chicken fillet with baked vegetables, a portion of vegetable soup.
Snack: some dried fruits of one kind / muesli bar with tea / low-fat cottage cheese / freshly squeezed juice / fruit.
Dinner: baked or boiled fish, meat, boiled egg, cheese with vegetable salad or a portion of baked vegetables.
At night (1 hour before bedtime): a glass of kefir or half a glass of natural yogurt.

Recipes with photos

The first recipe is mashed potatoes with dill and cauliflower. For this delicious dish, you will need 200 g of boiled young potatoes, the same amount of cauliflower, a tablespoon of cottage cheese and milk, dill. Mix everything in a blender until you get a homogeneous mass. After reaching the desired consistency - serve. A delicious, low-calorie, satisfying healthy meal is ready!

Cold cucumber soup is an excellent dish for lunch, subject to proper fractional nutrition. Grind in a blender one kilogram of peeled fresh cucumbers, one sliced \u200b\u200blemon, a bunch of lemon balm herbs. When the consistency becomes homogeneous, pour the soup into bowls, add boiled small shrimps (200 grams), lightly sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Cabbage salad. Shred white cabbage, pour over one teaspoon of rice vinegar, leave to marinate in the refrigerator for up to two hours. When time passes, take out an almost ready dish, season a portion with soy sauce (1 tablespoon), sesame oil (1 teaspoon) and serve. For beauty, sprinkle with fresh sesame seeds. Ideal for an evening meal.