The most delicious chocolate diet: reviews from nutritionists and those who have lost weight, advantages and disadvantages

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.

Option #1. Traditional mono-diet on chocolate

This option is designed for those who love chocolate and do not suffer from kidney stones or liver diseases. You should also be checked in advance for arterial hypertension, a disease that can be exacerbated (due to large amounts of caffeine). Chocolate for weight loss should be consumed no more than 5-7 days , which will allow you to lose about 3-5 kg. And if you eat moderately after leaving the diet, you will be able to lose the same amount without the slightest damage to yourself.

And here the question may arise: how much and what kind of chocolate to eat? Let's start with the fact that the product should contain a lot of cocoa beans, since they are the ones that improve metabolism (the latter is additionally “warmed up” by caffeine). This definitely should not be a white, non-diabetic or dairy product - there is no benefit from them, you will only suffer in vain. Of course, you will lose excess weight, but if you compare the results with the same dark chocolate, they will be insignificant.

For the diet you need to use only dark chocolate

Approximate menu for the day

The question of quantity is individual, since some people cannot get enough of even a bar of chocolate, while for others, 100 g will be more than enough. The traditional method allows you to eat 80-90 g per day, and always in combination with black coffee (you can add a little skim milk, of course, you will have to forget about sugar). Note that the average weight of a tile is 100 g, so dividing it into 3 parts is a matter of eyeballs.

Table No. 1. Traditional diet menu with chocolate

As you can see, the diet is monotonous, which is why the chocolate diet is designed for 7 days (it is extremely difficult to last longer). Salt is completely eliminated (do not drink salty coffee), due to which weight is reduced - stagnant fluid is removed from the body. The average calorie content of one chocolate bar is 540 kcal, and the average person spends 2000 per day. Consequently, about 1500 kcal will be burned from fat, and in a week you can easily get rid of 1 kg of subcutaneous fat tissue.

On a note! You can drink water (or black or green tea) at least 3 hours after eating, which is quite difficult. You need to drink 1.2-1.5 liters of water per day, but you can do more. This requirement, by the way, is typical for most methods that exclude the use of salt.

Exit the diet gently, gradually increasing caloric intake and increasing the variety of your diet. You cannot break after a seven-day fast, otherwise the kilograms lost with such difficulty will quickly return. You can resort to repeated fasting at least after a month, since such a diet is a strong stress for the body (although some sources say that you need to sit on it in the “7x7” mode, i.e. 7 days of fasting, then 7 days of rest, etc. .d.).

Video - Chocolate diet

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.

Drinking diet for 30 days

A standard diet cycle lasts 30 days, during which time you can lose 10-15 kilograms. Why exactly a month? During the first 10 days, hollow organs are cleansed, then dense organs; the final stage is cleansing at the cellular level. The first sensation is hunger, gradually the body gets used to it, the load on the gastrointestinal tract decreases and a surge of vigor and vitality is observed. Sometimes, especially at the second stage, there is a feeling of discomfort, a coating appears on the tongue - all this indicates changes taking place and the cleansing process.

If you have the strength to hold out for such a long time, then it is worth remembering that the body has rebuilt itself, and it is worth introducing it into its usual rhythm gradually. More solid food should appear on the table no more than once a day; preference should be given to cereals, fruit or vegetable purees; after a week and a half, increase the frequency until your diet becomes the same.

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.

Contraindications

Since the chocolate diet provides too few nutrients to the body, it is designed for people who do not have health problems.

A chocolate diet is strictly prohibited for the following contraindications:

• allergic reaction to chocolate;
• diabetes;
• chronic constipation;
• high blood pressure;
• diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
• cholelithiasis;
• disorders of the cardiovascular system;
• depression;
• hormonal imbalance;
• pregnancy and lactation period.

Given the wide range of contraindications, each specific case requires an individual approach. An examination and consultation with a specialist will help you accurately answer the question about the advisability of this method of losing weight.

The chocolate diet is a delicious and effective way to lose weight. In just 7 days you can get rid of 7 extra pounds, improve your health and satisfy your eternal craving for sweets for a long time.

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!

Shoko drinking diet for 10 days

This type of diet is not designed for 10 days - the body does not have time to rebuild and start working in a new way, it experiences stress. If time is short, and you urgently need to lose weight, then adhere to the following principles: exclude sweet, high-calorie drinks and alcohol, start and end your day with a glass of clean still water, try not to eat at night (2-3 hours before bedtime), combine diet with physical activity, rely on healthy drinks. Let's give an approximate diet: a decoction of oatmeal as the first breakfast, a second breakfast - vegetable or fruit juice, lunch - clear chicken broth without salt, an afternoon snack - kefir, dinner - a vegetable decoction or unsweetened compote. In between “meals” you can drink water and unsweetened green tea.

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.

Strengths and weaknesses of the chocolate diet

The undoubted advantages of the described technique include the fact that you:

• get good results in a short period of time, which is especially important if you need, say, to get yourself in order before a trip abroad or some special event;
• get additional stimulation of brain activity; any student will tell you that chocolate and coffee are irreplaceable attributes of the session period, at least that was the case before (a veiled allusion to bribery in the education system); simply put, you lose weight, but your mental activity does not suffer from this;
• you will not suffer from the temptation to eat candy or a piece of chocolate (the General Motors diet, for example, completely prohibits this);
• Boost your immunity (it’s not for nothing that chocolate is recommended for anemia and colds).

Despite the fact that the technique has a number of undeniable advantages, it also has many disadvantages that may even outweigh them.

1. The main disadvantage is the numerous contraindications (more on them later), so before starting the course you should consult a nutritionist.
2. Also, do not forget about the imbalance of the diet in terms of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and vitamins (although you can additionally take vitamin complexes).
3. The technique does not normalize either the diet or metabolism in general. But this can be said about many fast diets.
4. Returning to a normal diet after completing the diet may trigger a return to the original weight.

On a note! The chocolate diet for weight loss can be of several types, let's look at them. Let's start with the traditional option - with a technique that allows you to eat only dark chocolate.

The chocolate diet has its strengths and weaknesses

Pros and cons of the chocolate diet

Advantages and disadvantages

Chocolate diet has the following advantages:

• suitable for those with a sweet tooth;
• stimulates brain activity;
• protects cells and tissues from free radicals;
• helps you lose weight in a short time;
• slows down the aging of the body.

But besides the advantages, such a diet has the following disadvantages:

• does not develop proper nutrition skills;
• may cause kidney and liver diseases;
• not balanced in the ratio of fats, carbohydrates and proteins;
• acne may appear;
• the body is deficient in minerals and vitamins;
• leaving the diet incorrectly can lead to weight return and weight gain.

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.”

What results can be achieved: before and after photos

We present to your attention photos of people before and after losing weight.

We recommend watching a video review about the chocolate diet:

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.