How much rice per day should I eat?
As part of the rice diet, three main meals containing 60 grams of dry weight rice should be eaten daily. 60 grams dry weight is about two to three times the amount of cooked rice, which is about 120 – 180 grams of cooked rice. Depending upon desire one can consume whole grain, long grain or for example Basmati rice.
How much can I/should I lose weight with this diet form?
With the rice diet you can lose between 2-4 kilos of weight in one week. The weight loss depends strongly on the initial requirements of the individual and the implementation of the diet. If the strict form of the rice diet is radically implemented, the pounds will also drop after the water loss in the first days and the metabolism will be effectively boosted.
How can I avoid the yo-yo effect with this diet?
Like all mono diets, the rice diet has a high risk of a yo-yo effect, as the diet is unnaturally one-sided. If the calories in the diet are reduced to less than 1,000 calories per day, the body switches to a low flame and reduces the body’s own reserves, including fat pads. If you fall into old patterns after a diet and increase calories very quickly, you will gain weight faster than before the diet and often have more pounds on your hips than you lost before. Therefore, after any diet, especially mono diets like the rice diet, a slow transition to a long-term balanced diet should be made.The weekly schedule with the addition of various foods helps to make this change of diet fluent in the rice diet.
Side effect of the rice diet
If the diet is implemented too radically, i.e. without the addition of vegetables, fruit, meat and fish, dangerous deficiency symptoms can occur. Rice alone cannot cover the need for trace elements, nutrients and vitamins. A deficiency of fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin E, D or K can occur despite the consumption of vegetables, fruit and fish if they are taken in without fats/oils.
In the three-week diet program of the rice diet, however, no nutrient deficiency is to be expected if vegetables, fruit and, from the third week onwards, fish are consumed occasionally. The diet plan contains very little protein, so that the body’s own muscles can generally be broken down. Protein-dependent metabolic processes can also be impaired, which can affect the regulation of cell division, for example.
