So you might be wondering, chrono nutrition, what is that? It has to do something with time right? But no, even though it has a little to do with time, it's mostly about what you consume in the day. I could tell you now who thought of it or when it was created but nah, those stuff are really unimportant. The most important part of the chrono nutrition is the restriction period. It's a 28 day period where you eat certain food in order for your body to get used to the nutrition. The reason why I put "diet?" is because during this restriction period you lose a great amount of kgs. Some people have lost 10 kgs in their first restriction period but then again some have lost about 4 kgs, which isn't so bad when you think about it either. So is this really a diet? Everyone who is practicing the chrono nutrition will say no, but if you're losing weight isn't it a diet then? I have started to practice the chrono nutrition myself because I thought I looked very fat and unattractive. I started on the 25th of April with 65.6 kgs and today I weight around 63 kgs. So in about two weeks I have lost 2.6 kgs and I'm very happy with that. I will continue this until I reach my goal which is 50 kgs.
Basic principles on which chrono nutrition is based
- Creation of alkaline environment in the body (healing) because the occlusion causes chronic inflammatory and degenerative diseases (cancer, infarction, diabetes, etc.).
- Proper timetable for daily meals - three main meals a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) with a time of 4-6 hours between them, when you do not need to enter any food, water and herbal tea is allowed.
- Glucid index (GI) - the speed at which certain foods increase the blood sugar level (glucose), or the application of the so-called. slow sushi, i.e. complex carbohydrates in food.
The most important rules in the restriction period
• The period of restriction is mandatory. The minimal period of restriction lasts 28 days and it’s a period when your body gets used to the way you eat. You can go through the restriction period as long as you want and after that you can switch to the permanent regiment.
• In the Chrono nutrition you do not measure how much you eat, you eat until you’re hungry three times a day with gaps in between the meals of 4 to 6 hours, the ideal time is 5,5 hours.
• Coffee is allowed only 2 times a day and 30 minutes after breakfast or lunch. Cocoa is allowed 2 to 3 times a week.
General bans in the chrono nutrition
• It is forbidden to drink anything 30 minutes before and after a meal even water, tea or lemonade.
• It is forbidden to drink any kinds of juices and sweetened drinks. Sparkling water is allowed 2 glasses a day.
• Sugar, honey, navr or other sweeteners. The only sweetener allowed is Stevia.
• Cow milk is forbidden.
• Fruits except lemon and avocado are also forbidden.
• Margarine is forbidden. You are allowed butter and grease.
• Vinegar and other kinds of vinegars are forbidden. You can have lemon as a replacement.
• In restriction the following vegetables are forbidden: peas, corn, potatoes, beans, rice and green beans.
• Soya and other soya products are forbidden.
• All alcohol is forbidden except black dry wine, 4 glasses a week. It’s forbidden to drink fruit teas, black tea and Hibiscus tea. All other teas are allowed.
Rules for the Chrono bread
• For bread you can have Tonus or 100% integral rye bread.
• All flours for the Chrono nutrition have to be integral.
• Homemade maya and yeast are forbidden ,no matter if the wheat flour is integral in restriction you are forbidden to have it after in the permanent regiment it’s allowed from time to time. The same goes for the spelt flour.
• Refined sunflower oil is forbidden. You can use olive oil for frying and baking. Cold pressed oils are used for salads. All kinds of seeds are allowed. It’s forbidden to use salt, except Himalayan salt and sea salt.
Rules for Breakfast
• In the morning the first thing you do is drink one of the allowed teas or warm water with lemon. Half an hour after that you can eat.
• Only for breakfast you can eat bread. Integral flours you can have: rye, buckwheat, barley, oats and less spelt.
• Only for breakfast you are allowed milk products, 4 times a week. It’s not allowed to mix milk products or milk with eggs.
• Yoghurt is not allowed. For breakfast you can have dry meat, prosciutto or bacon.
• From seeds you can have: sunflower seed, flax seed, chia seed, sesame, pumpkin seeds.
Permitted grocery for breakfast
Carbs
• Tonus and anything from the integral flours: rye, buckwheat, barley, oats and less spelt.
• Porridge from whole grain cereal (oats, barley, millet, amaranth, cinnamon, buckwheat and chickpea)
Protein
• Delicatessen products (bacon, prosciutto, domestic delicatessens, quarries)
• Milk products: sour milk, green yoghurt, feta cheese, mozzarella, cream.
• Eggs
• Mushrooms
• Hummus
Fats
• Butter ( 20 grams a day)
• Avocado
Vegetables
• Red and black (tomatoes, red pepper, fresh beets, fresh carrots, eggplant, black olives, millet, red cabbage)
• White (cauliflower, mushroom, old onion, onion)
• Green (peppers, zucchini, pickles, green cabbage, lettuce salad, green olives, broccoli, young onions, prokle)
Rules for Lunch
• For lunch you eat some smaller meat or fish with salad from any kind of vegetable.
• Carrot, beets, parsnips and celery root are only eaten fresh.
• Avocado is allowed for lunch
• For lunch you cannot mix two proteins. Like pork with veal, or mushrooms with meat, or whites with meat and whites with mushrooms.
Permitted grocery for lunch
Protein
• Fresh meat (pork, veal, turkey, chicken, lamb, goat, sheep meat)
• Fresh fish (Salmon, Tsipura, Bacalar, Krap, Sardine, Jagula, Haringa and Squash)
• Egg whites
• Mushrooms
Vegetables
• Red and black (tomatoes, red pepper, fresh beets, fresh carrots, eggplant, black olives, millet, red cabbage)
• White (cauliflower, mushroom, old onion, onion)
• Green (peppers, zucchini, pickles, green cabbage, lettuce salad, green olives, broccoli, young onions, prokle)
Rules for Dinner
• For dinner you can consume some light protein, like chicken meat, turkey meat, white fish, whites and only white and green vegetables.
• For dinner it’s not allowed to cook with butter or grease.
• You are allowed cream soups from vegetables with combination with some protein, an exception is when you have cream soup from mushrooms, you can’t combine it with another protein, because it’s not allowed to mix two proteins like meat and mushrooms.
Permitted grocery for dinner
Protein
• Fresh meat (turkey and chicken meat)
• Fresh fish (Oslich, Trout, Polok, Som, Tuna, Bass, Pike, Sugar and Tilapia)
• Egg whites
• Mushrooms
Vegetables
• White (cauliflower, old onion, onion)
• Green (peppers, zucchini, pickles, green cabbage, lettuce salad, green olives, broccoli, young onions, prokle)
Try it with a Vienna lager next time!
That beer is not sold in my country.