Everyone knows the famous phrase of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov: "You eat your own breakfast, share your dinner with a friend, and give the dinner to the enemy."Modern nutritionists, however, do not quite agree with the great commander and believe that you can not completely refrain from dinner. But the fact that it should be light, low-calorie, and that we must not have supper before the very dream, is not subject to doubt.
Let's talk about what should be the right dinner. Here are the main principles.
Adherence to the correct diet regime
We all know that it's very harmful to eat right before bedtime, because calories from a late supper are lying deadly on the waist and hips, and we can not squander them during sleep. In this regard, you should calculate the hour of the last meal, depending on when you go to bed.
According to the calculations of Russian dietitians, the ideal time for an evening meal is three or four hours before bedtime. In this case, you need to eat in such a quantity that there was not a feeling of heaviness in the stomach.
Do not eat after 18 hours?
As is obvious from what was said above, this rule is appropriate only for people who go to bed early, until ten o'clock in the evening. But the reality is that we often work late, and get to bed much later than midnight. In this case, the dinner should be slightly shifted. If, however, to try in any life style is not after six, there can be two scenarios of events.
The first option - you come to the inevitable overeating, because closer to the night break and quench wolf hunger than horrible. To prevent this, you should eat about eight hours, and before going to bed give preference to yogurt or natural unsweetened yogurt.
The second scenario of events is not to have dinner at all when you return home late. This is also an incorrect approach to nutrition, because the body gets used to making reserves, knowing that you will leave it without an evening meal.
The food ration of the supper
And a heavy hearty supper, and fasting in the evenings is equally detrimental to the balance of the daily ration. Remember that the main creator of energy in our body is carbohydrates, which are actively consumed in the daytime, and at night carbohydrate foods eaten at night form fatty deposits. It follows that carbohydrates can safely consume morning and afternoon, and for dinner it is more useful to eat foods rich in protein and fiber. Of course, do not eat heavy, fried, fatty food before going to bed. Usually there is no time or energy to prepare the dinner, and it's very good, because the simpler the dish, the more useful it is. You can make your dinner and fast and healthy. For example, open canned fish without oil, in their own juice, and eat them with boiled vegetables, frozen mixtures, but do without cereals, pasta or potatoes.
Menu for the night
Your dinner should depend on your lifestyle, if you are active and spend a lot of energy, then you need more calories than those who sit at the computer all day. For the "sedentary" person, protein products, such as fish, chicken, cottage cheese, are needed, they help his mental activity and do not burden the stomach with excessive weight. For a side dish - vegetables, vegetable mixes, this option of dinner will be ideal for an office worker.
For active people, a good garnish of carbohydrates - cereals, potatoes or pasta. Let all this not be fried, but stewed, boiled, baked.
Summary of
Eat an hour for three to four before bedtime, eat food rich in protein and fiber for dinner, and it's better to refuse fatty and heavy meals.