High Protein Diet

This diet provides more energy for your body as well as affecting weight loss. The proteins enable the growth of bones in the body. The proteins kill the carbohydrates thus reducing the body’s fluid content.

You can lose a great deal of weight in a period of time. A high protein diet plan cuts out many carbohydrates from your diet, prompting the body to dispense with excess body fluids. Ketone is produced and released into the blood. This brings about a process ketosis whereby your appetite diminishes.

Pros Cons
  • You can quickly lose weight due to the stimulation of loss of fluids from the body
  • Easy to follow
  • Easy to distinguish proteins from other food groups and eat more of them than the others
  • A well balanced diet already contains all the protein one needs.
  • Excess protein can have a dire impact on health. It can increase the symptoms of kidney and liver disease.
  • Ketosis results in a loss of a crucial source of energy, glycogen, from the muscles, causing fatigue.

Daily Meal Plan

Breakfast

  • Low fat yoghurt
  • Banana, strawberries, blueberries
  • Low fat cereal
  • Orange juice

Lunch

  • Vegetable soup
  • Chicken salad (including spinach, an egg, mushrooms, cranberries, feta cheese, almonds, lemon juice)

Dinner

  • Roasted salmon
  • Steamed asparagus with lemon
  • Brown rice with chopped red pepper
  • Mixed green salad with cherry tomatoes
  • One whole grain bread roll
  • Iced tea (without sugar)

Snack

  • One mug of skimmed milk