The egg diet is designed to help you lose weight quickly without feeling hungry. In this article, we will show you the snags of this type of diet and how you can eat a more balanced diet.
Egg Diet Principles
The egg diet falls under the low-carb diet. About five eggs a day and low-carb vegetables are recommended. Of course, the egg diet can be modified and designed individually. For example, it is also possible to integrate low-fat pieces of fish and meat or low-carbohydrate types of fruit into the egg diet. Basically excluded from the egg diet are:
butter
margarine
oils
milk and milkproducts
As a protein-rich food, eggs are the focus of this diet. The idea behind it is that the proteins should increase your feeling of satiety and you have to eat less overall. Usually (and especially when food choices are restricted), the egg diet is only done for a short period of about two weeks. Its purpose is to help you lose as much weight as possible in the shortest amount of time.
If you’re thinking about going on this type of diet, choose organic eggs. This supports a species-appropriate husbandry of chickens. You can also be careful to buy eggs from vendors that don’t shred chicks.
Risks and evaluation of the egg diet
How one-sided and harmful the egg diet is ultimately depends on how many other foods you integrate and the quality of the selected foods. The eggs themselves are a good source of high quality protein, vitamins and minerals. The relatively high amount of cholesterol in eggs has long been a matter of controversy. For healthy people, no negative influences seem to be proven for the time being. Therefore, the German Society for Nutrition cannot set any binding maximum amounts for the consumption of eggs. However, she recommends no more than three eggs per week.
While eggs are not unhealthy per se, the egg diet does exclude a great many foods. In the course of the diet, it can happen that you do not take in enough vitamins and minerals. Therefore, the egg diet is generally not suitable for a long-term and balanced diet.
That doesn’t mean you should cut eggs out of your diet entirely — quite the opposite. Eggs can be part of a balanced diet. However, the egg diet is less about the idea of eating healthy and more about losing weight fast. This in turn also includes the risk that you can quickly regain weight afterwards due to the yo-yo effect. If you want to reduce and stabilize your weight in the long term, a crash diet like the egg diet is not suitable.
This is how a long-term balanced diet succeeds
It is therefore better to find a balanced diet as part of a healthy lifestyle that you can easily maintain over a long period of time. Not only what you eat is important for your health, but also how active you are, how well you sleep and how well you feel in general. Basically, diets that focus on a single food make little sense. The quality of your diet quickly suffers and you lose sight of the health-promoting potential of other foods and their ingredients.
In another Utopia article, we show you which 10 rules for everyday life can support a balanced diet. You should also make it clear to yourself that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all healthy diet. Find out for yourself which foods and food combinations are good for you and which are not. In addition to health effects, other aspects can also play a role, such as sustainability and ethics. In this way you can build up your nutritional principles over time – although it pays to always remain open to new knowledge.
