Duromine Diet Meal Plan: What to Eat and Not to Eat

Most people already know the general rules for compiling a diet for weight loss – create a calorie deficit (eat fewer calories than the body spends during the day), eat less sweets, give up fast food, and so on. It is important to follow these rules when designing your Duromine eating plan, but following the general recommendations during the treatment course with Duromine is not enough.

This is because Duromine is a powerful weight loss drug that has side effects, one of which is trouble sleeping. You can alleviate some side effects with the help of proper foods. Secondly, doctors prescribe Duromine to people with a high body mass index (weight-for-height ratio). A high BMI may indicate that you may have chronic diseases that also require dietary adjustments.

What to consider when compiling a Duromine eating plan:

peculiarities of Duromine action,
basal metabolic rate (the number of calories your body needs to sustain life),
age,
sex,
BMI and degree of obesity,
chronic diseases,
allergies and food intolerances,
experience of a previous use of Duromine or other weight loss agents.

We will tell you what a 3-day meal plan might look like and what rules it is important to follow in order for Duromine to work.

Example of a Duromine meal plan for 3 days

Below you will find an example of what a meal plan might be during the treatment course with Duromine. This is not an ideal diet for every person who takes this medication, as it does not take into account the characteristics of the body – basic metabolism, chronic diseases, and so on. But it can be a starting point for those who want to create a personalized diet.

Day 1

Breakfast

Omelette with broccoli and feta with a slice of whole grain bread

Lunch

Chicken breast with green vegetable salad with brown rice

Dinner

Fresh vegetable salad with canned tuna

Day 2

Breakfast

Mexican omelette with beans

Lunch

Veal steak with grilled vegetables and bulgur

Dinner

Baked fish with fresh vegetables

Day 3

Breakfast

Frittata with tomatoes and asparagus with a slice of whole grain bread

Lunch

Durum wheat pasta with chicken

Dinner

Fresh vegetable salad with avocado and shrimps

You can order a personalized meal plan here.

Rules of a healthy Duromine meal plan

We have prepared a list of basic rules that are important to follow when compiling a Duromine eating plan, regardless of the characteristics of your body. To create a personalized diet, contact your prescribing doctor or take a free test here.

Create a calorie deficit

The basic rule of compiling a diet during weight loss is to create a calorie deficit. This means that you need to consume fewer calories than you expend.

How do you know how many calories you are burning?

First, you need to know your basal metabolism. Basal metabolic rate is the number of calories that the body spends to maintain life (blood circulation, respiration, normalization of body temperature, synthesis of macronutrients, hormones and other cells, brain activity, and so on). The body spends 50% to 75% of all energy on basal metabolism. You can calculate your basal metabolic rate here.

Add to your basal metabolic rate the amount of calories you burn during the day while walking, exercising, and other activities.

Subtract 30% from the resulting number, and you will get the approximate calorie content of your diet for weight loss. Make sure you don’t drop below your basal metabolic rate – you risk slowing down your metabolism and, consequently, your weight loss process.

Start your day with a protein breakfast

The most popular and easy-to-prepare protein breakfast is scrambled eggs and other egg dishes.

Firstly, after a protein breakfast, you will feel full longer than after a carbohydrate one (cereals with fruits, sweet smoothies, instant breakfasts, and so on). Research has shown that protein-rich breakfasts lower levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin and increase satiety hormones.

Second, switching to a protein-rich breakfast helps reduce BMI by about 61% – this effect is detailed in this study.

It is important to add vegetables and greens to eggs to fill the body with minerals. You can make a salad with fresh vegetables, or add them to the pan and fry them together with the eggs.

Why eggs? Proteins are made up of amino acids. Amino acids can be non-essential (your body can synthesize them from other amino acids) and essential (the body cannot synthesize them). Eggs are one of the few foods that contain all the essential amino acids.

Include protein foods in every meal

You already know that protein changes the hormonal background – reduces the feeling of hunger and increases the feeling of satiety. For this reason, it is important to include it in every meal.

Protein is mainly found in animal products – eggs, meat, poultry, fish, seafood, dairy products. A large amount of protein is also found in plant foods – nuts and seeds, legumes (chickpeas, beans, lentils, and so on).

Alternate protein foods with each other. For example, choose eggs in the morning, meat for lunch, and fish or seafood for dinner. Add a small amount of nuts and seeds, chickpeas, hummus to your salads.

Remember that some protein foods, such as nuts, are quite high in calories. 100 grams of nuts contain about 650 kcal, 3 walnuts – about 80 kcal. High calorie content is not a reason to refuse healthy foods. The main thing is to know about this feature and not overeat.

Add healthy fats to your diet

Fat is a fairly high-calorie macronutrient. If the calorie content of one gram of carbohydrate or protein is approximately 4.1 kcal, then a gram of fat is more than twice as high in calories, and is 9.3 kcal.

Despite the high calorie content, fats should be present in your diet. The main thing is to follow two rules.

First, calculate your fat intake. To do this, multiply 0.5-1 g of fat per kilogram of body weight.

Second, avoid bad fats. Unhealthy fats or trans fats are vegetable fats that have been artificially hydrogenated. They are found in margarine, some low-fat dairy products, most industrial sauces (mayonnaise, etc.), most baked goods, and so on.

Instead, nuts, seeds, cold-pressed oils and other sources of healthy fats should be included in your diet.

Choose foods with a low glycemic index

Fruits, berries, cereals, bread and pastries, honey and other syrups, all sugar-containing foods, and so on, are conditionally classified as carbohydrate foods. Each carbohydrate product has a glycemic index. It shows how much the blood sugar level rises after eating a particular product. The glycemic index is low (1-55), medium (56-69) and high (from 70 and above).

Research has shown that medium to high glycemic foods increase appetite. This is because our bodies produce a large amount of insulin in response to a sharp increase in sugar levels. Insulin neutralizes not only the incoming sugar, but also the one that should normally be contained in the blood. This causes you to feel hungry again.

Below is a list of low glycemic foods.

What to eat and not to eat on Duromine

Product Category	Allowed	Forbidden
Vegetables	Low GI vegetables (avocados, peppers, broccoli, cabbage, mushrooms, asparagus, zucchini, carrots)	High GI vegetables (potatoes)
Greens	All greens	–
Berries	Low GI berries (cherries, currants, strawberries)	High GI Berries (watermelon)
Fruits	Low GI fruits (citrus, apricot, peach, apple)	–
Pasta	Low/medium GI durum wheat products	High GI soft wheat products
Sugar-containing foods and drinks	–	All sugary foods and drinks
Cereals	Low GI cereals (rough rice, bulgur and durum wheat couscous)	High GI cereals (white rice, soft wheat products, quick breakfasts)
Bread	Whole grain low/medium GI bread/buns	Bread/buns with high GI made of processed wheat, flatbread
Meat	Chicken fillet, turkey fillet, lean veal, rabbit meat	Pork, fatty beef and lamb
Fish	All types of fish and seafood	–
Oil	All types of cold pressed oils	Refined oils
Dairy	Dairy products without added vegetable fats	Dairy products with added vegetable fats, such as margarine

The basis of a healthy diet is natural products (vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, seeds, cereals, as well as animal protein sources). When choosing cooked foods, such as preserves or sauces, always read the ingredients carefully. Most of them may contain sugar or other harmful ingredients.

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Conclusion

Duromine is a powerful weight loss supplement, but it’s not a magic pill that will help you lose weight on its own.

In order for Duromine to work, it is necessary to create a personalized meal plan and develop new eating habits that will help you maintain weight after completing the course of the drug.

Rules that are important to follow include general recommendations for weight loss – creating a calorie deficit, avoiding sugary foods and fast food, switching to a protein breakfast, and many others. However, there are also two groups of additional recommendations. The first ones are related to the peculiarity of Duromine action, for example, its ability to disturb sleep. The second ones have to do with the peculiarities of your body, for example, chronic diseases, or intolerance to a particular product. Without following these rules, Duromine will not work.