The Ravenna diet is part of the weight loss method of the psychotherapist Dr. Máximo Ravenna, who in addition to diet includes dietary supplements, daily weight loss goals and regular practice of physical activity, with weekly treatment sessions.
In addition, this method helps to reduce binge eating by facilitating control of the mind and establishing a healthy relationship with food rather than a relationship of dependence, being able to eat everything but in a controlled way.
How the Ravenna Diet Works
For the Ravenna diet to work you need to:
- Eliminate foods like white rice, bread or pasta made with refined flour because they increase the uncontrolled will to eat and replace these foods with whole foods;
- Make 4 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner;
- Always start main meals, such as lunch and dinner, with a vegetable broth and eat a dessert fruit;
- Include at lunch and dinner a source of protein such as meat, egg or fish, as well as salad and a small amount of rice or wholemeal.
Since in this diet the quantities allowed are very small, it is necessary that the dietitian or health professional who makes the diet, add food supplements to ensure that nutritional deficiencies do not appear or that the patient goes wrong.
Ravenna diet menu
To understand better how it is the diet of those who make the Ravenna diet follows an example.
Breakfast - skim milk with All Bran cereal and a pear.
Lunch - pumpkin broth and cauliflower + dish: chicken fillet with brown rice and carrot salad, peas and arugula + dessert: plum.
Snack - whole-grain toast with white cheese and an apple.
Dinner - carrot broth and broccoli + dish: pasta salad with lettuce, purple cabbage and tomato with boiled egg + dessert: cherries.
In this menu it is necessary to include foods that reduce the urge to eat wildly and therefore have foods with low glycemic index.
Learn more about these foods in: Foods with low glycemic index.
