Giada De Laurentiis, Italian presenter, cook and writer who has been a naturalized American for years, undoubtedly has a great passion for good food and has shown it in the famous program “In the kitchen with Giada”.

But how does it keep the line? In short, what is Giada de Laurentiis’s diet?
No diet (weight loss) but just a little common sense.
Being fit and loving cooking is not an oxymoron, although many think so. It has often happened to me to feel the object of bizarre considerations: for example, that yes, I am thin but I certainly do not like to eat, otherwise it cannot be explained. Instead it is very well explained with the compensation strategy.

When you eat too much or in a disorderly way, you need to get adjusted by doing two or three days of diet. We all have periods of stress or moments in which we just let go of some temptation. But then they try to correct the shot.
And it seems that Giada De Laurentiis applies this same strategy. In fact, when she feels like she has exaggerated at the table or indulged in too much gluttony, she goes on these 3 days of dieting, as she herself said on The Dr Oz show.

THE 3 DAYS DIET OF GIADA DE LAURENTIIS

These 3 days of dieting are a bit like spring cleaning. It puts the body in reset mode, helping it detoxify with a simpler and more natural diet. After these three days, you feel more energetic, more deflated, lighter and sleep better. At the end of the three days, it will be easier to downsize with the quantities and go back to eating in moderation. A mini-diet, in short, which, however, is not the same as fasting.

3 DAYS RULE

You eat 3 meals a day with lots of vegetables. The quantity is free.
By vegetables we mean those in leaves: spinach, salads, beets, but broccoli, asparagus, courgettes, snow peas or green beans are also fine. But what, vegetables for breakfast?
If we really can’t think of starting the day with a vegetable omelette, one of the De Laurentiis breakfast options, then we can eat cucumbers, fennel or celery hearts in the middle of the morning or around lunchtime.

3 DAYS MENU

For breakfast, enjoy a chia seed pudding made the day before. 

Mix two and a half tablespoons of chia seeds with 150 ml of non-dairy milk, such as soy or almond with no added sugar. Add a little stevia, cover the mixture with cling film and refrigerate overnight. The next day, enjoy the cream obtained with a handful of red fruits or strawberries, a sprinkling of cinnamon and 2-3 chopped almonds.
Alternatively, find a cocoa version here and a coconut version here.
After the pudding, a cup of green tea, herbal tea or light coffee with added stevia is ok.

For lunch, we start with our vegetables, cooked or raw. For example, we can sauté broccoli, zucchini or spinach. We add a hundred grams of boiled legumes: cannellini, Spanish or borlotti beans. Or chickpeas or spring peas (in the latter case, about 200 grams). We season with spices and aromatic herbs, one or two teaspoons of oil.

For dinner , Giada chooses fish or meat, combining them with low glycemic index carbohydrates and again a large portion of vegetables. A small steak of salmon, fillet of sea bass or sea bream, or a slice of veal or a couple of eggs are perfect. We combine these proteins, in addition to vegetables, with a small side of carbohydrates, for example 40 grams of brown rice or quinoa (weighed raw).

Instead, no alcohol, sugar and dairy products, cold cuts and packaged products.

Important : Giada drinks 12 glasses of water in these 3 days. It aromatizes them by putting the water in a jug and adding cucumbers, celery, citrus fruits, even a pinch of whole salt. This mineralized water is a cure-all and is tastier to drink.