I have already talked in this article about the advantages of limiting yourself to a single dish in your diet, especially in summer, when the single dish or single dish becomes a quick and effective alternative (salads, carpaccio, mixed bruschetta) to the normal meal; but I want to dedicate an article also for the winter months, helping you to identify unique dishes that in the everyday diet can help you stay in your ideal weight without effort, stay healthy, keep your metabolism high, reduce the unpleasant effects of poor digestion or make you lose weight, and above all they are practical.

So here is the winter main course diet!

Before listing the single-dish ideas for autumn and winter, I’ll explain better the advantages of the single-course food model compared to the traditional meal consisting of a first and second course, or the dissociated meal consisting of a first course (plus fruit). for lunch and second course plus side dish for dinner.

Why is the single dish better than the traditional or dissociated meal? 
In the case of the traditional meal, the biggest problem is calories: it is easy to overstretch and become excessively overloaded if we are used to eating both the first and second courses for lunch (some even for dinner). This Mediterranean model is typical of Italy, especially southern Italy, but the growing obesity alarm, and the tendency that everyone now has to favor even a snack , often make it unsustainable. It would make sense, always with an eye on calories, if you didn’t have any snacks between meals.

In the case of the dissociated meal, the problems can be of two types:
– the excess of carbohydrates and the high glycemic load at lunch or in any case in the carbohydrate meal. A first course with pasta, a little bread for the shoe, one or two fruits or even a dessert after less than an hour. All these foods combined can give too high a blood sugar response, particularly in sedentary individuals.
– the lack of proteins: those who eat the first at lunch and the second at dinner, however, tend to eat too many carbohydrates to the detriment of proteins during the day.

The typical scheme is the following: sweet breakfast with baked goods, lunch based on pasta or rice plus fruit, often sweet snacks during the day, and at dinner the proteins, which are reduced to a slice of meat to want to be optimistic. If you get 40-50 grams of protein throughout the day, that’s a lot. Little, however, even for a sedentary person. It is easier so that you tend to eat too much sugar but too little protein to maintain your lean mass. And that this behavior in the long run risks making us gain weight, due to a metabolic slowdown. Metabolism tends to slow down with age, but eating too little protein doesn’t help maintain lean mass, but we end up worsening the situation.