The Lemme Diet: What It Is And How It Works

Designed by the pharmacist Alberico Lemme, the Lemme diet is a food philosophy based on the exclusive consumption of carbohydrates and proteins, banning fruit, vegetables, sweets, and salt. Divided into two phases, one of slimming and one maintenance, the Lemme diet provides for the consumption of meals at specific times to be strictly adhered to.

The foods allowed by the Lemme diet

Pasta, meat, fish and more. Here are all the foods allowed by the Lemme diet.

The phases and times of meals provided by the Lemme diet

The Lemme diet includes a first phase where you lose weight until you get to the ideal one and the second phase with a balanced diet of three months that allows you to feed without getting fat. During phase 2 of the Lemme diet, we consider the glycemic index of foods and the time of meals, without examining the calorie count.

In the Lemme diet, the meal times are fundamental: the breakfast must be taken by 9.30 in the morning, lunch between 12 and 14 and dinner between 19 and 21. In addition a snack-spuntino, between 10 and 11 and between 16 and 17 consisting of lemon wedges and tea.

The scheme of the Lemme diet: what to eat and what to banish

But which foods does the Lemme diet include? The basic rules of this food philosophy are the elimination of sugar, sweeteners, vinegar, bread, milk and derivatives and salt – even in pasta water – and exclusive consumption in unlimited quantities of pasta, meat, and fish. A basic corollary on which this diet is based is to avoid combining meat and pasta. A typical day for a consumer of the Lemme dieting fact, it provides pasta and carbohydrates for breakfast and meat or fish – rich in protein – for lunch and dinner. The drinks allowed are water, also carbonated, coffee and tea without sugar. Olive oil, better if an extra virgin, pepper, pepper, parsley, garlic, lemon, sage, rosemary, basil, thyme, onion, bran for breading can be used in free quantities. All types of cooking are allowed, even frying.

The permitted foods can be consumed in unlimited quantities, also because Dr. Lemme does not consider their caloric value but the biological one. The diet proposed by Lemme by virtue of these theories is a diet that favors fats and proteins, while almost completely excludes fruit and vegetables from the menu. The carbohydrates they should be taken in the form of pasta only in the morning, as this is better disposed of, while at lunch and dinner meat and fish proteins must be reserved.

Since carbohydrates and proteins should not be consumed in the same meal, the Lemme method can be considered to all effects a dissociated diet.

Being forced to eat rather insipid foods it is difficult to follow it for long periods because it has few classes of food, so it can get tired in the long run. It can be difficult, especially initially, to eat certain types of food – such as pasta – in the morning.

An example of the Lemme diet menu

Diet example

1st and 2nd day:
BREAKFAST: turkey + coffee
LUNCH: beef fillet + coffee
DINNER: swordfish + coffee

3rd and 4th day:
BREAKFAST: oil and chili paste + coffee
LUNCH: chicken breast + coffee
DINNER: sole + coffee

5th and 6th day
BREAKFAST: artichokes + coffee
LUNCH: Florentine + coffee
DINNER: sea bream + coffee

7th and 8th day:
BREAKFAST: oil and chilli paste + coffee
LUNCH: chicken breast + coffee
DINNER: sole + coffee

9th and 10th day
BREAKFAST: strawberries + coffee
LUNCH: fillet of veal + coffee
DINNER: sea bass + coffee

11th and 12th day
BREAKFAST: oil and chili paste + coffee
LUNCH: chicken breast + coffee
DINNER: sole + coffee

13th and 14th day
BREAKFAST: polpelmo + coffee
LUNCH: Hamburger cockerel + coffee
DINNER: swordfish + coffee
15th and 16th day
BREAKFAST: pasta oil and hot pepper
LUNCH: beef fillet + coffee
DINNER: sole + coffee

17th and 18th day
BREAKFAST: omelet + coffee
LUNCH: chicken breast + coffee
DINNER: sea bream + coffee

19th and 20th day
BREAKFAST: pasta oil and chili + coffee
LUNCH: beef fillet + coffee
DINNER: sole + coffee

And during breastfeeding? Is the Lemme diet recommended or is it better to avoid it?

Even during the lactation phase it is better to avoid making the Lemme diet , always for the same reasons listed above. The absence of sweet and salt and important consumption of proteins, fats and carbohydrates may cause failure and unrest to the child who is in a critical phase of its development .