Menopause is at the origin of various physical and emotional upheavals, including involuntary weight gain. The fault of the fall of estrogens, among others, which slow down metabolism and allow an accumulation of fat. But this weight gain is not always a fatality and certain means allow to find the form. In a recent interview for France on Sunday, actress Mathilde Seigne, 57 years old, explained her method To regain its fine waist.
“A diet that suits me”
According to her, the actress managed to lose the 10 kilos taken by menopause thanks to a regime which is not unanimous.
“My relationship to food is healthy. When I entered the menopause I took ten kilos, lost thanks to an extraordinary woman, Doctor Kahina Oussedik, head of the thinning center. She taught me to dissociate food”, she explains. It is therefore what is called a dissociated diet. This is based on the principle of not combining certain types of food during the same meal, by separating food groups such as proteins and carbohydrates.
“It is a diet that suits me, but it is not necessarily valid for everyone”assumes the actress. Indeed, the dissociated regime is not always the solution.
What is a “dissociated” diet?
Dissociated regimes are based on the principle that certain foods should not be consumed together, but separately, according to a specific calendar. The idea is that the body would better assimilate nutrients and more effectively manage satiety or storage of fats thanks to these controlled associations. There are thus several forms of dissociated diet.
- The Antoine diet is one of the strictest forms. It consists in eating only one type of food per day, for example fish on Monday, vegetables on Tuesday, dairy products on Wednesday, and so on. The food balance is therefore not ensured with each meal but supposed to recover over a full week.
- The Shelton diet Based on a precise classification of foods in different groups (acid fruits, starchs, proteins, etc.). Some combinations are strictly prohibited, such as acids and starchs, or fats and protein. Fruits and milk should be consumed alone. In practice, this amounts to composing very monotonous meals, sometimes exclusively protein, sometimes only made up of fruits or starchs.
- Finally, The Montignac regime, More flexible and more modern, is based on the glycemic index (IG), which measures the speed of absorption of sugars by the body. It distinguishes two types of meals: lipido-protein meals, where fats and proteins can be associated with very low IG carbohydrates, and glucido-protein meals, without saturated fats and with carbohydrates whose IG remains less than 50. Less restrictive, it allows you to eat varied and limits frustrations. However, he asked to be followed in the long term, because a return to conventional habits often leads to a weight recovery.
Is the dissociated regime criticized for the dissociated regime?
If it can indeed allow certain followers to lose weight quickly, the dissociated diet is however not the favorite of nutritionist experts. For what? Because its effects are most balanced as Alexandra Murcier, a nutritionist dietician, mentions.
“The dissociated regime is a relatively restrictive regime that I do not advise it as a first intention. Admittedly, It improves digestive comfort in a lot of patients, hence the feeling of “deflating”. But like any restrictive diet you have to regain weight when you stop, is difficult to follow sometimes in your social life and can in some people lead to eating disorders. “
These are not the only reasons. According to experts, no scientific evidence has demonstrated today a weight loss linked to this diet. “”It is estimated in the office that the weight loss of this diet results more due to entering a logic of restriction and control than from dissociation.“”
Finally, this diet can lead to deficiencies, especially in protein, “What in the long term will make us lose muscle mass (therefore indeed weight loss) but with a reduction in basic metabolism which will then induce a higher weight recovery” warns our expert.
So many reasons that must invite you to discuss it with a professional before considering getting started.