7 Ways to Enjoy a Greek Diet

The Greek Diet allows you to enjoy wine, dessert, encourages a diet of olive oil, grains, spices, and vegetables. Maria Loi and Sarah Toland wrote the diet cook based around the 12 Pillar Foods of olive oil, nuts, and plant-based foods. These are important in vamping up metabolism, boosting the body’s way of burning fat and more.

Blasting Fat

The Mediterranean diet consists of olive oil which is monounsaturated fats good for the heart and fills you up to help burn fat while increasing metabolism.

Protein

Yogurts, beans, and chick peas offer the protein needed to sustain energy and lose weight.

Breakfast and Lunch

Try a Greek Frittata with vine tomatoes or scrabble eggs or tofu to start the day with a cup of coffee. For lunch try hummus with carrots, or apples.

Complex Carbohydrates

Complex carbohydrates are vital to the Greek diet, not refined breads as many consume in the US. Try more complex carbohydrates found in plants like basil, wild rice, fruits and vegetables, and nuts.

Wine and Coffee

The authors recommend wine and coffee to help protect the heart and its ability to lower blood sugar.

Dessert

Everyone loves dessert. Try a version of carrot cake made with olive oil instead of lard, or butter. Make a lemon olive oil cake with 2 cups of cake flour, 1 cup one olive oil, four eggs, 3 tablespoons of lemon and 3 tablespoon of lemon zest. Preheat oven to 350 in a 9-inch spring-foam pan from 45 minutes.

Herbs and Spices

Use more herbs and spices to increase metabolism, reduce blood levels, inflammation break up fat cells, and curb appetites. Basil, black pepper, cinnamon, ginger, oregano, rosemary and fennel all can be enjoyed to help overall health.