Losing excess weight in a short time with minimal harm to the body is the desire of many people who suffer from excess subcutaneous fat. An ideal option when losing pounds does not mean weight loss in your wallet. A buckwheat diet is considered a budget option, but very effective for losing weight. We have been accustomed to this cereal since childhood, and for good reason. It turns out to be really useful.
Buckwheat diet features
On store shelves you can see several types of buckwheat - in kernels and crushed. For weight loss, the use of kernels is recommended, because they have undergone minimal processing and have retained more nutrients. Do not be afraid of the caloric content of buckwheat; its calories are quite useful. And the low glycemic index makes this cereal an ideal diet for weight loss.
Buckwheat is usually consumed in the form of cereals and soups. More advanced chefs prepare other delicious and even gourmet foods from it. Much is known about the nutritional and beneficial micronutrients that buckwheat contains.
But it is worth noting separately that buckwheat contains vitamins B and P, folic acid, as well as potassium and iron, which are so necessary for every body.
This diet is really versatile in its duration. You can sit on it for 1 day - download, 3, 7 and 14 days. You can eat with it even after 18: 00, with the only condition that the last meal of any food or drink is at least 4 hours before bedtime.
Diet options
A fasting day and a three-day diet have a common menu - only buckwheat and a glass of low-fat (1%) kefir per day. Sometimes on a fasting day it is allowed to drink up to 1 liter of low-calorie kefir. With such a diet, you can lose up to 1 kg of excess weight per day.
With a diet for 7 or 14 days, the menu can be more varied, include vegetables, sour fruits and dietary meat or fish. On a buckwheat diet, you can lose up to 10 kg per week and 12-14 kg in two weeks.
There are many different variations of the buckwheat diet, the most famous are:
- strict
- buckwheat - kefir,
- buckwheat + apple,
- gentle or curative,
- buckwheat + vegetables,
- buckwheat + low-calorie dairy products,
- buckwheat + vegetables + lean meat and fish,
- buckwheat + dried fruit.
Strict is the most effective, but the most difficult, especially for those who do not like this product. During such a diet, you can use only fresh buckwheat and water, sometimes a glass of kefir for bowel function.
Buckwheat diet - kefir is also quite strict - you can eat only buckwheat with kefir per day or these two products separately. The volume of kefir should be 1 liter. Its feature is that the last meal and drink should be 6 hours before bedtime. The rest of the diet options are more palatable and much easier to sit down.
You can also mix diets when losing weight in 14 days - you can add vegetables to food for a few days, spend a few days on a strict or buckwheat-kefir diet, then add vegetables again or choose another diet option for a few days.
Between main meals, you can eat snacks, drink water and kefir, but always half an hour or an hour before the main meal. It is not recommended to drink additional drinks within an hour after a meal, as the food has not yet had time to digest.
Buckwheat weight loss benefits
Whichever diet option you choose from the above, they all have common benefits:
- availability and reasonable cost of the main ingredient,
- the effectiveness of weight loss - up to 1 kg per day,
- cleansing the intestines from toxins and slags,
- blood purification,
- normalization of cholesterol levels,
- full feeling,
- improving appearance - not only a slim figure, but also healthy nails and hair, beautiful skin.
The cons of the diet
There are also disadvantages in the buckwheat diet, but their list is much smaller:
- for the most part it is a mono-diet,
- rejection of salt, sugar, spices leads to depression, aggressiveness, fatigue and increased irritability,
- limiting or refusing other food products without taking into account the individual characteristics of the body can harm it,
- a strict buckwheat diet can cause constipation and bowel problems.
The daily intake of calories in a strict diet is less than 500 kcal. We offer an approximate menu for the day of the buckwheat diet with vegetables and lean meat and fish.
- Breakfast - buckwheat and kefir or tea
- Lunch - vegetable salad, boiled chicken fillet or fish
- Dinner - buckwheat with vegetables, kefir.
Contraindications
Losing weight on such a popular food product is not suitable for the following categories of people:
- pregnant and nursing mothers,
- diabetics,
- hypertensive patients,
- suffers from diseases of the digestive system,
- with kidney or heart failure,
- who have recently undergone abdominal surgery,
- people with heavy physical exercises.
All mono-diets are recommended to be carried out at intervals of at least six months. The buckwheat diet is a nice exception to this rule. You can lose weight and cleanse your body in it in a month.
The essence and rules of the buckwheat diet
Switching to a mono diet is difficult, but the seven-day result will pleasantly surprise you. With the correct implementation of the buckwheat diet, minus 10 kg is easy to get. This happens due to deep internal cleansing of all organs - fluids, toxins, toxins are removed from the body. The second week of the 14-day weight loss will bring more modest results - you will lose a few more kilograms.
The essence of the buckwheat diet
The essence of the diet is to eat only one food product - buckwheat for 1-2 weeks. Since this cereal is quite nutritious, you won't have to starve. The hardest part of dieting is staying on top of your favorite foods that you don't want to lose weight. In order not to torture yourself and your body with only buckwheat in a strict diet, you can choose any other option with the addition of additional food.
Diet rules
Even such a simple diet as buckwheat has its own rules, non-observance of which affects the final result.
- How to make porridge. Buckwheat kernels should be selected, washed and poured with boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2. You can cook in a thermos, or wrap it and put it in a warm place for several hours or overnight. In this way, all the useful substances in the porridge are preserved.
- Mandatory refusal of spices, sauces, oils. Sugar, salt, spices and flavorings are forbidden because of their harmful effects on the body - the accumulation of fluids in the body or provoking the feeling of hunger. Sauces and any oils are extra fats that prevent you from losing weight.
- Strict control of water consumption. Any water at room temperature is allowed, except sparkling water. You can drink green tea and sometimes coffee if you can't refuse it.
- Distribution of portions. In the most popular version of the buckwheat diet menu, you should eat three times a day. More varied diet options offer up to 5 meals.
- Snacks. The most frugal diet options suggest the presence of foods, which should consist of kefir, 1 apple or citrus fruits.
- Compulsory freshness of products. The porridge is prepared the night before. If other products are added, they must be fresh, bought on that day or a few days before.
- Smooth return to normal eating. If you celebrate the end of the diet with a big party, the lost pounds will return and the body will experience a real shock from the loading dose of carbohydrates and fats.
After the end of the diet, it is necessary to stay without sweet and starchy foods, fried foods for the first week. We understand that this is difficult to do, because you really want to treat yourself to something delicious, but you can't. You can introduce oil and add 2-3 products to the diet every 1-2 days. In this way, the result of the diet will be preserved.
Compliance with all these requirements will help maintain a diet, cleanse the body and lose weight. If you notice a change in the color of the skin, the structure of the hair and nails, it is necessary to introduce a complex of vitamins and minerals into the diet.
Recommended and prohibited products
In the menu for every day of the buckwheat diet, in addition to buckwheat, other food products in different versions are allowed. Among them:
- low-fat dairy products: milk, kefir, cottage cheese, cheese,
- apples are not sweet varieties,
- any vegetable, whole, boiled or in salad, except legumes, potatoes, corn,
- dried apricots, prunes, figs, no more than 2-3 pieces per meal,
- lean fish, beef,
- chicken fillet,
- boiled egg 1 piece per day,
- soy sauce 1 teaspoon,
- greens,
- lemon juice,
- green tea and natural coffee without sugar,
- sesame,
- natural juices without sugar and salt,
- honey 1 teaspoon several days.
The daily dose of calories should not exceed 1500 kcal.
Under the ban were various purchased sauces, oils, spices, fatty products, sweets, flour. Alcohol is strictly prohibited.
Menu for 7 days
Buckwheat diet for 7 days is considered more optimal in duration. Even on a strict version or with buckwheat kefir of the diet, you can stay for a week. We offer a sample menu for the week.
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The strictest types of diet are strict buckwheat and buckwheat-kefir. It is much easier to maintain a mixed buckwheat diet for 14 days, in which the main product is supplemented with vegetables, fruits and dietary meat.
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Reviews and results
It's nice to lose weight with familiar foods that can be found in every refrigerator. Affordable foods, simple foods, low cooking costs - what else could an ideal diet consist of? There is nothing to add except sports.
Considering the above, the ideal option for losing weight from foods known to the body would be only the buckwheat diet, the reviews and results of which sound quite convincing. In terms of the number of people satisfied with the result, it can only compete with the drinking diet or the Japanese diet. With willpower, minor deficiencies can be addressed. Positive reviews confirm the loss of kilograms and an improvement in the general condition of the body.
Diet recipes
We bring to your attention some simple recipes for dietary dishes that will help you diversify your stay on a buckwheat diet without violating its basic rules.
Steamed buckwheat cutlets
Ingredients:
- 1 cup cooked boiled buckwheat
- 1 raw egg
- 1 lamp
- 1 carrot
- 2 spoons of flour
Cooking:
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, fry. Add vegetables, egg, flour to buckwheat and mix well. Form the kittens from the resulting mass. Boil water in a pot and place a special strainer or pressure cooker over it to steam the cutlets. We put the cottas in a sieve, cover the pan with a lid and let them boil for 25-30 minutes, adding water as needed. You can also cook buckwheat cakes in a double boiler or slow cooker.
Buckwheat diet soup
Ingredients:
- 100 g of cooked boiled buckwheat
- 1 small onion
- 1 small carrot
- 1 chicken breast
Cooking:
Boil the chicken meat and take it out to cool, pour the juice. Grate the carrots or cut into strips, cut the onion into half rings, fry in a dry pan. Cut the meat into pieces. Put 0. 5 liters of water in a pot on fire. When it boils, throw pieces of breast, buckwheat, fried vegetables into the water. After 10 minutes the soup will be ready. The rest is thrown into a bowl.
Buckwheat balls
Ingredients:
- 200 g of buckwheat
- 1 small carrot
- 1 bell pepper
- 1 st. l. lemon juice
Cooking:
Sort buckwheat, rinse, put to boil. The proportions of porridge and water should be 1: 2. The porridge will be ready, let it cool to room temperature and grate or beat into minced meat. Grate the carrots, cut the pepper into small pieces. Mix vegetables with buckwheat, add lemon juice. Cook, form balls, let stand for 20-30 minutes and you can eat.
Buckwheat with vegetables in a pot
Ingredients:
- 100 g of buckwheat
- 150 g frozen mixed vegetables or
- 1 small tomato
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 small carrot
- 1 small bell pepper
- greens
Cooking:
Sort buckwheat, wash, put in a pot. Pour the grates with water to cover the buckwheat by 1 cm. Cut the vegetables into small pieces and add to the buckwheat. If you use a frozen mixture, you can pour less water on the grains, because the vegetables will thaw and release water. Heat the oven to 120 degrees. Cover the pot with a lid and put it in the oven for 20 minutes. Chop the greens. After 20 minutes, turn off the oven, remove the pot, pour the greens into it, put it back in the oven for 5-10 minutes. Taking the plate back, you can serve it at the table.
