Losing excess weight in a short time with minimal harm to the body is the desire of many people suffering from excess subcutaneous fat. Ideal when losing weight doesn't mean losing weight in your wallet. Buckwheat diet is considered a budget but very effective weight loss option. We have been accustomed to this cereal since childhood, and there is a reason. It turns out to be really useful.
Features of the buckwheat diet
On the shelves of stores you can see several types of buckwheat - in nuts and crushed. For weight loss, it is recommended to use nuts, as 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 hearty and even gourmet dishes from it. Much is known about the nutritional and useful trace elements contained in buckwheat.
But it is worth mentioning 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 truly universal in its duration. You can sit on it for 1 day - unloading, 3, 7 and 14 days. With it, you can eat even after 18: 00, with the only condition that the last meal of any food or drink must be at least 4 hours before sleep.
Diet options
Fasting day and 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, vegetables, sour fruits and dietary meat or fish are introduced. On a buckwheat diet, you can lose up to 10 kg per week and 12-14 kg in two weeks.
There are many different variants of the buckwheat diet, the most famous are:
- strict
- buckwheat - kefir,
- buckwheat + apples,
- gentle or healing,
- 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.
The buckwheat and kefir diet 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 characteristic is that the last meal and drink should be 6 hours before bedtime. The rest of the diet options are tastier and much easier to sit down.
You can also mix diets when losing weight for 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 the main meals you can have a snack, drink water and kefir, but always half an hour before the main meal. It is not recommended to drink additional drinks within an hour after eating, because the food has not yet had time to digest.
The benefits of losing weight with buckwheat
Whichever diet you choose from the above, they all have common advantages:
- availability and reasonable price of the main ingredient,
- the effectiveness of weight loss - up to 1 kg per day,
- cleansing the intestines of toxins and slags,
- blood purification
- normalization of cholesterol levels,
- feeling full
- improving appearance - not only a slim figure, but also healthy nails and hair, beautiful skin.
Against the diet
There are also disadvantages of the buckwheat diet, but their list is much smaller:
- for the most part it is a mono-diet,
- the refusal 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 intestinal problems.
Daily calorie intake on 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 familiar food product is not suitable for the following categories of people:
- pregnant and nursing mothers,
- diabetics,
- hypertensive patients,
- suffering from diseases of the digestive system,
- with kidney or heart failure,
- who have recently undergone abdominal surgery,
- people with heavy physical exertion.
All monodiets are recommended to be carried out at intervals of at least six months. The buckwheat diet is a nice exception to this rule. On it you can lose weight and cleanse the body for a month.
The essence and rules of the buckwheat diet
The transition to a mono diet is difficult, but the seven-day result will pleasantly surprise you. With the correct application of the buckwheat diet minus 10 kg are easily obtained. This happens due to a deep internal cleaning of all organs - the liquid, 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 yourself with it. The hardest part of dieting is sticking to your favorite foods that you don't want to lose weight. In order not to torture yourself and your body with only buckwheat on 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-compliance with which affects the final result.
- A method of making porridge. Buckwheat kernels should be sorted, washed and poured with boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2. You can cook in a thermos or wrap and put in a warm place for several hours or overnight. In this way, all useful substances are preserved in the porridge.
- Mandatory rejection of spices, sauces, oils. Sugar, salt, spices and flavorings are prohibited due to their harmful effects on the body - accumulation of fluids in the body or provoking a 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 give it up.
- Portion distribution. In the most popular version of the buckwheat diet menu, you should eat three times a day. More varied dietary options offer up to 5 meals.
- snacks. More sparing diet options suggest the presence of snacks, which should consist of kefir, 1 apple or citrus.
- Compulsory freshness of the products. The kachamak is prepared the night before. If other products are added, they must be fresh, purchased on that day or a few days before.
- Smooth return to normal eating. If you celebrate the end of the diet with a large feast, 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 endure the first week without sweet and starchy foods, fried foods. We understand that this is difficult to do because you really want to reward yourself with 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 to 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 each day of the buckwheat diet, in addition to buckwheat, other food products in various variants are allowed. Between them:
- low-fat dairy products: milk, kefir, cottage cheese, cheese,
- apples are not sweet varieties,
- any vegetables, whole, stewed or on salad, excluding pulses, potatoes, corn,
- dried apricots, prunes, figs, no more than 2-3 per meal,
- lean fish, beef,
- chicken fillet,
- 1 boiled egg per day,
- soy sauce 1 teaspoon,
- greenery,
- lemon juice,
- green tea and natural coffee without sugar,
- sesame,
- natural juices without sugar and salt,
- 1 teaspoon of honey for several days.
The daily dose of calories should not exceed 1500 kcal.
Various sauces, oils, spices, fats, sweets, flour were purchased under the ban. Alcohol is strictly prohibited.
Menu for 7 days
Buckwheat diet for 7 days is considered the most optimal in duration. Even in a strict or buckwheat-kefir version of the diet, you can last a week. We offer you 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 is good to lose weight with familiar foods that are found in every refrigerator. Affordable foods, simple meals, low cooking costs - what else could an ideal diet consist of? I have nothing more to add except sports.
Considering the above, the ideal option for losing weight with foods familiar to the body will 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 compete only with the drinking diet or the Japanese diet. By force of will they can overcome minor flaws. Positive reviews confirm the loss of kilograms and the improvement of the general condition of the body.
Diet recipes
We bring to your attention several 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 of boiled buckwheat
- 1 raw egg
- 1 light bulb
- 1 carrot
- 2 tablespoons of flour
cooking:
The onion is finely chopped, the carrots are grated on a large grater, fried. Add vegetables, egg, flour to buckwheat and mix well. Form cutlets from the resulting mass. Boil water in a pot and place a special strainer or pressure cooker on top of it for steaming cutlets. Put the chops in a colander, cover the pan with a lid and let them cook for 25-30 minutes, adding water as needed. You can also cook buckwheat cutlets in a double boiler or slow cooker.
Diet buckwheat soup
ingredients:
- 100 g of boiled buckwheat
- 1 small onion
- 1 small carrot
- 1 chicken breast
cooking:
Boil the chicken and take it out to cool, pour the broth. Carrots are grated or cut into strips, onions are cut into half rings, fried 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 poured into a bowl.
Buckwheat balls
ingredients:
- 200 g of buckwheat
- 1 small carrot
- 1 black pepper
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
cooking:
Sort buckwheat, rinse, put to boil. The proportions of porridge and water should be 1: 2. Oatmeal will be ready, let it cool to room temperature and mash or beat into mince. Grate the carrots, finely chop the pepper. Mix the vegetables with buckwheat, add lemon juice. Knead, form into balls, let stand for 20-30 minutes and you can eat.
Buckwheat with vegetables in a pot
ingredients:
- 100 g of buckwheat
- 150 g of frozen mixed vegetables or
- 1 small tomato
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 small carrot
- 1 small pepper
- greenery
cooking:
Sort the buckwheat, wash it, put it in a pot. The care is poured with water to cover the buckwheat by 1 cm. The vegetables are finely chopped and added to the buckwheat. If you use a frozen mix, you can add less water to the cereal because the vegetables will melt and release water. Heat the oven to 120 degrees. Cover the pot with a lid and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Chop the greens. After 20 minutes, turn off the oven, take out the pot, pour vegetables into it, put it back in the oven for 5-10 minutes. Taking the dish again, you can serve it on the table.
