Losing excess weight in a short time with minimal harm to the body is the desire of many people suffering from excess subcutaneous fat. An ideal option when losing kilograms does not mean losing weight in the wallet. A buckwheat diet is considered a budget, but very effective option for losing weight. We have been used to this cereal since childhood, and for good reason. It turns out that it is really useful.
Features of the buckwheat diet
On store shelves you can see different types of buckwheat - in grains and mashed. For weight loss, it is recommended to use grains, as they have undergone minimal processing and retained more nutrients. Do not be afraid of the calorie 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 eaten in the form of cereals and soups. More advanced cooks prepare other hearty and even gourmet dishes from it. Much is known about the nutritional and beneficial microelements 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 any body.
This diet is truly versatile 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 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 kefir (1%) per day. Sometimes in one 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 diverse, 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 variations of the buckwheat diet, the most famous of which are:
- strict
- buckwheat - kefir,
- buckwheat + apples,
- gentle or healing,
- buckwheat + greens,
- buckwheat + low-calorie dairy products,
- buckwheat + vegetables + lean meat and fish,
- buckwheat + dried fruits.
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 - 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 feature is that the last meal and drinks 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 several days, spend a couple of days on a strict or buckwheat-kefir diet, then add vegetables again or choose another diet option for several days.
Between the main meals you can have 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.
The benefits of losing weight on buckwheat
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,
- purifying the intestines of toxins and waste products,
- blood cleansing,
- normalization of cholesterol levels,
- feel full,
- improve appearance: not only a slim figure, but also healthy nails and hair, beautiful skin.
Against the diet
There are also disadvantages to the buckwheat diet, but their list is much smaller:
- for the most part it is a mono diet,
- refusal of salt, sugar, spices leads to depression, aggression, fatigue and increased irritability,
- the restriction or refusal of 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.
The daily calorie intake with 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 with 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 had abdominal surgery,
- people with intense physical effort.
All mono-diets are recommended to be done at intervals of at least six months. The buckwheat diet is a pleasant exception to this rule. You can lose weight and cleanse the body on 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, it is easy to get minus 10 kg. This happens due to deep internal cleansing of all organs: liquids, toxins, toxins are removed from the body. The second week of 14-day weight loss will bring more modest results - you will lose a couple of extra 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 keeping up with your favorite foods that you don't want to lose weight. In order not to torment yourself and your body with only buckwheat with 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.
- Method of making porridge. Buckwheat grains must be sorted out, 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. Thus, all the useful substances of the porridge are preserved.
- Mandatory refusal of spices, sauces, oils. Sugar, salt, spices and flavorings are prohibited due to their harmful effects on the body: the accumulation of fluid in the body or cause a feeling of hunger. Sauces and all oils are extra fats that keep you from losing weight.
- Strict control of water consumption. Any room temperature water is allowed, except carbonated water. You can have green tea and sometimes coffee if you can't refuse it.
- Portion distribution. In the most popular version of the buckwheat diet menu, you need to eat three times a day. More varied diet options offer up to 5 meals.
- snacks. More sparing dietary options suggest the presence of snacks, which should consist of kefir, 1 apple or citrus fruit.
- Mandatory freshness of products. Porridge is prepared the night before. If other products are added, they must be fresh, purchased that day or a couple of days before.
- Regular return to normal nutrition. If you celebrate the end of the diet with a hearty feast, the lost kilograms 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 resist the first week without sweet and starchy foods, fried foods. We understand that this is hard to do, because you really want to reward yourself with something tasty, 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 skin color, hair and nail structure, you need to introduce a complex of vitamins and minerals into your 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. Between them:
- low-fat dairy products: milk, kefir, cottage cheese, cheese,
- apples are not sweet varieties,
- any vegetable, whole, stewed or in salads, with the exception of 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 a couple of days.
The daily dose of calories should not exceed 1500 kcal.
Under the ban were various purchased sauces, oils, spices, fatty, sweet and starchy products. Alcohol is strictly prohibited.
Menu for 7 days
The 7-day buckwheat diet is considered the most optimal duration. Even in a strict or buckwheat-kefir version of the diet, you can hold out for a week. We offer a sample menu for the week.
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The most stringent types of diets are strict buckwheat and buckwheat kefir. It is much easier to maintain a 14-day mixed buckwheat diet, where the main product is supplemented with vegetables, fruits and dietary meat.
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Reviews and achievements
It's nice to lose weight with familiar foods that can be found in every refrigerator. Convenient foods, simple meals, low cooking costs – what else can an ideal diet consist of? There is nothing else to add except sport.
Considering the foregoing, the ideal option for losing weight with foods familiar to the body would be the buckwheat diet, reviews and results of which look 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 you can deal with small flaws. Positive reviews confirm the loss of kilograms and an improvement in the general condition of the body.
Diet recipes
We bring to your attention a few simple recipes for dietary dishes that will help 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 bulb
- 1 carrot
- 2 tablespoons of flour
Cooking:
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, fry. Add vegetables, egg, flour to buckwheat and mix well. Shape cutlets from the resulting mass. Boil water in a saucepan and put a special strainer or pressure cooker on it for steaming cutlets. Pass the cutlets through a sieve, cover the pan with a lid and cook for 25-30 minutes, adding water if necessary. You can also cook buckwheat cutlets in a double boiler or in a 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 let it cool, pour in the broth. Grate the carrots or cut into strips, cut the onion into half rings, fry in a dry frying pan. Cut the meat into pieces. Put 0. 5 liters of water on fire in a saucepan. When it boils, throw pieces of brisket, buckwheat, fried greens 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 bell pepper
- 1st l. lemon juice
Cooking:
Sort out the 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 mash or beat it into minced meat. Grate the carrots, cut the pepper into small pieces. Mix greens with buckwheat, add lemon juice. Knead, form balls, leave to rest for 20-30 minutes and you can eat.
Buckwheat with vegetables in the pot
Ingredients:
- 100 g of buckwheat
- 150 g of frozen mixed vegetables or
- 1 small tomato
- 1 small aubergine
- 1 small carrot
- 1 small pepper
- greens
Cooking:
Sort out the buckwheat, wash it, put it in a pot. Pour the semolina with water until it covers the buckwheat by 1 cm. Cut the vegetables into small pieces and combine with the buckwheat. If you use a frozen mix, you can pour less water into the cereal, because the greens will melt and give water. Preheat the oven to 120 degrees. Cover the pot with a lid and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Cut the vegetables. After 20 minutes, turn off the oven, remove the pan, pour the vegetables into it, put it back in the oven for 5-10 minutes. Taking up the dish again, you can serve it to the table.
