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 entail losing weight in your wallet. A buckwheat diet is considered a budget, but very effective option for losing weight. We have been accustomed to this cereal since childhood, and for good reason. Turns out it's really helpful.
Features of the buckwheat diet
On the shelves of stores you can see several types of buckwheat - in kernels and crushed. For weight loss, it is recommended to use kernels, because they have undergone minimal processing and retained more nutrients. Do not be afraid of the calorie content of buckwheat; its calories are rather useful. And the low glycemic index makes this cereal an ideal diet for weight loss.
Usually buckwheat is consumed in the form of cereals and soups. More advanced cooks prepare other hearty and even gourmet dishes from it. Quite a lot 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 even eat after 18: 00, with the only condition that the last meal of any food or drink should be 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 may 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 variations of the buckwheat diet, the most famous are:
- strict
- buckwheat - kefir,
- buckwheat + apples,
- gentle or curative,
- buckwheat + vegetables,
- 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 only use 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 on.
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 the meal, as the food has not yet had time to be digested.
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,
- cleansing the intestines from toxins and slags,
- blood cleansing,
- normalization of cholesterol levels,
- feeling full,
- improving appearance - not only a slim figure, but also healthy nails and hair, beautiful skin.
Diet cons
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, aggressiveness, fatigue and increased irritability,
- 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 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 lactating 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 mono-diets are recommended to be carried out at intervals of at least six months. 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
The transition 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 - 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 couple 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 will not have to starve on it. The hardest part about dieting is staying on top of your favorite foods that you don't want to lose weight. In order not to torment 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-observance of which affects the final result.
- Method for making porridge. Buckwheat kernels need to 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. In this way, all the useful substances in the porridge are preserved.
- Mandatory rejection 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 provoke 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 for sparkling 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 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.
- Mandatory freshness of products. The porridge is prepared the night before. If other products are added, they must be fresh, purchased on that day or a couple of days before.
- Smooth return to normal eating. If you celebrate the end of the diet with a plentiful 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 hold out for 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 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 to maintain a diet, cleanse the body and lose weight. If you notice a change in skin color, structure of 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 are allowed in different versions. Among them:
- low-fat dairy products: milk, kefir, cottage cheese, cheese,
- apples are not sweet varieties,
- any vegetables, whole, stewed 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 a few days.
The daily dose of calories should not exceed 1500 kcal.
Under the ban were various purchased sauces, oils, spices, fatty, sweet, flour products. Alcohol is strictly prohibited.
Menu for 7 days
The 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 hold out for a week. We offer a sample menu for the week.
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The most stringent 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 on familiar foods that can be found in every refrigerator. Affordable foods, simple meals, little cooking costs - what else can an ideal diet consist of? There is nothing more to add except sports.
Considering the above, the ideal option for losing weight on foods familiar to the body would be just 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 shortcomings can be dealt with. 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 flour
Cooking:
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, sauté. Add vegetables, egg, flour to buckwheat and mix well. Form cutlets from the resulting mass. Boil water in a saucepan and place a special sieve or pressure cooker on top of it for steaming cutlets. Put the cutlets in a sieve, cover the pan with a lid and leave to cook for 25-30 minutes, adding water as needed. You can also cook buckwheat cutlets in a double boiler or slow cooker.
Buckwheat diet soup
Ingredients:
- 100 g cooked boiled buckwheat
- 1 small onion
- 1 small carrot
- 1 chicken breast
Cooking:
Boil the chicken meat and take it out to cool, pour out the broth. Grate carrots or cut into strips, cut onion into half rings, fry in a dry frying pan. Cut the meat into pieces. Put 0. 5 liters of water in a saucepan 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 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 mash or beat into minced meat. Grate the carrots, cut the pepper into small pieces. Mix vegetables with buckwheat, add lemon juice. Knead, form balls, let stand for 20-30 minutes and you can eat.
Buckwheat with vegetables in a pot
Ingredients:
- 100 g buckwheat
- 150 g frozen mixed vegetables or
- 1 small tomato
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 small carrot
- 1 small bell pepper
- greens
Cooking:
Sort the buckwheat, wash it, put it in a pot. Pour the grits 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 to the cereal, because the vegetables will melt and give water. Preheat the oven to 120 degrees. Cover the pot with a lid and put in the oven for 20 minutes. Cut greens. After 20 minutes, turn off the oven, remove the pot, pour greens into it, put it back in the oven for 5-10 minutes. Re-taking the dish, you can serve it on the table.
