Buckwheat is considered an ideal dietary product to promote weight loss and a must-have item on the vegetarian menu. Its consumption is the basis of many types of buckwheat diets. The chemical composition of buckwheat is so diverse and saturated with substances necessary for the body, which makes it a useful product. It does not lend itself to genetic modification. Cereals contain vitamins of group B, PP, A and E and microelements that are not found in any other cereal, these are strontium, vanadium, titanium, selenium. Buckwheat is rich in amino acids, polyunsaturated fats, and fiber. 100 grams of cereal contains 329 calories. Buckwheat contains proteins that surpass animal proteins in their properties and are easily absorbed by the body. Buckwheat carbohydrates are absorbed more slowly, creating a feeling of fullness.
Buckwheat benefits also differ depending on its type, whole grains peeled from the shell are called grains and are a storehouse of nutrients, and shredded or prodeled ones contain fewer nutrients and fewer calories.
Pros and Cons
The advantages of the buckwheat mono-diet are its simplicity in cooking and its availability. The cereal retains its properties even after cooling. It does not deteriorate when stored for a long time.
The nutrients contained in cereals cleanse the blood and improve blood circulation, prevent anemia, improve the functioning of the digestive tract due to the fiber content, which improves intestinal motility, which is the prevention of constipation.
Buckwheat diet improves the appearance of the skin, nails, removes traces of cellulite, and slims and fixes the figure. Due to its properties, buckwheat can replace products such as potatoes, bread products and many cereals.
Buckwheat has a chemical composition that prevents it from going rancid and moldy during long-term storage. Buckwheat removes excess fluid and helps remove obvious and latent edema.
The downsides of the buckwheat diet are its monotony in the menu, which can contribute to the spoilage and rejection of buckwheat.
The diet involves avoiding salt and sugar, but avoiding salt can lower your blood pressure and make you feel worse. Avoiding sugar can lead to decreased mental performance, which should be taken into account and dieting during lulls and not very serious projects. It is better not to add sugar to the diet, it will lead to a higher caloric content of the porridge, and salt can be added in minimal amounts.
The calorie content of a Greek mono-diet is 400-450 per day, this is very little for vigorous activity, but the feeling of fullness will not allow you to feel hungry.
Another disadvantage of the diet is its contraindications. These include pregnancy and the lactation period. Diseases of the digestive system, such as colitis and gastritis, it is not advisable to use kefir-buckwheat, it can provoke its exacerbation. Steamed buckwheat is contraindicated for varicose veins, blood diseases and a tendency to thrombus formation. One should refrain from a mono-diet during the period of exacerbation of chronic diseases and after surgery.
Taking multivitamin preparations contributes to the enrichment of the body with a complex of substances for good nutrition, it is very useful for mono-diets.
The exit from the diet should be gradual, if it is neglected, the extra kilos will return very soon.
Diet for 14 days
Mono Diet is a great way to lose 5 pounds or more. After completing the diet, you need to follow good nutrition so that the result is preserved for a long time.
Principles
Buckwheat contains water, but when consumed in amounts of about 500 grams per day, an additional amount of fluid is required.
Boiling buckwheat will cause a decrease in nutrients, so it should be boiled with boiling water. The method of preparation has its own characteristics and for this you need to pour a glass of buckwheat into a saucepan and pour boiling water over it. The water level should be 2-3 cm above the level of the buckwheat.
Buckwheat is washed with cold water from the rubble and steamed with boiling water, left overnight or a couple of hours in a warm place or wrapped in a pan with a towel. Salt should be, in the end will reduce the amount of salt ingested during the day.
When compiling the menu and choosing products for them, the side dishes should be prepared in a quarter less than the amount of porridge by weight. This amount of garnish contributes to the quality outcome of the diet.
Daily menu
A buckwheat diet can cause depression and sadness, but with an optimistic attitude and combination of products and focus on results, it will bring changes in appearance and reduce weight in a short period of time. All dishes should be eaten fresh, prepared just before meals.
1 day
Breakfast and dinner consist of buckwheat porridge, for dinner you can add stewed vegetables or mushrooms with onions as a garnish. Vegetable tomato soup is on the menu for lunch. You can have tea with a tablespoon of honey for breakfast and green tea for dinner with a lemon wedge.
2 days
Breakfast and dinner consist of buckwheat porridge, while you can make a vegetable salad for breakfast and just herbs and a hard-boiled egg for dinner. For lunch, there should always be chicken soup or broth with herbs or milk soup with buckwheat.
3-5 days
These days you should eat steamed buckwheat while respecting the drinking regimen. You can diversify the menu with a handful of nuts, but not more than once a day, and rosehip decoction.
6 days
Breakfast and dinner consist of buckwheat. For breakfast, buckwheat with milk, for dinner, with battered cauliflower and a boiled egg. Lunch: low calorie vegetable soup without potatoes.
7 days
Breakfast and dinner consist of steamed buckwheat, garnished with vegetables for breakfast, and a hard-boiled egg and seaweed salad for dinner. Lunch: okroshka or mushroom soup with herbs.
8 days
For breakfast and dinner, the menu should include buckwheat with low-fat cottage cheese for breakfast and fresh or stewed vegetables as a side for dinner. Lunch: boiled turkey or beef with cabbage salad.
9 to 11 days
Buckwheat porridge and drinking water are the diet these days. It should be remembered that no more than 0. 5 kg should be consumed per day. This amount does not put much pressure on the body and helps to maintain a feeling of fullness throughout the day.
12 days
Breakfast and dinner consist of buckwheat porridge with butter or olive oil for breakfast and a side of mushrooms or vegetables for dinner. Besides this, you can drink unsweetened green tea and coffee. Lunch - vegetable soup with herbs.
13 days
Breakfast and dinner consist of buckwheat, but you can add cottage cheese for breakfast and boiled mushrooms or vegetables for dinner. Lunch can be varied with vegetable soup, tomato or with the addition of lentils.
14 days
- Breakfast.You can diversify the menu for the last day by making buckwheat meatballs with vegetables as a garnish. Alternatively, you can use low-fat cottage cheese and buckwheat porridge, green tea with a tablespoon of honey.
- Lunch.Meat broth with boiled egg and herbs.
- Dinner.Buckwheat porridge with steamed turkey breast with fresh herbs.
During the entire period of the diet between lunch and dinner, you can eat fruit, drink rosehip broth and only green tea. You need to remember the drinking regimen while losing weight.
Diet for 7 days
The diet for 7 days consists of cooking buckwheat in an amount of 6-8 tablespoons of cereals per day. The cooking principles remain the same as for the two week diet.
Monday
The all-day diet consists of buckwheat and is represented by buckwheat porridge for breakfast, buckwheat cutlets garnished with vegetables, or salad for lunch and dinner with buckwheat meatballs. For breakfast, kefir, fat-free and unsweetened tea are suitable for dinner.
Tuesday
The morning menu consists of buckwheat and buckwheat bread for breakfast and steamed buckwheat pancakes for lunch. Dinner is light and it is better to eat grapefruit, which is very useful to lose weight.
Wednesday
The all-day menu consists of steamed buckwheat and an oatmeal breakfast, buckwheat soup lunch, and buttered oatmeal dinner. Complement breakfast and dinner with a glass of mineral water and unsweetened tea for lunch.
Thursday
Breakfast, lunch consists of buckwheat. For breakfast, you can use bread, steamed buckwheat pancakes, and for lunch - buckwheat porridge. Dinner should be light and you can make a fruit or vegetable salad with butter or yogurt.
Friday
Buckwheat is the diet of the day and is served steamed for breakfast and dinner, and buckwheat soup for lunch. It will be useful to drink kefir for breakfast, mineral water with lemon for lunch.
Saturday
Buckwheat for breakfast and dinner, steamed buckwheat for breakfast, buckwheat meatballs for dinner. Lunch consists of apple and onion grated with cucumber.
Sunday
Breakfast and lunch, dinner consists of buckwheat. Breakfast: buckwheat porridge, apple porridge for lunch, steamed buckwheat pancakes for dinner. Breakfast can be supplemented with mineral water with lemon, lunch - with kefir, dinner - with mineral water.
Diet for 3 days
The 3-day diet is like fasting days. The main dish during these three days is buckwheat, which will allow you to lose about three kilograms of weight. Drinking alcohol is not recommended, it is harmful to the body and very high in calories. You need to get enough sleep and walk more, drink at least two liters of fluid. During the period of the diet, the stomach will decrease in size and in the later period, the food intake will also decrease in volume. Eat half a grapefruit every day.
Menu
1st day
Breakfast, lunch and dinner consist of buckwheat, only for dinner you should add vegetable salad.
Second day
The second day's ration consists of steamed buckwheat complemented by an apple or half a grapefruit, a white cabbage salad and green tea with rose hip.
Third day
Buckwheat is an all-day meal and can be complemented with salad and fruit. Buckwheat is used only in the form of porridge.
Kefir and buckwheat diet
The main ingredients are kefir, which should be drunk during the day, one liter, and buckwheat in an amount of 400 to 500 grams. This diet is a 7 or 14 day diet modification. The menu is a set of the same products, but you need to adhere to its two components - buckwheat and kefir.
The diet enriches the body with the necessary proteins and carbohydrates, buckwheat cleanses of toxins and toxins, brings lightness and harmony to the figure.
Buckwheat vegetable diet
The basis of this diet is buckwheat. It should be made with boiled water, not boiled. The diet can be enriched with vegetables such as cabbage, celery, cucumbers, bell peppers. In this diet, it is necessary to exclude potatoes, which contribute to the development of constipation, since the diet is monotonous. Drink a liquid in a volume of two liters and drink tea with rosehip decoctions, herbal teas are optional and are not included in this volume.
Milk and buckwheat diet
The combination of milk and buckwheat mono-diets works when using skim milk. Buckwheat is steamed overnight with water, and in the morning milk is added to the porridge or drunk separately. The diet can be used for a period of 3 days, 10 days, and if you feel and want to continue eating, extend it to 14 days.
This mono-diet has 2 options:
- Steamed buckwheat and milk should be used alternately on one day of buckwheat and another day of milk. This diet is used for 3 days and allows you to lose 3 kg.
- Eat buckwheat and milk alternately throughout the day. Breakfast - buckwheat oatmeal, lunch - a glass of milk and in that order. Buckwheat dishes can be varied, they can be steamed pancakes, cutlets or meatballs.
Reviews
Numerous forums of people who want to lose weight and share experiences, and the results of these diets, say that a diet based on buckwheat not only helps to lose weight, but with proper nutrition, it helps not to gain it. The monotony of this diet does not become the least reason to abandon it.
Results
The diet allows you to get rid not only of excess weight, but also of toxins from the body. Its use improves the appearance, the condition of the skin and normalizes the metabolism. The psychological mood changes, the mood improves, stress resistance increases.
The exit from the diet should not be abrupt, it should come out gradually. The diet can be repeated only after 30 to 45 days.