"Sit" on a watermelon diet - it's like going on a water diet, and literally. Because the pulp of watermelon is 95% water.
Watermelon diet: what's the point?
The main nutrient in the watermelon diet is, as you might guess, watermelon pulp. More precisely, you should eat a few slices of watermelon for dessert after breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also eat 3-4 juicy watermelon slices around 12 noon (lunchtime). However, do not go beyond: in total you can eat up to 2 kg of watermelon per day, but not more.
90% of the watermelon diet is water. Despite the fact that watermelon is a sugar product, its calorie content is estimated to be low - no more than 40 kcal per 100 g of watermelon pulp. Thanks to this property, watermelon perfectly saturates, quenches the feeling of hunger, and is also almost instantly absorbed.
In addition to water, watermelons contain a large amount of fiber, which helps to restore the effective functioning of the digestive system and remove excess fluid from the tissues.
That is why the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. With water, harmful substances and toxins are washed away from tissue and skin cells, which means that the skin is cleaned, regenerated and gains a healthier appearance.
benefits of watermelon diet
In addition to the fact that the watermelon diet helps to quickly give the figure a seductive, slim outline, it also saturates the body with some useful substances. Among them: potassium, magnesium, valuable vitamins A, C, B vitamins, as well as vitamin PP.
A little-known fact that gives the watermelon diet a health food status: watermelon is rich in the antioxidant lycopene, which is famous for its anti-cancer properties. Therefore, the watermelon diet can be applied not only for weight loss, but also for effective cancer prevention.
Features of the watermelon diet
Only fresh and ripe fruits are suitable for the watermelon diet. How to choose the right watermelon? In a quality fruit, the skin is dense and if lightly scraped with your fingernail, there will be no dents on it, but only the upper thin layer will "peel" slightly.
If you slap a watermelon with your palm as if it were on a ball, the sound should not be deafening by any means, but should be slightly pulsating.
Another important question is how to properly store watermelon during the watermelon diet. Correct answer: In the refrigerator, wrap the sliced \u200b\u200bfruits in cling film.
When making a watermelon diet, it is necessary to focus on protein foods and vegetables, excluding sweets, oils and alcohol, from the menu for a while. The latter is complete and without exception. The fact is that watermelon in combination with alcohol often causes severe indigestion.
The duration of the watermelon diet should not exceed 10 days, the next course can be done no later than a month later. These ten days are quite enough to finally lose 2-6 kilos.