If you want to quickly and effectively lose weight, it is worth considering the option of losing weight with buckwheat express diet. Its features, advantages and disadvantages, as well as the rules of use are contained in the article.
Pros and cons of buckwheat diet for 5 days
Weight loss with buckwheat suggests that a certain number of days is necessary to use only this porridge, as well as drink a sufficient amount of liquid.
Usually buckwheat diet is carried out for three, seven or fourteen days. But there is also the option to lose weight on porridge for five days. Croup should be eaten in boiled or seasoned in water (kefir) form. The described type of diet has pros and cons.Important! After eating, you should not immediately drink cold or hot drinks. Wait at least 20-30 minutes after a meal.
- Among its advantages, one can list the following:
- bowel cleansing;
- the establishment of the gastrointestinal tract;
- improved metabolism;
- saturation of the body with essential vitamins and minerals;
- removal of excess fluid;
- availability;
- low cost of products;
- ease of cooking.
It is worth mentioning the disadvantages of losing weight on buckwheat. Despite the benefits of buckwheat, if you eat only it, then the body will not have enough calories. As a result, it is possible to observe a lack of energy, strength, a bad mood, a frequent feeling of hunger.
Since a woman needs 1,200–1,300 kilocalories per day for normal life (if she is not engaged in hard physical work or is not actively involved in sports), and 100 grams of buckwheat porridge contains 132 kilocalories, 1 kg of buckwheat should be eaten to satisfy the daily requirement of the body. per day, which is unrealistic.
Another significant drawback of the diet is the lack of essential amino acids in the described product. And with these elements it is necessary to saturate the body for its stable operation.
If you use only one buckwheat, then weight loss occurs incorrectly, since the fluid goes away, muscle mass is lost, but fat is not burned. Because of this, buckwheat mono-diet does not lead to a lasting and lasting effect. According to reviews, pretty soon after this method of losing weight, the weight returns.
Therefore, it is advised to resort to an express diet for a quick and insignificant dumping of extra pounds, for example, to some special date. In the future, in order to no longer gain weight, you should establish a regime of rational healthy nutrition and engage in sports.
How much can you lose weight in 5 days
When eating only buckwheat porridge during the specified time, you can lose up to 5 kg. This result can be achieved not only by eating porridge, but by combining this process with moderate physical activity, long walks. It is worth paying attention that the weight will not go away immediately. In the first 1-2 days, usually no changes are observed. The result is noticeable on the third or fourth day.
Did you know? Mongol-Tatars brought buckwheat to the territory of European states during the invasion. Because of this, she is often called Tatar in Europe.
How to cook buckwheat with a diet
During the diet, boiled porridge is consumed. Cooking it is very simple. Rinse the cereal, remove black grains and the remains of the husk from it. Pour two to one water into the pan. After it boils, place buckwheat in it. Boil until all the water has evaporated.
When dieting, they often use buckwheat without cooking. You can cook it in two ways - pouring boiling water or kefir.
On the water, you need to cook porridge like this:
- Place 1 cup washed cereal in a thermos.
- Pour it with freshly boiled water (150 ml).
- Drain the liquid.
- Pour boiling water again.
- Leave to infuse overnight.
Another option is to steam the cereal in the closed state for 30–40 minutes. You can pour cereals not just with water, but with low-fat kefir (1%).
Buckwheat diet menu for 5 days
The essence of a rigid mono-diet is to use only buckwheat porridge. It should be eaten during the day 5-6 times in small portions. If such a strict option is not suitable, then another component can be added to the porridge. It can be apples, grapefruit, kefir, yogurt.
Important! You can not resort to the express diet very often, it is better to do this 2 times in six months with minimum breaks of 1.5 months. Otherwise, such nutrition can adversely affect the state of health.
To lose weight in a specified amount of time, buckwheat can be eaten in unlimited quantities. Kefir and yogurt is limited to 1 liter, fruits - 0.5 kg. The last meal should be planned at least 4 hours before bedtime.
If, after some time after the start of the mono-diet, dizziness and severe weakness are observed, then such nutrition should be stopped and gradually returned to the normal menu.
What products can be combined buckwheat
The addition of salt and oil should be excluded. You can only season the porridge with spinach, parsley, dill, olive oil. Also allowed the use of low-fat kefir. It should be drunk half an hour before meals or half an hour after a meal. Alternatively, you can eat low-fat yogurt.
A prerequisite is the use of a large amount of liquid. At least 1.5–2 liters of water should be drunk per day. It is also acceptable to use herbal, green, black unsweetened tea. You can add a slice of lemon to it. If a feeling of hunger causes severe discomfort, a small amount of dried fruit is allowed. Lovers of sweets will not hurt 1 tsp. honey per day.
What you need to refuse with a diet
To achieve the desired effect of dietary nutrition, it is advisable to prepare for it in advance. This means that it is not worth immediately abandoning other products, because this will be a huge stress for the body, and gradually withdrawing them from the menu. So, first of all, about 3 weeks before the diet, you need to remove all the fried from the table. From the same period, it is worth reducing the amount of food consumed in one meal.
A week before the planned express diet, the minimum amount of salt should be left on the menu. At the same time, it is worth introducing buckwheat with kefir into the daily diet. This product needs to be eaten once a day.
Video: buckwheat with kefir
How to get out of a diet
Of course, one cannot go out of the diet abruptly. This means that after the end of a five-day diet, you should not immediately pounce on everything that the hungry body wants. Switch to a normal diet should be gradual. Buckwheat in the diet should be left 1 time per day. At other times, it must be replaced with a variety of cereals - rice, wheat, corn, pearl barley, oat, etc. In the afternoon you need to eat diet soup. Be sure to enter the menu of vegetables and fruits. Low-fat meat and fish in small quantities (about 300 g) can be tasted 3 days after the end of the diet.
Do not reduce fluid intake. She needs to saturate the body, as before, in the amount of 1.5–2 liters per day.
To whom the diet is contraindicated
Not everyone can resort to losing weight with the help of diets. There are categories of people who should not do this.
Did you know? Buckwheat has a lot more amino acids lysine and methionine, as well as vitamin B9, than in other cereals. The human body, this cereal is absorbed by 78%.
- These include:
- Pregnant
- lactating women;
- people suffering from high blood pressure;
- Diabetics
- those who experience heavy physical exertion;
- with diagnoses confirming the presence of problems in the gastrointestinal tract;
- with diseases of the cardiovascular system;
- those who in the near future will have abdominal surgery;
- having allergies and individual intolerance.
Thus, buckwheat diet allows you to quickly lose up to 5 kg. Before resorting to it, you should make sure that there are no contraindications. Do not eat monocomponent for a long amount of time. This can lead to health problems.
