The cucumber diet helps you get rid of extra pounds quickly. Prescribes the use of cucumbers by adding certain products to the diet: fish, meat, eggs, tomatoes, kefir. The popularity of this method of losing weight is due to its simplicity and low cost. However, this may have contraindications and disadvantages.
How the diet works
The effectiveness of the diet is related to the main product of the diet - cucumber. A vegetable is 97% water, the remaining percentage is mineral salts, fibers, nitrogenous compounds, sugars, B vitamins. Useful trace elements support the functioning of the kidneys, blood vessels and heart. Even a one-day diet starts processes in the body that lead to strong weight loss:
- fibers accelerate and improve digestion;
- the product absorbs and removes harmful substances from the body;
- Tartronic acid prevents the processing of carbohydrates into fat reserves;
- the diuretic effect of the vegetable eliminates excess salts and eliminates swelling.
Such a diet can be considered low-calorie. The energy value of the product is 16 kcal per 100 grams. If a person uses this herbal preparation daily, only 250 kcal will enter the body, which will allow continuous weight loss. The enzymes found in cucumbers promote better absorption of proteins in the body. Therefore, such a product can be well combined with fish and meat.
It can be used to make salads or added to fried or boiled fish or chicken dishes. Such a nutritional system leads to gradual weight loss and does not harm the body. When eating cucumbers, weight loss occurs quickly. You can lose 1 kg in 1 day.
Eligibility rules
In order for the cucumber diet to lose weight to be effective, you must follow the established rules:
- to quickly get rid of excess pounds, you need to choose a nutrition system for 3 days or a kefir option for a week;
- the main product of the diet is fresh cucumber without bread and salt;
- vegetables go well with protein foods: chicken, yogurt, cottage cheese, milk, kefir, eggs;
- other vegetables can also be included in the menu, but in smaller quantities;
- unsweetened fruits are allowed once a day;
- dishes that are desirable to cook during the diet: beets, okroshka, vegetable salads;
- salt is added in minimal quantities;
- food intake - 5 times a day, in small portions;
- It is recommended to drink 2 liters of water per day.
To be more effective, you need to practice.
Advantages and disadvantages
The cucumber diet has both positive and negative sides.
The advantages of this technique are:
- rapid weight loss;
- saturation of the body with various vitamins;
- does not lead to exhaustion;
- the feeling of hunger is practically absent;
- quenches thirst well in summer.
Mistakes:
- has many contraindications;
- removes useful substances from the body;
- has a strong diuretic effect;
- the result may not be permanent.
If there are contraindications, then this technique should be abandoned. To ensure that minerals and vitamins are not washed out of the body, you need to take multivitamin complexes. You can save weight after a diet if you exit it correctly and stick to proper nutrition in the future.
Contraindications
Such a nutritional system is prohibited in the case of the following diseases:
- peptic ulcer;
- gastritis;
- enterocolitis.
Salted and pickled cucumbers are prohibited in case of high blood pressure, gastrointestinal, liver and kidney diseases.
Types of cucumber diets and menus
There are many effective ways to lose weight that can last from 1 day to 2 weeks. Even therapeutic diets have been developed, when it is necessary to eat 1. 5 kg of cucumbers per day, including low-calorie dishes. You can lose up to 8 kg in 14 days. Fruits, berries and nuts (optional) help make up for vitamin deficiency.
mono diet
This method of treating excess weight includes the inclusion of the main vegetable - cucumber - in the diet. Must comply within 1 day. During this time, the skin is cleansed, the metabolism is restored, and the body's water-salt balance is normalized. During the day, you should drink green tea or coffee without sugar in moderation, because the vegetable already contains a lot of water. Such a mono-diet should be used once a month.
Make a salad with cucumbers and onions, add greens and season with low-fat sour cream. The meal is divided into 4 portions and can be consumed as follows:
- the first dose at 9-10 a. m. ;
- the second - 13-14 hours;
- the third - 16-17 hours;
- the fourth - between 19-20 hours.
You can add 1 tomato, 1 orange, a piece of whole grain bread, and 1 egg to each meal. It is allowed to eat 1 green apple at night.
for 7 days
With such a 7-day diet, you can lose 3-4 kg. Breakfast necessarily includes 2 cucumbers.
Monday
- Breakfast: 1 egg omelet with 70 ml skim milk.
- Lunch: cucumber salad with parsley or dill, seasoned with lemon juice.
- Lunch: 150 g boiled chicken leg, fresh cabbage.
- Afternoon snack: 2 fresh cucumbers.
- Dinner: vegetable salad, boiled egg.
Tuesday
- Breakfast: soft-boiled eggs.
- Lunch: 200 ml low-fat kefir.
- Lunch: 150 g of fried fish, 2 tomatoes and cucumber.
- Afternoon snack: 2 small cucumbers.
- Dinner: 100 g low-fat cottage cheese, 2 cucumbers.
Wednesday
- Breakfast: 2 egg omelette.
- Lunch: cucumber smoothie.
- Lunch: 150 g beef stew, vegetable salad 2 tbsp. l. green peas.
- Afternoon snack: a glass of kefir.
- Dinner: carrot, cabbage and cucumber salad 1 tbsp. l. olive oil.
Cucumber smoothie recipe: Peel the vegetable, cut it into cubes and put it in a blender. Add 2 green onion feathers, 3 sprigs of dill, and a glass of low-fat kefir. Grind until smooth and add a little salt.
Thursday
- Breakfast: 2 tablespoons. l. buckwheat porridge.
- Lunch: 200 ml kefir.
- Lunch: cold soup.
- Afternoon snack: cucumber smoothie.
- Dinner: 150 g chicken cutlet, cucumber salad.
Friday
- Breakfast: 2 soft-boiled eggs.
- Lunch: a slice of wholemeal bread with cucumber puree.
- Lunch: 150 g of beef steak, coleslaw and cucumber.
- Afternoon snack: cucumber smoothie.
- Dinner: 100 g low-fat yogurt.
Saturday
- Breakfast: omelette.
- Lunch: a glass of kefir.
- Lunch: boiled chicken, cucumber salad.
- Afternoon snack: 200 ml tomato juice.
- Dinner: cucumber salad with avocado.
Cucumber and avocado salad Recipe: 2 peeled cucumbers. Grind the vegetables and avocado, chop the dill, green onion and garlic clove into small pieces. Mix the salad and season with lemon juice.
Sunday
- Breakfast: 2 tablespoons. l. cereal.
- Lunch: cucumber smoothie.
- Lunch: 150 g lean fish stew, cucumber salad.
- Afternoon snack: 250 ml kefir.
- Dinner: salad with cucumber, corn and egg.
During the diet, you have to exercise a lot, drink water or unsweetened tea. Herbs such as chamomile, mint, rosehip, sage, etc. its concoctions are beneficial.
3 days
Cucumber diet weight loss 2 kg in 3 days can be considered unloading. You should eat 2 kg of vegetables every day. An approximate menu looks like this: after waking up, they drink a glass of warm water with the addition of lemon. This helps the body to wake up and cleanse itself of toxins.
To lose 2-3 kg of weight, cook tomatoes, cucumbers and greens for breakfast. Season with olive oil and lemon juice. He allowed me to eat a piece of rye bread and drink green tea. For lunch, they prepare vegetable soup in lean broth. You can make a salad from boiled chicken breast and cucumber. Dinner is represented by low-fat cottage cheese, vegetable salad with herbs and cucumber. This menu should be followed for 3 days. The total calorie content of the products does not exceed 900 kcal.
for 10 days
You can lose 7-8 kg on a cucumber diet for 10 days. The all-day breakfast includes 2 cucumbers and a piece of rye bread. Sample menu:
One day
- Lunch: vegetable soup with carrots and cucumbers.
- Snack: orange.
- Dinner: cucumber salad.
2 days
- Lunch: salad of boiled veal, radishes and cucumbers.
- Snack: apple.
- Dinner: cucumber smoothie, hard cheese.
3 days
- Lunch: 200 g of rice, 100 g of boiled fish fillet, pickled cucumber.
- Snack: orange.
- Dinner: cucumber salad with vegetable oil.
4 days
- Lunch: 20 g of hard cheese, 150 g of rice, cucumber.
- Snack: 1 apple.
- Dinner: low-fat cottage cheese, vegetable salad in olive oil.
5 days
- Lunch: vegetable stew of cucumber, radish and cabbage.
- Snack: orange.
- Dinner: salad of greens and cucumbers.
6 days
- Lunch: boiled egg, radish, cucumber and carrot vegetable soup.
- Snack: pear and tangerine.
- Dinner: hard cheese, cucumber smoothie.
7 days
- Lunch: radish, carrot, cabbage, cucumber stew.
- Snack: apple.
- Dinner: cucumber salad seasoned with vegetable oil.
8 days
- Lunch: 100 g of boiled brown rice, 100 g of boiled fish.
- Snack: orange.
- Dinner: vegetable salad with herbs.
Day 9
- Lunch: steamed vegetables.
- Snack: apple.
- Dinner: hard cheese, cucumber salad.
10 days
- Lunch: boiled egg, vegetable salad.
- Snack: pear.
- Dinner: salad of greens and cucumbers, with olive oil.
With kefir
The cucumber-kefir diet for weight loss consists of cucumber and kefir. This technique shows good results due to the low calorie content of the products. There are many variations of such an energy system. Some of them lose up to 8 kg in a week. The most effective way to lose weight takes 7 days. It does not contain a clear menu. During the day, you should eat 1. 5 kg of fresh cucumbers, 100 g of low-fat sea fish in boiled or fried form, and drink 1. 5 liters of 1% kefir. This quantity is divided into 5-6 parts of each product.
You are allowed to drink unlimited amounts of water during the diet. You can use decoctions of herbs or green tea. This diet should be followed for 7 days.
With tomatoes
This weight loss method is based on the use of cucumbers and tomatoes. These vegetables are 97% water, so they create the illusion of fullness. If desired, the diet can be supplemented with other low-calorie foods. It is necessary to eat in portions - 4-6 times a day. You should drink 1. 5 liters of water every day. Sample menu for 3 days:
One day
- Breakfast: tomato and cucumber salad with herbs, sandwich with thin slices of hard cheese.
- Lunch: 2 boiled eggs, an apple, fresh vegetable salad, a glass of tomato juice.
- Lunch: salad, vegetable soup, 1 apple casserole and 200 g fat-free cottage cheese.
- Dinner: a small piece of boiled white fish, vegetable salad, fat-free yogurt.
2 days
- Breakfast: black bread toast with boiled eggs and salad slices, vegetable salad.
- Lunch: grapefruit, vegetable salad, yogurt, tomato juice.
- Lunch: a piece of boiled chicken breast, salad, vegetable soup.
- Dinner: boiled seafood, fat-free kefir and a glass of tomato juice.
3 days
- Breakfast: diet bread with kiwi and a thin layer of cottage cheese, tomato and cucumber salad.
- Lunch: a piece of boiled fish, 2 cucumbers, 200 ml of tomato juice.
- Lunch: vegetable soup in chicken soup, tomato-cucumber salad, 2 slices of black bread.
- Dinner: a piece of boiled fish, vegetable salad, a glass of tomato juice.
Prohibited and authorized products
The cucumber diet menu should consist of permissible foods. These include:
- vegetables: broccoli, white cabbage, zucchini, eggplant, cucumber, carrot, tomato, beetroot;
- greens: dill, asparagus, lettuce, parsley;
- fruits: apple, orange, tangerine, kiwi, pear, grapefruit;
- cereals: buckwheat, oatmeal, brown rice;
- buckwheat and bran bread;
- kefir, cottage cheese and cheese;
- beef, poultry and turkey;
- chicken eggs;
- fish: hake, cod, pollock, flounder;
- olive oil.
Prohibited products:
- potato;
- solo;
- dumplings, dumplings, pancakes, pasta;
- sweet buns;
- cakes, sweets, jams, preserves;
- ice cream pop;
- cakes, chocolate;
- salt, sugar, mayonnaise;
- colostrum;
- pork, ham, bacon, veal, lard;
- sausage, cooked sausage:
- alcoholic drinks.
How to get off the diet and keep the results
The program for the correct exit from the diet:
- after completion, fruits, vegetables, dairy products should be gradually added to the diet;
- After 1-2 days, cereals are on the menu;
- after another 1 day, it is necessary to switch to the use of fish and meat products.
At the same time, you must maintain a healthy lifestyle and exercise regularly.