"Sit down" on a watermelon diet - it's like following a water diet, and in the literal sense of the word. Because watermelon pulp is 95% water.
Watermelon diet: what is it for?
As you might guess, the main food in the watermelon diet is watermelon pulp. Or rather, you should eat a few slices of watermelon for dessert after breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also eat 3-4 juicy slices of watermelon around noon (lunch time). However, do not go beyond that: in total, you can eat up to 2 kg of watermelon per day, but no more.
The watermelon diet is 90% water. Although watermelon is a sweet 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, relieving the feeling of hunger, and at the same time it is absorbed almost instantly.
In addition to water, watermelons contain a large amount of fiber, which helps restore the efficient functioning of the digestive system and remove excess fluid from the tissues.
Thus, the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. With water, harmful substances and toxins are removed from the tissues and cells of the skin, which means that the skin is cleansed, renewed and takes on a healthier appearance.
Benefits of the Watermelon Diet
Besides the fact that the watermelon diet helps to quickly give the figure an attractive and slender figure, it also saturates the body with some useful substances. Among them: potassium, magnesium, valuable vitamins A, C, B, as well as vitamin PP.
A little-known fact that gives the watermelon diet its health food status: watermelon is rich in the antioxidant lycopene, which is famous for its anti-cancer properties. Therefore, the watermelon diet can be practiced not only for weight loss, but also as an effective cancer prevention.
Features of the watermelon diet
Only fresh, ripe fruit is suitable for a watermelon diet. How to choose the right watermelon? In a quality fruit, the peel is dense, and if it is slightly scraped with a fingernail, there will be no bumps on it, but only the upper thin layer will slightly "peel off".
If you hit a watermelon, as if on a ball, with your palm, the sound should not be deaf in any way, but sonorous, slightly vibrating.
Another important question is how to properly store watermelon during the watermelon diet. Correct answer: in the refrigerator, wrap the fruit cut into pieces in cling film.
At the time of the watermelon diet, it is necessary to focus on protein foods and vegetables, excluding sweets, fats and alcohol from the menu for some time. 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 carried out no earlier than a month later. These ten days are more than enough to lose 2 to 6 kilos at the end.