"Sitting" on a watermelon diet - it's like doing a water diet, and literally the word. Because watermelon pulp is 95% water.
Watermelon diet: what's the problem?
The main food on the watermelon diet, as you might have guessed, is watermelon pulp. Or rather, you need to eat a few slices of watermelon as a dessert after breakfast, lunch and dinner, and eat 3-4 slices of juicy watermelon around 12 noon (lunch time). However, do not overdo it: in total, you can eat up to 2 kg of watermelon per day, but no more.
The watermelon diet is 90% 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, relieves the feeling of hunger, and at the same time it is absorbed almost immediately.
In addition to water, watermelon also contains a large amount of fiber, which helps restore the efficient functioning of the digestive system and remove excess fluid from the tissues.
So the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. Along with water, harmful substances and toxins are washed away from skin tissues and cells, meaning skin is cleansed, regenerated and looks healthier.
Benefits of the watermelon diet
In addition to the fact that the watermelon diet helps to quickly give a charming figure, slim lines, it also helps to saturate the body with a number of useful substances. In it: potassium, magnesium, vitamins A, C, vitamin B, as well as vitamin PP.
A little-known fact that makes the watermelon diet a healthy food: watermelon is high in the antioxidant lycopene, well known for its cancer-fighting properties. Therefore, it is possible to follow a watermelon diet not only for weight loss but also as an effective cancer prevention.
Features of the watermelon diet
Only ripe and fresh fruits are suitable for a watermelon diet. How to choose the right watermelon? Quality fruit, thick skin, if you use a fingernail to scrape it lightly, there will be no dents, but only the upper layer is slightly "sloughed off".
If you slap a watermelon with the palm of your hand, the sound should not be deafening, but a low, slightly vibrating sound.
Another important question is how to properly store watermelon during the watermelon diet. Correct answer: in the refrigerator, wrap the cut fruit in cling film.
At the time of the watermelon diet, it is necessary to focus on protein foods and vegetables, exclude sweets, fats and alcohol from the menu for a while. The latter is complete and without exception. The fact is that watermelon combined with alcohol often causes severe indigestion.
The duration of the watermelon diet is not more than 10 days, the next course can be carried out no earlier than a month later. These ten days are quite enough to lose 2-6 kg in the end.