Fasting day on kefir: how to properly discharge and what result will we get?
Many people practice fasting day on kefir.And they do it not only for weight loss, but also for preventive purposes: the body is cleansed, the state of health improves, and with it the mood rises. The unloading kefir day has its own characteristics and requires adherence to certain rules.
Benefit for health
Nutritionists highly appreciate the unloading on kefir - even slender people who do not have problems with excess weight, are recommended to carry it out at least once every two weeks. But for weight loss need to drink kefir more often - at least 1 time per week. If during such a cleansing day to follow all the rules and recommendations, it will very soon become noticeable how useful this drink is for losing weight and improving well-being.
Kefir helps maintain immunity strong and healthy, it makes sleep more complete, deep, a person rests better, feels a surge of strength during the day, and the feeling of chronic fatigue disappears even among those who lead a very rich and tense life.
The fermented milk product allows you to gently clean the gastrointestinal tract and regulates the production of gastric juice, bile. It quenches thirst, relieves the body of certain metabolites and toxins, contributing to their rapid removal from the intestine, which may well be considered the prevention of cancer.
Kefir for weight loss can be different:
- the weak, wandering only for a day;
- middle - two days;
- strong - wandered for three days.
Three-day kefir is able to cleanse the body better than one-day, and this is quite obvious. You can use numerous "variations": bifidok, bifilife and biokefiry. When choosing such a drink for a fasting day, it is important to pay attention to the content of bifidobacteria and lactobacilli - the higher it is, the more benefit the fasting day will bring. Cleansing the body with kefir from the inside always has external manifestations: skin condition improves, acne rash decreases, hair, nails, teeth become stronger.
Many people believe that there is no need in the bottom of the discharge, it is enough to simply drink kefir in the evenings before bedtime. The benefit of the evening use of sour-milk drink is really great - If you take a glass of kefir about an hour before bedtime, it will help to get rid of the feeling of hunger, which many people make at night looking to fill their stomachs with sandwiches, meatballs and everything in the refrigerator. Kefir does not burden the digestive system, it is perfectly and gently digested. It is rich in calcium, which, as you know, with the proper amount of vitamin D3 in the body, it is better absorbed at night, when a person is resting.
Evening kefir will help prevent constipation. During the night, he will gently clean the digestive tract and in the morning bowel movement will be easy. In addition, drunk kefir for the night completely solves a problem such as a lack of appetite in the morning. Some in the morning can not bring themselves to eat, limited to a cup of coffee or tea. A soft cleaning of the digestive organs at night will create a healthy feeling of hunger in the morning, and breakfast will definitely be to its liking. And yet the reception of kefir at night can not replace the unloading kefir day for several reasons. During the daily discharge, the cleaning is deeper, the digestive organs are “re-adjusted”, the weight reduction is more efficient with the use of the discharge day.
Kefir day is available to everyone - it is inexpensive, does not require delicacies or expensive ingredients. The product is perfectly combined with most of the dishes from the diet, and therefore it is easy to create combined discharge with it. Even very busy people will be easy to observe the day of discharge, because you do not need to cook anything. In addition, you can take a drink anywhere, not necessarily at the table in your own kitchen - a bottle of kefir can be taken to work, to study, in the car.
The beneficial effect of kefir is due to its ability to clean the intestines.It is the intestines loaded with undigested residues that slow down the metabolic processes in the body, and this becomes the reason for the accumulation of extra pounds. Clean intestines are more efficient, metabolic processes are accelerated, fats are consumed more efficiently, which leads to a decrease in body weight.
Contraindications
Nutritionists always approach the appointment of a kefir discharge day selectively. Although the benefits of kefir and great, there are situations where such unloading can harm a person. This method of cleaning the body is not recommended for people with:
- individual intolerance to dairy products, allergy to milk protein;
- chronic and acute pathologies of the stomach, intestines, pancreas, gallbladder and liver;
- anorexia and weight gain;
- diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder.
Also, cleansing days on sour-milk drinks are not recommended for children under sixteen years of age and for people who are currently sick with SARS, acute respiratory infections, influenza or are in the rehabilitation stage after operations or acute illness.
There are certain restrictions on unloading and in the days of menstruation - it is best to clean the body after the next menstruation is over. Also it is necessary to refrain from unloading on kefir in moments of experiencing severe stress: a change of job or place of residence, separation from a loved one, divorce, death of a loved one, etc.
A fasting day on kefir is contraindicated for pregnant women and nursing mothers. If during pregnancy there is a pathological increase in weight above the norm, a feeling of heaviness in the stomach, bloating, then the nutrition correction is prescribed by the doctor, who observes the pregnancy.
It is usually enough to change the list of consumed foods and the way they are prepared, and the unpleasant symptoms disappear. In the extreme case, the discharge is allowed, but gentle, in which the woman combines kefir and other dietary products in her diet.
During breastfeeding, the desire of a woman to get rid of the extra pounds gained during the pregnancy as soon as possible is understandable and understandable, but you should not hurry. The composition of breast milk is formed due to the fact that a woman eats. If this is one kefir, the child will not receive the necessary vitamins, minerals, amino acids, carbohydrates, which will negatively affect his well-being and development.
If you want to relieve the body, pregnant and lactating should contact your doctor with these questions - there are other ways of cleansing and unloading, which are more suitable for the circumstances.
How to properly unload?
The rules for the day of unloading kefir are quite simple. To do this, you need kefir with a small percentage of fat. It is best to choose a drink of medium strength (two days) with a fat content of 1%. It is recommended to buy a product with a minimum shelf life.
Compliance with the rules gives amazing results - you can lose 1 kilogram of weight in one fasting day, and this is the minimum value. There is evidence that some managed to get rid of one and a half, and two kilograms. But it is not important how much a woman drops during the fasting day. It is important that her digestive tract is tuned to a new type of work, and weight reduction continues even after the daily discharge is completed.
The first and most important rule - do not be too zealous. Enough one day a week to achieve good results. Attempts to eat only kefir for a whole week or every other day can adversely affect the body's work. With a shortage of food, the body turns on energy saving mode, in which the weight either stands still or arrives, despite all the efforts of losing weight.
After it is possible to reduce body weight by 5 kilograms, it is worthwhile to unload less often - once every two weeks. After losing 10 kilograms, the frequency of unloading days is reduced to 1 time in 20 days.
Here are some more important requirements for kefir discharge day.
- With the classical unloading during the day is not allowed to eat and drink anything except kefir. This product should be the only one in your diet. The ban does not apply to drinking water - it should be consumed as much as possible (at least 2 liters), in this drinking regime kefir “works” even more efficiently.
- Sugar or salt kefir can not. If the diet is gentle, then other diet products that are allowed in combination with kefir are consumed either completely without salt or sugar, or by reducing the amount of salt to a minimum. Sugar should be abandoned altogether.
- With lax kefir unloading, the calorie content of the remaining products in daily equivalent is reduced three times and an abundant drink is additionally introduced. - at least 2 liters of clean, non-carbonated drinking water.
Drinking kefir while lying on the couch in front of the TV is not the best idea for effective unloading. The day of body cleansing should be made active, agile, fill it with events and actions that will require emotional and physical recovery. Useful walks on foot, by bike, on skis, swimming. But heavy physical exertion (strength training, simulators) should be eliminated and transferred to another day, if they are present in your life.
If it seems that the day on kefir is too difficult and you just can not do it, do not worry. This is a normal fear that nutritionists understand and respect. So you can try to practice gentle discharge and only then, gradually, go to the classical one.
Sparing methods involve a combination of kefir with other products. It is allowed to make a diet of the cleansing day using kefir and:
- fruits and berries: blueberries, raspberries, apples, pears, cranberries;
- vegetables: lettuce, pepper, tomatoes, radish, cucumbers;
- honey (in small quantities);
- dried fruits and spices: cinnamon, vanilla, herbs, greens.
It is allowed to combine kefir with cabbage, carrots, oatmeal, cottage cheese.
It is forbidden to combine kefir on fasting days with:
- coffee and strong black tea;
- fast food;
- sausages, sausages and smoked meats;
- canned food and pickled foods;
- flour products, pasta and bread;
- all fried and fatty dishes;
- alcohol.
The use of potatoes, banana, white rice, lamb and pork, fatty fish is prohibited.
Classic way
This is a mono-diet, which means that from the products you need only kefir and nothing else. It is difficult to say how much to stock up on a fermented milk drink, since nutritionists do not limit this figure, but most often an adult takes about 2.5 liters of drink per day. Given that the body's need for vitamins and minerals on kefir alone will not be met, you should not extend the mono-diet for the second day or even longer. One day on kefir - that’s the recommendation of the doctors.
Choose only quality kefir. If you didn’t buy one, prepare it yourself beforehand: put a piece of rye bread in 2.5 liters of milk. The container is left to stand at room temperature for a day or two. Two days later, it turns out that the same kefir medium strength, which is considered optimal for unloading.
During the day, drink kefir in the amount in which you want. Do not forget to take clean non-carbonated drinking water.
If you combine kefir with protein foods, for example, with chicken, limit the total caloric content of the unloading day to a maximum of 700 kcal.
Gentle options
Gentle ways of unloading are more suitable for beginners, for those who are unsure whether he can spend the day eating exclusively kefir. Here are some popular options.
- Cottage cheese and kefir. Use low-fat cottage cheese (no more than 500 grams per day) and rosehip decoction or green tea as additional drinks.
- Cucumbers and kefir. On the fasting day will need a kilogram of fresh cucumbers. It is not necessary to drink cucumbers with a sour-milk drink, it is quite possible to use kefir only in the morning and in the evening, at other times eating cucumbers can be combined with taking pure water, green tea.
- Oatmeal and kefir. Boiled oatmeal on water without sugar and butter (preferably, and without salt) serves as the main course for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Kefir is used up to 8 times a day, and if necessary, more.
- A day at bran. Bran combine with kefir in any arbitrary and convenient for you form. Bran begins to eat in the evening of the day before the unloading (about 40 grams is eaten and washed down with liquid). The rest (about 100 grams) is steamed from the evening the next day.
- Kefir-fruit day. In the "companions" to fermented milk product, you can choose any fruits or berries: apricots, apples, cherries, strawberries. However, there is a limit on the number of fruits - no more than a kilogram per day. The amount of kefir - at least one and a half liters.
How to get out?
On the fasting day, you need to correctly enter, as well as get out of it, in order to prevent a malfunction of the gastrointestinal tract. So, on the eve of the day that you have defined for yourself as a cleansing, it is important not to eat fatty and sweet food in the evening, it’s best to restrict yourself to dinner until 18-19 hours: light vegetable salad with vegetable oil and a boiled piece of chicken or meat.
Start the morning of the unloading day with a glass of water at room temperature on an empty stomach. And only after 20-25 minutes you can switch to kefir consumption. Water will help to "start" the processes of digestion as it should, set them up for active work.
The next day after unloading, the morning should start exactly with the same glass of water at room temperature. After that, go to wash, spend your morning exercise, and only half an hour to start breakfast. On the table should be light, non-fatty foods, for example, boiled eggs, fruits and vegetables, cottage cheese.
During the whole day following the unloading, it is not recommended to eat heavy food, which can disrupt and disturb the delicate balance in the body after cleaning. Optimal for lunch to eat a light vegetable soup, steamed vegetables, cereals, in the evening - vegetable stew with lean meat or fish. Complete the next day after unloading a glass of yogurt for the night - one and a half hours before bedtime.
Feedback and results
To sustain, according to reviews, a full fasting day can be very difficult, especially for beginners in this business. Disruption is very, very likely. Most often people break down in the evening. If in the morning they were full of optimism and proud of themselves, in the daytime they simply tolerated and tolerated daily activities that effectively distract from thoughts about food, then in the evening, when a well-deserved rest comes, it is incredibly difficult to drive out the thought of urgent food.
If you broke, do not blame yourself and scold. This happens with many. If you feel that you are about to break, do not rush to make a sausage sandwich or grab their alluring cake. Eat some sugar-free cottage cheese, a spoonful of honey, a handful of dried fruit, nuts. You can eat fruit salad or vegetables. Such a breakdown does not cause you any harm.
If, after all, the breakdown happened and the “mean” sandwich has already been eaten, do not be discouraged. Limit yourself to one sandwich, follow the rules for getting out of discharge the next morning, and try again in 3-4 days. According to reviews, the second or third time usually turns out to stand a full day on yogurt and do not break.
Nutritionists, gastroenterologists and therapists are very positive about kefir discharging days. If the rules are followed, there is nothing dangerous in them, and the benefits are colossal.
According to reviews losing weight, at first, disappointment can wait, because women tend to wait for the result after the first day, heroically spent on yogurt, and the result in a minus one kilogram can not arrange.Be patient, in a month, if you repeat such days once a week, the results will be impressive.
Feedback on the results are different. It all depends on the initial weight, health, age of the woman, her motivation. In general, for the year, repeating the unloading day every two weeks, women lose up to 15 kilograms without exhausting workouts in the gym, a strict diet and constant fasting.
Many say that the condition of the skin and hair is noticeably improved, the skin color becomes fresher, the bad breath in the morning disappears, the stool is adjusted, and a feeling of lightness in the body appears.
It is important, according to women, that a kilogram lost during the day does not return, which is not the case with many other weight loss methods. And kefir unloading should just become a good habit, even if at first it seemed like a real challenge.
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