Weekly vegetable diet: features and menu options
No matter how people think of how to lose weight: they drink various powders and pills, special tea drinks and coffee, wear pants and belts, eliminating extra centimeters at the waist and hips, buy “exercise equipment for the lazy. But the best and most effective way are diets, which are also invented by a great many. Some help faster, others last longer. The most vitamin is the vegetable diet. If we consider its features and diet options, you can create an optimal menu for the week for any person.
Features slimming vegetables
Many hope to lose weight very quickly, while losing as many pounds as possible, so often choose exhausting diets. However, such weight loss does not always give a positive result, rather, on the contrary, it can damage the body and aggravate various diseases. As for weight, with such hard diets, it returns very quickly, as soon as a person begins to eat normally. The body that has received stress begins to quickly replenish lost calories.
Vegetable diet has several advantages. Its main component is vegetables, which supply the body with essential vitamins and minerals, while promoting weight loss. Starting from the selected menu, vegetables can be combined with low-calorie cereals, meat, fish, fruits, dairy products.
It is permissible, of course, to "sit" and only on some vegetables. They have a good effect on the work of the whole organism, give a feeling of satiety. However, it’s not worth eating vegetables more than a week, especially if there are any diseases. If other foods containing protein are added to vegetables, you can extend the diet for two or three weeks.
The peculiarity of this diet is that you need to eat at least one kilogram of different vegetables a day. It is desirable that these were only raw vegetables. In them, and more vitamins, and there are no additional calories that appear, for example, when frying or stewing with oil.
There are many dietary menu options.
- If a person needs to lose weight urgently (for example, for 7 days), he will do fruit and vegetable diet. After its completion, the scales will be minus 10 kg. With such a diet you need to eat low-calorie vegetables and fruits, drink enough water (at least two liters per day). In addition, green tea, herbal teas, freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices will be helpful. In this case, you need to make a menu so that for breakfast and afternoon tea were fruits, and for lunch and dinner - vegetables. From vegetables, preference should be given to cabbage, beets, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers. Any greens will be useful: onions, parsley, dill, basil. If you want to pamper yourself with a hot dish, you can stew zucchini or eggplant, broccoli or kaputu.
As for fruits, apples, pears, plums, oranges, tangerines, nectarines will be especially useful. If the season is watermelon, they can also be included in the diet. You should not get involved in high-calorie fruits, such as grapes and bananas.
- Diet based on vegetables and dairy productswill also be beneficial to the body. With such products, a fasting week will go well. For breakfast and dinner, you can eat low-fat cottage cheese or yogurt, drink kefir. Do not use sour cream, milk, yogurt with a high percentage of fat. Vegetables and the required amount of liquid are added to fermented milk products.
- A good diet in which the body gets everything you need is the one that includes vegetables, fruits, dairy products, as well as fish and meat. And let with such a diet for a week will take no more than 5 kilograms, but you can “sit” on it for two weeks, and the result will be much longer. With such a diet you can eat low-fat varieties of fish, any seafood. Meat allowed only beef, chicken and turkey. With this diet, you can make the menu quite diverse. For breakfast, you can eat fruit and dairy products, for lunch, vegetables and meat, in afternoon tea, you can limit the fruits, and for dinner, choose vegetables with fish. The menu options appear much more.
Menus and recipes
If the choice fell on a vegetable diet, you need to take into account the state of your health and readiness for the fact that in some cases willpower and patience are needed. If all this is present, there is a chance for a week to lose seven to ten pounds. You can, for example, create a menu by day as described below.
The first
- Morning. Chinese cabbage salad with parsley and dill, tea with lemon.
- Day.Bulgarian pepper stuffed with eggplants and tomatoes.
- Evening. Stewed zucchini, herbal tea.
To diversify such a menu, you can eat one apple, a pear, an orange or drink a glass of kefir.
Second
- Morning. Carrot salad, black coffee.
- Day. Stewed beets, fresh cucumber.
- Evening. Braised eggplants with herbs, herbal tea.
Third
- Morning. Grated carrots with lemon juice, chicory.
- Day. Grated beets with garlic and parsley, soup with beets.
- Evening. Baked broccoli, green tea.
Fourth
- Morning. Peking cabbage and cucumber salad, juice of freshly squeezed orange.
- Day. Vegetable soup, vinaigrette.
- Evening. Vegetable zucchini casserole, berry juice.
Fifth
- Morning. Boiled broccoli with spices, black coffee.
- Day. Sorrel and tomato soup, carrot and beetroot salad.
- Evening. Vinaigrette, herbal tea.
Sixth
- Morning. Carrot cutlets, a glass of kefir.
- Day. Baked eggplant.
- Evening. Stewed zucchini, tea.
Seventh
- Morning. Cabbage pancakes, dried fruit compote.
- Day. Stewed eggplants, celery salad.
- Evening. Stewed brussels sprouts, herbal tea.
If you need a diet rich in other foods, you can add to the diet of healthy buckwheat cereal and oatmeal. For example, in the morning you can eat porridge without sugar and milk. In the afternoon or in the evening you can indulge yourself with buckwheat porridge.
If the diet is not so strict, you can experiment and prepare a variety of dietary dishes that can be very tasty. The main thing - do not deviate from the basic rule: the food should be as much as possible vegetables.
- Fish with vegetables, baked in the oven, will be a wonderful dinner. Onions are laid out on the bottom of a baking dish, cut into thin rings, then sea fish fillet is added. The next layer is vegetables. You can put zucchini, carrots, tomatoes. Carrots should be grated on a coarse grater, and tomatoes and zucchini cut into thin slices. All this should be sprinkled with herbs, baked for half an hour.
- Another dietary dish - zucchini with cheese. Squash cut into circles. Lightly grease baking sheet with vegetable oil and spread vegetables on it. Place grated low-fat cheese on top, put the pan in the oven. In half an hour the dish is ready.
- Diet patties also will delight those who are "sitting" on a diet. For this you need to grind turkey fillet, carrots, zucchini in a meat grinder. Then you should form the cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides in the pan, lightly brushing it with butter.
- A wonderful addition to the diet menu will be chicken with broccoli, baked in the oven. Chicken fillet is placed on the bottom of the form, the second layer is placed cabbage inflorescences. The final touch will be grated cheese. All this is baked for thirty minutes in a well preheated oven. Top ready dish can be decorated with greens.
- The following dish will make the menu more varied, for the preparation of which you will need eggplants, bell pepper, onions, tomatoes and garlic. First you need to chop the eggplants and onions finely, fry them in a pan. In the end, add tomatoes, stew a little vegetable mixture. After that, you need to remove the base from the peppers, and then fill them with the resulting mixture. Peppers with filling should be sent to the oven for half an hour.
- A wonderful snack during the vegetable diet will be a smoothie, which is made from any fruits and berries that are at home. You can add kefir or unsweetened yogurt. Any dairy drink and, for example, strawberry, apple, orange are placed in the blender. All this is thoroughly mixed. Nutritious and healthy cocktail is ready.
Rules of exit from the diet
An important point - the correct way out of the diet. The harder was the diet, the more gradually you need to get out of it. If for seven days the menu consisted mainly of vegetables, then one should not start eating everything on the eighth day. Firstly, it will adversely affect the body's work.Secondly, the results of the diet and all efforts will soon be canceled.
After the end of the diet should not forget about the water, still drinking at least two liters. Preference is better to give green and herbal teas. On the eighth day, you can add to the diet dietary meat, such as turkey. On the ninth one can include buckwheat, rice or millet into the ration. Starting from the tenth day, you can return to the usual diet. It is important to remember that you need to eat strictly by the hour (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and snacks should be useful - fruits, yogurt, vegetables.
If you really want sweet, it is better to eat a piece of cake or chocolate separately from the main meal, and not to use them as an afternoon dessert. In addition, it is better to do this in the morning. To maintain any results, you should adhere to proper nutrition and do not forget about daily physical exertion.
Feedback on the results
After the diet, many share their impressions, telling about the results. There are always those who failed to lose the planned number of kilograms. But everyone has the individual characteristics of the body, you need to take this into account.
In addition, not everyone is able to strictly adhere to the intended path. Many make themselves concessions, and this is already unacceptable. There are those who, during a diet, apply their tricks to reduce the feeling of hunger: someone drinks tea with honey, someone nibbles at the nuts. Let the extra pounds of these people do not go completely, but the diet is easier for them to tolerate, as some women say. Those who strictly adhere to the planned menu usually manage to get rid of ten kilograms, as the vegetable diet promises.
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