"Sit" on a watermelon diet - it's like going on a watermelon diet, and in the literal sense of the word. Because watermelon meat is 95% water.
Watermelon diet: what is the purpose?
The main food of the watermelon diet is, as you might guess, watermelon meat. Or rather, you need to eat a few slices of watermelon as a dessert after breakfast, lunch and dinner and also eat 3-4 juicy watermelon slices around 12 noon (noon time). However, do not go further: in total you can eat up to 2 kg of watermelon per day, but no more.
Watermelon diet is 90% water. Despite the fact that watermelon is a sugar product, its caloric content is estimated to be low - no more than 40 kcal per 100 g of watermelon pulp. Thanks to this property, watermelon is completely saturated, relieves the feeling of hunger and at the same time it is absorbed almost immediately.
In addition to water, watermelons contain large amounts of fiber, which helps to restore the efficient functioning of the digestive system and remove excess fluid from tissues.
Thus, the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. Along with water, harmful substances and toxins are flushed out of tissues and skin cells, which means that the skin is cleansed, rejuvenated and has a healthier appearance.
Benefits of watermelon diet
In addition to the fact that the watermelon diet helps to give the image a quickly seductive, slender outline, it saturates the body with some useful substances. These include: potassium, magnesium, valuable vitamins A, C, B vitamins, as well as vitamin PP.
Little known fact that gives watermelon diet its status as a health food: watermelon is rich in the antioxidant lycopene, famous for its chemotherapy. Therefore, watermelon diet can be practiced not only for weight loss, but also as an effective cancer prevention.
Properties of watermelon diet
Only fresh and ripe fruits are suitable for watermelon diet. How to choose the right watermelon? In quality fruit, the skin is dense and if it is slightly scraped with a nail, there will be no dents on it, but only the upper thin layer will "peel off".
If you hit a watermelon, like a ball, with the palm of your hand, the sound should not be deaf at all, but sounding, slightly vibrating.
Another important question is how to store watermelon properly during the watermelon diet. Correct answer: Wrap the fruit cut into pieces in a refrigerator in cling film.
At the time of watermelon diet it is necessary to focus on protein foods and vegetables, with the exception of sweets, fats and alcohol from the menu for a while. The latter is perfect and without exception. The fact is that watermelon and alcohol often cause severe indigestion.
The duration of the watermelon diet should not exceed 10 days, the next course may not take place until a month later. These ten days are enough to lose 2-6 kilos in the end.