The cucumber diet owes its effectiveness to the unique properties of this vegetable, 90% water. In addition, cucumbers contain a large amount of mineral salts, and their calorie content is only 15 kcal per 100 g! In nutritional practice, they are recommended both for fasting days once or twice a month, and for a longer-term diet - in this case, cucumbers can be combined with other products.
These methods of losing weight are very popular among those who monitor not only their weight, but also their health. Withdraw toxins and toxins, cleanse the intestines, enrich the body with the mineral salts it needs - all this will help make a cucumber diet. The reviews of those who practiced cucumber fasting days speak of a feeling of lightness that arises after a few hours. However, this method of losing weight is far from suitable for everyone: to stand all day on cucumbers, even if they can be eaten up to two kilograms, is not so simple. Those with a strong sense of hunger are allowed to eat two boiled eggs for lunch. Another option: in addition to cucumbers, use tomatoes. You can make a salad of them by seasoning it with vegetable oil - as you can see, this is not quite a cucumber diet. Reviews about it, however, allow us to conclude about its effectiveness, however, you will have to “sit on” such a diet for more than one day, but at least three — otherwise the result will be almost invisible. In addition to oil, it is allowed to season the salad with lemon juice. It should not be salted.
Weight loss if one of these diet options for cucumbers is observed is 3-5 kg. Thus, a short-term cucumber diet (reviews confirm this) is extremely effective, although it is difficult for many to stick to it. If you can’t cope with hunger, you should try another option, less hard. This diet is cucumber, just like the previous one, that is, cucumbers occupy a significant place in it. However, it is longer and less “hungry”, as it allows you to diversify the diet with other products: fruits and vegetables, low-fat fish and boiled meat, steamed rice and rye bread. The latter can be eaten only dried and in limited quantities.
The daily menu with a sparing version of the cucumber diet is as follows: two cucumbers with a slice of dried rye bread are eaten for breakfast, and without it - before bedtime. Lunch: one cucumber and, every other day, 100 grams of boiled meat or fish or the same amount of rice. For lunch, you can eat one unsweetened fruit of small sizes - for example, an apple, kiwi or orange. Please note: grapes and bananas are not allowed under this diet. For dinner, you need to eat cucumber or cucumber-tomato salad. Only lemon juice or vegetable oil may be used as dressing - no mayonnaise! Food should not be salted.
The advantages of this diet are obvious: dizziness and weakness, which are complained by those who observe a mono-diet on cucumbers, are practically absent with it. To achieve a visible effect, it will be necessary to adhere to it within 7-10 days. However, for many, it is preferable to such a cucumber diet. Reviews say that it is quite easy to comply with it: the feeling of hunger is practically absent. Weight loss in this case will be up to 7 kilograms.
As you can see, any given diet - cucumber (reviews characterize it as quite “hungry”), cucumber-salad or sparing diet with the inclusion of a large number of cucumbers in the menu, help to lose a few pounds and remove excess fluid from the body. Of the three options described above, everyone can choose the one that suits him more. An important point: with any of them, you should drink at least two liters of water daily.