Grapefruit is a storehouse of nutrients. Its pulp contains salts of iron and calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. Most in this fruit is potassium: about 162 mg per 100 g of weight. Of the vitamins, grapefruit contains ascorbic acid and riboflavin (B2). Its energy value is only 39 kcal per 100 g. The properties of this fruit make it an indispensable dietary product: grapefruit burns fats, stimulating metabolic processes. In addition, eating its pulp helps lower blood cholesterol. Developed taking into account the beneficial properties of this fruit, the grapefruit diet (reviews on it are available on many sites) is very popular.
The grapefruit diet, like most different diets, has several options, more or less rigid. The first of them is designed for three days. It’s on such a diet that singer Anita Tsoi periodically “sits” for many years in a row to keep fit. In addition to grapefruits, during this diet only egg whites are allowed to eat - for this it is also called grapefruit-protein. Mandatory rule: morning for those who adhere to it should begin with a glass of water with the addition of lemon juice. A quarter of an hour after that, they are supposed to eat the protein of one egg. After another hour, the turn of grapefruit begins: one medium-sized fruit is eaten. After one and a half hours again, you need to eat egg white. Squirrels and fruits with an interval of one and a half hours alternate until the evening (a total of five proteins and five fruits). You can drink only water and green tea.
The duration of such a diet is up to three days, it should be followed no more than once every six months. It is good as a way to quickly lose weight: if you urgently need to "lose" 2-3 kg, a short-term protein-grapefruit diet will come to the rescue . The reviews available about her on the Internet claim that she is extremely effective. However, only healthy or practically healthy people can sustain such a meager diet. Those who are prone to allergies should understand: grapefruit and egg white are quite strong allergens. Therefore, such a diet is not suitable for everyone.
The second version of the grapefruit diet is designed for seven days. Its essence is that in the diet there are daily grapefruits - 2 pieces (one of them can be replaced with a glass of fresh). Sweets and sugar, flour and potatoes, alcohol and sugary drinks are excluded. You can drink green tea and natural coffee. Here is a sample menu: breakfast - grapefruit or a glass of fresh, 50 g of ham, a glass of tea (coffee). Lunch - ½ grapefruit, 250 g of salad, tea; dinner - salad and 200 g of chicken breast, tea. At night, ½ grapefruit is eaten again or 150 ml of fresh juice is drunk.
The place of grapefruits (juices) in the menu is unchanged. In addition to them, the following products are included in the diet, alternating on different days: breakfast - two eggs or 150 g of muesli, or 50 g of hard cheese, or fruit salad. Lunch - vegetable soup, cooked on the water, or vegetable salad (vegetables can also be stewed), or one baked potato in a peel. Dinner - 200 g of fish or lean beef, or chicken breast. Twice a week, it is allowed to eat a slice of dried black bread at dinner. Twice you can drink a glass of tomato juice (at dinner). Such a grapefruit diet for weight loss allows you to get rid of three to five kilograms of weight. It is tolerated, in general, not bad, but those who have gastritis with high acidity should use it carefully. In addition, this grapefruit diet, reviews of which allow us to conclude its effectiveness, may be accompanied by dizziness and weakness. In this case, it is urgently necessary to get out of it by drinking a glass of tea with sugar to start with.
On individual sites you can find tips on how to deal with the bitterness of grapefruit fresh: in particular, it is recommended to add a teaspoon of honey to it or dilute it in half with orange juice. However, in this form it can hardly be considered a diet drink. If bitterness is felt strongly, you can try to dilute fresh juice by a third with drinking water. As for the whole grapefruit, it will be less bitter if you remove the transparent film from the slices.
A grapefruit diet in this embodiment can be used no more than once every three to four months. For those who are interested in how effective a grapefruit diet, reviews will help make a choice in its favor: most of them talk about the amazing effectiveness of this method of losing weight.