"Sit" on a watermelon diet - it's like going on a water diet, and in the literal sense of the word. Because watermelon pulp is 95% water.
Watermelon diet: what is the point?
The main food in the watermelon diet is, as you might guess, watermelon pulp. 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 (lunch time). However, do not go beyond: in total, you can eat up to 2 kg of watermelon per day, but no more.
The watermelon diet is 90% water. Despite the fact that watermelon is a sugar product, its calorie content is estimated as low - no more than 40 kcal per 100 g of watermelon pulp. Thanks to this property, watermelon perfectly saturates, relieving the feeling of hunger, and at the same time it is absorbed almost instantly.
In addition to water, watermelons contain a large amount of fiber, which helps restore the efficient functioning of the digestive system and remove excess fluid from the tissues.
Thus, the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. Together with water, harmful substances and toxins are washed out of tissue and skin cells, which means that the skin is cleansed, renewed, and takes on a healthier appearance.
Benefits of watermelon diet
In addition to the fact that the watermelon diet helps to quickly give the figure a seductive, slender outline, it also saturates the body with some useful substances. Among them: potassium, magnesium, valuable vitamins A, C, B vitamins, as well as vitamin PP.
A little-known fact that gives the watermelon diet its health food status: Watermelon is high in the antioxidant lycopene, famous for its anti-cancer properties. Therefore, the watermelon diet can be practiced not only for weight loss, but also as an effective cancer prevention.
Features of the watermelon diet
Only fresh and ripe fruits are suitable for a watermelon diet. How to choose the right watermelon? In a quality fruit, the peel is dense, and if it is slightly scraped with a fingernail, there will be no dents on it, but only the upper thin layer will "peel off" slightly.
If you slap a watermelon, as if on a ball, with your palm, the sound should by no means be deaf, but sonorous, slightly vibrating.
Another important question is how to properly store watermelon during the watermelon diet. Correct answer: in the refrigerator, wrapping the fruit cut into pieces in cling film.
At the time of the watermelon diet, it is necessary to focus on protein foods and vegetables, excluding sweets, fats and alcohol from the menu for a while. The latter is complete and without exception. The fact is that watermelon in combination with alcohol often causes severe indigestion.
The duration of the watermelon diet should not exceed 10 days, the next course can be carried out no earlier than a month later. These ten days are quite enough to miss 2-6 kilos at the end.