Pumpkin Diet – for those who want to get rid of a few extra pounds and not risk their health – the perfect choice. Today pumpkin is not widely popular food product, however, among other garden plants, it has a unique composition.
First of all, pumpkins – is a storehouse of vitamins: A, E, C, PP, B. It also contains a large amount of iron. Pumpkin is recommended for people with impaired vision and those who have problems with the circulatory and digestive system. If it’s about you – immediately start eating pumpkin. Eat pumpkin can be as raw and processed forms, as well as juice. Those who have problemswith the pancreas or bowel, it is better to give preference to boiled or stewed pumpkin.
Pumpkin also helps get rid of insomnia, the effects of poisoning.
But we are interested in how the pumpkin will help to lose weight. Another advantages of pumpkin is that it normalizes the metabolism, the violation of which is often caused by obesity. Subject to the pumpkin diet for two weeks you can lose about 8 kilos. The restriction in food is very strict: it is necessary to completely abandon sugar, sweet fruits, as well as bananas and grapes, to reduce salt intake to a minimum. You can drink any unsweetened drinks: tea, coffee, non-carbonated mineral water – up to 2 liters a day. The last meal should be no later than 18 hours.
When choosing a pumpkin for the diet, pay attention to the color of the flesh – it should not be orange and pale yellow, otherwise wait for liver problems.
Here is a sample menu based on the pumpkin.
Pumpkin Diet – Day 1 – Only pumpkin.
Breakfast – a salad of pumpkin, carrot and lemon juice. Pumpkin porridge with oatmeal, millet, corn grits or rice. It is desirable to cook porridge without salt or with sugar.
Dinner – pumpkin soup with vegetables (you can add zucchini, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, onions, some potatoes). Season with soup greens and vegetable oil.
Dinner – pumpkin, baked in the oven.
Pumpkin Diet – Day 2 – pumpkin, and fruit.
Breakfast – porridge and pumpkin salad.
Lunch – vegetable soup and chops pumpkin (or pies of flaky pastry with pumpkin and sour fruit – apple, plum, plum).
Dinner – fruits (apples, pears, citrus fruits).
Pumpkin Diet – Day 3 – a little meat and crackers.
Breakfast – salad and pumpkin porridge.
Lunch – vegetable soup with meatballs of veal with pumpkin, without potatoes.
Dinner – a salad of pumpkin and pineapple. You can eat a couple of croutons of white bread.
Pumpkin Diet – Day 4 – pumpkins and vegetables.
Breakfast – porridge with lettuce and pumpkin.
Lunch – vegetable soup. Stewed sweet peppers.
Dinner – pumpkin stew with vegetables and mushrooms.
On the fifth day to repeat the menu of the first day, then – the second, third, and so repeat the menu four days within two weeks. Pumpkin Diet – is nutritious and varied diet. After conducting such a diet with a strict observance of all the recommendations you can be sure that the lost pounds will return to you. Along the way you get rid of some other health problems.
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