Buckwheat diet - the essence, benefits, harm and menu for a week

Buckwheat is one of the most popular dietary products. It contains high-quality protein, many vitamins and trace elements, is easy to prepare and even in a lean form tastes relatively good. This product is equally well suited for long-term diets and cleansing days.

However, you should not immediately switch to the buckwheat type of food without understanding its features and nuances. It is very difficult to sit on only this product, and the results require consolidation, and the buckwheat diet is not suitable for everyone to lose weight.

Our article will dot the i's regarding the buckwheat diet. You will find out what the essence and physiological effect of such nutrition is, to whom it is suitable and whether it has contraindications.

The essence and rules of the buckwheat diet

The buckwheat diet, in contrast to the paleo diet or protein diet, refers to mono-diets. This means that there is only one basic product in it - buckwheat.

You are allowed to eat it as much as your heart desires, only the trouble is, insipid porridge does not go to pleasure. Every day the portions are getting smaller, and love and respect for buckwheat is melting before our eyes. This is the basic principle of the diet.

The essence of the diet

Buckwheat porridge is always prepared according to one recipe. The groats are poured with hot water (not necessarily boiling water) in a ratio of 1: 2 and left under the lid overnight. Some people wrap the pan with a towel, but this is not necessary - overnight the cereal will absorb even cold water.

From the evening before day X, you need to brew 1-2 glasses of buckwheat. And the next day there is only this porridge, washed down with an unlimited amount of liquid. During the day, you are allowed to eat any two unsweetened fruits (vegetables are not allowed) and drink no more than a liter of 1% kefir. That's all the menu allowed for the buckwheat diet day. Brewing is not a prerequisite, but only a recommendation. If you want to cook on a fire, cook it. The choice of how to prepare the main course is up to you.

Buckwheat is loved by many, but not as a main and daily dish. Not surprisingly, some women have breakdowns at the end of the first day.

The most persistent at the most persistent and strong-willed withstand 3-4 days.

However, the classic buckwheat diet for weight loss is really too strict. Such food is more suitable for a fasting day than a diet for 14 days. In addition, the lack of the required amount of nutrients in the diet will negatively affect the functioning of the whole body.

Rules for effective weight loss on buckwheat

There are a few simple rules to follow to make the diet most effective:

1. Buckwheat is steamed the night before, the water is not salted.
2. Before going to bed (4 hours in advance), it is advisable to refuse any food. A glass of kefir is allowed.
3. It is allowed to drink only table mineral water and teas. Treat yourself once a day with unsweetened coffee. Naturally sugar free. Add stevia, a vegetable sweetener to your drinks.
4. Drink at least 2 liters a day. During the diet, the main rule is: "if you want to eat, drink!" It would seem that a couple of liters is not so much for the whole day, but as practice shows, not everyone fulfills this condition.
5. It is better to take buckwheat not brown (fried), but green. Green buckwheat has not undergone heat treatment, therefore it is more useful. True, it is not so tasty. Green buckwheat can be germinated and included in the diet. Such a nutritional supplement will be useful on ordinary days. Some people add sprouted buckwheat to salads.
6. Start the morning with a glass of water, and eat the first portion at least 30 minutes later.

Advice! It is very convenient to keep track of the amount of fluid you drink using special programs, for example, Water Time and other similar applications.

Allowed and prohibited foods

Don't rely on variety - this is a buckwheat diet. From the name it is clear that the menu will be sparse.

The following products are allowed:

• buckwheat;
• low-fat kefir (1%);
• unsweetened fruits (apple, tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple);
• water, herbal teas, tea, coffee;
• dried fruits (no more than a handful per day);
• greens (onions, parsley, dill, lettuce, cilantro, spinach, celery);
• honey (a teaspoon per day);
• a tablespoon of butter;
• soy sauce (season with buckwheat).

Salt is excluded from the diet for a reason. It retains water, which is undesirable during weight loss. Many people note that on a diet they began to visit the toilet more often, but buckwheat does not have a diuretic effect. It's all about the lack of salt in the diet. The amount of fluid consumed on the diet increases and, without lingering, passes through the body in transit.

It makes no sense to list prohibited products, since everything that is not on the list is prohibited. In extreme cases, it is allowed to supplement the diet with boiled chicken, cucumbers or zucchini.

How to complete the diet correctly

The weight lost on the buckwheat diet will quickly return if you miss one important point - the correct way out, consisting of several rules:

• Over the next two weeks, buckwheat (possibly already hated) should still be present in the diet every day. At least once, better for breakfast. Now it can be slightly salted and combined with other (delicious after dietary abstinence) products: meat, fish, vegetables.
• Vegetable soups, various cereals, low-fat yoghurts are well suited. It is better to exclude alcohol or limit yourself to dry wine. The portions should be kept small.
• The rules "do not eat before bedtime" have not been canceled.
• High-calorie, fatty, fried, smoked, salty foods are still banned. They begin to be introduced into the diet in small quantities from about 7 days after the end of the diet.
• They perfectly consolidate the result of sports: fitness, jogging, dancing, swimming, in general, any physical activity that you like, even if you exercise at home on the rug.
• The buckwheat diet should not end too abruptly - the menu for the next two weeks is made in such a way that the calorie content of the daily diet does not exceed 1500 calories.

Contraindications and side effects

By itself, buckwheat porridge has no contraindications. But the diet does.

It is contraindicated for the following diseases:

• a stomach or duodenal ulcer;
• gastritis, cholecystitis and other diseases of the digestive tract;
• diseases and disruption of the organs of the endocrine system;
• severe diseases of the heart and blood vessels;
• joint problems.

The diet is not recommended for children, adolescents, pregnant women, lactating women, women during menopause or premenstrual syndrome. During a period of intense physical or mental stress (exams, competitions, project delivery), you should not sit on a diet either.

Important! Headache and low blood pressure in the first days are the body's reaction to food without salt, and dizziness, weakness, nausea occur due to the lack of sugar.

Myths and reality about buckwheat diet

The widespread and popular buckwheat diet has given rise to many myths regarding this product, its properties and effects on the body during weight loss. Let's take a look at the main false claims.

Groats are very useful

Much has been written about this and even more said. Most of the articles on the buckwheat diet begin with a description of the positive aspects of the product and a story about how many benefits in the form of vitamins and trace elements it contains. But this is only worth talking about if you consider cereals as part of a healthy, varied diet.

Nutritionists classify the diet as conditionally dangerous and unbalanced. A meager addition of cereals in the form of kefir, water or fruit does not fulfill all the needs of the body, which also needs a certain amount of fats and carbohydrates. Already after 5-7 days on buckwheat, many people begin to grow hair, and their nails exfoliate.

Important! Be sure to choose a multivitamin preparation for the period of strict diets. Then the side effects will be much less, and the state of health is better.

Take Duovit or any other complex recommended by your personal nutritionist. Drinking vitamins begins a week before the start and another week after the diet. Vitamins do not affect the process of losing weight. On the contrary: they are involved in many fat burning processes.

Restriction of food before and after sleep

Avoiding food before bed is good advice, but not during a strict diet. And 4 hours of fasting even after waking up is already a strict version of the diet called intermittent fasting. It is very difficult to withstand it even with a normal diet.

Do not torture yourself, this is fraught with a quick breakdown and a terrible mood (the first day on buckwheat will make it bad). Your sleep ceases to be strong, and only one annoying thought is spinning in your foggy head ... that's right - "eat".

There is no feeling of hunger on buckwheat diet

It is believed that buckwheat is a hearty dish (100 g of porridge contains about 120 calories), so you should not feel hungry. Only now there is unleavened porridge in such quantities that it is almost impossible to feel full for a long time, and this fact after a couple of days is no longer pleasing.

In addition, diet, like many others in general, forces you to completely eliminate sugar. And glucose, as you know, is the energy necessary for the body and the brain in particular for stable work. A permitted spoonful of honey will not save the day.

There is a myth that the buckwheat diet is not suitable for people with blood group 3. Believe it or not, it's up to you. There is no medical evidence for such a ban.

Menu for the week

The table shows the menu for 7 days in the classic version of the buckwheat diet. The first day is the most severe. It is recommended to repeat it no more than three times. The rest of the days, due to the inclusion of various foods, the diet becomes a little more varied.

It is not necessary to strictly follow the described option. For example, vegetables and fruits can be replaced with more favorite or seasonal ones. The same goes for the schedule. No one will forbid you to eat more often or shift breakfasts / dinners in accordance with your own schedule.

You can download and print the menu for the week for the buckwheat diet here.

Consequences and results

The buckwheat diet, both in the classic version and in the mixed version, is very effective for losing weight. Already in the first two or three days the body "dries up", it takes up to 3 kg of excess fluid, and in 2 weeks it is really possible to lose up to 15 kg. Most girls are kept on a strict menu for 1 to 3 days. If you diversify the diet a little, add meat, vegetables, unsweetened fruits, hold out more or less calmly for up to 2 weeks. The buckwheat diet is difficult, but good, which is confirmed by the reviews and results of those who have lost weight.

Monotony and lack of taste are the main problems encountered on a buckwheat diet. But this is a problem for other mono diets as well.

On days 2-3, weakness often occurs. In some, by the end of the first day, apathy begins, a headache is possible due to hunger. If the symptoms persist after rest, or worsen, skip the diet or make it less strict - add some glucose and vegetable fats.

The result depends on several factors: the state of metabolism, the amount of excess weight, lifestyle and, of course, the diet before the diet. If your weight norm is not exceeded critically, buckwheat diet will not provide minus 10 kg even in two weeks. Curvy people will lose much more during the diet than thin people.

So, girls and women weighing 55/70 kg usually lose up to 3 kg in 7-10 days; with a weight of 70-80 kg - up to 7 kg; over 85 kg - over 10 kg. This is not taking into account 1-2 kg of fluid lost on the first day, which will be restored immediately after the end of the diet after the salt returns to the diet.

The opinion of nutritionists

The conditionally harmless period of a rigid mono-diet is 3 days. After that, the body begins to rebel. He is losing supplies and is not going to put up with it. Buckwheat unloading will be of great benefit. If you decide to lose weight on buckwheat, then the best option is a buckwheat diet in combination with kefir. A fermented milk product will at least slightly shift the menu towards a balanced one. Avoiding salt completely is also harmful. The body should receive at least a pinch. You always need to lose weight smoothly, otherwise even 10 kg per week on a buckwheat diet will return with interest.

Advice! With prolonged use of the diet, be sure to add something other than buckwheat to the diet: lean meat, vegetables, fruits, fish. The effect will be more lasting, and the stress will be much less.

Diet buckwheat recipes

Even if before the diet buckwheat was your favorite cereal, it is not a fact that after it will remain it. Already at the end of the first day of the diet, thoughts "How to make buckwheat tastier without adding calories" will start spinning in my head.

There are several options:

• chop the greens and add kefir;
• during steaming or boiling, add a couple of bay leaves, a few peppercorns and a spoonful of vegetable oil to the water.

Come up with something of your own or use ready-made recipes.

Kefir-buckwheat cocktail

Grind 1 tablespoon of buckwheat in a coffee grinder. Pour the resulting flour into a glass of kefir (250 ml), mix and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.

Buckwheat pancakes

Kefir and an egg are mixed in a suitable dish, so much buckwheat flour is added so that the dough acquires the desired consistency. Fry the pancakes in a pan, adding quite a bit of vegetable oil.

Buckwheat steamed cutlets

• The basis of minced meat for cutlets is, of course, buckwheat.
• An egg and 2-3 tbsp are added to a glass of ready-made porridge. tablespoons of buckwheat flour.
• Chopped herbs can be added for flavor.
• Mushrooms are well combined with buckwheat, which are pre-baked in the oven with onions.
• The cutlets are cooked in a double boiler for 10-15 minutes or in the microwave in a glass container under a lid. Add a pinch of salt if desired.

Conclusion

Let's summarize. The diet is effective, but potentially hazardous to health. Experts say that the disadvantages of the buckwheat diet outweigh the advantages if the hunger strike lasts more than 7 days.

And remember, the diet should not end with gluttony, but with the transition to a balanced diet.

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