"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's the point?
The main food in the watermelon diet is, as you might guess, the pulp of the watermelon. Or rather, you should eat a few watermelon slices for dessert after breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also eat 3-4 juicy watermelon slices around 12 noon (lunch time). Of course, do not go further: in total, you can eat up to 2 kg of watermelon a day, but not more.
The watermelon diet is 90% water. Despite the fact that watermelon is a sugar product, its caloric content is estimated to be low - no more than 40 kcal per 100 g of watermelon pulp. Thanks to this property, watermelon is perfectly saturated, relieves the feeling of hunger, and at the same time is absorbed almost instantly.
In addition to water, watermelons contain a large amount of fiber, which helps restore the effective functioning of the digestive system and remove excess fluid from the tissues.
Therefore, the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. Along with the water, harmful substances and toxins are removed from the skin's tissues and cells, which means that the skin is cleansed, renewed and takes on a healthier appearance.
Benefits of the watermelon diet
In addition to the fact that the watermelon diet helps to quickly give the figure a slender and seductive contour, 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 scratched with a fingernail, there will be no dents, but only the thin upper layer will slightly "peel".
If you hit a watermelon, as if it were a ball, with the palm of your hand, the sound should not be deaf at all, 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 transparent film.
When it comes to the watermelon diet, it is necessary to focus on protein and vegetable foods, 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 enough to lose 2-6 kilos in the end.