Pumpkin diet

Pumpkin diet is one of the few that will help you quickly lose weight and at the same time will not cause harm to the body, on the contrary, it will improve his condition. Among all possible vegetables pumpkin stands out because it contains a record number of vitamins, iron, micro and macro. But feature of this vegetable is vitamin T, which is responsible for protecting the body from snooze excess fat and also promotes rapid digestion of food. Based on the individual characteristics and the starting weight, the diet will help get rid of 5-8 pounds in 14 days.

Pumpkin diet

Pumpkin diet for weight loss

Should initially be noted that pumpkin seed diet undesirable people who have thyroid disease or serious disorders and diseases in the digestive tract. In the rest of the pumpkin diet completely safe.

The best time to start diet fall. It is in this time of year there is a new crop, which under appropriate conditions can keep for six months or more. In addition to weight loss, pumpkin has the following beneficial effects on the body:

  • rids the body of excess fluid;
  • improves the nervous system;
  • toxins;
  • reduces the amount of cholesterol;
  • the complexion becomes beautiful;
  • makes the immune system stronger;
  • delays the aging process.

This is not all the wonderful properties that this vegetable can enrich each organism.

One of the important rules is that all the dishes you need to cook for a certain time before meals, to avoid extreme feelings of hunger. By eating a healthy diet, you should follow some rules:

  1. The meals should be daily at the same time.
  2. Every 4 days the menu starts to repeat.
  3. The best snack will be an Apple or any other fruit with low sugar levels, vegetable. Allowed to eat dried fruit.
  4. Try to minimize the amount of sugar and salt.
  5. To drink 1,5 l of still water. Tea and coffee are not prohibited, but preferably without sugar.
  6. It is not advisable to eat after 18-19 hours.
  7. When pumpkin diet ends, do not immediately refuse the vegetable. Not immediately return to the old diet, this should be done gradually.

Finally practical advice on how best to choose a pumpkin. Usually, people tend to take the vegetable is bright orange, and really more useful will be the pale yellow pumpkin.

Pumpkin diet

Pumpkin diet menu

Painted pumpkin diet for four days. It includes 3 main meals and snacking topic already discussed just above in the rules.

Diet first day:

  1. For Breakfast to cook porridge with pumpkin, fresh pumpkin salad with carrot, tea/coffee facilities.
  2. For lunch eat soup with pumpkin.
  3. For dinner there is a stewed pumpkin.

Diet on the second day:

  1. Pumpkin porridge, fresh pumpkin salad with apples.
  2. Soup with pumpkin and meatballs, eat pancakes from pumpkin.
  3. Salad pumpkin, pineapple and small crackers.

The diet of the third day:

  1. Pumpkin porridge, fresh carrot-pumpkin salad.
  2. Vegetable soup.
  3. Stew with pumpkin, baked Apple with prunes.

Diet fourth day:

  1. Fresh salad of pumpkin and carrot, tea/coffee, preferably without sugar.
  2. Soup with vegetables and chicken slices, pumpkin pancakes.
  3. Cheese low fat, baked pumpkin slices with honey.

Pumpkin diet: recipes

To know how to prepare the required for diet meals, you should see the below-described recipes.

Porridge

This porridge is prepared with the addition of:

  • oatmeal;
  • pumpkin;
  • rice or millet.
Pumpkin

Those who extremely difficult to refuse the spices can cook porridge with milk low fat.

Preparation:

  1. 250 g sliced pumpkin cook for 30 min.
  2. Then pour a couple of tablespoons of cereal. When the porridge boils, reduce the heat to low and put out the same amount.

The gruel is ready.

Pancakes

For the preparation you will need:

  • a small pumpkin;
  • a few apples (optional);
  • carrots.

The cooking process:

  1. Grate the pumpkin on a grater, and if desired, add grated fresh apples or carrots.
  2. Add egg, soda on a knife tip, cinnamon, flour. Mix well.
  3. The dough spread a tablespoon directly into the pan.

It is permissible to use a little sunflower oil for frying.

Soup

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin;
  • sweet pepper;
  • carrots;
  • potatoes (not more stuff);
  • greens.

Preparation:

  1. Vegetables cut into small squares;
  2. Pour into a saucepan;
  3. Pour water;
  4. While cooking add tomato paste or fresh tomato and chopped greens. Allowed to use 1 vegetable soup cube for flavor.