"Sit" on a watermelon diet - it's like dieting with water, and in the true sense of the word. Because watermelon pulp is 95% water.
Watermelon diet: what is the purpose?
The main food in the watermelon diet is, as you can guess, watermelon pulp. Or better yet, you should eat a few slices of watermelon as dessert after breakfast, lunch and dinner and also eat 3-4 slices of watermelon juice 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.
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 saturates perfectly, relieving the feeling of hunger and at the same time absorbed almost immediately.
In addition to water, watermelon contains a large amount of fiber, which helps restore the effective functioning of the digestive system and remove excess fluid from the tissues.
Thus, the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. Along with water, harmful substances and toxins are washed out of the tissues and cells of the skin, which means that the skin is cleansed, rejuvenated and gets a healthier appearance.
Benefits of watermelon diet
Aside from the fact that the watermelon diet helps to quickly give the figure a seductive and slim outline, it also saturates the body with some beneficial substances. Among them: potassium, magnesium, valuable vitamins A, C, vitamin B, as well as vitamin PP.
A little known fact that gives watermelon diet its status as a healthy food: watermelon is rich 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.
Characteristics of 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 slightly scratched with nails, there will be no scratches on it, but only the thin top layer will "develop" a bit.
If you hit a watermelon, as if on a ball, with your palm, the sound should not be at all dull, but noisy, slightly vibrating.
Another important question is how to properly store watermelon during the watermelon diet. Correct answer: in the refrigerator, wrap the cut fruit in pieces with cling film.
At the time of the watermelon diet, it is necessary to focus on protein foods and vegetables, temporarily excluding sweets, fats and alcohol from the menu. 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 performed no earlier than one month later. These ten days are quite enough to lose 2-6 pounds in the end.