"Sitting" on a watermelon-based diet - it's like following a water-based diet, and in the literal sense of the word. Because the watermelon pulp is made up of 95% water.
Watermelon Diet: What's the Point?
The main food in the watermelon diet is, as you can imagine, watermelon pulp. Or rather, you have to eat a few slices of watermelon for dessert after breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also eat 3-4 juicy slices of watermelon around 12 (lunch time). However, do not go further: in total you can eat up to 2 kg of watermelon per day, but no more.
The watermelon diet is 90% water. Despite the fact that watermelon is a sugary product, its calorie content is estimated to be low - no more than 40 kcal per 100 g of watermelon pulp. Thanks to this property, watermelon perfectly saturates, relieving 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 fluids from the tissues.
Therefore, the watermelon diet is an excellent remedy for edema. Together with water, harmful substances and toxins are washed away from the tissues and cells of the skin, 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 seductive and slender contour, it also saturates the body with some useful substances. Among them: potassium, magnesium, valuable vitamins A, C, B and vitamin PP.
A little known fact that gives the watermelon diet its health food status: Watermelon is rich in antioxidant lycopene, famous for its anticancer 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, 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 lightly scraped with a fingernail, there will be no bruises, only the thin top layer will "peel off" slightly.
If you slap a watermelon, like on a ball, with the palm of your hand, the sound should not be dull 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 chopped fruit in plastic wrap.
At the time of the watermelon diet, it is necessary to focus on protein foods and vegetables, 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 pounds in the end.