To keep the house tidy, we clean it regularly. Our body also needs to be “cleaned,” especially in light of the listed consequences. And this does not mean at all that only people who are overweight and dream of a slim figure should take care of themselves.
Cleansing the body of waste and toxins is necessary for everyone who eats tasty, but not healthy food. A fasting day, carried out once a week, will not only cleanse the body of harmful substances and prevent the development of most diseases, but will also charge the body with extraordinary lightness and energy.
Buckwheat is considered a dietary product because it does not contain substances that turn into sugar and are stored in the body as fat. Buckwheat not only has the ability to cleanse the intestines, but also remove waste, toxins and even radiation! Is it worth talking about the nutritional value of this cereal? In addition, this tasty cereal helps lower blood cholesterol levels, which makes buckwheat an excellent product to include frequently in your diet.
Buckwheat
Before we move on to the description of buckwheat day, let's get acquainted with its main component. >>>
What is buckwheat
Edible or common buckwheat (Fagopyrum - “beech-like nut”) is a herbaceous plant, a cereal crop. It is grown most of all in China, Russia is in second place in this indicator, Ukraine is in third.
The plant’s homeland is Northern India, where it is called “black rice.” It grows wild in the western foothills of the Himalayas. Humanity has been eating it for more than 5,000 years.
It is made from:
- buckwheat (whole grain);
- prodel (crushed grain);
- Smolensk groats (highly crushed kernels);
- buckwheat flour;
- medical preparations.
Chemical composition
Buckwheat flowers contain:
- routine,
- fagopyrin,
- caffeic, gallic, protecholic and chlorogenic acids.
Grains contain a lot of iron and also:
- zinc,
- potassium,
- calcium,
- iodine,
- phosphorus,
- fluorine,
- cobalt,
- molybdenum,
- vitamins B1, B2, B9, PP, E.
In addition to microelements and vitamins, cereals contain:
- proteins (digestibility up to 78%);
- starch;
- fixed oils;
- Sahara;
- cellulose;
- organic acids.
Buckwheat contains a lot of proteins (11 g per 100 g) and they are superior to other cereals in terms of methionine and lysine content. The carbohydrates in it are also good, with a high glycemic index, thanks to which the feeling of fullness remains for a long time.
What are the benefits of this diet?
Buckwheat is very beneficial for the body; thanks to its regular use, you can achieve the following effects:
- Increase the level of hemoglobin in the blood.
- Normalize blood pressure.
- Protect teeth from damage by caries.
- Strengthen vascular walls.
- Remove accumulated toxins from the body.
- Normalize the functioning of the nervous system.
- Strengthen your immune system.
- Increase the overall tone of the body.
- Prevent the development of cancer.
Naturally, buckwheat helps fight excess weight. This is possible, among other things, due to magnesium, which is part of the cereal. Buckwheat grains act as a natural “brush” for the intestines, removing everything unnecessary from it.
Buckwheat unloading technique and what results to expect
You need to remember: a buckwheat fasting day, in most cases, will allow you to burn only those calories that you consumed the day before and will not allow new fat to be deposited, and the hated fat will hang around where it was - on the stomach and sides.
The essence of the technique
Unloading on buckwheat is simple. It comes down to eating buckwheat alone (250-300 g of cereal) without salt or sugar.
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The cooked cereal is divided into 5-6 parts and consumed all day. It is recommended to drink kefir. The last meal should be completed three hours before bedtime.
During the buckwheat fasting day, an hour after eating, drink green or herbal teas without carbonated mineral water. Do not be afraid, excess fluid and swelling will not threaten you.
Cautions: the complete absence of salt sometimes causes headaches, lowers blood pressure and increases general fatigue. Therefore, in such cases it is permissible to add a little salt to the porridge; then the result of unloading will be a little more modest.
If you like the taste of buckwheat porridge, then the ban on salt and sugar will not be too painful for you.
Schedule of fasting days (frequency)
Such a healing procedure can be carried out no more than once a week and no more than two days in a row (be sure to consult your doctor). If you had to spend several days of a hearty feast, then even a couple of days in a row on buckwheat will be very useful for a stomach tormented by culinary delights.
What results can you expect from a buckwheat fasting day?
The result of a buckwheat fasting day will be getting rid of allergies, a feeling of lightness, improving the appearance of the face, giving a healthy tone to the skin, getting rid of 500 grams to a kilogram in one day
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Your stomach will be eternally grateful to you for the respite given to it, and a fasting day on buckwheat will only benefit it as a result.
results
If you regularly arrange kefir and buckwheat days, you can easily get rid of excess weight. And also do not recruit it in the future. During one unloading you can lose up to 1 kg, which will not return.
Thanks to cleansing the intestines, all useful components from foods are absorbed much faster and better. Getting rid of waste and toxins has a positive effect on the general condition of the body and eliminates skin defects.
Preparing buckwheat for unloading
Buckwheat can be boiled in water in the usual way, but it is better to steam it. To do this, you should think about it in the evening. Take a glass of cereal and pour it into the pan. Pour boiling water over it. Close it tightly, wrap it in a blanket and leave it until the morning.
You can also cook porridge in a thermos.
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To prepare buckwheat porridge in a thermos we will need: 1 glass of buckwheat and 2 glasses of boiling water. We prepare it like this: pour buckwheat into a thermos and pour boiling water over it, close the lid and shake. Now let it sit for at least 40-50 minutes, or better yet overnight.
In the morning, you can start breakfast by dividing the entire amount into equal parts (5-6) and eating one fifth or one sixth of the entire porridge. You can drink it with low-fat kefir.
Advantages and disadvantages
It is no coincidence that the diet has gained popularity - it’s all about the numerous advantages of unloading:
- Easy to prepare - just steam the porridge the night before.
- Cheap - the ingredients are easy to find and inexpensive.
- Harmless to health, since such nutrition eliminates starvation and stress for the body.
- Cereals are healthy because they contain vitamins and minerals.
- The method is good for lazy people who find it difficult to limit their diet for a long time.
- On other days, you can not deny yourself anything and keep your weight under control.
However, there are also disadvantages:
- There are a number of contraindications; if you have certain diseases, you should not lose weight this way.
- A monotonous menu quickly gets boring, and not everyone will like the specific taste of buckwheat porridge without salt.
- It is necessary to take additional vitamins to replenish their balance.
- This way you will not be able to lose weight quickly and lose a lot of weight.
Options for a fasting day on buckwheat
Buckwheat fasting and cleansing diet can be tasty and to some extent varied. In all versions, we prepare buckwheat porridge using the method described above, and we diversify the menu with one option from the ones given below.
Option one - if it’s difficult without salt
If the porridge turns out to be too dry and difficult to swallow without salt, you can add to it:
- once a little kelp or soy sauce;
- another time, lightly poached onions in a minimal amount of vegetable oil or without it at all;
- for the third time a teaspoon of honey.
Option two - with white kvass
Wash down the buckwheat with white buckwheat-wheat-rye kvass, which contains lactic acid bacteria that enhance immunity.
To prepare it we will need:
- 250 g barley malt;
- 500 g rye malt;
- 2 kg rye flour;
- 0.5 kg buckwheat flour;
- 0.5 kg wheat flour
- 25 g yeast;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of dry curly mint (not peppermint);
- 25 g cumin seeds.
- There is four times more water by volume than the flour and malt mixture.
Making the starter:
- We dilute 40 g of wheat flour in warm water, add yeast and let rise.
Preparing kvass:
- Mix barley and rye malt, add warm purified water until a batter forms.
- Mix all the flour dry and mix it into the malt in small portions until smooth, adding warm water.
- Leave the batter in a warm place for 5 hours.
- Prepare the wort: add 7 liters of slightly cooled boiling water and stir thoroughly until smooth, add caraway seeds, mint and sourdough.
- We set the wort for fermentation in a warm place for 12 hours.
- The fermented kvass must be drained and strained, leaving the grounds. Keep refrigerated.
- In the future, use the grounds as a starter.
Option three - with apples
Supplement your fasting day with green apples. Three to four medium-sized apples are added to the buckwheat porridge, which are eaten during snacks.
Option four - almost raw food
In the evening, pour raw, washed buckwheat with lactic acid starter, kefir or liquid yogurt. The buckwheat will swell overnight and you can eat it in the morning. During the day - only buckwheat and not too sour juices.
Caution: if you have an intestinal or stomach ulcer or active gastritis, you can consume buckwheat only with your doctor’s permission.
Option five - with buckwheat and kefir
A lot has already been said and written about the benefits of kefir and other fermented milk products, so it’s difficult to add anything new to this. But the fact that kefir helps in the process of removing fat metabolism products and relieves heaviness in the stomach makes it indispensable during a fasting day.
We prepare buckwheat porridge, as mentioned above, by brewing rather than boiling in order to preserve the maximum usefulness.
With porridge on this day it is supposed to consume one liter of kefir with one percent fat content. You need to eat as soon as you feel hungry. We simply wash down the porridge with kefir. A little porridge, unsalted and unsweetened, a little kefir.
And throughout the fasting day on buckwheat and kefir, in between meals, drink mineral water, green or herbal tea. You can drink up to 3 liters of liquid per day. This way you can lose a couple of kilograms. It all depends on your starting weight, the more you weigh, the more weight you lose.
Advice: a fasting day on buckwheat should not be combined with intense training. You can walk, jog, ride a bike, or do light fitness. And then it will enter your life as the best program for maintaining health and attractiveness.
Contraindications
Despite the enormous benefits of buckwheat and kefir, such a diet can be harmful to the body.
- There are a number of contraindications, which include:
- nursing mothers - since many useful substances are transferred to the baby with milk, their supply needs to be replenished. That is, regularly consume healthy foods in sufficient quantities;
- people with gastrointestinal diseases - such diseases require a balanced diet, and fasting can only aggravate the situation;
- individual food intolerance;
- poor health - fasting days should be spent in absolute comfort, so if you feel even a little unwell, it is better to postpone fasting.
Did you know? Buckwheat is a good remedy for insomnia; it is buckwheat husks that are used to fill pillows to improve the quality of sleep.
Unloading your body is a great way to cleanse yourself and improve your health. The main thing is to follow all the rules and pay attention to contraindications, then fasting will not harm you, but will give you a feeling of lightness and noticeable weight loss.
Preparing for fasting day
You decided to unload with buckwheat, knowing that light food will not linger on your stomach with fat folds. Well, it’s a necessary and useful thing. And in order to lose a little weight, and not just prevent the food eaten the day before from being stored, some preparation is required.
Some people think: today, thank God, you can still eat a fresh sweet roll with butter and tea, after having eaten a couple of strong sandwiches with sausage and pickles. Well yes, delicious. But it is useless to unload to lose weight after such a disgrace, only in order not to gain excess weight, which is also not bad.
So, the day before the start of unloading, eat any cereals, vegetables, fish. Avoid fatty foods, as well as smoked foods. Fried foods are prohibited. It is better to replace meat with fish, no salads with mayonnaise. You should not drink soda, especially sweet soda. Food should be low in calories. Eating a light meal the day before will keep you energized for the fasting day.
If it will not be easy for you to survive without your usual food, it is very important to prepare yourself psychologically in addition to food preparation. If the day before you only think about the fact that tomorrow you will suffer severely, denying yourself the usual goodies, so today you will eat to your heart’s content, then it is better not to start unloading.
You can use the following psychological tactics. Think approximately in this way: now, the weekend is coming, you can relax, restore your strength and give your stomach a rest. The attitude must be positive. Think about how much benefit the buckwheat unloading procedure will bring you.
Recipes for cooking buckwheat with kefir
To get rid of several kilograms of excess weight, you don’t have to switch to the kefir-buckwheat diet, but only eat these foods during breakfast. Cereals soaked in a fermented milk drink energize you for several hours and allow you not to feel hungry until lunch. In addition, this dish makes it possible to regulate the functioning of the digestive organs.
Making buckwheat-kefir porridge is very simple. For one serving you will need to take 3 tbsp. spoons of cereal and 1 glass of kefir. Pour water over buckwheat and leave for 15 minutes to swell. After this time, drain the water and pour the cereal into kefir. It is best to leave the mixture overnight, putting it in a cool place and covering it with a lid. If the porridge seems too tasteless, then you can add a few berries or dried fruits to it.
Fasting day on buckwheat - tips and contraindications
Buckwheat is a dietary product and its use has no contraindications. However, nutritionists still advise following the norm - during the fasting day, the maximum amount of cooked buckwheat should not exceed one and a half kilograms. That's quite a lot.
It is not recommended to have a fasting day on buckwheat for depression and premenstrual syndrome. In this state it is not unloading, but loading. And your endeavor will fail, which will negatively affect your self-esteem.
Advice: if you want to eat buckwheat with kefir, then it is advisable that you spend the whole day not at work, but at home. Buckwheat and kefir have laxative properties.
The role of kefir
Kefir is beneficial for the human body. This fermented milk drink allows you to achieve the following effects:
- Normalize liver function.
- Improve visual acuity.
- Increase the production of gastric juice.
- Regulate the functioning of the digestive organs.
- Remove excess fluid from the body.
- Detoxify.
- Remove undigested food residues from the intestines that cause rotting.
- Reduce the severity of allergic reactions or get rid of allergies altogether.
- Strengthen the immune system.
- Reduce the severity of edema.
- Tidy up your skin.
Contraindications to the kefir-buckwheat diet
While following the diet, you may experience weakness, fatigue and irritability. In this regard, adhering to the kefir-buckwheat diet is not recommended for people with poor health, or after illnesses.
You cannot start losing weight during pregnancy and breastfeeding. However, it is allowed to have breakfast with kefir and buckwheat during this period. Other contraindications to the diet are:
- Stomach ulcer.
- Diabetes.
- Anemia.
- Hypotension.
- Disturbances in the functioning of the kidneys and liver.
- Gastritis.
