Fasting day on fruits - general recommendations, what they are for, options

If you want to lose excess weight without harm to your health, you should carefully select your diet. You can easily get rid of excess kilograms and at the same time add vitamins to your body if you spend a fasting day on fruit. At the same time, the body receives a good charge of vigor, and at the same time gets rid of excess weight.

Eating fruits throughout the day is a short-term mono-diet, which does not require much effort. You can choose the main product that you will eat during the weight loss process based on your preferences. By consuming the main product in an acceptable quantity, you can avoid feeling severe hunger pangs and at the same time lose some weight.

What are fasting days for?

• We should not forget to give the body a break and time to replenish the energy that is usually spent on digesting the fairly large amount of food we eat. Instead, during fasting days, energy is directed in the right direction - to improve the functioning of various systems and “fix” them.
• Every day, our organs such as the liver, kidneys and spleen work to neutralize and eliminate toxins from the body, this is very important for maintaining the health of our cells. During fasting days, eating only healthy foods in moderation, we prevent additional toxins from entering our body. This cleanses the body and restarts metabolic mechanisms.
• Fasting days allow you to maintain your optimal weight. If during the week you couldn’t restrain yourself and ate too much, unloading will help you cope with this and save you from unnecessary calories and toxins.

IT IS IMPORTANT. There will be no benefit from fasting days if you do not establish a proper diet on the remaining days: multiple meals in small quantities (5-6 times a day), sufficient consumption of water, green tea, consumption of dried fruits, breakfast in the form of cereals and yoghurts, refusal from daily consumption of fatty and fried foods.

Are such unloadings useful?

It’s difficult to answer unequivocally. If we are talking about a person with a perfectly balanced diet, who also plays sports, then, probably, fasting days, like diets, are completely useless for him. But if you take the average citizen who sits at the computer all day and eats food that is not always healthy, weekly hunger strikes will allow his body to breathe a sigh of relief and cleanse itself. Moreover, you don’t need to do this often; it’s enough to maintain a strict mono-diet once or twice a month.

General recommendations for fasting days

• It is necessary to enter the fasting day correctly and exit it correctly: reduce the amount of fatty foods consumed the day before the fasting and the day after.
• Excellent options for a fasting day are fruits, vegetables, juices and smoothies.
• Since this is a day of cleansing, you can do something relaxing and meditative, such as yoga. Or go for a massage, to a SPA, or take a steam bath.
• Everyone determines the day of unloading independently, as convenient for them. It could be a weekday when you are busy with business and work and are not thinking about food. Or a day off.
• For women, fasting days are not recommended in the second half of the cycle. At this time, hormonal levels change, appetite and nervousness increase. Giving up your usual food will become an even greater factor of irritation and stress.

Which vegetables to choose?

Vegetables, in principle, can be anything. And even those that are high in calories and rich in starch, with the right approach, can also be included in the fasting day menu. A favorite of any vegetable diets and fasting days are fresh cucumbers and zucchini. Numerous reviews of the results of unloading on cucumbers and zucchini show their high efficiency. Unloading on cabbage, tomatoes, beets, and carrots has good results.

A very desirable addition to vegetables is low-fat kefir. It goes especially harmoniously with cucumbers and potatoes.

And one more important point. Local seasonal vegetables are always preferable to imported counterparts. To ensure their safety during transportation, long-term storage and improve their presentation, chemicals are often used, which do not add any benefit to them. In addition, nutritionists claim that products grown in a person’s region of residence are the most adapted and beneficial for him.

Let's talk in more detail about the most common vegetables and one-day mono-diets.

Common Mistakes

1. Complete refusal of food. The correct fasting day is reducing the calorie content and energy value of food, and not completely abandoning it. After all, for the proper functioning of organs, a minimum amount of energy is required.
2. Active sports during the fasting day. When unloading, as we wrote above, our body is cleansed of excess, but still receives a minimum amount of energy for the functioning of its organs. If you exhaust him with physical activity, you can cause damage to his health and body.
3. The more often you arrange unloading, the better. This is not true, once a week is enough. Frequent unloading will lead to a slowdown in metabolism.
4. Today I eat everything, tomorrow – nothing! This principle can lead to gastrointestinal disorders and diseases. It is always necessary to prepare for a fasting day, and then smoothly exit it.
5. Ignoring poor health. If during a fasting day you feel unwell, dizzy, weak, or easily tired, you should not ignore it. This means that you may have chosen the wrong time or your health condition now does not allow you to give up the usual amount of food. If you feel unwell, interrupt the fasting day and restore your strength.

On vegetable juices

If you need quick and noticeable results, you can spend a fasting day on vegetable juices. Possessing high biological activity, they stimulate metabolic processes and the movement of fluids in the body, including lymph and bile. Despite the lack of coarse fiber, vegetable juices perfectly cleanse the body at a deep intracellular level.

It should be borne in mind that drinking juices does not eliminate the need to drink water. It extinguishes the excess acid present in many vegetables and performs its own functions in metabolic processes.

Contraindications related to vegetable monodays become even more strict in relation to juices.

The benefits of fruits for the body and weight loss

For the healthy and proper functioning of all systems of our body, we need a large amount of vitamins and nutrients, which are found in abundance in juicy and delicious fruits. Many diseases can be avoided by eating a wide variety of fruits.

There is also a special fruit diet for weight loss, but you will have to sit on fruit for three days.

In our diet, more and more space is occupied by various fast foods, which, although they provide quick satiation, are absolutely useless (and even harmful) for health. But this can easily be changed by including fruits in your diet. Bright, juicy and sweet, they can not only support our health, but also improve our mood! What else are fruits good for?

• Fast energy supplier. When you eat fruits, your energy levels increase in no time - this is one of their main benefits. After long, exhausting workouts, it is recommended to eat fruit to replenish expended energy.
• Natural vitamins. The beneficial properties of fruits and the vitamins they contain can never be replaced by any synthetic vitamins.
• Strengthening immunity and preventing diseases. An amazing set of beneficial substances, minerals, trace elements and vitamins will allow your body to get stronger, easily resist seasonal diseases and fight various problems in the body.
• They help us stay beautiful. Fruits have a beneficial effect on our appearance: they keep the skin clean, soft and radiant, promote hair growth and strengthen nails. Instead of using commercial creams, just try including fruits (like apples or bananas) in your daily diet and you will see how your skin problems begin to disappear quite quickly. It is also impossible not to note the fruit benefits in scrubs and masks made independently from natural and fresh fruits and berries.
• Helps you lose weight. Once you start including a significant amount of fruit in your regular diet, you will begin to see your weight normalize. It is especially useful and effective to arrange a fasting day on fruit. Tasty, sweet, juicy and healthy.

Choosing products

Some people lose only 500 grams per day, some manage to lose 2 kg, and some even gain weight. How is this possible? It turns out that it all depends on the products. Potatoes are a vegetable and grapes are a fruit, but they are useless for weight loss because one contains a lot of starch and the other contains a lot of sugar. Therefore, plan your diet wisely. Recommended product lists will help you avoid making annoying mistakes.

Vegetables

• Eggplant;
• bell pepper;
• cabbage: white cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts;
• tomatoes;
• carrot
• celery;
• cucumbers;
• radish;
• beet;
• spinach.

Fruits

• A pineapple;
• oranges;
• watermelon;
• pomegranate;
• grapefruit;
• pears;
• lemon;
• peaches;
• plums;
• apples.

Additional Products

• Dietary meat: chicken breast, turkey fillet, beef;
• low-fat dairy products: kefir, cottage cheese, yogurt;
• any berries.

Beverages

What you can drink:

• unsweetened green tea with milk, ginger, lemon, cinnamon and other fat-burning additives;
• rosehip decoction;
• herbal drinks;
• homemade vegetable and fruit juices (never store-bought).

And don’t forget to follow the drinking regime: you need to drink at least 2 liters of regular or mineral water without gas per day. Otherwise, metabolic processes will not start.

On a note. If you like to experiment and have access to exotic foods, you can try including some overseas fruits in your diet. For example, lulo (28 kcal), carambola (31 kcal), Kiwano melon (44 kcal), longan (60 kcal), sapodilla (83 kcal). Just keep an eye on the state of the gastrointestinal tract, which may find such food too unusual.

Options for fruit fasting days

You can choose any fruits (and vegetables) you like. Variety is important, but avoid eating too many starchy fruits and vegetables such as potatoes, corn and bananas. Good choices are mango, melon, grapes, citrus fruits, various berries, grapefruit, avocado, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, cabbage, etc.

• A fasting day of vegetables and fruits is a classic. Probably the most delicious option. Here's a rough list of what you can cook and eat. Fruit salad. You can use mangoes, pineapples, strawberries, raspberries, apples, kiwis, grapes, melons, tangerines and oranges.
• Vegetable salad. Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, carrots. Do not use oil; you can sprinkle the salad with lemon juice.
• Smoothie. You can combine here. Smoothies with only fruits, only vegetables, or both. For example: mix ½ cup of green tea in a blender with blueberries and melon; cherry, raspberry, ginger; apple juice, kiwi, strawberries; cucumbers, spinach, avocado; beets, carrots, orange juice.
• Freshly squeezed juices of orange, apple, carrot. And don't forget about water!
• The best option is to eat everything fresh, but baked apples are acceptable.

IT IS IMPORTANT. So-called mono-fasting days (when you need to eat only one fruit, vegetable or product, for example, an apple) must be agreed with your doctor. Because Without knowing it, you can harm the body.

Who should be careful

Unfortunately, fasting days are not beneficial for every body. So, for what diseases are fasting days contraindicated?

• Various gastrointestinal diseases, ulcers, acidity - with these diseases, unloading can only worsen the health condition. However, you can practice unloading with porridges (oatmeal, flaxseed, semolina) and smoothies made from certain ingredients. But a doctor's consultation is necessary.
• Diabetes.
• Kidney diseases.
• ARVI.

Consult your doctor and choose the option that suits you. Be sure that a fasting day on fruits will provide you with a surge of vivacity, energy, lightness and a feeling that your body has completely restarted.

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During pregnancy

A fasting day is created so that the systems and organs of the human body rest from indigestible food and are freed from toxic substances. Experts advise holding a fasting day once a week. You need to prepare light, juicy dishes that include various fruits.

A fasting day on fruit during pregnancy will help the expectant mother not gain many extra pounds. If everything is done correctly, this procedure will not harm the baby. In addition, seasonal fruits and berries contain a large supply of vitamins and minerals. Observe the following preparation rules:

1. During pregnancy, you need to prepare your body in advance by changing your diet. You should remove sweet and starchy dishes from the menu; do not eat before bed.
2. Chew your food thoroughly and eat small portions several times a day.
3. Drink enough clean drinking water. With fruits and water, you can easily and quickly get rid of extra centimeters on your waist and improve your well-being.
4. Have a fasting day every 7 or 10 days. If difficulties arise, you should consult a specialist.
5. Don't spend such days uncontrollably. Nutrient deficiency negatively affects fetal development.

You can arrange a fasting day on different fruits, for example, apples, oranges, persimmons, pomegranates, pears or plums. Nutritionists advise excluding only bananas and grapes. You need to eat about 1-1.5 kg of fruit per day, but no more. This procedure is indicated for excess weight, late toxicosis and edema. But if you have problems with the cardiovascular system and are underweight, this method of cleansing the body should not be used.

You need to switch to your usual diet smoothly, especially at the moment when a woman is carrying a baby. For breakfast, it is better to prepare oatmeal and serve with a boiled egg. Meat or fish dishes are great for lunch. Additionally, make a salad from fresh vegetables, such as cabbage. For dinner, you can bake chicken with cauliflower, or eat cottage cheese with berries or dried fruits.

Reviews and results

There are a lot of fruits, so you can choose the one that suits your taste. In this case, the fasting day does not cause difficulties and brings joy. Facilitation of the functioning of internal organs is reflected in the appearance of vigor and well-being. The results are mostly positive; in one day you can lose up to 0.5 kg of excess weight. Let's look at specific reviews.

Elena: I’m not overweight, but I like to arrange days like this to cleanse my intestines of toxins. Fruits are great for these purposes; I choose apples or peaches.

Veronica: I tried the technique for the sake of experiment. I carried out this unloading 4 times a month, and managed to get rid of 1 kg.

Anastasia: I first tried the technique during pregnancy, I liked it.
Now and in the future I’m losing weight this way, this method does not cause any difficulties.

Contraindications

The diuretic effect is unlikely to be avoided. This means that the excretory systems and some organs will experience increased stress. Therefore, there are contraindications in which a fasting day is undesirable. These include:

• menstruation;
• mental or physical hard work;
• gastrointestinal disorders;
• any untreated illness;
• lactation;
• pregnancy;
• elderly age;
• if you are allergic to any fruits or vegetables, they must be excluded from the diet;
• low pressure;
• bad feeling.

All of the listed contraindications are relative, since permission for fruit and vegetable weight loss can only be given by a doctor after an examination. Still, this is not a full-fledged long-term diet, but a short-term abstinence from harmful foods. Only a specialist can give advice on whether you can lose weight this way.

Interesting fact. Scientists have discovered one pattern that they cannot yet explain. People who are latex intolerant are allergic to either kiwi, mango, or both.

We get rid of 10 kg in a week on a fruit diet

A fruit diet is similar to vegetarianism or a raw food diet, but involves more serious food restrictions.
If in the first two options the consumption of dairy products, cheeses, eggs, and cereals is also allowed, then in such a food system only fruits are allowed to be eaten. Although there are simplified options in which the menu expands. This food system is popular among residents of warm countries, where fruit can be easily found at a minimal cost. In Russia, such a diet is extremely difficult to tolerate: seasonal fruits are available only a few months a year, and the rest of the time only at a high cost.