4 buckwheat diet options and delicious recipes for those who want to lose weight

Folic acid, phosphorus, potassium, iron, zinc and a whole list of other trace elements and useful acids make buckwheat indispensable for rebuilding vitality, cellular and lipid metabolism.

Therefore, buckwheat porridge is a must on the menu for pregnant women, children and anyone who cares about their health. And of course in the diet of those who monitor their weight. In fact, with such valuable qualities, buckwheat has a low calorie content and the ability to remove excess cholesterol and other unnecessary substances from the body. Such a successful combination formed the basis of the buckwheat diet.

Possible damage to grain

Due to its light tolerance, buckwheat has no contraindications to use. However, it is recommended in limited amounts for people with chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, with a tendency to spasms and diarrhea, as well as during inflammatory processes in the digestive system.

Duration of buckwheat diet and possible weight loss

With all the use of buckwheat, the maximum allowable duration of a diet based on it without noticeable damage to the body is 14 days. In addition, the most pronounced weight loss occurs in the first week. Therefore, nutritionists have developed options for different durations - for three, five, seven days and for two weeks. After all, not everyone can resist a mono-diet for a long time, in which case you can opt for a more gentle solution.

How many kilos go in a certain period, it is impossible to say with certainty. It all depends on the "start" weight and mass of other individual characteristics. On average, in one week it is possible to lose weight from 1, 5 to 3 kg, and in two - from 3 to 6 kg. This process is so much the more obvious the more extra pounds in the body. You can repeat the buckwheat weight loss course no earlier than one and a half months after the previous one.

The correct way to prepare diet porridge

Buckwheat for weight loss is prepared in a special way: it should be steamed, not boiled. Therefore, it is more convenient to cook the amount required for the day immediately. 500 g of buckwheat groats in the evening should be poured with boiling water in a volume of 1, 5 liters, covered with a lid and placed in a warm place or wrapped in a blanket. In the morning, the crumbling diet porridge will be ready to eat.

A faster option is achieved with the help of a thermos. A glass of grain is poured into his flask and poured with two glasses of boiling water and then closed with a lid. An infusion of 45 minutes is enough to make the porridge ready.

In this form, the grain retains its value as much as possible. Diet porridge excludes additives in the form of salt, sugar, oil, spices and sauces.

Varieties of buckwheat diet

The range of buckwheat-based diets is quite extensive. The most famous options:

• strict buckwheat;
• saving (healing);
• buckwheat-kefir;
• buckwheat and apple;
• buckwheat and vegetables;
• buckwheat with dried fruits;
• low calorie dairy products;
• with vegetables, lean fish and lean meats.

A strict diet involves the use of exclusively steamed buckwheat and water, from time to time a small amount of kefir, but this option is a real test of willpower. The most popular is buckwheat kefir, which allows, in addition to porridge, up to a liter of kefir a day.

A sparse buckwheat diet for weight loss is also used as a therapeutic relief for the body. She allows you to add a little cottage cheese to a buckwheat breakfast, a piece of lean meat for dinner as well as a snack a day in the form of an apple or a glass of kefir or yogurt without additives.

The inclusion of dried fruits (no more than five to six pieces a day) or a teaspoon of honey will help those who are not feeling well without sugar in their diet.

In any of the variations, you can drink plain non-carbonated water or green tea without restrictions, eat four to six times during the day, and the last one is 4-6 hours before bedtime.

Mono diet for 3 days

The three-day version is more likely not a diet, but a useful relief course or a trial option for those who want to test their strength before a longer food restriction. But even in such a short time, many people manage to lose about two kilos and notice pleasant changes in the condition of their skin.

It is optimal to stick to a strict buckwheat or buckwheat kefir (up to 1 liter of kefir a day) for all three days. If it is too hard or a feeling of weakness arises due to lack of sugar, it is permissible to eat an apple, orange or some dried fruit.

Diet for 5 days

A longer diet allows for a larger selection of low-calorie diet-brewed porridge supplements.

	Breakfast	Dinner	Dinner
Day 1	Buckwheat porridge, a glass of low-fat kefir, an apple	200 g porridge, 200 g vegetable salad with olive oil	Buckwheat soaked in kefir, unsweetened tea
Day 2	Buckwheat soaked in kefir, apple, tea	Buckwheat soaked in kefir, 200 g of fresh vegetables	Buckwheat soaked in kefir, unsweetened tea
Day 3	During the day, eat five servings of buckwheat soaked in kefir, drink more water
Day 4	Buckwheat porridge, 100 g low-fat cottage cheese, 0, 5 cups kefir	Buckwheat porridge, a piece of cooked lean meat, stewed vegetables	100 g buckwheat porridge, a glass of kefir
Day 5	Change buckwheat with kefir every two hours + lots of water and green tea

Diet for 7 days

For a tangible weight loss, it is recommended to stick to a kefir-buckwheat diet all week or to be guided by the following schedule.

	Breakfast	Dinner	Dinner
Day 1	Porridge, half a glass of kefir	Steam buckwheat chops without oil	Buckwheat porridge or stew, a glass of kefir
Day 2	Buckwheat pancakes, a glass of kefir	Porridge, dried fruit	A glass of kefir
Day 3	Porridge, dried fruit	Porridge, green salad	Porridge, a glass of kefir
Day 4	Buckwheat bread, buckwheat pancakes	Porridge	Porridge, apple
Day 5	Porridge, a glass of kefir	Cabbage salad, steamed buckwheat chops	A glass of kefir, orange or apple
Day 6	A glass of kefir	Steamed buckwheat chops	Porridge or stew, a glass of kefir
Day 7	Buckwheat pancakes, a glass of kefir	Porridge, dried fruit	A glass of kefir

Diet for 14 days

	Breakfast	Dinner	Dinner
Day 1	Porridge, unsweetened coffee	Vegetable soup	Buckwheat with baked vegetables
Day 2	Porridge with vegetables, unsweetened tea	Milk buckwheat soup without sugar	Buckwheat, boiled eggs, greens
Day 3	During the day - buckwheat porridge, more water
Day 4
Day 5	During the day - buckwheat with dried fruits, rose hips decoction
Day 6	Buckwheat, tea	Chicken broth with herbs	Buckwheat with cauliflower in the dough
Day 7	Porridge with vegetables	Okroshka with eggs	Buckwheat, eggs
Day 8	Porridge, cottage cheese, tea	200 g low-fat cooked veal	Porridge with vegetables
Day 9	Within three days - buckwheat in water, kefir, unsweetened tea
Day 10
Day 11
Day 12	Porridge, tea	Light vegetable soup	Buckwheat, a handful of nuts
Day 13	Porridge with dried fruit	Light soup with lentils	Porridge with vegetables and mushrooms
Day 14	Porridge, low-fat cottage cheese	Broth with eggs	Steamed chicken breast porridge

The diet can be delicious

Below are recipes you can use to diversify your buckwheat diet and get the most out of it.

Buckwheat soup

For three liters of water we take a glass of buckwheat, and also:

• onion;
• carrot;
• Bell pepper;
• 2 tomatoes;
• a few pieces of cauliflower;
• something green.

Finely chop onions, carrots and tomatoes and simmer with a minimum amount of vegetable oil. Put them in boiling water along with buckwheat and other vegetables and cook for about 15 minutes. At the end of cooking, add herbs and a little salt.

A less stringent version allows the addition of potatoes and a little ghee or beaten egg.

Porridge with vegetables

For a glass of buckwheat, use a medium-sized zucchini, 1 pepper, 2 celery stalks, a fresh tomato (or a teaspoon of dried tomatoes), fresh herbs or dried herbs to taste, 40 ml of vegetable oil.

Pour the groats with two glasses of boiling water and set aside. Meanwhile, peel and cut the vegetables into cubes, and the peppers into strips and fry in hot oil. Previously, the oil can be burned with mashed cumin or other favorite spices as well as with dried tomato.

Combine ready-made vegetables with buckwheat, add half a glass of water, pepper and salt, bring the whole mass to a boil under a lid, and then cook on low heat for another 15 minutes. Then remove from the heat, add chopped herbs and serve.

Buckwheat chops

For 200 g of cereal, take 1 egg and 1 onion. In addition, use breadcrumbs, fresh herbs and salt as well as vegetable oil for frying.

However, diet chops are best cooked in steam or in the oven.

Boil buckwheat in salted water until tender and cool. Chop the onion into cubes and add the buckwheat together with the raw egg. Use a meat mincer to turn the mixture into minced buckwheat. Add breadcrumbs to minced meat in such an amount that it becomes thick enough to form chops.

We sculpt them with wet hands, fry them or send them to a double boiler or oven.

Buckwheat pancakes

Slimming pancakes are baked in the oven. According to this recipe, they are lush and tender. 300 g of buckwheat and a packet of cottage cheese should be passed through a meat grinder, gradually add 4 tablespoons of flour, a tablespoon of sugar and 0, 5 teaspoons of salt, and in the process of further kneading add 1 glass of low-fat. sour cream.

Pour the mixture onto a baking sheet to form pancakes and bake them until golden brown.

Buckwheat cabbage rolls

You need to remove the top leaves from the cabbage fork, then immerse the cabbage head in boiling water, cook until half cooked, cool slightly and separate into leaves. Locations for thickening the leaf stalks should be slightly cut off.

It is better to prepare minced meat in advance. To do this, about 300 g of boiled buckwheat should be mixed with fried onions and an egg. Wrap the minced meat in leaves, shape envelopes or cylinders and place on a greased baking sheet.

We bake for about 10 minutes, then fill with sour cream with the addition of salt and pepper and send to the oven for another half hour. Instead of sour cream you can use sour cream sauce with the addition of a small amount of flour fried in butter and vegetable broth. Serve cabbage rolls sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Prohibited foods during the diet

A real buckwheat diet completely precludes the use of salt and sugar, oil, mayonnaise, ketchup and other sauces, condiments and spices. Meat and fish, if included in the diet during this period, should be lean. Dairy products must also be low in fat and exclude the presence of flavors and aromatic additives.

Of course, under a complete ban on all flour and sweet, spicy and salty, starchy vegetables such as potatoes and super-sweet fruits such as bananas or dates.

Leave the diet

This is a very careful moment where the safety of the result achieved using a diet depends on, as well as minimizing stress for organs and systems when you return to a normal diet.

In order for the lost kilograms not to return in a short time, you must get out of the limitation mode without any problems. In the first week, it is advisable not to remember flour, sweet and fatty foods.

Little by little, you can introduce high-quality butter and every day or two add two or three new products - different, moderately fatty varieties of meat and fish, offal, cheeses, nuts. Drink enough plain water and green tea, and most importantly, do not overeat.

However, many of those who have taken the reading course do not even feel the need for previously unhealthy diets and deliberately follow a balanced diet, whereby industrial confectionery, sauces with trans fat and high amounts of salt, fat and fat are minimized or completely eliminated. fried foods.

Contraindications

Any diet is a powerful stress for the body, even if it is based on such a useful product as buckwheat. During this period, weakness, fatigue and headaches are possible, so it is better not to plan this event at the time of severe physical or psycho-emotional overload - exams, an emergency at work, etc.

In any case, even a person who considers himself to be completely healthy should consult a doctor before starting a long reading.

Strict contraindications are:

• pregnancy and lactation;
• any form of diabetes;
• hypertension;
• high physical activity;
• stressful period;
• nervous diseases;
• diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in the acute stage;
• heart or kidney failure;
• underwent surgical operations on the abdominal organs;
• recovery period after any surgery, serious injury or infection.

Nutritionists' opinions on the effectiveness of buckwheat diets

Practical weight loss experience enables nutritionists to claim that buckwheat-based diets are effective in terms of weight loss and durability of the result, provided the restrictions are overcome correctly. The body gets enough protein and fiber, vitamins and minerals, so damage is minimized.

Nevertheless, the monotony of taste can be tolerated quite harshly, especially by people who already do not have a passion for buckwheat porridge. To understand how acceptable this option is for a particular organism, experts first recommend spending one day reading buckwheat a week.

Conclusion

Although the result of the diet seems inadequate, it is highly undesirable to exceed the established threshold of 14 days - this can lead to vitamin deficiency and exacerbation of chronic diseases. It is permissible to repeat weight loss on buckwheat at the earliest after one and a half months.

If during the diet you feel unwell or feel symptoms of exacerbation of existing diseases as well as previously unknown unpleasant sensations, carefully get out of the restrictions and consult a doctor. Listen and love your body and it will definitely support your wellness activities with its inner reserves.