The benefits of natural juices from vegetables , berries and fruits are known to everyone – they are rich in trace elements useful for the body, vitamins, amino acids and other biologically active substances. Given that all this wealth also contains few calories, juices are used in a variety of diets for weight loss. Moreover, there are special so-called juice diets, where natural juices are the basis of the menu or its only component.
However, a juice diet is not suitable for everyone. Even if there are no obvious contraindications, many cannot observe it because of the constant feeling of hunger and the desire to chew solid food. In any case, you can not start a juice diet in the absence of confidence that you have no problems with the gastrointestinal tract and are allergic to the fruits and vegetables from which the juice is made. Therefore, it is not recommended to start a juice diet without preliminary preparation: 3-4 days before its start, you need to abandon the use of baking, meat and fat, so that the body can easily transfer a sharp change in the nutrition menu.
In order to effectively lose weight and not harm your health, observing a diet on juices, you must strictly observe the following rules : 1. You can’t lose weight on juices for too long – it is allowed to follow a juice diet for no more than 2-7 days. 2. Juices should be freshly squeezed from natural fruits, drinking purchased juices is harmful: they contain too much sugar and chemical additives. 3. Juices should be prepared immediately before use, if prepared for the future, then they lose their beneficial properties after 30 minutes. 4. Drink best diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1 juices to reduce the acidity of drinks. 5. Juices are difficult to lose weight, so it is better to spend fasting days on them. But they can not be done more than once every 10 days, otherwise the body will begin to experience stress.
Choosing the juice , its type, volume and period of use should be given its taste and properties of the fruit, vegetable or berry from which it is made. Best of all, weight is reduced on vegetable juices: they have a neutral taste, fewer calories and a higher saturation effect. You can prepare a mixture of different juices, for example, mix carrot, pumpkin and beetroot juice, adding cabbage or celery. It is also useful to include tomato juice in the diet during a diet, it improves bowel function, but it is contraindicated for people with urolithiasis.
Fruit juices contain a lot of carbohydrates, because of this there are much more calories in them. Therefore, on apple, pear, peach, cherry and grape juice to lose weight as fast as we would like, it may not work. In order not to be disappointed in the effectiveness of the diet on juices, it is better to arrange only fasting days on fruit juices.
When using them in the diet menu to reduce the sweetness and calories of fruit drinks, it is preferable to use them together with vegetable juices, diluting them in a ratio of 1: 1. If you decide to lose weight only on fruit juices, then it is better to cook them with pulp. They contain more fiber, which improves metabolism.
Juice diet is not suitable for people who can not afford to buy a large number of expensive fruits and vegetables. After all, every day it will be necessary to cook and drink 6-8 glasses of juice, for the preparation of which a lot of raw materials will be required. The ideal option is to use juices made from fruits grown in your own personal garden or cottage for your diet. They have no nitrates and other harmful chemicals, which, unfortunately, the fruits from the store cannot boast of.
The most popular juice diet to date is Malysheva’s weight loss program. The term for compliance with this diet is 7 days, the amount of juice consumed is about 10 glasses per day. A prerequisite – the juice should be natural and diluted with clean water in a ratio of 1: 1. According to Malysheva, 7 days is enough to cleanse the body, establish digestion, normalize stool and reduce weight by 4-6 kilograms.
Malysheva offers to choose raw materials for making juice according to the following scheme: 1st day – carrots, pineapples or apples (one to choose from or all in a mixture); 2nd day – dark grapes; 3rd day – a set of fruits at your discretion; 4th day – vegetables at your discretion; 5th day – carrots, pineapples or apples; 6th day – dark grapes; 7th day – a set of fruits at your discretion.
Instead of drinks, it is forbidden to eat fruits or vegetables, observing their calorie content . Malysheva’s juice diet is considered to be tough, as it imposes severe restrictions on nutrition, so it gives excellent results in losing weight. However, as after any other diet, after losing weight on juices in the future, you need to normalize your diet so that the lost pounds do not quickly return back.