How to observe fasting days for losing belly fat

Let's talk about fasting days for weight loss. The options at home are so numerous that it’s impossible to list them all, but we will try. There are many ways to unload a woman’s stomach. I will tell you how to properly spend such days to cleanse the body and how to create a menu for the day. I also have reviews and results from regular readers for you. You will learn how to make sure that there is maximum benefit from such procedures, why the most effective is a kefir day, what is good about unloading on cottage cheese, buckwheat and chicken breast. I’ll also tell you why you shouldn’t do unloading on water with lemon, and that’s not all.

The essence of the technique

Fasting days for weight loss, unlike dieting, take little time. Everyone can withstand them. By introducing foods into the menu that are easily digested by the digestive system, the body is able to get rid of waste and toxins.

The very next day a person feels light and notices a decrease in volume in problem areas. The essence of the technique is that a person who wants to lose 1 kg or more in one day can choose from options for fasting days. There are hard methods, and there are gentle ones. All of them are usually based on the use of a single product.

Basic rules

Beginners can start fasting one day a week to feel the sensations and get used to the new regime. The main goal is to reduce the number of calories to 300 - 500. The next day, the body automatically consumes less, which affects weight indicators.

Light food or its absence leads to the restoration and improvement of the functioning of the digestive organs, primarily the pancreas, liver and gall bladder. Energy is restored, because most of the internal resources are consumed by the process of digesting food. It is for this reason that many people who practice yoga and meditation use dietary restrictions to connect with their inner self.

There are rules for fasting days:

• The day before, it is better not to eat heavy foods - flour, meat and fried foods.
• At the time of unloading, eat often, but little by little.
• Drink water to avoid side effects - headaches and intestinal problems.
• To avoid feeling hungry, it is recommended to include 2-3 light foods. For example, buckwheat, herbs and low-fat kefir.

It is recommended to completely remove sugar from your diet, limiting yourself to substitutes, and not to drink alcohol.

Rules

Not everyone finds it easy to endure a day without their favorite treats. If reducing your diet is difficult, you need to know how to arrange fasting days. To begin with, you can try fasting for half a day. For example, after 1 pm, eat exclusively dietary products. When the body gets used to this kind of stress, you can start a full day.

Another rule for a fasting day: you should stock up on the necessary products in advance and distribute them over several meals. It is better to eat fractionally, every one and a half to two hours in small portions, so as not to feel hungry and not to burden the stomach.

Important: During a fasting diet, you need to organize a drinking regime to cleanse the body. It is recommended to drink at least 1.5 -2 liters of water during the day.

The liquid helps remove toxins from the body. If you don’t want to drink plain water, you can improve its taste with a slice of lemon and mint leaves. The required amount of liquid is distributed throughout the day. You should not drink large amounts of water at one time. This will harm your health.

How to make a fasting day easy? To make it easier to resist temptations, it is better to empty the refrigerator of your favorite treats in advance. This will eliminate the temptation to eat junk food.

Examples

There are different options for fasting days. Those losing weight can choose the most suitable nutrition option based on their taste preferences. It is also important how much a person is used to cutting back on his diet. There are strict and more gentle examples of fasting days.

The first option involves eating one product. “Feding” options for fasting days for weight loss, judging by reviews, are easier to tolerate, since they allow you to add different foods to the menu.

Recipes

We offer several recipes for fasting days.

Bonn soup

This is an option for carbohydrate unloading. To prepare for it, you need to cook vegetable soup in advance. The dish includes cabbage, celery, onions, bell peppers and tomatoes. All ingredients are crushed, poured with water and cooked until tender. To increase efficiency, it is advised not to use salt. However, not everyone can eat such a soup in its unleavened form. In this case, it is allowed to add seasonings to the soup. The dish is eaten throughout the day.

Salad brush

This fasting day recipe is also based on vegetables. But the products are not boiled, but consumed raw. To prepare the dish, take half a kilogram of beets, the same amount of celery and carrots. Vegetables are chopped on a grater. The salad is divided into 6 meals and eaten throughout the day. Vegetable oil is not added to vegetables!

Fasting days on porridge

The advantage of unloading on cereals is tolerable hunger, simplicity and visible effect on the body. This is the best option for the first time.

Buckwheat

Hearty cereal contains many useful microelements and dietary fiber. It improves intestinal motility and the entire digestion process.

Prepare porridge according to the recipe:

• 250 g of buckwheat is poured with boiling water in a ratio of 1 to 3;
• do this at night before bed;
• do not use salt or spices;
• the next day, divide the porridge into 5 servings;
• eat it during the day;
• If desired, add some fresh herbs.

Contraindications : diseases of the intestines and stomach.

Rice

Unloading on brown or white unpolished rice gives a good effect.

The product speeds up metabolism and relieves swelling.

To cleanse, do the following:

• 250 g of grains are washed in water;
• pour clean water and cook until the porridge is ready;
• eat this amount of rice during the day in 5 meals;
• no salt is added.

Contraindications : frequent constipation.

Diet options

There are 4 types of fasting diet.

On cottage cheese

It is based on the consumption of cottage cheese. This type of food is quite easily tolerated. In addition, cottage cheese contains a large number of useful microelements that will help the body survive a reduction in diet. The essence of the fasting day is that the menu includes 0.5 kg of cottage cheese with a low fat content. You can add kefir, apples, bananas, dried fruits or watermelon to your diet.

Bitter

This is a rather complex unloading option. On this day, only grapefruits and green tea without sugar are allowed. At one meal, consume half a citrus fruit and a glass of drink. The bitterness of foods is believed to suppress appetite.

On buckwheat

Prepare for this day in advance. At night, take 200 grams of buckwheat and pour half a liter of kefir. The next day the dish is eaten throughout the day. This kind of unloading cleanses the body well. After it, the condition of the skin improves.

Protein

For this you will need chicken meat without skin. It is best to take dietary so-called “white meat” from the breast of the bird for such purposes. The body spends a lot of energy digesting protein. Therefore, such a fasting day helps to get rid of excess weight.

Important: For fasting days, it is recommended to avoid low-fat dairy products. They contain many harmful flavoring additives. Cottage cheese, milk and kefir with a fat content of 2.5% are suitable for a fasting day.

Kefir fasting day

Kefir is a common component of both diets and fasting. I think this drink is one of the best ways to quickly and easily lose weight. Read more about this in the article Kefir and apples for weight loss - reviews.

Organic fibers in its composition help to form a healthy microflora of the intestines and stomach, strengthen the immune system, relieve chronic fatigue, make the nervous system stronger, and most importantly, kefir neutralizes the negative effects of previously taken antibiotics. Add here the rapid absorption of vitamins and minerals, low calorie content, and kefir becomes the No. 1 product for fasting days.

Kefir is well tolerated, but not by everyone, and not in winter. If you are warm and tolerate kefir days well, then get ready to get rid of heaviness in your stomach, improve your complexion and even reduce allergic reactions.

Please note that if, as a result of a day on kefir, your stomach, on the contrary, becomes too overloaded and you suffer from gas formation, then in principle dairy products are not suitable for your diet. And another interesting point - fresh kefir can cause diarrhea, while three-day old kefir causes constipation. You need to choose something in between the date of manufacture.

Since kefir day is considered a “hungry” day, you can add not too sweet fruits and some vegetables to your diet. I give an example of the best fasting days on kefir:

• 2 liters of kefir for the whole day - divide into equal 6 servings and drink throughout the day. If necessary, supplement the diet with water and herbal tea.
• Divide 1.5 liters of kefir + several apples into 5-6 meals, alternating apples and kefir.
• 1 liter of kefir + 1 liter of any addition in the form of a fermented milk product (ryazhenka, yogurt, bifidoc, acidophilus, unsweetened yogurt) + herbal tea.
• 1.5 liters of kefir + 3 servings of fresh cucumber and herb salad.
• 1.5 liters of kefir + 0.5 liters of cucumber smoothie.

It doesn’t matter what fat content of kefir you take. Even too high a fat content of kefir will not harm either the cleansing process or the process of losing weight.

Buckwheat porridge in water with kefir and cottage cheese with kefir also go well together. The first option with porridge is ideal. All you need is to cook green buckwheat porridge (as much as you want) in water and prepare 1.5 liters of kefir. Alternate your meals throughout the day. Kefir is an easily digestible protein, and green buckwheat is a good complex carbohydrate. You will not feel hungry and will cleanse yourself perfectly.

In the case of kefir and cottage cheese, take 1.5 liters of kefir and 0.5 kg of medium-fat cottage cheese (do not use low-fat cottage cheese). With this combination you will lose weight very well, since protein perfectly “dries”, that is, it removes excess water and burns the upper layers of “young” fat. You can eat the foods separately or together – it doesn’t matter, since both are protein. Add green tea and water.

I'll add a reader's review here.

Miroslava

I have never been able to survive a whole day on kefir alone - I was too hungry. I spent kefir days with the addition of apples and cottage cheese. One of my friends told me to add honey, but I think this is a very bad idea, since honey is very high in calories and I personally really wanted to eat after it. And one more thing - it is important that everything is prepared in advance for the children and husband. I send the kids to grandma on a fasting day so that there are fewer temptations.

I’ll add on my own behalf that honey is really not the best product for a diet, which you can read about in the article Honey for weight loss - is it possible or not.

Contraindications

Despite the benefits of fasting days, which help cleanse the body, some people are prohibited from cutting back on their diet. This applies primarily to pregnant and lactating women. Lack of fat in the diet will harm the baby. Such representatives of the fair sex need to eat well.

In the presence of chronic diseases, fasting days are allowed. However, you will need to be more careful when choosing a menu and consult with your doctor.

Results and reviews

Those who want to lose weight quickly often use this technique in practice. The impression and results from them are different. However, provided that the unloading rules are followed, many achieve good results.

Alina, 35 years old: “For me, the easiest and most correct fasting day is on chicken meat. It is very difficult to survive on carbohydrates. True, I eat not only meat, but also the broth in which the chicken was cooked. They also advised me to make jellied meat. Gelatin turns out to be very beneficial for weight loss. In one day of quite tasty unloading, at least 1 kg is lost.”

Olga, 28 years old: “After giving birth, I gained an extra 10 kg. As soon as I finished feeding, I decided to take care of myself. I heard about an interesting technique and decided to find out what a fasting day means. I started hosting it once a week. This helped me wean myself off high calorie foods. Over time, I began to eat moderately all the time. But I didn’t forget about regular unloading. I used different options. In three months of this regime, I lost everything I needed. I don’t stop there.”

Veronica: “I love Bonn soup. For me this is the most effective and easiest unloading. I don’t give up salt; sometimes I add black pepper, herbs, and garlic to the soup. It turns out to be a delicious dish. I take it to work in a thermos. In one day, at least 1 kg is lost. After the feasts there were two. Is a fasting day good for health? I think so."

Unloading on chocolate

Extreme and completely unfounded. I am writing about this only to warn you that a fasting day on chocolate will not be able to cleanse the body and will definitely not contribute to weight loss. Moreover, you will harm yourself by doing this.

That's all I wanted to tell you about fasting days for weight loss. The options at home for a woman’s belly and cleansing the body don’t end there, but now you know how to spend the day correctly, how to make a menu and what the benefits of all this can be. If you have reviews, results, for example, about kefir day, or you just want to share your experience, be sure to write in the comments. It’s especially interesting if you had fasting on buckwheat, water with lemon or chicken breast.

Sources:

• Kashin The best recipes for burning fat and fasting days
• A. Gagarin 800 dishes for fasting days
• Jacqueline Whiteheart Diet 5:2. Bikini diet

Recommendations

A few rules and recommendations on how to spend a fasting day:

1. Immediately before a fasting day, you should not load your stomach with high-calorie foods. Dinner should be light and not too late.
2. We must not forget about sufficient fluid intake - at least one and a half to two liters.
3. It is recommended to plan a fasting day for a quiet period, preferably on a weekend.
4. On the fasting day, intense sports should be avoided. But moderate loads will not hurt. Walking in the fresh air and playing with children will help improve results.
5. Nutritionists consider the 3 best fasting days: with cottage cheese, with Bonn soup and protein.
6. The next day after unloading, it is forbidden to pounce on high-calorie foods. This can lead to disruptions in the gastrointestinal tract.
7. If during the day it turns out that it is impossible to cope with the feeling of hunger, you can allow yourself to drink a glass of low-fat kefir or eat an apple.

Do fasting days help you lose weight? It is important to monitor your condition. If severe weakness and dizziness occur, it is better to refuse it.

The main problem of losing weight

Uncontrolled food restrictions taken from the Internet or books are not individual, but average recommendations. Most of those who use strict diets or fasting experience discomfort. Physical health suffers, self-esteem drops, and breakdowns such as “eating everything in a row” are increasingly occurring. In fact, such strict diets should be prepared by a nutritionist specifically for your body and lifestyle. After all, each person has his own individual level of metabolism, which is determined both by hereditary factors and age, the state of the hormonal system and many other factors. Therefore, recommendations that are common to everyone should not be strictly restrictive - they will work for some time, and then the body will go into failure.

That is why, as general recommendations, doctors advise switching to proper nutrition. Limit fats and simple carbohydrates, that is, consume less sweets, starchy foods, fried foods (except grilled), fatty foods, and eliminate sugary drinks. Eat more vegetables, fish, grain products, lean meat. Make sure that your caloric expenditure during the day – for fitness or household activities – is higher than the energy intake from food. And to speed up the process of losing weight and activating metabolism, you can use fasting days.

Question answer

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Conclusion

It is important to remember that it is impossible to get rid of fat in one fasting day. Volumes go away due to the removal of excess fluid and cleansing of the intestines. To achieve a slim figure, you will need to constantly adhere to proper nutrition and periodically arrange fasting days.

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