Grapefruit diet for weight loss: advantage and harm

In a pursuit of a slim figure many girls are influenced by efficiency of various diets, but not all from them are tasty and useful.

We suggest you to consider features of a grapefruit way of weight loss and to study an approximate food allowance for several days.

Main essence and rules of observance of a diet

The efficiency of a diet with use of grapefruit is based on effect of the enzymes which are present at its structure which positively influence a liver and promote faster burning of the available fat deposits.

As a part of grapefruit a lot of cellulose and vitamin C which in combination with other products resolved during a diet fill an organism with the maximum quantity of nutrients contains.

Whether you know? Americans started talking that a citrus is capable to fight effectively against fat deposits in a human body still in the eighties the last century, and exactly since then diets on the basis of these fruit are used in various countries.

Certainly, any option of this kind of diets will be based on the low caloric content of the used products and obligatory presence of grapefruits at each meal.

It is impossible to call a grapefruit diet uncontrolled process, what menu you would not choose, at consumption of this fruit it is important to follow several simple rules:

1. At the chosen diet there should not be a salt and spices unless a small amount of red pepper.
2. When using a meat component it is important to give preference to exclusively fast grades of fish and meat.
3. Low-fat kefir can be used at any time, and oranges and apples will be ideal for small having a snack (only no more than 1 piece a day).
4. If desired once a day it is possible to eat a honey spoon, washing down it with green tea.
5. Coffee-achievers can continue consumption of coffee and during a diet, only it has to be scalded and natural, without milk, cream or especially sugar.
6. When cleaning grapefruit remove only an external peel from it, leaving a film on the place (it does a fruit bitterish on taste and promotes weight loss).
7. Eggs can be eaten in the morning and in the evening, and during the lunchtime it is worth making for himself a few vegetables and a piece of meat or cheese.
8. At a long diet (it is more than 3 weeks) in the last week it is worth increasing quantity of proteinaceous products, on average approximately by 1/3 from their total used before.
9. At an opportunity all meals have to be carried out almost at the same time, with accurate observance of requirements to the menu.
10. The daily number of calories should not be more than 1000.

Merits and demerits

The grapefruit diet is considered one of the most effective in a question of fast dumping of excess weight, however it does not mean at all that it is deprived of certain shortcomings.

Therefore before making the concrete menu and to pass to purchase of products, we advise to study the complete list of both advantages, and shortcomings of the similar choice.

Advantage

Useful properties of a grapefruit diet are based on advantage of the grapefruit as basic element of all diet.

Action of its components of components is expressed that it:

• quickly burns fat deposits, especially if it is used together with food of proteinaceous origin (in particular, kefir, milk or cottage cheese);
• well eliminates hunger even at the low caloric content (only 32 kcal on 100 g of a product);
• transforms fats, proteins and carbohydrates to energy, useful to an organism;
• improves exchange processes in an organism;
• fixes problems with a dream;
• promotes a fast conclusion of slags and toxins;
• controls activity of nervous and endocrine systems;
• reduces the probability of development of oncology;
• reduces cholesterol level;
• contributes to normalization of work of a GIT;
• improves an emotional state and increases mood.

Video: about a grapefruit diet it is possible, someone will be surprised by such many-sided effect of one fruit, but if to study structure of grapefruit in more detail, then there is nothing surprising in it.

Besides the mentioned vitamin C, it contains vitamin B and tocopherol which at simultaneous action are capable to have that positive impact on the different systems of an organism.

Contraindications and side effects

There are no universal products which would suit all and everyone, unfortunately, yet therefore, choosing a grapefruit diet for weight loss, it is better to consider all features of the organism.

It is important! If you do not like bitterish smack of fruit — do not worry, in a week you will get used to it as it has property to become boring.

This option will not suit those who:

• suffers from allergic reactions (let and not on a citrus);
• treats an ulcer or gastritis of a stomach;
• struggles with the increased acidity;
• has hypersensibility of teeth;
• uses various medicines (juice of grapefruit increases their absorbability, and influence of medicines will be more notable).

As for possible side effects, usually distinguish discomfort in a stomach from them, heartburn, quickly progressing caries and an unpleasant eructation.

How many it is possible to dump

For achievement of good indicators of weight loss on a grapefruit diet it is worth adhering to the chosen menu it is not less than 12-14 days, especially if your purpose is to dump more than 3-5 kg (it will be possible to lose at observance of requirements of a diet within the first week so much).

Cases when in two weeks of such food the people lost up to 10 kg and that excess weight did not return met, pass to habitual food gradually, every day adding to the diet on one product.

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Certainly, it is better not to use fat and flour products, or to do it in limited quantity and surely supplementing the lunch or a dinner with already fallen in love grapefruit (at least several times a week).

What it is possible to add a diet with

Professional nutritionists precisely know what products should be combined among themselves, but if you the beginner in this case, then the list of the resolved and forbidden components of a grapefruit diet still has to be learned. Let's consider each group of such ingredients in more detail.

The resolved products

Grapefruits — an excellent component of fruit salads where their taste can be added with any berries and other fruit. Practically all of them low-calorie therefore will not be able to do much harm to your figure on the way to weight loss.

As for other possible components of the dishes prepared at this time, carry to them:

• low-fat grades of meat;
• low-fat dairy products (milk, yogurts, kefir, cottage cheese);
• vegetables and greens (paprika, spinach, broccoli, garden radish, parsley and fennel);
• green tea and fresh juices.

From flour products it is worth giving preference to small loafs, replacing with them usual bread.

Forbidden

The list of the products forbidden during a diet will surprise nobody, almost traditional set of high-calorific food enters it:

• salt and sugar;
• fat vegetable, meat and fish dishes;
• flour products and confectionery products;
• white vegetables (for example, onions, girasol, potatoes, root celery and root parsley).

From drinks it is necessary to limit or to completely exclude any kinds of the alcoholic and aerated products.

The best way out from a diet

The grapefruit diet is considered one of the most serious and rigid therefore, returning to habitual food, it is necessary to follow several rules:

1. It is impossible to snatch on food right after the termination of a diet, especially it concerns consumption of cakes, cakes and fat dishes (you risk not only to return yourself all lost kilograms, but also you can quite earn problems with a pancreas and other bodies of digestive system which already got used to work at new speed).
2. Since first day without diet it is necessary to force itself to eat fractionally and often.
3. New (or already forgotten old) products can gradually be entered, since several hundred grams.
4. Easy vegetable soups and broths with meat add to a diet from second week, and krupyany porridges and bean still a week later.
5. It is better not to use the forbidden drinks (alcohol and sparkling water) at all, well or at least to wait until the organism reconstructs again and will begin to work as before.

Ignoring rules of exit from a diet, you can quite nullify all the efforts therefore before passing to the organization of further food, it should be taken into account the given nuances.

It is important! That upon transition from a dietary diet to normal the organism had a smaller stress, it is desirable to continue consumption of grapefruit and eggs at least in the first several weeks after a diet.

Menu

The concrete daily menu depends on what option of a diet you will choose. As the most known are considered a monodiet (it fasting day which will help to lose weight by several kilogram just before an important action), three-day, seven-day and two-week diets.

Certainly, each version has the features and provides use of a certain set of products.

Fasting day

It is desirable to use this option only in the most extreme cases as to sit only on some grapefruits long it will not turn out: the organism will begin to show the discontent.

Such cleaning method provides the use of only couple of bitter fruit within a day (it is necessary to eat with small pieces), and since morning the scales will show minus of 1-1.5 kg. As drinks either clear water, or the same grapefruit juice are used, nothing more can be drunk and eaten. For the objective reasons to apply a similar way of weight loss longer than one day it is forbidden.

Read in more detail about whether it is possible to lose weight on porridges.

For 3 days

One more rather simple option of unloading of an organism which is suitable for its cleaning not more often than once in half a year. However, it is quite enough to get rid of 2–3 kg and a long time to keep the weight at the new level.

During three-day dietary food with use of grapefruit the organism will lose unnecessary liquid, and together with it it will be left by a certain part of savings of fat, cholesterol and toxins.

The approximate menu of three-day option of weight loss can look as follows:

Put a payment order	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
The 1st	Half of grapefruit (or its juice) + 50 g of fast meat + rather weak tea (or coffee drink). As an alternative the meat component allows use of two eggs and one crouton.	A half of grapefruit (or juice) + mixed vegetables with lemon juice + rather weak tea. Sometimes add 50 g of boiled chicken to salad.	A half of grapefruit + 150 g of meat on couple + the salad (which is surely filled with juice of a citrus) + tea.
The 2nd	Half of grapefruit (or its juice) + 2 abrupt eggs + tea.	A half of grapefruit + 50 g of curds (only low fat content). For a role of drink tea will approach.	A half of grapefruit + 200 g of fish (it is better boiled) + vegetables salad and a lemon + small grain crouton.
The 3rd	Half of grapefruit + 100 g of steamed porridge + 2–3 kernels of walnuts + 150 g of low-fat yogurt. It is better to wash down a breakfast with green tea.	Half of grapefruit + liquid vegetable dish + bread (one piece).	A half of grapefruit + 200 g of a boiled bird's breast (chicken or indyushachy) + two tomatoes made in an oven + tea.

Exit from a diet corresponds to the rules stated earlier.

For 7 days

The general rules of a seven-day diet remind requirements to three-day unless the products used in the menu are a little more various (it is heavier to take out strict restrictions within a week, than at one - or three-day unloading).

Whether you know? The maximum advantage can be received from fruit with red pulp of room temperature, but if you are not going to eat it in next few days, then, having placed a citrus in the fridge, it is possible to prolong the term of its storage up to three weeks.

The main thing is to provide to an organism good nutrition, but with limited calorie content, for example, by means of such menu:

Put a payment order	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
The 1st	In general can be the same, as well as at three-day option: half of fruit + 50–60 g of fast meat + green tea or coffee.	A half of grapefruit + 250 g of salad from vegetables and greens (the additional effect will be rendered by gas station from a lemon) + honey tea.	250 g of a boiled chicken + glass of bitterish juice of fruit + 200 g of salad mix. It is possible to wash down food with lemon tea.
The 2nd	A half of fruit + 2 welded abrupt small egg + rather weak tea drink.	1/2 grapefruit pulp + 50 g of hard cheese (fat content it is not higher than 30%) or 100 g of the same low-calorie curds.	200 g of tinned fish (it is also possible to use boiled option) + the mixed vegetables filled with marinade from a lemon and olives 1:1 (this dish is eaten in unlimited number).
The 3rd	Glass of bitter fruit drink + 100 g of porridge with walnut nutlets + 50 g of low-fat dairy product (most tasty to fill porridge with yogurt).	A half of fruit + 100 g of the fat-free curds + yogurt (they can fill cottage cheese) + tea drink.	200 g of boiled meat + two tomatoes baked in an oven + green tea (without sugar). Before direct withdrawal for sleeping it is necessary to eat a half of grapefruit.
The 4th	Glass of juice from tomatoes + 1 boiled abrupt chicken small egg + tea (it is better with addition of a lemon).	A half of grapefruit + carrot mixed vegetables with addition of olive and lemon marinade (150 g) + a slice of black bread.	400 g of stewed mixed vegetables (cabbage, beet, a celery, a vegetable marrow, carrots will approach) + rather weak tea.
The 5th	200 g of fruit mix (it is necessary to add tangerine and apple to grapefruit) + tea.	The average potatoes baked in an oven + 200 g of mixed salad vegetables. It is possible to wash down all this with weak black tea.	200–250 g of the meat made on a grill (it is possible to prepare also in an oven) + a glass of bitter juice of fruit.
The 6th	Glass of bitter fruit juice + 100 g myusly (with raisin) + 50 g of dairy product (for improvement of taste myusly it is better to take yogurt).	A half of grapefruit + 100 g of low-fat curds with addition of yogurt + tea drink (without sugar).	200 g of boiled fowl + two tomatoes made in an oven + tea + a half of grapefruit (at once before you will be going to sleep).
The 7th	A half of grapefruit + two eggs + tea drink with addition of a lemon.	Half of fruit + 50 g of cheese of firm grades + rather weak tea (only not podslashchyonny).	200 g of boiled fish + the stewed mixed vegetables (150 g) made with addition of olive and lemon marinade + a glass of bitter fruit drink.

Long not to think, than to sate the organism in the last two days of a diet, it is possible just to repeat the menu of some previous days, choosing option most of which of all was pleasant to your stomach. In breaks between meals the consumption of apple or orange is allowed, but it is no more than one piece.

For 14 days

If the previous options of dietary food on the basis of grapefruit seemed to you too difficult, then you are definitely not ready to pass to a two-week diet with use of this fruit.

Whether you know? One of the strangest diets Sleeping Beauty whose essence is in to spend in a bed more time in the history is considered. During sleep the person does not consume food, but the organism all the same loses calories, so, there is a good opportunity to lose weight.

However for those who already passed the first stages the grapefruit diet lasting 14 days will help to lose even more extra kilos. Here the main thing is to adhere to the following gastronomic schedule:

Put a payment order	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
The 1st	Two abrupt chicken small egg + a half of pulp of one fruit + black coffee (only unsweetened).	100 g of boiled chicken meat + 50 g of small loafs from whole grain + 1 whole bitter fruit + green tea.	200 g of vegetables on couple + 100 g of yogurt + 0.5 glasses of freshly cooked juice from fruit pulp (before going to bed).
The 2nd	Two abrupt eggs + a half of pulp of one fruit + black coffee (only unsweetened).	200 g of boiled chicken brisket + 1 fruit + 150 g of mixed vegetables with addition of olive oil	Two abrupt chicken small egg + 1 rye toast + a glass of freshly cooked fruit drink (juice is squeezed out of pulp before the direct use).
The 3rd	Glass of bitter fruit juice + 100 g of porridge (with nutlets) + 50 g of dairy product (for improvement of taste of porridge it is better to take yogurt).	200 g of sheep cheese + 1 toast (for preparation choose as rye hlebushka) + one fresh tomato.	250–300 g of the low-fat meat baked on a grill + salad mix + a half of grapefruit.
The 4th	A half of fruit + 2 the hard-boiled eggs + green tea with a lemon.	200 g of a liquid vegetable dish + slice of black bread + hundred-gram piece of a boiled bird's breast.	400 g of stewed vegetables (cabbage, beet, a celery, a vegetable marrow, carrots will approach) + a glass of bitterish drink.
The 5th	200 g of salad from fruit (it is necessary to add orange and apple to grapefruit) + tea.	250 g of the fish prepared on a grill + vegetable salad (100 g) + half-grapefruit.	Whole fruit + 150 g of green seasonal salad.
The 6th	Glass of bitter fruit drink + 100 g of porridge with raisin + 50 g of low-fat dairy product (for example, yogurt).	200 g of sheep cheese + 1 toast (for preparation choose as rye hlebushka) + one fresh tomato.	400 g of boiled fast meat + juice from grapefruit pulp.
The 7th	Half of grapefruit + two eggs + green lemon tea.	200 g of the cooked chicken brisket + 1 fruit + 150 g of the vegetable salad oiled by olive.	200 g of mixed vegetables on couple + green tea.
The 8th	Half of grapefruit (or its juice) + 50 g of fast meat + rather weak tea (or coffee drink). As an alternative the meat component allows use of two eggs and one crouton.	4–5 quail testicles + 200 g of sheet salad.	200 g of boiled meat + 1 rye toast + 100 g of low-calorie yogurt.
The 9th	Glass of bitter fruit juice + 100 g of porridge (with nutlets) + 50 g of dairy product (for improvement of taste of porridge it is better to take yogurt).	Half of fruit + 50 g of cheese of firm grades + rather weak tea (only not podslashchyonny).	200 g of boiled fowl + two tomatoes made in an oven + tea + a half of grapefruit (at once before you will be going to sleep).
The 10th	Two abrupt chicken small egg + a half of pulp of one fruit + black coffee (only unsweetened).	150 g of fast meat (it is better baked in an oven) + 200 g of sheet salad.	4–5 quail small egg + 1 grapefruit.
The 11th	Glass of bitter fruit drink + 100 g myusly (with raisin) + 50 g of yogurt or kefir.	Two eggs + 100 g of low-fat cottage cheese (it is possible to replace with sheep cheese) + 150 g of steam mixed vegetables.	Grapefruit pulp (as much as necessary).
The 12th	Half of grapefruit or juice of it + 50 g of ham (low-fat) + tea or coffee. It is possible to replace ham with two eggs and a slice of black bread.	200 g of sheep cheese (it is possible to replace with low-fat curds) + 1 toast (for preparation choose as rye hlebushka) + one fresh tomato.	200 g of boiled bird's brisket + two tomatoes made in an oven + tea + a half of grapefruit (at once before you will be going to sleep).
The 13th	Half-grapefruit + two eggs + tea drink with lemon juice.	200 g of sheep cheese + 1 toast from rye bread + 1 fresh average tomato.	250–300 g of any low-fat meat made on a grill + greens salad + a half of grapefruit.
The 14th	Glass of juice of bitter fruit + 100 g myusly with raisin + 50 g of low-fat milk (it is possible to replace with yogurt).	200 g of a liquid vegetable dish + slice of black bread + hundred-gram piece of a boiled bird's breast.	200 g of a boiled small fish + the stewed mixed vegetables (150 g) made with addition of olive and lemon marinade + a glass of bitter fruit drink

The fourteen-day grapefruit diet is considered one of the most popular ways of weight loss before an important action, and at exact observance of the menu it is possible to dump up to 10 kg of excess weight.

Nevertheless such system it is impossible to call idle time for an organism therefore application of a diet is allowed only in the absence of diseases.

We recommend to get acquainted with merits and demerits of a liquid diet.

Other variations of a diet

Most often grapefruit is combined with eggs, dairy products and boiled meat of low-fat grades therefore it is separately possible to allocate several subspecies of one grapefruit diet. All of them are calculated on short use (3–5 days) and if you need more time for weight loss, then it is possible to combine them among themselves (for example as it is given in the table above).

Egg and grapefruit

Eggs contain a lot of protein therefore together with grapefruits they not only will allow to solve a problem of extra kilos, but also will promote strengthening of hair and nail plates.

Whenever possible eggs of hens can be replaced quail (1 chicken = 4–5 quail), but in other menu of a diet remains invariable, and you only need to be defined how many days you are going to grow thin.

The short course (for 3–5 days) provides use of limited quantity of products during the whole time: after awakening drink a glass of clear water, in an hour eat 1 egg, and in an hour eat 1 grapefruit. Per day these actions repeat not less than seven times therefore for several days 3-3.5 kg are lost.

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At long option of an egg and grapefruit diet (it is calculated for 28 days) possibly use of bigger quantity of products, and the approximate menu will look thus:

1. Breakfast — a half of grapefruit