On the eve of International Juice Day, we decided to figure out if you can drink sweet juices while dieting and which smoothies will help you lose weight.
Candidate of Medical Sciences, Doctor of the Highest Category, Senior Researcher of the Clinic of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Research Institute of Nutrition"
We lose weight from low-calorie foods, this is an axiom
This fact seems obvious, but many people forget about it: low-calorie foods contribute to reducing excess weight. If we focus on low-calorie foods, this helps to reduce the total calorie content of our diet and, therefore, get rid of those extra pounds.
The more vegetables and fruits in the diet in different forms, the more chances you have to lose weight.
Low-calorie foods include vegetables and fruits, with the exception of some. The average calorie content of fruits is about 50 kcal, but there are exceptions, such as grapes, bananas and avocados. Vegetables have an even lower calorie content: on average, no more than 30 kcal per 100 grams. The calorie content of a cucumber, for example, is only 14 kcal.
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A glass of juice a day is an important part of the diet.
The World Health Organization recommends eating 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. One of these servings should be replaced with a glass of vegetable or fruit juice. Both juices and whole fruits and vegetables are low in calories, so they can be consumed with any diet, even the lowest calorie. Almost all vitamins and minerals contained in various fruits can be obtained from the juice. And the more diverse the assortment of juices you drink, the greater the opportunity to provide the body with useful substances, because their content in juices differs. The main thing is to remember that one glass of juice a day will be enough.
The only thing that can discourage the consumption of sugary fruit juices is diabetes. In this case, the diet is limited individually on the recommendation of a doctor, depending on the severity of the disease.
Misconception: you shouldn't drink juices while on a diet
Look at the calorie content of juices, and you will immediately understand that this is completely wrong. We get better and gain kilograms not from fats and carbohydrates, but from an excess of calories - juices do not give excess calories. By the way, even the lowest calorie diet is allowed to include a serving of sweet fruit juice. Indeed, unlike sweets, starchy foods and other refined sweets, juice will help add “sweets” to the diet without unnecessary calories. In addition, juice is a product of natural origin, containing many biologically active and useful substances.
Best dessert while dieting - smoothie
Smoothie is a wonderful low-calorie dessert that will help all those with a sweet tooth who want to lose weight. A serving of delicious, sweet smoothies will help you get positive emotions and stop the strong cravings for unhealthy sweets that many people experience when dieting. At the same time, the smoothie will help you lose weight, since it helps to improve intestinal motility and has a mild diuretic effect. Very often, on low-calorie diets, a situation arises when, with a decrease in the amount of food consumed, the bowel function becomes difficult. Smoothie in such a situation is the first assistant.
We have prepared for you several tasty and healthy recipes that will help you not to feel sad while dieting.
Fruit smoothie for breakfast
Apple juice will bring potassium with it, improve the functioning of the digestive system and prevent colon diseases. Tangerines and orange juice will provide vitamin C and folic acid, apricots will add dietary fiber, and each of them - antioxidants, and yogurt will make the taste mild.
Ingredients for 2 servings:
- tangerine (peeled) - 2 pcs.;
- apple juice - 100 ml;
- orange juice - 100 ml;
- pitted apricots - 400 g;
- natural yogurt - 200 g.
Preparation
Combine the tangerines and apricots in a blender for 30 seconds. Add orange juice, apple juice, and yogurt. Stir for another 15-30 seconds. Add some cinnamon if desired. Pour into glasses.
Pomegranate smoothie
Pomegranate juice is an important source of polyphenols - biologically active substances with high antioxidant activity.
Ingredients for 1 serving:
- 50 ml of pomegranate juice;
- 1 pear;
- ½ grapefruit;
- ½ teaspoon grated fresh ginger root;
- 2 tablespoons of walnuts.
Preparation
Cut the pear, remove the core, and chop the pulp. Peel the grapefruit and divide into wedges. Put pieces of pear, grapefruit, walnuts and ginger in a blender bowl, add pomegranate juice and grind well into a homogeneous mass. Add a couple of ice cubes if desired. Pour the finished smoothie into a glass and serve immediately.
Beetroot soup with tomato juice
Vegetable juices are low in calories, tomato juice is rich in lycopene, which helps to reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol in the blood, and the antioxidant betalain was found in beet juice, the presence of which in beets owes its color.
Ingredients for 1 serving:
- tomato juice - 150 ml;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- couscous - 50 g;
- beets (boiled) - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
- salt, herbs to taste.
Preparation
Cut the onion into cubes. Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan and lightly fry the onion. Add finely diced carrots to the onion and lightly fry too. Then chop the boiled beets and add them to the sautéed vegetables. Pour boiling water over the couscous, leave for 15 minutes, let it swell. Pour the vegetables with water to cover them slightly, and cook until tender. After the vegetables are cooked, add tomato juice to them and bring to a boil. Add the swollen couscous to the vegetables in the broth and mix with a blender until smooth.
The fastest and most effective way to tidy up your figure, if you need to get rid of a couple of kilograms for the next holiday or a date with a young man, is to use a juice diet.
The essence of the diet on juices, which is also called fasting on juices, is that all that can be consumed during such a diet is fresh juices. Juices that are sold in packs are not suitable for such a diet. Juices should be exclusively freshly squeezed and no more than 15 minutes should elapse from the moment of juicing to consumption.
A diet on juices, lasting 1-7 days, allows you to lose up to 10 kg without harm to the body, but for those who first decided to try this method of losing weight, nutritionists recommend starting from 1-3 days.
Depending on the goals pursued, juices can be drunk for about 7 days and at the same time noticeably lose weight in such a short period of time or gradually come to the desired weight, spending fasting days on fresh juices once or twice a week.
Pros of the juice diet
In addition to weight loss, a juice diet has a number of benefits:
cleansing the intestines and taste buds;
saturation of the body with vitamins and enzymes;
juices can be consumed in unlimited quantities and prepared from a wide variety of vegetables and fruits;
juices are an excellent source of energy for the body.
Disadvantages of diet
The lack of solid food is a serious challenge for some;
the inability to use fresh juices while outside the house;
the need to care for the oral cavity after each juice intake in order to preserve the tooth enamel, which is exposed to the destructive effects of fruit acid.
The juice diet is contraindicated for people with gastrointestinal problems, as well as for allergy sufferers.
Basic principles of the juice diet
Juices should be drunk often, but little by little. The best option is 1 glass of fresh juice every 2 hours;
the amount of juices consumed should not exceed 2 liters per day;
juices should be varied, so juice products can be combined and matched to your taste;
beet juice should not be consumed more often than 2 times a day;
it is necessary to use clean water in the amount of 1, 5 - 2 liters per day.
Particular attention should be paid to getting out of the juice diet. For the first 2 days, limit yourself to eating fruits (in small quantities, chewing thoroughly) and juices. In the next two days, add fresh vegetable salads to the diet, and then add fermented milk products and oatmeal to the menu. After a week, you can return to your usual diet, but in order for the achieved result to last longer, limit the use of heavy, fatty and fried foods.
Text: Irina Sergeeva
Of course, everyone knows the most effective diet - the diet of Maya Plisetskaya: "Don't eat!" But following such a diet for a long time is harmful. You can turn to juices for weight loss. They can be both a temporary substitute for meals, and an excellent aid to the chosen diet.
Slimming juices - juice diets
Juices for weight loss when drinking a diet should not be purchased. After all, we are adults and we understand that no matter how hard a person tries to preserve all the most valuable in the juice, the desired long shelf life forces us to go against the benefits. Drinking purchased juice is not harmful, but you should not use it for a diet.
Slimming juice should be freshly squeezed. You need to choose ripe fruits, in no case spoiled. The juice should be drunk immediately after preparation, since during the first 50 minutes necessary and useful vitamins and microelements may disappear from it, and after 4 hours the juice will be simply tasty, but not useful.
How to drink juice? What is the scheme? First of all, you need to know that 2 days before the start of the juice diet, you need to gradually abandon meat, smoked, gradually adding juice to the diet, and on the second day replacing one meal with it. During the diet itself, it is worthwhile to choose the juice wisely, and it is better to consult a doctor. So, with gastritis or peptic ulcer, high acidity, you must completely exclude apple, lemon, orange, pomegranate juices. If there is diabetes or urolithiasis, such a diet is prohibited at all (with urolithiasis, a special diet is prescribed, table 6). If you are allergic to any fruit, of course, you cannot choose its juice for a diet. In addition, the juice must be diluted with water and drunk through a straw - even diluted fresh juice is very dangerous for tooth enamel.
Then do not forget that you cannot sit on a juice diet for a long time - it is harmful. Of course, the juice is low in calories. This gives us the opportunity to lose weight, but at the same time, for the same reason, lethargy, drowsiness, and headache are possible. If you decide on the days of the diet to drink juice and not eat anything, remember that such a diet should not last longer than two days.
It would be much wiser to follow such a juice diet: if there are signs of hunger, drink juice, juice - for breakfast and dinner, lunch will be almost as always, only vegetarian. Such a diet can last a little longer - from 5 to 7 days.
You also need to be able to get out of the diet. Perhaps the body decided to wait out the hungry days, and then make up for them, constantly tormenting us with a feeling of hunger. Do not succumb to provocations and do not eat in excess of the norm. When hungry, drink green tea or water.
Slimming juices - a healthy diet
It is best to use juices for weight loss not as a diet, but as part of a healthy balanced diet. The rules aren't hard at all. You need to drink juice or water when you want to eat, and the time for lunch or dinner has not come yet, and half an hour before meals. Thus, the amount of food will be less. Drinking juice before main meals, after a month you can part with at least 2-3 kg.
But, of course, all this will be exactly so, provided that the food is healthy. No fast food, no junk food, food should be fresh, tasty and healthy. Of course, the loss of a kilogram will be gradual, but at the same time it will be healthy, and adherence to a healthy diet is the way to forget about dieting. After all, they will simply become unnecessary!
The choice of juice for weight loss in this case is wide. First, you need to get a doctor's opinion. Secondly, be guided by your own taste. So, for example, cabbage juice is great for weight loss, but also fermentation, so you don't need to drink it at night. Beetroot juice should not be drunk in its pure form - it has an irritating effect on the intestines. But with all this, the benefits of beetroot juice are enormous - it helps to improve the functioning of the liver and normalizes fat metabolism. It can be diluted with other juice or water. Fruit juices are just as beneficial. The choice is yours.
Drinking can help you lose weight or slow it down. The first option is preferable for us.
Drinking during the diet is a must - this is understandable. It is also clear that any fluid entering the body while it is in a strict regime of restricting food affects the processes taking place in it.
How great: you can drink and lose weight in addition to a weight loss plan. But you need to know some rules, which we will now tell you about.
- The amount of liquid per day should not be less than 1.5-2 liters. As a rule, we easily and imperceptibly absorb this norm. If you drink more - this is a plus, if less - think about why and how the situation can be changed.
- It is categorically impossible to drink lemonades, soda, packaged juices on a diet: they are harmful in themselves, and during a diet they will only pollute the body. It is better to keep silent about their inconceivable calorie content.
- When entering a weight loss regimen, immediately remember a simple rule: you need to drink before meals, not after.
- It's good if 15 minutes before you start breakfast, lunch or dinner, you drink a glass of water.
Water while dieting
How much fluid does the body need per day and when to drink water? The correct drinking regimen during the diet is the key to your body's health and well-being. How to drink water properly?
Each person is unique and each needs a different amount of fluid. A liter of water per day is enough for one person, and two is not enough for another. The main factors affecting the required volume are weight, lifestyle and the presence of diseases.
If there is not enough fluid in the body, the risk of developing chronic ailments increases, and if there is an excess, edema appears, kidneys get sick. As you can see, dehydration along with excess fluid can harm the body.
Doctors do not advise people with kidney and heart disease to drink a lot. In addition, water helps to flush out toxins and toxins from the body, along with useful substances.
Drinking water when you are already thirsty is a wrong decision, because at the moment the body is already dehydrated. That is why you need to try to consume liquid when the feeling of thirst has not yet appeared. The golden rule is: a glass of liquid in the morning and one at a time between meals. An exception is the situation if a person goes in for sports. Then, after classes and before them, you also need to drink water.
Hot or cold drinks: which one to choose?
- Hot drinks are absorbed faster by the walls of the stomach, and therefore they create a feeling of fullness in the body. In turn, cold ones are an excellent stimulator of the production of gastric juice, which accelerates digestion. If you consume a hot drink twenty minutes before a meal, you can significantly reduce your appetite. Reception of the same cold - helps to speed up the digestion of food and saturate the body.
- Correct alternation of drinks allows you to control your appetite and reduce the portions of consumed meals several times.
- Try not to drink tap water, use filters. Better yet, ordering water delivered to your home.
- You can add lemon juice to the water: firstly, it is an excellent source of vitamin C, and secondly, it promotes good digestion of food and cleanses the intestines. A glass of water with lemon in the morning every day during a diet - and you will feel cheerful, light and energized.
- Mineral water on a diet is welcome, but it must be chosen carefully. Mineral water will allow you to concentrate efforts and help the work of a specific organ: stomach, intestines, liver or pancreas.
- You should not drink distilled water throughout the diet: it flushes out the necessary salts from the body.
Fresh squeezed juices for weight loss
Juices must certainly be freshly squeezed: they should be drunk no later than 10 minutes after squeezing. They preserve all the nutrients found in vegetables, fruits and berries. The value of juices is in their easily digestible carbohydrates - glucose, fructose, sucrose and others, in a complex of vitamins, mineral salts, pectin substances, organic acids.
It is most beneficial to take vegetable juices, adding fruit juice just for taste. After all, fruits are so easy to eat, but chewing carrots is quite long and problematic.
Why is it necessary to have freshly squeezed juice, and not packaged juice?
The juice in the package does not contain vitamins: the loss of vitamins is associated with high-tech processing of the finished drink and its subsequent pasteurization.
Freshly picked ripe fruits and berries are used to prepare fresh juices. Juice from overripe fruits stands out poorly and is worse in quality; there are fewer biologically active substances in juice from unripe fruits.
Freshly squeezed juices have an indescribable taste, they do not contain sugar. During the diet, lean on a variety of juices: apple, carrot, orange, pomegranate, cherry, pineapple, cabbage, celery. It is also useful to add greens to juices.
If half of the total volume of liquid during the diet will fall on freshly squeezed juices, then the body will be replenished with trace elements and vitamins, and carbohydrates will receive a very limited amount. Freshly squeezed juices have a strong flavor but can be diluted with water.
Slimming smoothie
In fact, a smoothie (from the English smooth - "soft") - a kind of mix of well-known vegetables, fruits and other products with the help of an ordinary blender, you can create something completely new in taste and usefulness. And at the same time to lose the pleasure of gluttony: the first, second and third fit in one glass. In ten minutes, you can drink a full meal through a straw - and not overeat.
Today it is fashionable to drink smoothies for weight loss and recuperation. Losing weight on smoothies without agony is a very real story. Many nutritionists write into the individual plan of those who are losing weight: "Smoothies for breakfast, smoothies for lunch, and you can have dinner like a human being." Physician Harley Pasternak, who helps keep Jessica Simpson and John Mayer in shape, also for smoothies a couple of times a day instead of meals.
Smoothies can be made from vegetables, fruits, berries and add nuts, soy milk, muesli, wheat germ to it.
Fruit drinks for a diet
Fruit drinks are also good for keeping the body energized and toned. Frozen or fresh berries plus water - and you have a great health drink at your disposal. It is better not to add sugar - enjoy the natural taste. One of the most useful in the case of a diet will be cranberry juice: it is full of vitamins and reduces appetite.
Diet tea
The properties of tea are varied and depend primarily on the type of tea you are going to make.
- Green tea is ideal for dieting. It can be consumed in any quantity, both cold and hot. It copes well with dehydration, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, saturates the blood with vitamins and natural minerals. Try to drink it without sugar, brew to the strength you need so that it does not seem too bitter. If it's completely unusual without sugar, add honey or dried fruits. Tea - to the delight of all tea-lovers - can be drunk even at night, if your eyelids do not swell in the morning.
- Fruit teas are another low-calorie treat that can bring joy and vitality.
- Incredibly good for the carcade diet - very vitamin, light, it can be drunk both cold and hot.
- Herbal teas have different effects and should be drunk with care.
- Oregano, thyme, mint, linden are excellent soothing and relaxing - drink them at night.
- And in the morning, do not forget about rose hips, chamomile, wild rosemary, which have a tonic effect. Remember that any tea is drunk only freshly brewed. If it has stood for more than an hour, it has already lost most of its beneficial properties.
- Mate - an exotic Argentine tea for us - also helps to strengthen the immune system, which is very useful during a strict diet. This tea will help the body gain strength and not give in to the difficulties of the "hungry" time.
Slimming coffee
One of the most controversial questions is whether to drink coffee while dieting? Some nutritionists say that you should never drink coffee, others say that there is nothing dangerous in this for the body, which is slowly losing weight. The first arguments are additional stress on the heart, the "heaviness" of coffee as a drink, too much stimulation of the intestinal walls, and so on. Among the arguments of the second - in particular, the habit of coffee.
If you deprive the body of the usual dose of caffeine - and many people with low blood pressure can hardly work without it and generally exist in harmony with the world - then it will not give the most pleasant reaction. For example, irritability and drowsiness, which will not be possible to cope with.
What to do in this case? If you are an avid coffee lover and cannot imagine your life without a cup of coffee, do not deny yourself this. Just remember that surrogates are not suitable for you now - brew coffee in a Turk and do not add sugar to it. Remember unroasted green coffee is a weight loss myth.
Milk and kefir on a diet
Milk does not go well with any of the other products. Therefore, if you can hardly imagine your life without milk, use it separately from those dishes that your diet prescribes for you. Milk contains calcium, a lot of useful vitamins and minerals. But look at the calorie content of the product, because there are many industrial varieties of milk with various additives that also contain calories.
And don't be fooled by consuming vanilla or chocolate milk into the belief that it is healthy. It's also high in calories!
The situation with kefir is much simpler. It is necessary for the body, especially if you love it. Especially useful are enriched kefirs with bifidobacteria and lacto bacteria, as well as fortified ones. However, consider your diet, if it does not involve the consumption of milk or kefir, then it is better to refrain from these products.
Why do you need to drink kefir? This product has tremendous benefits for the body. It improves metabolic function, reduces excess weight, and normalizes the blood circulation process. Hypertensive patients and people with atherosclerosis should drink a low-fat drink to reduce the amount of fat in the diet. In case of chronic intestinal diseases, it is recommended to consume up to 3 glasses of kefir per day. People with urolithiasis are advised to drink kefir cocktails with fruits and berries. Kefir with chopped celery and parsley cheers up and relieves fatigue.
- Sour milk, fermented baked milk, yogurt and other fermented milk products can also occupy a worthy place in the diet, but in this case, you must reckon with the amount consumed and decide whether they do not contradict the main idea of your diet.
- It is not recommended to drink kumis and ayran during the diet: they greatly stimulate the appetite.
Alcoholic drinks on a diet
It would seem that the answer is unambiguous: there is no place for alcohol during a diet. Of course, it is better to abstain from strong drinks. On the other hand, there are benefits to alcohol. So, cognac promotes digestion, cleanses the blood. And it is better to refuse liqueurs.
- We set aside semi-sweet and sweet wines and use only dry ones. A glass of wine contains all the necessary vitamins and minerals. But only if you are sure of its quality. If I am in Montenegro, why not try some delicious local wine? And if I am sitting in Moscow, then under no circumstances will I drink wine made in some unknown place and bottled in Moscow. I will be waiting for my vacation to taste some inexpensive and delicious local Italian, French or Croatian wine.
- There is no place for beer on the diet either: it increases appetite. However, if we lived in Prague, we could recommend drinking wonderful unfiltered beer, light or dark, during the diet. Our beer is not recommended, because, most likely, it will not benefit, but harm.
Drinks to reduce appetite
There are a number of drinks that can help you lose weight and reduce appetite, that is, help us lose weight.
- Lemon and honey for weight loss. Water with a slice of lemon and a teaspoon of honey perfectly suppresses appetite. If you really want to eat, you can drink this cocktail. As a rule, its effect lasts for an hour, then, if your diet does not imply another meal, you can drink water with lemon and honey again.
- Brew for weight loss. This is what our grandmothers called a decoction of dried fruits - apricots, apples and prunes. For 1 liter of the boil, you will need a handful of dried fruit, thoroughly washed beforehand. Throw them into boiling water, boil for 10-15 minutes and set in the cold to cool. Drink a glass when you really want to eat.
- Slimming compotes. Perhaps it will surprise you, but compotes can replace food and saturate the body, especially if you make them from apricots, raspberries, strawberries, cherries or thorns. Of course, compotes for weight loss should not contain sugar.
- Kvass. You can drink kvass on a diet, but only homemade.
- Rosehip on honey. Pour a teaspoon of rosehip berries with 0.5 cups of boiling water, leave for half an hour, add half a spoonful of honey and absorb if the appetite does not appear on time.
- Tea with fresh ginger root nourishes, warms up, suppresses appetite.
What is forbidden to drink on a diet?
Weight loss slows down with these drinks:
- sweetened coffee or tea;
- carbonated drinks;
- packaged juices from the store;
- fatty broths;
- compotes;
- milk.
Enjoy drinking and losing weight!
The fact that you can lose from 2 to 7 kg on tomatoes has been proven by clinical studies of doctors - nutritionists. If you have no contraindications, then feel free to take tomato juice for weight loss. The benefits and harms, reviews, recipes for making a wonderful drink, you can read in our informational article.
To say goodbye to the maximum centimeters in the waist, during the diet, give up high-calorie foods, devote more time to sports and gradually switch to proper nutrition. To slim your body, arrange fasting days once a month.
Natural tomato juice contains a lot of vitamin A, it helps to improve vision and protects the respiratory tract from infections. Vitamin C helps lower cholesterol, boosts the immune system and stimulates the synthesis of interferon. Carotene - protects tissues from premature aging, has healing properties on the stomach and urinary system. A substance is responsible for preventing cancer development - lycopene, which is also contained in the drink. Tomato drink stimulates the production of serotonin, the "hormone of joy", helping to relieve stress.
Doctors advise every day to consume a glass of fresh juice for the category of people who lead a sedentary lifestyle, in order to avoid thrombosis of the veins in the legs.
In addition, tomato juice is included in the menu of the Japanese diet, which is also effective in the fight against excess weight.
Calorie content of tomato juice
This juice is a healing vitamin cocktail, which contains only ripe tomato pulp. In addition to excellent taste, they contain valuable substances and vitamins. Such a drink can be afforded by people who seek to get rid of extra centimeters in the waist, because 100 grams of fresh juice contains only 18 kcal.
Harm and contraindications
It should be remembered that a tomato drink can have a negative effect on your body if:
- combine with protein and starch-containing products at the same time;
- juice is made from unripe or spoiled tomatoes;
- take a drink on an empty stomach.
- digestive system disease;
- an allergic reaction to a component;
- increased acidity of the stomach;
- poisoning of the body;
- urolithiasis disease.
Can I drink tomato juice for weight loss?
This question worries almost all women who are trying to lose weight. You can drink juice if you have no contraindications. But if suddenly, during the juice diet, you feel unwell or cramps in the abdomen, then you should stop such food and contact a medical institution.
Recommendations for the use of tomato juice for weight loss
- You should not take the drink on an empty stomach, it is better to have breakfast first, and drink the juice after half an hour. Before lunch and dinner, do the opposite, drink a glass of juice 30 minutes before a meal, and then start your meal.
- Drink freshly made juice slowly, enjoying every sip. Do not salt in any way, since this spice retains fluid in the body.
- To achieve the maximum effect, it is better to prepare tomato juice yourself, without any heat treatment. A store drink is fine too, but the weight loss process will take a long time.
Homemade tomato juice recipe
Cucumber - tomato mix
- ripe tomatoes - 4 pcs;
- cucumber - 1 pc.
Pour boiling water over the tomatoes for 30 seconds, remove the peel. Cut the cucumber into small cubes. Grind all ingredients with a blender. Pour into a glass, decorate with herbs.
Tomato juice with avocado
- tomatoes - 5 pcs;
- avocado (pulp) - 0.5 pcs.
Chop tomatoes and avocados at random, beat with a blender until smooth.
Lemon-tomato fresh
- tomatoes - 3 pcs;
- lemon - 1/3 part;
- basil - 2 leaves.
Peel the lemon and tomatoes. We interrupt all the ingredients with a blender.
Note!
A glass of tomato juice at night will relieve you of insomnia and relieve stress.
Slimming recipes
To diversify your menu a little, we offer simple recipes with quick cooking.
Tomato juice soup
Ingredients
- tomatoes - 8 pcs;
- tomato paste - 5 tsp;
- onions - 2 pcs;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- garlic - 2 small cloves;
- vegetable broth - 1 liter;
- fresh herbs to taste;
- spices to taste.
Preparation
1. Pour the tomatoes with boiling water for 30 seconds, remove the skin, cut into small cubes. 
2. Pass the garlic through a press, cut the greens. Chop the onion, simmer in oil.
3. Pour tomatoes, onions, garlic and herbs into a saucepan, add broth.
4. After 10 minutes add spices, simmer until cooked.
You can eat this soup once a day.
Celery, apple and tomato cocktail
Ingredients
- green apples - 250 gr;
- tomato juice - 120 ml;
- celery - 500 gr.
Preparation
1. Peel and rinse apples and celery. Squeeze the juice through a juicer. If you do not have this kitchen appliance, then you can scroll the products through a meat grinder and squeeze the juice through cheesecloth.
2. Mix the tomato juice with the resulting liquid.
A glass of cocktail can be garnished with parsley or dill.
Tomato-kefir cocktail
Ingredients
- tomato juice - 170 ml;
- kefir 1% - 170 ml;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- greens to taste.
Preparation
Before mixing the cocktail, put all the ingredients (except for garlic and herbs) in the refrigerator for 20 - 30 minutes. The chilled drink tastes much better. 
1. Pour tomato juice and kefir into a convenient bowl. Pass the garlic through a press, add to the liquid. Beat everything with a mixer until smooth.
2. Grind greens, mix with a drink.
Diet on tomato juice for weight loss
There are several variations of diets on this drink:
- 1 day (unloading);
- 3 days;
- 5 days;
- 7 days.
Let's take a closer look at each option.
Fasting days on tomato juice
Nutritionists have developed many diets based on tomatoes. In one day, you can lose up to 2 kg. But not everyone can make such a decision and quickly abandon all products in order to lose a few extra pounds. 
Therefore, we offer you several examples for a fasting day.
- The easiest way is to drink tomato juice (and some water) throughout the day when you feel hungry. You can drink only 1.5 liters of natural drink per day.
- For breakfast, lunch and dinner, we drink a glass of freshly prepared juice. Add a slice of rye bread to your lunch meal.
- In the morning we eat a couple of fresh tomatoes and a slice of hard cheese, after two hours we drink a tomato drink mixed with 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream. For lunch we prepare tomato soup, and for dinner we prepare a glass of our favorite tomato cocktail.
Three-day tomato diet
We have breakfast with a boiled egg and drink a cup of green tea, without adding granulated sugar.
For a late breakfast, we pamper ourselves with low-fat cottage cheese (200 gr) and after half an hour we drink a tomato drink.
For lunch we feast on boiled poultry breast or low-fat fish (200 g), fresh vegetables (bell pepper, tomato, cucumbers). And for dessert we eat red berries.
For dinner we drink a glass of herbal infusion.
Milan, 37 years old
Recently, I have been carried away by sweet and pastry products, of course, this is reflected in my figure. And then my friends invited me to the wedding ... It was a shame to go like this, so I tried the tomato diet for three days. Thank God, everything worked out and my "hobbies" disappeared. Now, I began to monitor the number of buns eaten and from time to time, I arrange fasting days for the body, I only drink tomato juice for a day. It's good that such fast diets exist. Thanks to the creators for that!
Rice and tomato juice diet
We have breakfast with low-fat cottage cheese (200 gr), after a while we drink the juice.
At lunch we drink a drink, then boil 100 grams of rice and fish, without adding salt. 
In the afternoon snack we eat a green apple and drink 1% kefir (200 ml).
For dinner, we again drink a tomato drink, boiled rice (100 g), and diversify the same type of diet with boiled breast (100 g).
Diet on tomato juice and buckwheat for 5 days
The essence of the diet is that during the day it is allowed to feast on buckwheat porridge, boiled in water, and drink a glass of juice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The main thing is not to add salt, milk and sugar to buckwheat. And with such a rate, -5 kg is provided for you.
Tomato diet for 7 days
Adhering to this diet, in a week, you can lose 7 kg. Every day, adding a new product to food, do not forget to drink tomato juice.
Monday - low-fat curd;
Tuesday - vegetable day, with the exception of potatoes;
Wednesday - boiled turkey or chicken breast;
Thursday - eat fruit, exclude banana;
Friday - boiled low-fat fish;
Saturday - potatoes (1 piece, 3 times a day);
Remember to drink purified water every day. A day, it is allowed to drink 1.5 liters of tomato drink (preferably homemade). After a diet, in no case should you "pounce" on food otherwise, all efforts will be in vain.
