Drinking diet for 7 days

Water has a decisive influence on human health and life. Entire treatises have been written about its role, but even they can hardly do justice to this transparent, odorless, color and taste liquid that every living organism consists of. It is no coincidence that many weight loss and treatment systems are built on water. Drinking diet for 7 days is one of them. It is considered a shortened version of the 30-day drinking diet. [1]

Indications

Like most methods, the diet is used to correct weight. The main indications for the appointment are excess body weight. The accompanying bonuses that a person who has lost weight can receive after successfully completing a drinking diet for 7 days are as follows:

• unloading the gastrointestinal tract, normalization of the work of internal organs;
• improvement of the appearance and condition of the skin;
• decrease in stomach size and appetite;
• refusal of bad eating habits;
• willpower training.

A person also receives psychological satisfaction: after all, victory over oneself, a feeling of “duty done” is worth a lot.

But not everything is so rosy. It is no coincidence that the diet is classified as extreme. If you overestimate your strengths and capabilities of the body, then expect a backlash: a deterioration in the functioning of the digestive organs, which negatively affects the health and mood of the person who is losing weight. And it can even lead to a critical situation. More on this side of the issue is discussed below.

General information of the drinking diet

Drinking diets have the peculiarity that the menu contains only dishes of a liquid consistency. The essence of the diet: throughout the entire period, you can not eat anything solid. The menu consists of liquids: juices, vegetable and herbal decoctions, broths from natural products, fermented milk drinks, puree soups, teas, coffee. A separate line is ordinary water - a standard bottle of 1.5 liters.

• Doctors prescribe a drinking diet for 7 days or longer as a treatment program for certain diseases. But this is exclusively the prerogative of physicians, and in no way a reason for the patient to self-medicate.

Experts believe that the gastrointestinal tract, not receiving solid food, gets a chance to rest. This circumstance contributes to the removal of waste, purification from toxins and toxins. Digestive organs work in a light mode, respectively, a feeling of lightness in the stomach prevails. The creators of the method claim that food does not form fat deposits.

• A drinking diet is considered an economical way to lose weight for people with great willpower or those who want to cultivate this will.

Together with the departure of kilograms, harmful components, “washed out” by an abundance of water, leave. It also provides the balance of moisture necessary for the functioning of all organs of the body.

Drinking detox for 7 days

Why is a liquid food diet a true 7-day drinking detox? Why are liquid meals better for digestion than a traditional diet with a predominance of solid components?

• Liquid food requires less effort from the digestive tract. Therefore, they get the opportunity to work less intensively. It is believed that in this state the body begins to cleanse itself of unnecessary substances accumulated during the period of "normal nutrition".

The second point - liquid food relieves the feeling of heaviness, overcrowding of the stomach, while new accumulations of fat are not formed. Water in sufficient quantities does not supply calories, but it activates the metabolism and starts the weight loss mechanism.

According to estimates, a drinking diet for 7 days allows you to “throw off” 5 kg. The figure becomes more elegant due to a decrease in the size of the hips by several centimeters, vigor and energy are felt in the body, self-esteem and the level of positive emotions increase. With this motivation, women with a strong will decide to extend the course for another week. Of course, if the state of health allows and doctors do not mind.

• Cleansing takes place in stages.

In the first ten days, hollow organs become cleaner; plaque may form on the tongue, which, according to the authors, is a normal phenomenon.

Then the liver and kidneys are intensively cleansed; discomfort in the area of \u200b\u200btheir location is confirmation that everything is going according to plan.

The last decade is the cleansing of the body at the cellular level.

• Whether there is solid evidence for this, no one knows. Therefore, there is a lot of criticism about unnamed authors who reproach those who want to lose weight at any cost for incredible feats, unjustifiably risking their own health.

To support the body following extreme dietary restrictions, vitamin preparations agreed with the doctor may be required.

Detailed menu for every day

Any extreme diet, including a 7-day drinking diet, needs to be carefully considered. In addition to the standard rules recommended by nutritionists, you can always choose from the proposed favorite dishes that help you adapt and more easily endure restrictions.

• Both points should be aimed at ensuring that the body is cleansed of toxins as much as possible and actively removes body fat.

An approximate or detailed menu for each day should be based on the following principles (by day).

1. Broths - meat and lean, from vegetables or fish.
2. Milk products.
3. Fresh and smoothies.
4. Kissels, compotes.
5. Teas, including herbal, green, with the addition of milk.
6. Soups, juices or decoctions of vegetables.
7. Quality water 1.5 liters daily.

Other diet options are also offered, more diverse combinations of dishes. It is important that the total calorie content does not exceed 2000 calories.

• Equally important is the release period. If it is not observed, the excess mass returns, and not alone, but along with a package of related problems.

During the exit, you should start every morning with liquid oatmeal, and continue to cook liquid dishes in the evening. Protein products are postponed for later. The exit period is equal to the double period of the diet. That is, in our case, it lasts two weeks.

Dish recipes

When starting to choose recipes for dishes, you should immediately reject what the diet prohibits. These are all solid, as well as sweet, spicy, fatty foods. Instead, they introduce a "children's diet": cereals, soups, kissels, broths, drinking fermented milk products. For soups use fresh or frozen ingredients.

• Water in the amount of one and a half liters dulls the appetite and helps to remove toxins.

If water does not help, hunger with a drinking diet for 7 days is removed with a glass of kefir or fresh fruit juice. It is reported that on the third or fourth day the feeling of hunger is not felt at all.

You don't have to be too smart with recipes. Liquid oatmeal or other porridge is the perfect breakfast. Any soup is suitable for lunch - from vegetables, rice, potatoes, brought to a homogeneous state with a blender. Another time, make a very thin mashed potato that resembles soup.

Freshly prepared cocktails from vegetables and fruits are also healthy, tasty, rich in vitamins and represent a kind of dietary dessert. The main thing is not to "improve" the natural taste - with sugar, salt, spices. For dinner, treat yourself to yogurt, kefir or milk.

Between meals, prepare a variety of teas, juices, drink water periodically. Concerning coffee there are disagreements. Some allow it (unsweetened and without milk), others include it in the list of prohibited drinks. You will probably have to solve the dilemma on your own. If those who are indifferent to coffee aroma can easily get by, then it is not a sin for coffee lovers to sometimes allow themselves a portion of the popular drink.

Benefits

Water makes up from 75% of body weight in infants to 55% in the elderly and is essential for cellular homeostasis and life. It is estimated that in the United States about 22% of water comes from food, while in European countries, especially countries such as Greece with its higher consumption of fruits and vegetables or South Korea, this figure would be much higher.[2]

There are several options for a drinking diet: for 30, 14, 7 days. Drinking diet for 7 days is a relatively gentle way to eliminate excess weight, compared with the 2-week and monthly options. The desired effect can be achieved with the help of one-time unloading - from 1 to 5 days a month.

The benefits of the diet are evaluated by such points:

• figure correction;
• reduced food load, lightness in the stomach;
• cleansing the digestive organs of toxins and poisons;
• cleansing of the kidneys and liver (in the case of a long-term option);
• improvement of the condition of the skin;
• freshness of the face.

To maintain the effect, it is very important to exit the diet correctly. This is a longer process: it lasts twice as long as the actual diet. Due to the fact that the liquid is easier to digest, and the volume of the stomach decreases slightly in a week, the person in the future "does not pull" for large portions, familiar to the diet. What prevents weight gain in the future. Water balance is maintained due to the fact that drinking dishes contain a lot of liquid. 

What can and what can not?

Having chosen a drinking diet for 7 days, you should stock up not only with patience, but also with a variety of drinks, without which the nutrition program will seem meager and boring. The variety softens the course's extreme conditions a bit. With the correct fulfillment of the conditions for a week, they lose weight by 5–7 kg. Fluctuations in indicators depend on the initial weight and, in many respects, on the individual characteristics of the organism.

• What can you eat? More precisely, to drink, because we are talking about the drinking system. An approximate drinking ration for the days of the week may look like this.

1. Dairy products with a fat content of up to 2%.
2. Broths from vegetables, fish, meat, puree soups.
3. Homemade juices from fruits and vegetables.
4. Teas: black with milk, green - with lemon.
5. Unsweetened compotes, fresh fruit jelly.
6. Milk.
7. More broths.

The menu is always by the way clean water - 1.5 liters daily. It saturates the body with moisture, somewhat dulls the appetite. Spicy, fatty, alcoholic drinks are strictly prohibited.

The most useful diet will be if losing weight normally tolerates it. Regularly goes to the toilet - without difficulties, but without diarrhea, does not experience severe nausea, weakness, dizziness, tearfulness, depression, and other unpleasant phenomena. In the presence of dangerous symptoms, the diet is urgently stopped.

Answering the question: what can not be eaten? - You can list solid foods that the diet prohibits for a long time. It's easier to stick with what's allowed. And you can drink almost everything during a drinking diet for 7 days, except for colored sodas and industrial juices: these products contain too many sweet components. Do not add sugar or honey to homemade teas, compotes, jelly, coffee, fresh juices. In a word, liquids under this system replace both food and drink.

• The technique is rigid, so it is not suitable for everyone.

Best of all, it can be used by young people, without health problems, who want to correct their figure. Older people should look for a softer alternative.

You should prepare for a drinking diet already a week in advance: eat less solid foods and drink more fluids. Portions should be gradually reduced so that by the beginning of the course, digestion is a little used to the changes. The authors argue that chewing is just a psychological habit, not a necessity, so, in principle, it is quite possible to do without solid foods.

No one disputes the undoubted benefits of fresh juices. But there are a few things to keep in mind:

• A large number of active ingredients can cause gastritis and ulcers, as well as an allergic reaction.
• Acids destroy tooth enamel.
• Carrot juice can give the skin an orange tint.

To avoid such consequences, fresh juices are diluted with water and drink no more than two glasses a day.

Contraindications

Any kind of drinking diet, for 7 days or longer, is not suitable for everyone. First of all, contraindications concern people with digestive problems, with disorders of the liver and kidneys, as well as weakened due to illness or physical exertion. Such diets are prohibited for pregnant and breastfeeding women.

• The diet is contraindicated for young people under 18 years of age, professional athletes, with increased physical exertion.

After a liquid meal, the digestive system does not immediately readjust to solid foods. If a person quickly switches to the usual diet, then the weight does not lose the chance to return to the previous indicators. Therefore, it is contraindicated to leave the program not according to plan.

Possible risks

The disadvantages of the drinking technique include the likelihood of risks associated with the diet. They mainly concern the digestive system. So, the abuse of fruits sometimes leads to an exacerbation of digestive pathologies, and acidic juices are harmful to teeth. Sweet fruits negatively affect the production of insulin, which is why the 7-day drinking diet is not recommended to be practiced too often.

• If a 30-day course is allowed once a year, then a two-week course is allowed once every few months. Fasting days will not harm - even if they are practiced constantly, every week.

Nutritionists remind that during a drinking diet, calcium is excreted from the body. Its deficiency must be replenished with pharmaceutical preparations.

Some experts consider this method of losing weight harmful and even dangerous to health. The danger is that malnutrition can lead to partial dystrophy of internal organs. And if you leave the diet too quickly or with errors, then there is a risk of anorexia and dangerous irreversible consequences.

• The longer you eat liquid food, the more dangerous the consequences.

If the program lasts a month, then the gastrointestinal mucosa atrophies, and digestive enzymes cease to be produced. The body does not accept solid food, reacts to it with uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea. After such changes, it can take months or years for the digestive system to recover. This warning is useful for people resorting to strict diets without extreme necessity.

Complications

The complexity of the drinking diet for 7 days is that it is impossible to go through it without a feeling of hunger. This is explained not only by a smaller amount of food, but also by the fact that liquid food does not require chewing. This is unusual, so it seems to the body that he "did not eat anything."

• Possible complications are manifested in the form of irritability, weakness, severe hunger and the desire to break the diet in order to eat plenty.

Some girls want to cry and feel sorry for themselves, beautiful, making great sacrifices for the imaginary "ideal" figure.

Light food can cause a negative reaction of the stomach, so the diet is accompanied by irregular stools, hungry spasms of the digestive organs, active fermentation and gas formation.

• With long courses, the condition of the skin, hair, and nail plates worsens.

Allergenic components of juices can cause a reaction. Deficiency of protein substances leads to anemia, dysfunction of the genital organs, weakened immunity, menstrual cycle disorder. Excessive fluid load provokes toxicosis, dehydration. The kidneys may react with malfunctions. Sometimes the legs swell.

Starving people need to conduct sparing physical activity, otherwise overload can cause severe weakness and even fainting. In the presence of threatening symptoms, the diet should be discontinued and medical attention should be sought immediately.

Exit from the drinking diet for 7 days

An important place in weight loss methods is assigned to the end of the diet. Drinking diet for 7 days is no exception. After a seven-day period of unusual nutrition, you cannot immediately return to the previous diet and unlimited consumption of everything in a row. The exit should be soft and unhurried. Without following the rules for leaving the drinking diet for 7 days, digestive problems worsen, discomfort arises, even a threat to health.

• In general, the output is about two weeks - twice as long as the duration of the program. Some sources write about the month. But in general, an acceptable proportion for the adaptation of the stomach to ordinary food is 1: 2 (diet: output).

Liquid meals for breakfast and lunch are gradually being replaced with light solid ones, and liquid dinners are prepared for a whole week. Then they are gradually replaced by the usual menu.

More specifically, it looks like this. The first day after the end of the 7-day course, start with a small portion of oatmeal. Lunch remains liquid. According to this system, you should eat for three days, then slowly add low-fat cheese, boiled eggs, fruits, yogurt, vegetables, bread. Flour products, spicy and fatty dishes appear on the table no earlier than two weeks after the completion of the weight loss course.

At this time, as well as during the diet, it is important to monitor the well-being, the regularity of the stool. Due to the extreme nature of the diet, you can repeat the course of the drinking diet no earlier than a year later.

Reviews

The reviews of women using various drinking diet courses are dominated by positive ones. We are talking about results from 5 to 15 kg, depending on the duration of the program.

Anna, who chose the 14-day program, talks about the difficulties of the first days, when "I wanted to quit everything." Maria observed weight loss not only during the main period, but also when leaving the drinking diet for 7 days. Elena has changed her lifestyle, thanks to which the lost weight is no longer returned. Oksana perfectly corrected her figure, preparing for her own wedding, which aroused the admiration of her future husband.

Comments about drinking 30 days are less optimistic. They write about too heavy a diet and its no less serious consequences.

Results

The liquid food program results in not only weight loss, but also eliminates the habit of overeating. After a drinking diet for 7 days or a longer course, the volume of the stomach decreases, so overflowing with food causes a feeling of discomfort. But a useful habit is developed to be content with a smaller amount of food.

• And the feeling of fullness, as you know, comes a little later, and not during meals.

The abundance of water and soft food promotes active cleansing of harmful components that tend to constantly accumulate in the digestive and other organs, the body as a whole. A cleansed body becomes more vigorous and stronger, defenses increase, skin condition improves.

• Changes occur not only inside, but also outside: the skin is cleansed, it becomes healthier, more beautiful.

If we talk about actually losing weight, then the possible result is minus 5–7 kg per week. Accumulation on the sides and, accordingly, the volume of the hips are reduced. There is a surge of energy, cheerfulness, good mood. That is, the energy previously used for digestion is now used for more noble purposes.

The result with a minus sign is weakness, dizziness, problems with the stool. Hunger is unsettling and can cause symptoms of chronic fatigue.

Drinking diets belong to the extreme methods of losing weight. In particular, a 7-day drinking diet has proven to be highly effective, but not everyone is able to withstand it. You can start the program only after examination and exclusion of contraindications. Following a diet for longer than a week is not recommended, because liquid food has a bad effect on the internal organs. And along with weight, a person risks losing health.