Unloading Day With Vegetables - Part 1

Spending unloading days is a great way to cleanse your body of accumulated harmful substances, as well as reduce your body weight, albeit non-drastically. By themselves, such days most often resemble mono diets. The variety of food products also determines a wide choice in finding the most suitable way for each person to cleanse the body with the help of food. Today we will focus on unloading vegetables , because they are useful and allow to reduce body weight by 0.5-1.0 kg per day. In addition, not only the intestines but also the blood vessels are cleansed, which makes such a diet an excellent prophylactic against the development of atherosclerosis.

General recommendations

• Make a vegetable unloading day no more often than once a week.
• Remember to drink plenty of fluids. This can be plain drinking or mineral still water, unsweetened green tea, herbal teas, also low-fat kefir.
• Try not only to choose the most effective ways of unloading, but also take into account your personal taste preferences.
• Although unloading days are most often categorized as mono diets, that is, the menu includes one product, in our case - a certain type of vegetable, do not give up a varied diet. The products can be not only eaten raw, but also boiled, baked, stewed, it is also allowed to be seasoned with various spices, garlic, fresh herbs and green leafy crops.
• As for salt, it is added to ready-made meals before they are consumed.

Variety of vegetables - what to choose?

In the following lines we will introduce you to the main useful for unloading and weight loss characteristics of the most commonly used vegetables and we will see how they affect the human body.

• Potatoes

You are hardly surprised that we start with potatoes, because they are one of the most consumed vegetables, and food in general in our country. Although doctors usually strongly advise us to exclude root vegetables from our diet, this does not diminish its dietary benefits. Suffice it to recall that 100 grams of boiled potatoes contain only 80 calories. In addition, we have the opportunity to prepare a number of delicious and filling dishes from them. It is also a fact that there are diets with root vegetables that give good results when it comes to weight loss.

We can not miss the main advantage of the unloading day with potatoes, as well as diets for weight loss, based on the consumption of the product, and that is that there is no hunger.

If you decide to try such a purification, you should eat 1 kg of potatoes during the day, divided into 5-7 servings. Heat treatment is your choice, excluding only frying - boil, bake or steam. It is recommended to use small fresh potatoes, as they are more useful than the old ones.

• Pumpkin

Pumpkin is a vegetable that is well known to those who want to lose weight. It is known for its rich aroma and mild laxative effect. The latter guarantees maximum bowel cleansing. The unloading day requires the consumption of 1 kg of pumpkin, which is the most delicious roast.

• Carrots

Carrots are extremely valuable from a dietary point of view, they are rich in cellulose. It is the lack of dietary fiber in the daily menu that leads to a feeling of hunger, a desire for snacks between meals, and the consequences of this are extra pounds. Carrots for unloading can be eaten raw or cooked (without frying). If you want to achieve tangible results in a short period of time, bet on a three-day carrot diet.

In the second part of the article we will give you 4 more options for unloading: with cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes and combined.