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Buckwheat diet: advantages and disadvantages
Last reviewed: 03.07.2025
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Reviews of the buckwheat diet are full of gratitude for getting rid of excess weight. And resentment that, they say, they had to endure the monotonous buckwheat menu for so long. But what can't you do to lose weight! Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of the buckwheat diet to better understand what awaits us with this nutrition system.
Undeniable advantages of the buckwheat diet
- With a buckwheat diet, thanks to the good saturation of buckwheat grains, the person losing weight does not experience such sensations as weakness, dizziness, or increased fatigue of the body.
- Buckwheat is an excellent adsorbent and helps remove toxins from the body
- The main goal – weight loss – is definitely achieved with the buckwheat diet. On average, a person can lose more than 7-10 kg of weight in 14 days on buckwheat.
- Buckwheat can be consumed in unlimited quantities. Another issue is that you can't eat a lot of it, especially without salt and sugar.
- Many write in their reviews that after the buckwheat diet their skin, nails and hair look better. Girls even say that cellulite deposits are significantly smoothed out after eating buckwheat.
- After you have been eating buckwheat for at least a week and then switched to a normal diet, your weight will remain normal for a long time. You will not gain weight.
Contraindications to the buckwheat diet
Contraindications to the buckwheat diet are also related to its disadvantages. Although there are no diets without contraindications. So, contraindications to the buckwheat mono-diet for weight loss are:
- duodenal ulcer
- stomach ulcer
- diabetes mellitus
- arterial hypertension
- pregnancy (especially with complications)
- breastfeeding
True, the last 2 points can be considered conditional, because during pregnancy and breastfeeding you can sit on buckwheat not for 2 weeks (a complete buckwheat mono-diet), but for 1-2 days - to unload the body. After consulting with your doctor, of course. Enjoy your weight loss!
Cons of the buckwheat mono-diet
- Dietary restrictions: sitting on buckwheat alone for the purpose of losing weight is boring and tasteless. For this purpose, light buckwheat diets were invented, when buckwheat is combined with other products: kefir, vegetables, greens.
- After you have practiced the buckwheat diet, you can return to it no sooner than a month later, so as not to overexert the body with a monotonous diet. No weight loss is worth such sacrifices.