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The Borodina Diet
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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[ How Borodina's diet was born
Ksenia Borodina was one of the hosts of the TV show "Dom-2". Being in everyone's field of vision, it would be completely inappropriate for her to have extra weight. After giving birth, Ksenia decided to radically change everything in her figure, since her weight had increased significantly, which worried her a lot. She had to stick to a strict diet for some time, but the result was not long in coming. Borodina's diet was very effective, thanks to which the girl was able to lose 12 kilograms of excess weight.
How did she achieve such a fantastic result? What did she do and what diet did she choose to lose weight? Everything turned out to be quite simple – the cucumber diet helped to say goodbye to excess deposits. The diet became the most popular in the weight loss theme of this season.
What is the secret of the diet?
Here we will discuss the most important principle that makes you hold your breath and see a very noticeable surprise on your faces. Let me start with cucumbers and their uniqueness. Fresh cucumbers contain water by 95-97% of their total weight.
However, the remaining 3 percent are important microelements, vitamins, potassium, macroelements and carotene, which are so necessary to support our body as a whole. Ksenia Borodina's diet makes it possible to achieve fantastic success.
Among Internet users, in a very short period of time, it has become a popular and respectable topic for discussion.
Cucumbers-cucumbers, green and tasty
If we take into account the fact that with all diets you should drink maximum water, then the cucumber diet can easily become a leader in many nutrition systems. To this we will add that cucumbers are very quickly absorbed by your stomach and the body in general. Potassium makes our heart beat much more clearly and confidently, treating it from all our life's unfavorable factors.
Kidney function also improves. And iodine, which, by the way, is also present in cucumbers, improves our vascular system and thyroid function. Believe me, this is a considerable effect from just one vegetable! Fiber removes accumulated, interfering "bad" cholesterol and makes bowel function more stable.
Cucumbers contain a lot of useful and vital substances, but there is one "but", cucumbers have very few vitamins in their composition. We advise, following the Borodina diet, to take vitamins additionally, in the form of tablets.
What is Borodina's success?
There are different ideas about how Ksenia Borodina managed to achieve success.
The first is that Borodina actually followed Ksenia Sobchak's basic diet. Ksenia ate little in principle, and practically nothing after 6 p.m. Ksenia additionally worked out 4 times a week for several hours in the gym.
The second idea is that it was the cucumber diet that had such an effect on Borodina. We can say that, starting in the morning, Ksenia Borodina's diet was not that complicated. In the morning, Ksenia ate a slice of rye bread and a few cucumbers. At lunch, she would definitely have vegetable soup and some cucumber salad seasoned with vegetable oil. In the evening, she would eat the same salad or simply make do with a few cucumbers.
What does the independent public think about Borodina’s method?
Let's tell you a secret, Ksenia regularly did physical exercises, and it was thanks to them that she was able to lose so much weight. After all, a normal average person loses about 1 kg per week, if she does not also stick to a schedule in sports.
Massages and various, excuse me, medical tricks were also used to achieve the desired effect. But in general, they try not to talk about this out loud. Then, we probably didn’t talk about it either.
But if you listen to people who followed Borodina's diet, you can understand that they managed to lose 5 kilograms in a week. The whole secret is that cucumbers contain very few calories, so excess fat burns on its own.
And finally, you need exercises.
If you want not only speed, but also quality of weight loss – do sports. To prevent your extra and not particularly desired weight from returning, exclude the consumption of sweets, alcohol, fast food. Eat only the best, real. Borodina's diet will not make you regret it.