Diet on celery: menu for every day, recipes for dishes

When the colds leave, and the spring tender sun forces us to take off our clothes, we understand that it will be increasingly difficult to hide the fat reserves accumulated over the winter. The need to take active steps to correct the figure, most of us are aware of when there is no time for swinging. Classes in the gym in a complex with a balanced diet, as well as restricting the consumption of fats and carbohydrates do not give fast results. The only way out of the situation are strict diets, which make it possible to relieve the body by throwing about 1 kg of weight per day. And one of such effective and beneficial for the body is the unloading of the celery diet.

Indications

It's a long time ago when the plump forms were considered pretty and attractive. After all, excess weight, no matter how much we wanted, was never an indicator of good health. Rather, on the contrary, it is a manifestation of a metabolic disorder in the body, which leads to subsidence of parts of the body fat stores.

But if light and moderate completeness can be considered more a cosmetic problem, because of which short skirts and open swimsuits become prohibited, obesity is already a medical problem, because excess weight creates additional stress on various organs and systems of man, which as a result start to fail.

Actively to struggle with excess weight it is necessary to people, at which obesity, a diabetes of 2 types, cardiovascular diseases, problems with vessels and joints of legs are diagnosed. With all the above pathologies, weight loss helps to avoid relapse of the disease and all sorts of complications associated with the fact that the organs are constantly experiencing high loads, and therefore wear out more quickly.

So, overweight is a risk factor for increasing blood pressure and the appearance of chest pain (an attack of angina pectoris), the development of type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, gall bladder diseases, joint diseases, gout, nighttime apnea. Weight loss and weight normalization is the prevention of such diseases. But some types of diets can be included in the complex therapy of diseases.

Celery, on the course use of which a celery diet is built, is used in medical nutrition when:

• diabetes (thanks to the ability of this low-calorie product with a small glycemic index to restore the water-salt balance and reduce blood glucose level),
• oncological diseases (helps to reduce the weight and risk of developing cancer of the uterus, ovaries, gall bladder, prostate, intestines, and also inhibits the growth and development of tumor processes),
• heart disease (helps to normalize blood pressure),
• Atherosclerosis of blood vessels (helps to reduce the level of harmful cholesterol in the body),
• some pathologies of the digestive system (normalizes the process of digestion, stimulates intestinal motility, promotes its natural purification),
• kidney diseases (due to good diuretic properties and ability to fight with swelling).

This list can be continued further. It is difficult even to say under what diseases such a valuable vitamin product would not be useful (although there are such pathologies, and we will talk about them a little later). After all, such a diet, although considered strict, has nothing to do with starvation, causing a shortage of vitamins and minerals in the body. Celery - it's just a storehouse of nutrients.

A celery diet can be considered as an option to quickly lose weight on the eve of an upcoming surgery or examination, for which a large fat layer is an undesirable obstruction. The requirement to bring body weight and its forms into the norm can come from potential employers. Usually, in such circumstances, there is very little time left to correct the situation, and a celery-based diet can quickly and safely solve this problem

And yet, those who want fast, tasty and effortlessly lose a few extra pounds in order to look more attractive in the eyes of the opposite sex are most often resorting to this diet. After all, diets with a quick result without harm to health are not that many, but everyone wants a beautiful figure.

Celery diet for weight loss is suitable as well as possible, because it not only helps to reduce weight due to low caloric content of meals, but also establishes processes in the body that allow to normalize digestion and metabolism. And this can already be considered as the prevention of repeated weight gain.

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General information of the celery diet

We were convinced that celery is a unique plant that gives a person youth and beauty. But in nature there are many other useful plants with a diverse nutritional composition, many of them are included in various diets. Why is the celery diet so popular and so impressive?

The reason lies in the chemical and nutritional composition of celery. Even if one consumes only one root crop (its various parts) for a few days, a person will not feel hungry and depressed, as is the case with strict mono diets. A rich vitamin-mineral composition of celery gives the body almost everything necessary for saturation and normal functioning, and a high fiber content allows you to maintain a feeling of satiety for a long time.

This allows you to limit the use of other products that provide energy and strength, which, with a high content of fats and carbohydrates and a deficiency of plant fibers, often cause excess weight. And sometimes, and completely abandon them, if you urgently need to lose 3-4 kilograms, which is possible with a short-term strict diet in celery.

The choice for celery as a basis for the diet fell and because of the low calorie content of different parts of the plant. In the fresh form, the energy value of the root vegetable does not exceed 16 calories, and the caloric content of most dietary dishes based on it is in the range of 23-35 kcal per 100 g.

It turns out that celery during a diet can be consumed in virtually unlimited quantities. At the same time, weight loss will only increase, which is not surprising. The content in the celery of proteins, fats and carbohydrates is low enough, while it contains almost 95% water and many plant fibers.

Water provides a diuretic effect, removing from the body excess fluid that accumulates in the tissues and increases the volume of subcutaneous fat (after all, fat cells are 12% composed of water). And fiber is a universal cleanser for the intestines, which requires enormous amounts of energy to digest. And since the energy value of celery is not high, the body allows it to store its available energy reserves in the form of a fat layer. This explains the rapid weight loss on the celery diet.

Having carefully examined the composition of the plant, it can be concluded that it is most useful in fresh form, because heat treatment destroys some valuable substances. But the celery diet for weight loss is not limited to salads and fresh. It also includes dishes in which the plant is subjected to a thermal treatment: cooking, stewing, baking.

Currently, several different forms of a celery-based diet have been developed, from unloading days to a two-week course. If desired, everyone can choose the appropriate diet option, which differ in duration and in the composition of the products. Those who have not previously practiced dietary meals or did not include celery dishes on their menu, it is recommended to start with a one-day diet.

Celery diet for 1 day (unloading days)

Such unloading implies the use of freshly squeezed celery juice throughout the day. For its preparation, the petioles and leaves of the plant are best suited. Celery juice and fresh juice during the fasting day are both the main meal, and snack, while the body receives such a supply of useful substances for a day that it does not always have with a full, varied diet.

Unloading days can be improved. For example, include apples in the diet. For example, for breakfast and lunch, add 1-2 apples to the celery juice, and during the second breakfast (lunch), snack and dinner, give preference to juices and fresh celery, alternating between them. Before going to bed, a little juice is recommended, which will help to remove the feeling of hunger, which prevents falling asleep and a full night's rest.

You can carry out unloading by including in the diet only celery and low-calorie vegetables. In this case, celery in any form should be eaten about 300-400 grams, and vegetables (excluding potatoes) - not more than 2 kg. It can be juices, salads, fresh, soups, okroshka on kefir or whey, baked vegetables.

During the unloading day, in addition to the celery juice, you need to consume a large amount of liquid. True selection of drinks is small: apple juice, water boiled, purified or mineral (preferably without gas), herbal teas without the addition of sugar. The volume of liquid drunk per day should be within 2.5 liters.

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Celery diet for 3 days

If the body responds positively to fasting days, you can try a 3-day mono-diet. True, it is not necessary to resort to it without special need, because it will be a certain stress for the body, it is not in vain for such a short period that it takes up to 4-5 kg of weight.

The three-day monodicate means the use of celery throughout the day in any form: fresh, baked, boiled, in the form of juices and fresh, soup-mashed potatoes. This is a rather hard variant of dietary nutrition, since for the organism it is preferable to eat a variety of foods.

But there are other, more interesting options for a 3-day diet, in which, in addition to celery, there are other low-calorie foods:

• Activating the work of the intestine and gallbladder.  The main component of the diet is fresh celery juice, obtained from the root and petiolate parts of the plant. At three meals a day, it should be consumed 30-40 minutes before the main meal in the amount of 20 ml (4 teaspoons). You do not need to drink juice with water.

In this scenario, the juice will activate the production of digestive enzymes, improve the digestion of food, stimulate the excretory system (urination, intestinal cleansing).

The food taken during the diet should be extremely low-calorie, so that the daily amount of calories in it does not exceed 1200 kcal. It can be low-fat varieties of meat and fish, seafood, vegetables (undesirable potatoes and beets), low-calorie fruits and berries (they do not include banana and grapes), dairy and sour-milk products, the fat content of which is within 0-1%.

Drinking with a 3-day celery diet needs a lot. Suitable are any beverages without sugar, including coffee, tea, still mineral water. True, it is not necessary to abuse coffee drinks, because they can increase appetite and cause hunger, which is undesirable in this situation.

• Salad dressing. This is a three-day use of salads based on celery. As a dressing, they are suitable for any vegetable oil (preferably olive or sesame), low-fat yogurt, kefir, balsamic and wine vinegar. The composition of salads can include protein products, the amount of which should not be more than 25% of the total composition of products.
• Soup option.  Within 3 days it is allowed to consume an unlimited amount of celery soup (we will give recipes for its preparation below) and various parts of the plant in fresh form (in the form of salads, smoothies, fresh). The drinking regime is to consume large amounts of clean water. You can also include in the diet 1-2 small cups of green tea, but sugar can not be added to the drink.

All of the above diet options are not recommended for more than 3 days. Yes, and repeat them can be no earlier than 2-3 weeks, when the digestive system will rest from stress. Diets designed for a longer period should have a more varied diet and include food of varying consistency, which is necessary to maintain the stable functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.

Celery diet for 4 days

This variant of the diet is not very popular, although the dishes are more nutritious and the total calorie content is higher. The results of such a diet will accordingly be more modest (minus 2-3 kg).

The main condition of the 4-day diet is the inclusion of celery in the salads, which must be present in the menu scheduled for mid-afternoon snack. In this case, the content of various parts of the plant in them should be at least 50%. The remaining meals should contain lean meat (for example, steamed chicken, baked pollock fillets, boiled chicken without skin), dairy and sour-milk products with low fat content, fruit.

Celery in dishes can be added in any form, but on the table it should be present daily at least once a day.

Celery diet for 7 days

The basis of the weekly diet is celery soup, which should be present on the menu of all seven days. The original version of this soup was developed by American doctors, who were concerned about the impossibility of performing urgent cardiac operations because of excess weight of patients. But it is this country that holds the leading place in terms of the number of people suffering from obesity.

The following recipe for soup is the brainchild of professionals who know all the secrets of rapid weight loss. For its preparation we need the following ingredients:

• Celery root - 100 g
• Celery celery - 150 g
• Cabbage (Peking, white) - 300 g
• Fresh tomatoes - 300-350 g
• Bulgarian pepper - 1-2 pcs.
• Asparagus or asparagus beans - 150 g
• Onions - 250 g
• Carrots - 100-150 g
• Water - 700-800 g

First for a quarter of an hour in the water boiled shredded root of celery, carrots and slightly less than half of the onions used (a pair of bulbs). Then add the crushed peppers, celery stalks, asparagus to the soup. Tomatoes are turned into a tomato juice with a blender and added to the soup 15 minutes before the end of cooking with cabbage.

Boil the vegetable soup on low heat without adding salt. During eating, it is allowed to lightly flavor it with soy sauce. In general, during any version of the celery diet, the amount of salt used should be minimized.

In addition to the celery soup, a weekly diet implies the inclusion in the diet and other healthy products: vegetables, fruits, lean meat, low-fat dairy products, which will be added to the celery soup. In this case, the menu will be more balanced, so for all 7 days a person does not experience hunger and some nervousness observed during eating monotonous food.

Again, there are no restrictions on the amount of eating celery soup, but you need to feel the measure in everything. Stretching of the stomach has not yet benefited anyone. It is better to eat your usual norm and wait 20 minutes, during which a feeling of satiety usually appears, than to stretch the stomach and thereby increase this rate, putting a serious obstacle on the way to losing weight.

To eat during the diet should be regularly, not allowing the appearance of hunger. The main meals should be at least three. This is necessary to maintain the stable functioning of the digestive system. Food should be as diverse as possible. Vegetables, including celery, can be eaten either raw, or boiled or baked. But you need to take into account that after 6 pm you should give preference to fresh celery, juices, fresh and smoothies from it.

Consider an approximate menu of a celery diet for a week:

First day. Celery soup and favorite fruits, except for bananas and grapes, characterized by high caloric content, the total weight of about 1 kilogram.

The second day. Celery soup and vegetables, which can be consumed in any form, even canned, but in this case it should be remembered that the preservation contains salt. Vegetables per day can be eaten about a pound, but legumes on this list are not included. On this day, even baked potatoes (a couple of small potatoes) are allowed, but bake it preferably without oil. Vegetable oil in vegetable dishes can be added, but in a limited amount, but it is better to do without it, because of these factors depends on the effectiveness of weight loss.

The third day. In addition to the celery soup in unlimited quantities for a day, gently eat half a kilo of vegetables and fruits that do not have a high calorie content.

Day four. The menu includes the same products and in the same amounts that were recommended on the 3rd day of the diet, but you can add a glass of low-fat milk, kefir or yogurt to them.

Day five. On this day, along with the celery soup, you can include in the diet about 1 kg of non-starchy vegetables (a good option will be tomatoes in any form, except fried) and about 300-350 grams of beef or veal meat (boiled, baked or steamed fat).

The sixth day. The diet is identical to the fifth day and includes dishes from vegetables and beef. Do not forget about the soup of celery, which should be on the menu every day.

The seventh day. On this day in the menu, along with celery soup, you can add 3 tablespoons of boiled brown (unpolished) rice and freshly squeezed juices from different fruits.

The celery soup itself is a dish that is easily digested and digested in the digestive tract. The rest of the dishes should also be light and low-caloric if possible, yet the diet is designed to reduce weight. Drinking during a diet can be any drinks: teas, juices, coffee, fruit drinks, but you can not add sugar to them. You can drink coffee, but only without milk or cream. During the week, you need to drink plenty of water (about 2 liters a day), which will contribute to an intensive cleansing of the body.

Celery diet for weight loss for 14 days

This two-week diet is a 7-day option. To implement it, you can, for example, take the weekly menu described above and apply it for another 7 days. In this case, the menu of the eighth day will coincide with the first, the ninth - with the second, etc. And you can stick to this option:

Day one and eighth. Celery soup plus fruits with low starch content, juice or coffee without added sugar.

Day two and the ninth. Soup and boiled vegetables, including a couple of pieces of boiled or baked potatoes. Vegetables can be buttered with vegetable oil.

Day three and ten. 1 medium sized potato baked in a skin, a celery soup in unlimited quantities, green or herbal tea.

Day four and eleventh. Soup of celery, during 3 basic meals you can eat 1 small piece of banana, low-fat kefir up to 1 liter.

Day five and twelfth. To celery soup we add protein foods: lean fish, turkey chicken or beef in boiled form (300-350 g). Among vegetables, we prefer tomatoes (5-6 pieces).

Day six and thirteenth. The diet is identical to the previous day, but the amount of vegetables can be increased to 2 kg. Vegetables can be used any, except potatoes and legumes.

Day seven and fourteenth. Celery soup, 2-3 tablespoons boiled unpolished rice and about 1 kg of various vegetables (potatoes not more than 1 piece). In addition to water, you can drink about 300 g of fruit juices and fresh fruits per day.

It is very important during a two-week diet to drink at least 2 liters of water a day, and preferably 2.5-3 liters. Thus, you can not only lose weight (and for a day the celery diet usually goes from 0.5 to 1 kg), but also clean and improve your body, which while not experiencing stress and stress. A ved is very important if the diet does not harm the health, but rather strengthens it.

Celery diet recipes

You can talk for a long time about the benefits of a celery-based diet, about allowed and forbidden foods, about the tender and rather pleasant taste of a celery soup, but this will not give you an idea of what the dishes of this diet can be. Let's try to give several options for dishes that can be prepared and consumed during the application of this method of weight loss.

Let's start with a variety of options for cooking celery soup, which have been refined and modernized by fans of diets with a well-developed imagination. They may differ slightly from the prescription developed by American doctors, but they are quite suitable for diversifying the diet during a diet.

Option 1.

• White cabbage - about 400-450 g
• Red onion - 6 pcs.
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc. Medium size
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• Celery celery - 250-300 g

Cabbage finely shred, also finely chopped and onions. Pepper, peeled tomato and celery stalks cut into small cubes. Fill vegetables with 1 liter of water, put on a strong fire and keep on the stove no more than 2-3 minutes after boiling. We lead up to readiness under the closed cover, having removed from a plate.

Option 2.

• Cabbage - 1,5 kg
• Onions average - 6 pieces
• Pepper Bulgarian two-tone - 2 pcs.
• Tomatoes - 6 pieces
• Celery (root or leaf) - about 300 g

All the vegetables are cut into small pieces at their discretion, poured with water so that it is 1.5-2 cm above the level of the products in the saucepan, quickly brought to a boil and cook on low heat for no more than 25 minutes, closing the pan with a lid.

Option 3.

• Celery root - 200-250 g
• Cabbage - 500-600 g
• Carrots, tomatoes and onions - 6 pcs. Each.
• Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
• Asparagus beans - 400 g
• Tomato juice - 1,5 l
• Dill and parsley to taste

All the ingredients are finely chopped, we fall asleep in a saucepan and pour tomato juice (if necessary, dilute it with water). Bring our soup to the boil and stand for 10 minutes with a strong boil, and then another as much on low heat.

Option 4

• Celery root - 1 medium
• Celery or leaves of celery - 200-300 g
• White cabbage - 300-350 g
• Bulgarian pepper and carrots - 2 pcs.
• Onion - 5 pcs.
• Garlic - 3 medium teeth
• Tomato paste - 200-220 ml
• Olive oil - 2 tbsp.
• Dill, parsley, bay leaf to taste

All vegetables except for 1 bulb are crushed, pour 3 liters of water and bring to a boil on high heat. Fire diminishes, and cook soup another quarter of an hour. At this time in a frying pan slightly fry in oil chopped onions, pour it with a small amount of water, we put out a couple of minutes. After that, add the tomato paste to the frying pan and simmer for 2-3 more minutes.

After the roast, shredded greens, cut into small pieces of garlic in a saucepan with soup, boil it for another 5 minutes and turn off.

There are a lot of options for making a celery soup, but none of them uses salt. Already during a meal in a ready dish you can add very little sea salt or soy sauce, but it is better to try to feel the real taste of vegetables and fall in love with it. It is possible that at the end of the diet you no longer want to spoil the taste of food with salt, which is sometimes called white poison.

So far, we have talked about the main dish of our celery slimming program. But the diet provides for the inclusion in the diet and other healthy dishes based on valuable root vegetables. Especially popular among slimming people use a variety of salads, where the celery acts as one of the components.

Fruit and vegetable salad 1

• Sweet and sour apple - 1 pc.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Peking cabbage - 150-200 g
• Celery (root) - 100-200 g

Apple and vegetables three on a fine grater and season to taste with lemon juice.

Fruit and vegetable salad 2

• Celery (root) - 400 g
• Carrots and sour apple - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 1 tooth

Celery is used fresh or boiled. Three of it on a grater with a carrot and an apple, sprinkle finely chopped garlic, black pepper and dill, mix and sprinkle with lemon juice.

Vegetable salad 1

• Root or stems of celery - 150-200 g
• Turnip - 1 piece (medium or large, can be replaced with radish)
• Carrots - 1 pc.

Three vegetables on medium or large grater, fill them with a small amount of vegetable oil and sprinkle with lemon juice.

Vegetable salad 2

• Cherry tomatoes - 0,5 kg
• Celery globules - 1 bundle
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 3 teeth
• Cilantro - a small bundle

We cut tomatoes halves, celery - small pieces across the fibers, pepper - slices or straws. Vegetables are mixed, add crushed garlic to them, pour with dressing from olive oil and lemon juice, we decorate with cilantro.

Vegetable salad with yogurt

• Diced celery cherry - 2 cups
• Cucumber cubes and carrots on a large grater - ½ cup
• Garlic - 1-2 teeth
• Onion is a small piece.

Vegetables are mixed, sprinkled with chopped garlic and grated onion. Add the finely chopped parsley. Everything is mixed and refueled with yoghurt. You can use a mixture of yoghurt and skimmed cream (buttermilk).

Meat salad with celery

• Celery root - 1 pc.
• Cuttings of celery - 2 pcs.
• Boiled chicken breast fillet - 1 pc.
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.

Root celery three on a grater, and chereshkovy and other vegetables finely chopped. Add chopped chicken fillets, season with chopped green onions, pour low-fat yogurt, mix and spread on green leaves of your favorite salad.

In salad from celery you can add any vegetables, greens, boiled chicken or beef, boiled and finely chopped eggs. As a dressing, you can use lean, olive, sesame oil, lemon juice, soy sauce, yoghurt, curdled milk, add your favorite natural spices and experiment with flavors. So the diet will not become an onerous occupation, but a creative process, useful for the mind and health.

Benefits

As much as we would like to always look slim and attractive, in pursuit of a beautiful figure you must not forget about your health. So, when choosing methods and means to combat excess kilograms, one always needs to pay attention to the benefits that a change in the dietary intake for the organism can bring, and whether it will harm the body.

Diets can be different. For example, fasting can also be considered as a variant of a low-calorie diet, but unlike popular days of relief days, it can not always benefit. Celery diet does not mean anything like that. This is one of the strict low-calorie diets, based on dishes made from celery. It is in the composition of this unusual plant that its value for the organism lies, and hence the benefit of the diet, in whose diet it plays the main role.

But what is so useful for human celery - a plant that we are accustomed to add to different dishes to give them some kind of piquancy in taste? The fact that this is an amazing source of useful substances for our body, which also has an unusually low caloric value (only 13-16 kcal per 100 g of raw product). The plant, regardless of its type (and you can eat root, petiolate and leafy celery varieties) has a high content of vitamins A, K and beta-carotene. In its composition, we find vitamins C, E, PP, as well as many B vitamins.

The mineral composition of the product is represented by: potassium, calcium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium. The flesh of celery contains iron, zinc, manganese in smaller quantities. These are all those vitamins and minerals, without which our body can not function normally.

An important feature of the plant is that every person, regardless of sex and age, can consume dishes on his basis, while receiving great benefits for his organism, because celery:

• contains amino acids that stimulate in the body processes of tissue regeneration (the effect of rejuvenation and inhibition of aging processes),
• includes many vitamins and minerals necessary for the body, so during the diet you do not have to worry that you can get vitamin deficiency with a slender figure,
• has a beneficial effect on the state of the nervous system, which increases the resistance to stress and normalises the night's sleep,
• regulates the water-electrolyte balance, which allows to successfully combat hypertension, prevents complications of diabetes, normalizes the work of the thyroid gland,
• helps to clearly and smoothly work the digestive system: improves appetite, but at the same time controls the feeling of hunger, due to the high water content and dietary fiber prevents constipation and excessive accumulation in the intestine of gases caused by fermentation processes in slowly working GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, promotes the digestion of heavy meals and protein foods,
• helps to increase the tone of the body, so the diet does not cause a decline in strength and general weakness,
• is considered to be an effective aphrodisiac, which means that it will not only talk about the surge of energy and vigor, but also increase libido, especially in the stronger sex (there is evidence that the celery acts like a popular drug "Viagra").
• is considered to be an anti-allergenic plant, i.e. Intolerance to celery is considered an extremely rare phenomenon, and also in folk medicine it is used as a remedy for allergies,
• thanks to a diuretic action it effectively fights with edema, removes toxins from the body, cleanses the kidneys and bladder, preventing stagnant phenomena in them,
• increases the immunity and hemoglobin level in the blood,
• helps women suffering from menopause and PMS, reduces the soreness of menstruation,
• improves the condition of the skin, hair, nails,
• strengthens blood vessels (in this case it is useful to drink fresh celery juice),
• prevents accumulation and subsidence on the walls of the vessels of bad cholesterol,
• thanks to the content of antiulcer component reduces the painful symptoms of inflammatory diseases of the stomach (gastritis and ulcer).

But the most important thing in losing weight is the fact that the celery helps to effectively fight the extra pounds, because its digestion our body spends much more energy than it gets from the very product with a very low calorie content.

What can and what can not?

The very concept of a diet implies some limitations in nutrition. But if they do not, then there is no need to wait for a positive result. That's only to comply with the diet little to know that the limitations exist, it is important to understand what they are, because in any diet there are their own permitted and forbidden products. Prohibited in this case are those foods, food additives and dishes, the use of which should be limited as much as possible, and it is better to exclude it altogether.

But we will talk about combined versions of the celery diet, where, in addition to the plant itself and the soup from it, other multicomponent dishes are included in the diet.

Let's start with the main question: what can be? This will be the above-mentioned permitted products:

• any kind of vegetables, except for potatoes, which contains a lot of starch and has a high calorie content (this vegetable is usually excluded from all diets for weight loss)
• almost all the favorite sour and sweet and sour fruit,
• low-fat varieties of meat (beef, veal, chicken and turkey without skins),
• low-fat fish (with white meat, sea or river),
• low-fat dairy products (low-fat dairy products can be included in a limited amount)
• rice and rice cut (the only allowed croup, but it is better to take unpolished rice),
• eggs (mostly boiled, not more than 2 per day or 3 proteins),
• vegetable aromatic seasonings: dill, green onions, basil, parsley, etc.,
• tea, coffee without milk, herbal decoctions, mineral water without gas, fruit juices without added sugar, vegetable juices and fresh,
• spices: lemon juice, soy sauce, wine and balsamic vinegar, paprika, black and hot red pepper, sea salt (salt in limited quantities).

It is on the basis of these products and food supplements that the diet of the celery diet is built. They can be combined in different combinations to make the menu more diverse, and finding no diet more enjoyable.

But it is important to understand not only what products are allowed during weight loss. Attention should also be given to the ways of cooking vegetables, fruits, cereals and meat. Vegetables are recommended to be consumed fresh, baked or boiled, mashed, included in salads and soups, prepared from them useful juices, smoothies, fresh. Fruits should be eaten fresh, in the form of salads, juices and fresh. Vegetables and fruits can be combined with fermented milk products: yoghurt, kefir, cottage cheese. Meat can be boiled or baked.

What is with a celery diet can not be, but what you just need to limit the amount? Let's start with prohibited products:

• vegetables, cooked by roasting,
• fatty meat and lean meat,
• high-calorie fruit and berries, especially grapes and banana (the latter can be included in the diet 1 time a week in small amounts, especially if a person has symptoms of lack of glucose),
• any nuts and sunflower seeds that are high in calories,
• all types of flour products, cereals from cereals, with the exception of brown rice,
• boiled dishes from dough (dumplings, vareniki, pasta, dumplings, dumplings, etc.)
• sweets and sweets, including sweet desserts, ice cream, chocolate, mousse, kissels, puddings,
• fatty dairy products (fatty cottage cheese, sour cream, cheese, cream),
• fatty, salty meat and sausage products (sausages, sausages, saltison, lard, smoked products, etc.)
• oily and red fish,
• butter, mayonnaise (shop or home),
• animal fats and margarine,
• store food additives with salt and flavor enhancers,
• any alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks, beer (including non-alcoholic), and kvass,
• sweet and unsweetened carbonated drinks, compotes cooked with sugar, shop juices.

Salt in the dish can be added only in a minimal amount, if without it food does not enter your mouth. Sugar in dishes is prohibited. Canned vegetables can be consumed once a week in limited quantities, as they contain salt and contribute to an increase in appetite. For the preparation of salads, you can use a small amount of any vegetable oil and your favorite natural seasonings.

As you can see from the composition of the allowed products, the celery diet for 7 and 14 days can hardly be called too strict. It allows you to make your menu quite diverse and full, so the body will respond to it quite normally, and extra pounds will go away naturally even without physical exertion. By the way, the latter during the diet are not prohibited, but do not overdo it. The diet is low-calorie, and high energy costs can negatively affect well-being.

Contraindications

Despite all the declared benefits of using the celery diet for the figure and improving the body as a whole, not all methods can use fast weight loss method. The fact is that there are a number of diseases in which useful properties of celery can turn into harm, provoking severe exacerbations.

To such diseases it is possible to carry:

• stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), as well as gastritis with increased acidity of gastric juice (active stimulation of digestive enzyme release creates stress on weakened organs and increases gastric juice irritating mucus como),
• cholecystitis and cholelithiasis (celery possesses choleretic action and movement of stones can lead to blockage of the bile ducts),
• Renal and urolithiasis (here the damage to the diuretic effect of the plant will be harmful).

When vascular diseases caused by their blockage or increased permeability, the possibility of observing a celery diet should be discussed with the attending physician. The same is best done for those who suffer from epilepsy and other serious diseases. The fact is that diets for weight loss differ from diets prescribed for various health disorders, and how safe they are, is judged only by specialists.

Celery juice is not considered useful in hives and various skin diseases, thyroid pathologies, liver diseases, epileptic status, etc. But the possibility of eating celery in boiled, stewed and baked form with these pathologies should be clarified by the attending physician, however, the effectiveness of the diet without consuming juice and fresh root will be noticeably lower and the benefit from it will be less.

Do not resort to the help of a celery diet and future mothers. And it's not even that the diet of a pregnant woman should be as full as possible. Just in the composition of celery, there are substances that increase the flow of blood to the uterus. What brings her into a state of alert. Increasing blood supply and active contractions of the muscles of the uterus, so necessary during childbirth, can play a bad joke with a woman who is still too early to give birth. A future mother, thus, together with excess weight can lose her baby.

An experienced obstetrician-gynecologist or nutritionist will never offer a pregnant woman with excess weight a celery-based diet. Moreover, in their opinion in this period it is better to completely forget about the existence of such a root crop with such an ambiguous effect on the body of a young mother. If we are not talking about obesity, which represents a certain problem in this period, the pregnant woman remains beautiful and without any diets, and she will have time to take her figure in abundance after childbirth.

Doubtful use of celery and breastfeeding. The fact is that such a product in the diet of the mother can cause digestive disorders in the baby (bloating and intestinal colic) and food allergy (diathesis). To introduce it into the diet can be no earlier than 4-5 months after birth, and then very carefully, gradually, in small portions. And what can we say about the celery diet, in which the whole emphasis is on the use of this root.

However, after the transfer of the baby to another food, a woman may well be engaged in correcting her figure, so changed during pregnancy and lactation. And the celery diet will help her in a short time to return the former attraction.

Possible risks

I must say that any diet is a kind of violence over the body, which is used to a completely different diet and diet. Celery diet, by the way, does not impose strict restrictions on the number of basic meals a day and snacks, the volume of foods and dishes used, and even the options for their preparation (the same celery soup has several variations). Nevertheless, for many people this is a different, perhaps even unusual diet, the basis of which is a plant with an unusual, brightly expressed taste and smell.

The fact is that celery with a spicy aroma peculiar to it is not to everyone's liking. And even those who periodically added it to traditional dishes, can not always withstand the daily use of this unusual vegetable. If it's just a day off, you can endure it. But hard 3-day diets with 50-100% inclusion of celery in the diet are not easily transferred, which causes the search for other options to quickly lose weight.

Against the background of intolerance of the smell and taste of celery, nausea may appear, which does not allow continuing the diet further.

Another reason for the severe tolerance of a week-long and especially a two-week diet may be a hypoglycemia that develops against the background of a sugar restriction. Reducing the level of glucose in the blood contributes to the celery itself. But if this is its property is considered useful in sugar diabet, but in a person with normal glucose in the blood, it can provoke the appearance of such symptoms as weakness, dizziness, increased fatigue.

However, similar symptoms can appear and on a 2-3 day of a rigid diet. Salvation will be 1-2 sweet fruit. But in the event that the symptoms do not go away or are regularly repeated, it is better to finish the diet on what has been achieved.

Risks associated with diet, mainly related to pathologies listed in the contraindications to this method of rapid weight loss. It is in these cases, against the background of a celery diet, that there may be complications of existing diseases, although there is no question of developing new pathologies of health in this case. Most likely, the appearance of pain in the epigastric region and in the lower abdomen, associated with increased gastric acidity and increased inflammation, as well as violation of patency of the biliary and urinary tract.

However, if you diet for more than a week, even against the background of absolute health, you need to understand that the chemical composition of celery is rich, but it does not include all vitamins and trace elements necessary for the body. In addition, during heat treatment, some of them are destroyed. To avoid hypovitaminosis it is recommended to start vitamin and mineral complexes in parallel with the diet.

Women should not risk starting a diet on the eve or during menstruation. Against the background of menstrual bleeding and a low-calorie diet, they may have dizziness and drop blood pressure. An identical situation is observed with active sports.

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