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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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Here we present you with interesting and easy recipes for quick diets. In a short period of time you will be able to lose several kilograms thanks to these developments of nutritionists.
Fast Diet: Lose Weight in 7 Days
How to lose weight in 7 days? Apply a fast diet. And its peculiarity is that we can not only lose extra kilos, but also strengthen the immune system, improve the functioning of internal systems.
The essence of the diet: do not eat sugar, exclude salt, do not drink alcoholic beverages. Eat vegetables in large quantities, and include a significantly smaller share of fruits in the daily diet.
We eat fruits and vegetables 1 hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner. The second option is to eat vegetables and fruits 50-60 minutes after breakfast, lunch and dinner. Duration: 7 days
Result: minus 5-7 kg per week.
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Emergency diet with mineral water
The gist: you can eat no more than 1300 kcal of food per day. You can drink up to 2 liters of still mineral water. Tea and coffee are not limited, but without sugar. You can add up to 1 glass of zero-fat milk per day.
During the day, you saturate your body with vitamins and minerals by eating large doses of salads, but without vegetable oil, and covered with yogurt or fermented baked milk. It is very good to combine green salads, bell peppers, beans in pods, celery, tomatoes, apples in salads.
Lemon juice in salads will be an additional plus, and a few drops of vinegar will not be excessive.
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Features of the diet
This diet is quite gentle because vegetables contain quite a lot of fiber, and fruits contain pectin. Therefore, you will not feel hungry.
Duration of the diet: 2-3 days
Diet result: 2 to 4 kg weight loss
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Recipes for an emergency diet
Breakfast (options)
A piece of dried black or grey bread with bran, 1 apple (preferably green), 1 banana, 5-6 grapes.
2 corn or oatmeal tortillas, 1 glass of skim milk or freshly squeezed orange juice, 1 green apple
2 pieces of grey or black bread, 1 banana, honey (1 teaspoon)
1 boiled egg (soft-boiled is also possible), 1 piece of black or grey bread, 100-150 g of yogurt without sugar and starch
Lunch (options)
Potatoes boiled in their skins (200 grams) with additives that can be alternated:
- Cabbage, finely chopped - 100 g
- Hard cheese – 100 g
- Ham – 100 g
- Chicken – 50 g
- Boiled beans – 2 tablespoons
Dinner (options)
Durum pasta – 100 g with additives (you can choose one of them)
- Skinless chicken meat – 50 g (you can add lemon juice and mushrooms to it)
- Lean ham, 2 tomatoes and garlic
- Tomatoes, garlic and shrimps – 100 g
- Steamed or grilled fish – 200 g
- Cucumber Salad
Dessert
- 1 small banana
- Apples (2 pieces), preferably green
- Biscuit (up to 150 g)
- Pear (1 piece)
- Dark chocolate (up to 100 g)
During the entire period of losing weight, you are allowed to drink 1 glass of white or red dry wine per day.
Nuances of an express diet
Attention! This diet involves punishment for deviation from the amount of calories recommended for express weight loss. We remind you: you can eat no more than 1300 Kcal of food per day. The best incentive for losing weight is exercise.
Cleaning and washing floors (30 minutes) – 90 Kcal
Squats (20 times) – 50 Kcal
Jumping rope (10 minutes) – 100 Kcal
Fast diet with juices and buckwheat
The gist: with this diet, in between meals, drink still mineral water and freshly squeezed juices. Meat is allowed - boiled, but without fat and skin. Salt can be consumed, but very little, if it is already impossible to do without it. You can eat buckwheat, rice and cottage cheese with zero fat content. Vegetables with this diet can be pickled, in particular peppers
Duration: 14 days
Result: from 5 to 10 kg
Prohibited products
- Any bread
- Flour products
- Butter
- Fried and smoked foods
- Spices and seasonings
- Ketchups, mayonnaises, horseradish, mustard
- Chips and croutons
- Nuts of any kind
All dairy products should be purchased with a fat content of no more than 1.5%.
Recipes for a diet with buckwheat and juices
Attention! Another feature of this diet is that you drink 1 glass of purified water 30 minutes before or 30 minutes after eating. This will help cleanse the body of toxins. To replenish the body's vitamin reserves, on the advice of your doctor, buy a vitamin complex and drink it for 21 days.
Breakfast
100 g zero-fat cottage cheese
1 hard-boiled egg (every other day)
Fruits of your choice (2 different types per serving)
Figs (6 pieces)
1 glass of green tea without sugar or coffee. Do not add cream or milk to drinks
Dinner
Corn or canned green peas – up to 100 g
Boiled chicken meat – 100 g (every other day)
Raw or frozen vegetables of your choice – 200 g. If the vegetables are frozen, they should be doused with hot water, strained through a colander and simmered over low heat for 20 minutes.
Fruits of your choice – 150-200 g
Freshly squeezed juice
Dinner
Cabbage, finely chopped and boiled in water
Zero fat cottage cheese
Apple or pear of your choice
Buckwheat or rice, pre-steamed or boiled in water
Freshly squeezed juice
This fast diet is different in that a person needs to stick to the same meals. Plan the optimal time for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Do not deviate from this schedule during the entire diet – and your figure will look simply inimitable!
Lose weight with pleasure.