3 most popular types of kefir diet
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Kefir diet is a boring diet. To diet was more diverse, nutritionists have come up with alternating kefir receptions with the use of other foods. About the types of kefir diet we will tell you in this publication.
Kefir - a joy for the stomach
Whatever type was not kefir diet, this is a real gift to the body. Kefir has a lot of advantages over many products, namely:
- Low calories
- A small amount of carbohydrates
- A negligible amount of fat
- Kefir is well absorbed
- Kefir helps to remove toxins and excess fluid from the body
- With kefir you can quickly normalize the microflora of the stomach and intestines
- Kefir helps to adjust the work of the nervous system, because it is recommended to drink at night
Diet № 1 Kefir diet, developed by the Institute of Nutrition
Essence: to use only products with low caloric content and to arrange for themselves purely kefir unloading days. Meals should be on schedule, starting from 08.00 and until 21.00 (not later), in 6 receptions every 2 hours.
Duration: 21 days
Result: up to 12 kg minus
Prohibited kefir diet products
- Bread of any kind
- Sugar
- Potatoes in any kind
- Sharp and fried
- Vegetable fats in the menu - not less than half of the daily ration
Recommended and authorized products
- Low-fat varieties of fish and meat
- Salt is possible, but its use should be limited to 5 grams per day
- Milk and dairy products with zero or low fat content (maximum up to 2.5%)
- Vegetables and fruits without starch in the composition - no restrictions
- As for drinks, they can be drunk daily up to 1.5 liters, including purified water. Most of these 1.5 liters should be kefir - 1 liter per day. If kefir gets bored, you can replace it with vegetable fresh.
You will start to lose weight very quickly, and, most of all, your weight after the kefir diet will last a long time at the reached level.
[Diet №2. Kefir diet in winter
Essence: a diet with the maximum consumption of kefir and the exception of fried and spicy can be repeated every month
Duration: 3 days
Result: 4 to 5 kg minus
Menu for kefir diet
Breakfast
Coffee (can be milked) - 1 cup. Coffee can be replaced with tea without sugar
Omelet
Sauerkraut (salad)
Black bread, thinly smeared with oil
Porridge on the water
Afternoon snack
Kefir 250 g
Alternative kefir - thin slice of hard cheese and 1 green apple
Dinner
Soup on chicken meat
Carrots stewed on the water
Bread - 1 slice
An alternative to this menu for lunch:
Mushroom soup
Low-fat meat, braised on water with cabbage
Afternoon snack
1 cup low-fat kefir
Apple baked in the oven
Dinner
Tea or coffee without sugar
A piece of low-fat boiled fish
Baked potatoes (up to 3 pieces)
Carrots baked with cottage cheese and prunes
3 hours before bedtime
Kefir with low or zero fat content - 250 g
Alternative kefir - skim milk or fermented milk
Lose weight easily on this diet and rejoice that your figure is slender and attractive.
Diet №3. Kefir and fruit diet
It is very good in the season of fruit, that is, in summer and early autumn. Such a diet saturates the body with essential vitamins and microelements and helps to effectively reduce weight.
Essence: you eat low-fat kefir, alternating with fruit. The food should be regular, approximately 6 times a day at intervals of 2 hours.
What is the benefit of a kefir-fruit diet?
With its help you will achieve amazing results. Fruits and kefir in combination so act on the gastrointestinal tract, that the body receives a maximum of useful substances, which are digested several times weaker if you use these foods separately.
And also useful lactobacilli in the composition of kefir have the property to establish the work of the digestive system.
Duration of the diet: 7 days
The result of the diet
Up to 10 kg minus
Menu for kefir diet
1-st, 2-nd and 3-rd day diet - only kefir with fat content from 0% to 2.5%.
Day 3 of the diet - vegetables throughout the day (raw or baked)
The 4th day of the diet - up to 1.5 liters of kefir
The 5th day of the diet is fruit throughout the day, except for grapes and bananas (they are too high in calories)
6th day of diet - only kefir
7th day of diet - fruits or vegetables to choose from
Lose weight with pleasure on kefir diet and be happy!