Drinking Diet, Reviews And Results

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Drinking diet, why is it good?

Drinking diet is a weight loss technique that is actively gaining popularity among people who want to lose weight. In addition to the fact that during the drinking diet extra pounds go away, the body is cleansed. If you stick to the diet for a long time, then the cleansing processes are already started at the cellular level. Of course, a drinking diet is not universal; along with a large number of advantages, it has a number of disadvantages. Moreover, not everyone can withstand it.

You cannot call a drinking diet a hunger strike, but at the same time it belongs to strict methods of losing weight. One of the basic principles is the prohibition on chewing. Losing weight should remove all solid foods from their diet. At the same time, do not worry that exhaustion will come: the body will receive the necessary kilocalories from liquid foods and drinks.

The essence of the diet boils down to the fact that by refusing to eat, which requires chewing, the load is removed from the digestive system. As a result, extra pounds go away, and in parallel, toxins and other harmful substances are removed from the body, which has a positive effect on the work of all internal organs.

The drinking diet is built on the following principles:

• The diet must be entered correctly. To do this, three days before it starts, you should start eating more plant foods.

• During the process of cleansing and losing weight, you need to completely abandon fatty foods, sweets, carbonated drinks and alcohol.
• Every day, you must drink at least 1.5 liters of clean water. Most of the liquid should be consumed before lunch. If you do not follow this principle, then edema cannot be avoided.
• During the diet, it is recommended to take vitamin and mineral complexes.
• If necessary, the classic seven-day drinking diet regimen can be extended to 21 days. However, you need to carefully monitor your own health and the reactions that the body gives.
• When half the way has been passed, you should arrange a fasting day for the body, using exclusively pure water.

How many kg can you lose weight on a drinking diet? Drinking diet is a weight loss technique that involves eating foods in liquid form. Its duration varies from 1 to 21 days. As practice shows, only in the first day of losing weight it is possible to lose up to 2 kg of excess weight. On average, 7 kg are consumed per week. However, experts strongly advise against adhering to this diet more than once a year.

Content:

• The effect of diet duration on the body
• How to enter a drinking diet correctly?
• Drinking diet for 7 days
• Sample menu for 7 days
• Types of drinking diet
• Prohibited and permitted products
• Interesting recipes
• Exiting a drinking diet
• Pros and cons of a drinking diet
• Contraindications
• Side effects
• Drinking diet results
• Reviews
• Recommendations of doctors

The effect of diet duration on the body

Duration of the diet	Changes in the body
1 day	A person begins to experience a feeling of fatigue and weakness, his mood disappears, he is pursued by the desire to chew any food. If the entry into the diet was performed incorrectly, then the body experiences severe stress.
Day 3	Gradually, the body is rebuilt, the feeling of hunger dulls.
1 Week	The body goes through a stage of primary cleaning.
2 weeks	The process of cleansing the liver and kidneys starts.
3 weeks	The body is cleansed at the cellular level.

How to enter a drinking diet correctly?

So that the drinking diet does not harm your health, you must enter it correctly. To do this, for 6 days you need to adhere to the following menu:

	First meal	Main meal	Last meal
	According to the usual menu	According to the usual menu	According to the usual menu
	Any porridge in liquid form	According to the usual menu	Liquid porridge or mashed potatoes
	Any porridge in liquid form	Puree or puree soup	Liquid porridge or mashed potatoes
	Any porridge in liquid form	Only liquid	Liquid porridge or yogurt
five	Only liquid	Only liquid	Liquid porridge or yogurt
	Only liquid	Only liquid	Only liquid

The basic principles of entering a drinking diet:

• The smooth replacement of solid food with liquid food allows you to enter the drinking diet without causing stress to the body.
• You should enrich your diet with fresh vegetables and fruits, cooked in the form of mashed potatoes.

• At the stage of preparation for a diet, it is necessary to take vitamin and mineral complexes. To determine which drug will be optimal, you need to consult a doctor.

Drinking diet for 7 days

An indicative menu for a week with a drinking diet may look like this:

1. Milk day, when it is allowed to drink low-fat yogurt, kefir, fermented baked milk, as well as milk.
2. Soup day. Only broths based on fish, meat, vegetables are allowed to be eaten. To prepare the broth, you should take low-fat meats, such as rabbit, chicken, beef, veal.
3. Fruit and vegetable day. It is allowed to eat juices and smoothies made from various vegetables and fruits.
4. Tea day. On the fourth day of the diet, you need to drink various teas, you can add milk to them. Also, the menu is complemented with a puree vegetable-based soup. Soup is allowed to be made from any vegetables except potatoes.
5. Fruit and vegetable day. On the fifth day of the diet, broths made from various vegetables are consumed. You can also drink fruit jelly, but without sugar.
6. Compote day. Compotes need to be prepared on their own, you can take any fruit for this purpose. It is important to avoid adding sugar to your drink. On this day, it is allowed to supplement the menu with liquid soup.
7. The diet ends with a water day. A person completely refuses food and drinks only clean non-carbonated water.

It is good if you can strictly adhere to the presented power scheme without problems. However, drinking only water or juice throughout the day can be difficult for the digestive system. Therefore, it is permissible to make the menu more varied.

When compiling an individual diet, it is important to adhere to the following recommendations:

• You must consume at least 1.5 liters of clean water per day. The volumes of other liquid should be about 2 liters. The maximum volume per day is 5 liters, this recommendation should be followed in the event that there is a need not only to lose weight, but also to cleanse the body.
• The maximum energy value of the daily diet should not exceed 1400 kcal.
• You should not divide the entire volume of fluid into three main doses. It would be more correct to drink it often, 6-8 times a day, but in small portions (200-250 ml each). The intervals between drinks should be equal.
• For one meal, you need to get no more than 200 kcal.
• It is good if there is an opportunity to include puree soup in the diet every day.
• 2-3 hours before the night's rest, you should stop drinking any liquid.

Sample menu for 7 days

Approaches to the table					five			eight
Mon	Cocoa	The juice	Fermented milk drink		The juice	Smoothie	Meat broth
W	Tea	Fermented milk drink	Fermented milk drink or milk		Smoothie	The juice	Vegetable broth
Wed	Cocoa	Oatmeal Kissel	Fermented milk drink or milk		Cottage cheese with kefir	Compote	Vegetable puree
Th	Tea	Smoothie			Smoothie	Berry jelly	Meat-based broth
Fri	Cocoa	The juice	Fermented milk drink		Kissel from oats	Liquid curd	Fish broth
Sat	Tea	Smoothie	Milk		Berry jelly	The juice	Vegetable broth
Sun	Cocoa	Compote	Cottage cheese diluted with kefir		Smoothie	Kissel from oats	Meat-based broth

You should always start your day with a glass of tea or cocoa. If a person loves coffee, then several times a week you can afford this drink. You need to eat puree soup every day. To fall asleep faster, you need to drink a glass of warm milk 2 hours before bedtime. The presented nutritional scheme is indicative and designed so that a person has an idea of how to make a balanced menu on a drinking diet.

Types of drinking diet

Chocolate Drinking Diet

The combined chocolate-drinking diet combines two methods of losing weight at once: drinking and chocolate, but at the same time it has some peculiarities. When eating a bar of chocolate, you need to drink it with cocoa.

The menu must include the following drinks:

• Unsweetened hot chocolate.
• Cocoa brewed with low fat milk.
• Still water.

The chocolate drinking diet should not be followed for more than 7 days in a row.

You need to alternate your diet according to the following scheme:

• Day one: drinking diet.
• Day two: chocolate diet.
• Day Three: Chocolate Diet.
• Day four: drinking diet.
• Day five: drinking diet.
• Day six and day seven: chocolate diet.

In a week, you will be able to lose from 5 to 7 kg of excess weight.

Apple Drinking Diet

The Apple Drinking Diet is one of the most popular drinking diet options. This method of losing weight involves drinking only freshly pressed apple juice for two days. It is necessary to drink juice every 2 hours in the volume of one glass.

The morning of the third day should start with a glass of juice, and after half an hour you should drink 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil and wash it down with apple juice diluted with water. This diet should be followed throughout the diet. In addition to the fact that it allows you to lose weight, a person will be able to cleanse the kidneys qualitatively.

Drinking diet for 21 days

The three-week drinking diet menu is composed according to the same principle as the seven-day diet menu. To avoid intense hunger, you should eat one serving of puree soup every day. An important condition for losing weight and cleansing the body is the daily use of 1.5-2 liters of clean water without gas.

Already a week after the start of the diet, all toxins will be removed from the body. Starting from the second week, the kidneys and liver will begin to function at full strength. By the end of the diet, the body will be functioning at 100%, since cleansing will occur at the cellular level.

Prohibited and permitted products

Prohibited foods include:

• All products are solid.
• Alcoholic drinks.
• Sparkling mineral water and soft drinks.
• Industrial juices.
• Sugar and substitutes.
• Chewing gum.
• Spicy and spicy foods.
• Sour cream and milk with a high percentage of fat. The same rule applies to fermented milk drinks.
• Broths cooked on fatty meats or fish.
• Vegetable oil.
• Any sweet desserts, including liquid ones.

It is worth considering that it will be necessary to give up these products not only during the diet itself, but also at the stage of preparation for it, as well as for some time after leaving the diet.

The list of permitted products is as follows:

• Freshly pressed juices from vegetables and fruits.
• Pure water.
• Puree vegetable, cereal and bean soups.
• Broths cooked with low-fat meat and fish.
• Compote and jelly.
• Any tea, except tea bags.
• Smoothie.

Interesting recipes

Flavored water

To prepare it, you will need the following food set:

• Two oranges, two limes and two lemons.
• Two centimeters of fresh ginger root.
• Two sprigs of mint.
• 0.3 kg of strawberries.
• Three liters of water.

Mint is crushed with a mortar so that it gives juice, all other ingredients are thoroughly washed and cut into cubes. Distribute products in 3 containers, fill with water and put into the refrigerator. After two hours, you can drink the water. If the drink seems too sour, then you can add agave syrup and honey to it. Place a few ice cubes in glasses before serving.

Peach-apricot water to cleanse the body

To prepare a drink, you will need products such as:

• Three apricots.
• One peach.
• Liter of water.
• A sprig of rosemary.

Apricots and peaches are cut into slices and placed in a suitable container, pour over the fruit with water, add rosemary. Put the drink in the refrigerator for high-quality cooling.

Grapefruit water with rosemary

To prepare a drink you need the following components:

• Half a grapefruit.
• Three sprigs of rosemary.
• Liter of water.
• Agave syrup.

The grapefruit is cut into small slices, poured with water, rosemary and agave syrup are added, and put into the refrigerator. The drink will be ready in 2-3 hours.

Apple spinach smoothie

To prepare it, you will need the following ingredients:

• 1 banana and 1 apple.
• Two oranges.
• Two handfuls of spinach.

Squeeze the oranges, put the banana, apple and spinach in a blender and chop. Orange juice is added to the resulting mass and mixed thoroughly.

Banana Blueberry Smoothie

To prepare a dish, you will need products such as:

• One banana.
• 3/4 cup blueberries and blackberries.
• Peanut paste - 1/4 cup
• A teaspoon of poppy seeds and chia seeds.
• Almond milk to taste.
• To decorate the dish before serving, you need coconut shavings, kiwi and sesame seeds.

Using a blender, berries, banana, peanut paste and coconut milk are brought to a homogeneous consistency. Smoothies are poured into high-sided glasses, decorated with kiwi slices, coconut flakes and sesame seeds. The smoothie is ready.

Beetroot smoothie with raspberries

To prepare it, you will need the following products:

• Small boiled beets.
• One banana.
• Half a glass of frozen raspberries.
• Half an orange.
• Soy milk in a volume of 50 ml

All components are chopped with a blender, leaving a few whole raspberries to decorate the dish. The mass is poured into glasses, raspberries are spread on top of it.

Vanilla smoothie with coconut milk and matcha

To prepare a drink, you will need the following set of products:

• 0.4 liters of coconut milk;
• A tablespoon of matcha and vanilla extract.
• Half a glass of coconut shavings and ice.
• A glass of sliced pineapple.
• Half a banana.
• A pinch of salt.
• 2.5 tablespoons of agave syrup.

All components must be mixed using a blender (coconut chips are not brought into the blender bowl), pour into glasses, and decorate with coconut chips.

Zucchini soup with cheese and thyme

To prepare this cold soup, you will need foods such as:

• Six zucchini.
• Two cloves of garlic.
• Two tablespoons of olive oil.
• Three sprigs of thyme.
• 40 g of Parmesan cheese.
• Pepper and salt to taste.

Cut the zucchini into small cubes, fry in a pan, after 2 minutes add the garlic passed through a press. After another 5 minutes, add 40 ml of water and thyme, bring to a boil and keep on fire under a closed lid for 10 minutes. After the specified time, the thyme is removed, salt and pepper are added to the soup, the mass is passed through a blender. Sprinkle with grated cheese before serving.

Green cream soup with asparagus, mushrooms and cauliflower

To prepare the soup, you will need the following components:

• 0.55 kg of asparagus.
• Medium head of cauliflower.
• 3 tablespoons each of olive oil and lemon juice.
• Half a head of onion.
• 0.25 kg of mushrooms.
• Two cloves of garlic.
• Two teaspoons of lemon zest.
• A bunch of basil.
• 5 cups vegetable broth.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Tough ends are cut off from the asparagus, the cabbage is divided into inflorescences. Put all the ingredients on a baking sheet, pre-oiled with olive oil, and then put in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 25 minutes.

Garlic, mushrooms and onions, passed through a press, are fried in a large saucepan, then cauliflower and asparagus are added there, poured with vegetable broth and brought to a boil. Boil the soup for 10 minutes. Turn off the fire, add lemon juice, lemon zest, basil leaves to the dish. Whisk the slightly cooled soup with a blender until smooth and serve.

Hot vegetable soup with ginger

To prepare it, you will need the following products:

• Three liters of vegetable broth.
• Two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
• One onion.
• One chili pepper.
• Two celery stalks and two garlic cloves.
• 0.75 kg of carrots.
• One bay leaf.
• 5 cm fresh ginger root.
• Two teaspoons of turmeric.
• Four stalks of green onions.
• A handful of chopped cilantro.
• 4 teaspoons of sesame oil.
• 2 teaspoons lime juice.

Chopped onions, celery and carrots are fried in oil, bay leaves are added to them. After 10 minutes, turmeric, ginger, chili and garlic are introduced, kept on fire for another 5 minutes. Transfer the frying to a saucepan with vegetable broth, after boiling, reduce the heat and cook for another quarter of an hour, take out the bay leaf.

The soup is cooled, passed through a blender. The dish is served hot, sprinkling each portion with cilantro.

Exiting a drinking diet

You need to leave the diet gradually. If you abruptly switch to your usual diet, this will negatively affect your health. In addition, the pounds lost during the diet will return very quickly. It is possible that the weight will become even more than the original.

Since during the drinking diet the body gets used to assimilate liquid food, it will take twice as long to adapt to the usual food than the process of losing weight took. You should start with cereals and mashed potatoes. Fatty, flour and salty foods should be introduced slowly.

The nutritional scheme during the exit from the drinking diet:

Days	What foods need to be introduced	How to eat
1-3	Cereals that make it a little thicker than during the weight loss process	Porridge is eaten in the morning. At lunch and in the evening, you need to adhere to the drinking menu.
4-6	Egg, soft cheese, cottage cheese, some bread	All foods are eaten only in the morning. At lunchtime and in the evening they eat according to the drinking menu
7-10	Fresh fruits and vegetables, but previously chopped into small pieces	Fruits and vegetables are consumed in the morning and at lunchtime. In the evening they eat according to the drinking menu
11-14	Fish and meat. The first days are best used for cooking minced meat.	Fish and meat dishes are eaten in the morning and at lunchtime. In the evening, follow the drinking menu.
15-20	Cereals, pasta, potatoes	You can eat foods throughout the day.

Pros and cons of a drinking diet

The drinking diet has a number of undeniable advantages, thanks to which it has gained many followers:

• On average, in 7 days, you can lose about 5 kg of excess weight.
• During the diet, the body undergoes high-quality cleaning.
• The metabolism is accelerated.
• If at the very beginning of the diet a person experiences weakness, then after a few days it will be possible to feel a surge of unprecedented energy. This is possible due to the fact that the body is cleansed, and it does not spend a lot of energy on digesting food.
• During the diet, the stomach naturally decreases in volume, so in the future, the portions eaten at one time will be smaller. This will prevent you from gaining excess weight again.

The disadvantages of a drinking diet are the following:

• The diet is difficult to tolerate, since a person will constantly feel hunger and a desire to chew something, because dense food is completely excluded from the diet.
• Chronic fatigue, apathy and headaches are possible.
• If the body gives a sharply negative reaction to a change in the usual diet, then it is better to refuse the diet.
• After completing the diet, you cannot immediately return to the usual menu. The body will take time to recover.
• The diet should not be followed for more than three weeks. It will be possible to repeat it no earlier than in a year.

Contraindications

The following contraindications to the use of a drinking diet can be distinguished:

• The period of gestation and breastfeeding.
• Chronic cystitis and other pathologies of the urinary system.
• Insolvency of immunity after illness.
• Liver disease.
• Diseases of the digestive tract, including gastritis, gastric ulcer.
• Serious problems from the cardiovascular system.
• High or low blood pressure.
• A tendency to edema.
• Phlebeurysm.
• Bulimia.
• Mental health disorders.

Although there is no information anywhere that the diet is contraindicated in adolescents, it should not be practiced by very young people. During this period, a person still continues to grow and develop, which means that he needs a lot of energy and nutrients. Drinking a diet can exhaust a young body and negatively affect health.

Side effects

A drinking diet does not allow the body to fully saturate the vitamins, micro- and macroelements it needs, which can negatively affect the state of the immune system, as well as lead to a deterioration in appearance.

In addition, at the very beginning of the diet, many losing weight note that they have bad breath, the tongue becomes coated.

Other side effects: dizziness, anemia, hematopoietic dysfunction. If you do not follow the rules for exiting the diet, then there is a risk of developing anorexia. Therefore, before embarking on the implementation of a drinking diet, you must consult with a specialist.

Drinking diet results

Drinking a diet can achieve the following results:

• The volume of the stomach will become smaller.
• Toxins will be removed from the body.
• Subcutaneous fatty tissue will decrease.
• In 1 day, you can lose up to 2 kg of excess weight.
• In 7 days, you can lose 8 kg of excess weight.
• For 21 days, about 15 kg can go.
• The body will be qualitatively cleansed within 5 days from the start of the diet.

Reviews

Tatyana writes: during the week that I devoted to the drinking diet, I did not experience an acute feeling of hunger. My stomach was always full, albeit with liquid contents. A recommendation for all people who want to try a drinking diet: tune in to the fact that you will visit the toilet much more often. But the end result is well worth the inconvenience.

Marina writes: the diet allowed me to lose 8.5 kg in just a week. When I drank milk, I injected a little sugar into it. At breakfast I ate fruits and vegetables, albeit in small portions. I am very sorry that you can repeat the diet no earlier than in a year.

Anna writes: I followed a drinking diet for 14 days. Sometimes it was very difficult for me, but the arrow on the scales made me happy every day, it gave me strength and allowed me not to give up what I started. In two weeks I managed to leave 10 kg of excess weight in the past! So that they don't come back, I will stick to fasting days.

Elena writes: I have tried many diets in the fight against extra pounds, but the weight constantly returned back. Although rarely did I manage to bring any diet to its logical conclusion. However, I survived the drinking diet and did not break down after its completion. As a result, I managed to lose 5 kg of excess weight, which did not come back.

Svetlana writes: after 3 days from the beginning of the diet, I began to feel just wonderful, which I did not even expect. She proudly passed the pastries. This increased my self-esteem significantly. During the diet, I practiced yoga, stretched the muscles of the body, but did not engage in power sports, so as not to burn the muscles. During the first 3 days, I did not notice any results from the diet. However, after a week, the waist and hips became noticeably thinner. I stayed on a drinking diet for 10 days, I managed to lose 5 kg of excess weight. I lost 3 cm at the waist. I am very pleased with this result!

Rimma writes: this technique allowed me to put my skin in order: all acne and blackheads completely disappeared from it. The figure became more slender, moreover, this was noticed not only by me, but also by the people around me. After the drinking diet, I forgot that I was tormented by female pains. I began to feel great. While losing weight, I drank jelly, fruit drinks, broths, tea, coffee, cocoa, kefir. When I was very hungry, I made myself a liquid mashed potato and drank it through a straw. My advice to all beginners: just try to think about food as little as possible, and this will allow you to go all the way from start to finish.

Nina writes: it was very difficult for me to withstand the first week of the drinking diet: the mood was disgusting, and anemia also joined. But, starting from day 8, I felt how my body adapted to the new nutritional system: it became very easy and comfortable. If my health allows, then I will resort to this diet a few more times!

Recommendations of doctors

Experts consider the drinking diet to be insidious. It contributes to the fact that the body begins to experience a lack of vitamins and minerals, which negatively affects the appearance: the skin sags, hair falls out, nails exfoliate. In addition, immunity worsens. A person gets tired faster, lacks energy. It is possible that memory problems will appear, vision may deteriorate. Doctors warn that the diet can provoke the development of diseases, the body will have no resources to fight against.

The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).