Water diet. Menu for 3 days, a week, photos, reviews and results

The water diet is based on special principles, and its rules allow you to eat foods that are strictly prohibited in other diets for weight loss. According to reviews from people who follow this diet, it is easier to follow. In addition, it also allows you to improve the general condition of the body, and the results are no different from other diets.

The essence and basic principles

The water diet is based on the effects of water on the human body. his mainthe principle is that drinking water fills the stomach and a large amount of food will not enter there. Therefore, to lose weight using this method, before each meal, half an hour before, you need to drink 1 glass of liquid. In this case, after eating you need to refrain from water for at least 120 minutes.

This is necessary so that digestion occurs faster due to the release of gastric juice, while the entry of liquid into the stomach will slow down this process. This will also relieve the feeling of heaviness in the digestive tract.

It is fundamentally important that food is not mixed with water,that is, after drinking water, at least 20 minutes should pass before eating. It should also be remembered that drinking any other liquid, juice, tea or coffee, is considered a full meal.

Water on such a diet cannot be replaced with anything else. Following the basic principles of the diet will allow you to lose weight in a few weeks, and the results will be more noticeable if you have a lot of excess weight.

The water diet has been developed by several nutritionists and has been tested on a group of subjects. According to the results of the study, it was found that following the rules of such a diet guarantees getting rid of excess weight. However, to get the maximum effect, you must adhere to some dietary restrictions.

In addition, there are contraindications to using a water diet, which you need to get used to so as not to cause harm to the body. The use of such restrictions is especially dangerous for people with pathologies of the excretory system, as well as during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

The water diet is based on the following principles:

1. The process of metabolism in the body can be accelerated by drinking 1 glass of water before eating. This helps to increase the burning rate of accumulated fat.
2. Plain water without gas has a calorie content of 0, while it relieves hunger well.
3. The water diet technique helps normalize the function of the digestive system and other functional systems of the body. On the other hand, adequate body functions improve the condition of the skin.
4. Still water helps improve human performance due to its tonic properties.

Therefore, thanks to the general principles of the water diet, a person not only gets rid of extra pounds, but also heals his body and improves his appearance.

Instructions for use

The water diet, reviews of which say that it helps you lose up to 10 kg per month, is not only aimed at losing weight. Also, its adherence helps to slow down the aging of the body, thereforeThis diet is recommended for those who experience "dry" body,which refers to age-related fluid deficiency.

With age, the part of the brain responsible for thirst begins to send and process signals more slowly, so the amount of water intake becomes less. For this reason, a lack of water begins to develop in the body, which in turn causes weakness and dryness of organs and skin.

You can determine the need to follow a water diet as follows: you need to go to the mirror and, in any place where there are no wrinkles, try to collect the skin into folds. If the folds easily come together and form wrinkles, we can conclude that the skin is dehydrated.

In addition, after the folds are released, the skin will slowly return to its previous shape and the slow marks will remain. If the results described are obtained during the experiment, then you should use a water diet to restore the level of moisture in the body.

In addition, by following a water diet, you can get rid of excess weight. However, it should be considered that losing a small amount of kilograms is more difficult. Therefore, if you have 2-3 extra kilos, it is better to choose a different diet, while this diet and drinking regimen will help to get rid of 10 kg.

Contraindications for use

Water diet, reviews of which, although mostly positive, can cause harm to health due to non-compliance with contraindications and its use by people who are contraindicated.

It is absolutely forbidden to adhere to the principle of water mono-diet or fasting for people who:

• have diseases related to disorders and pathologies of the excretory organs and urinary system;
• have periodic increases in blood pressure (including those who are not diagnosed with hypertension);
• have high blood glucose levels;
• are pregnant or planning to have a child;
• breastfeed the baby with breast milk.

Also, this type of diet is not recommended for people struggling with obesity. Water fasting is only suitable for those who are in ideal health and have no abnormalities. However, they also need to be careful not to harm themselves.

A light water diet, which involves the use of permitted foods, also has some contraindications.

It is not recommended for those who have:

• pathology of the digestive tract;
• liver disease;
• any psychological and mental disorders;
• disorders in the functioning of the cardiovascular system;
• the presence of hypertension;
• diseases of urinary excretory organs;
• kidney disease;
• endocrine system disorders;
• diabetes mellitus (type I and II);
• disorders in the function of the immune system;
• bronchial asthma;
• the course of any infectious disease;
• exacerbation of chronic diseases.

It is also recommended to refrain from following a water diet for women who are pregnant, planning a child, or breastfeeding. In addition, children and the elderly should not lose weight this way either.

Useful tips

Maintaining a water diet requires not only the right output, but also the right input.

To prepare for this type of extra weight loss, you need to exclude the following from your diet 10 days before starting the diet:

• fatty foods;
• canned food;
• foods containing preservatives and additives marked "E";
• salty food;
• products containing fragrance;
• spicy food;
• baked goods and any sweets;
• coffee;
• carbonated drinks;
• smoked food.

You should also stop drinking alcohol, smoking and taking any medication. In addition, in 1-2 weeks you should start walking and rest more.

1 day before starting the diet, it is necessary to cleanse the body of toxins and other harmful substances that can cause negative consequences, such as rashes, nausea or weakness during fasting.

There are 2 cleaning options:

• enemas;
• fasting day

The first option is better, however, if it is not acceptable, you can use the second. During the fasting day, you have to stop eating any food; you are only allowed to drink 1500 ml of kefir during the day. Kefir must be low-fat and contain no added flavorings.

Kefir can be replaced with buckwheat. To prepare it, you need to pour boiling water over the grain in a ratio of 1 to 2 and leave it overnight. Salt and spices should not be added. During the day, you can drink water or unsweetened green tea. Drinking large amounts of water without a habit is very difficult, so here are some tips to help make the diet easier.

Advice:

• every morning you need to drink 1 glass of water, if this is difficult to do, you can add a few drops of lemon or orange juice, squeezed directly from the fruit;

• for water it is better to use a beautiful red glass, psychologists believe that this, on a subconscious level, convinces about the usefulness and taste of the product eaten;
• You can drink water through a cocktail straw, this will speed up the process and make it fun;
• You can create an incentive to take the daily norm of liquid; such incentives will contribute to more precise compliance with the rules.

In addition, while following the diet, it is recommended to exercise every morning to fill the body with energy and drink vitamins. They are needed because with a large amount of liquid, many useful substances are washed out of the body and need to be replenished.

The main complex

The water diet, reviews of which describe significant weight loss after only a week of following it, also implies following certain dietary rules. In addition to drinking plenty of water, you must follow a diet and eat only permitted foods. The list of such products is more extensive than conventional diets.

The duration of the water diet can be from 7 to 28 days, depending on the desired result.

The table shows a detailed daily menu for a month:

Day of the week	eat	Product
1 week
Monday	1 serving	Rice porridge, 1 cucumber, 1 tomato
	2 meals	3 nectarines
	3 meals	Cabbage soup, chicken breast, zucchini, cabbage and tomato salad
	4 meals	200 g of any nuts
	5 eat	Roasted vegetables and 1 slice of bread, baked without yeast
Tuesday	1 serving	Millet porridge, 1-2 peppers
	2 meals	fruits
	3 meals	Boiled tongue (beef), cabbage and celery salad
	4 meals	200 g of strawberries
	5 eat	180 g steamed pork, kiwi, banana and apple salad
Wednesday	1 serving	Buckwheat porridge, 2 tomatoes
	2 meals	fruits
	3 meals	Cabbage soup and apple, pear and pomegranate salad
	4 meals	Pepper, zucchini and tomato salad
	5 eat	2 steamed meatballs, seafood salad
Thursday	1 serving	200 g vinaigrette
	2 meals	please
	3 meals	Rice porridge, carrot and apple salad with raisins
	4 meals	4-6 unsalted crackers
	5 eat	Seafood and celery salad with 2 slices of black bread
Friday	1 serving	100 g fried bread in a mixture of eggs and cottage cheese
	2 meals	pomegranate
	3 meals	Celery soup and salad
	4 meals	2 pieces
	5 eat	Rice porridge and half a grapefruit
Saturday	1 serving	Grapefruit, grape and apple salad
	2 meals	fruits
	3 meals	Soup with breadcrumbs and 200 g of steamed asparagus
	4 meals	200 g of dried fruit
	5 eat	150 g potatoes, cooked with skin, and 100 g fried chanterelles
Sunday	1 serving	2-3 croutons and 1 orange
	2 meals	fruits
	3 meals	Rice porridge with water and 1 grapefruit
	4 meals	Vegetable Salad
	5 eat	2 pieces of steamed pork and kelp salad
2 weeks
Monday	1 serving	Buckwheat porridge with water and 2 tomatoes
	2 meals	banana
	3 meals	A plate of okroshka with 2 slices of unleavened bread
	4 meals	0. 5 tbsp. raspberries or strawberries
	5 eat	Cabbage and carrot salad with sesame oil, apples and 200 g of any meat
Tuesday	1 serving	Rice and pear porridge
	2 meals	3 tangerines
	3 meals	150 g boiled tongue (beef) and fruit salad
	4 meals	please
	5 eat	200 g steamed pork and vegetable salad
Wednesday	1 serving	Salad of grapes, raisins and apples with the addition of dried apricots and 200 g of cottage cheese
	2 meals	grapefruit
	3 meals	Soup and 2 boiled eggs
	4 meals	4 walnuts
	5 eat	200 g of crayfish meat and zucchini, cabbage and cucumber salad
Thursday	1 serving	Scrambled eggs and 2 tomatoes
	2 meals	Orange
	3 meals	150 g of boiled beef with vegetable salad
	4 meals	200 g of dried fruit
	5 eat	Baked vegetables with 2 slices of black bread
Friday	1 serving	Semolina and tangerine milk porridge
	2 meals	Apple
	3 meals	Cabbage soup and grape, pomegranate and pear salad
	4 meals	200 g of berries
	5 eat	Boiled fish and kelp salad
Saturday	1 serving	Rice porridge, 1 cucumber, 1 tomato
	2 meals	150 g of grapes
	3 meals	Soup, chicken breast, vegetable salad
	4 meals	200 g of any berries
	5 eat	Roasted vegetables and 1 slice of bread, baked without yeast
Sunday	1 serving	Bean porridge, 1-2 bell peppers
	2 meals	Orange
	3 meals	Beef tongue stew, cabbage, beans and corn salad
	4 meals	200 g of nuts
	5 eat	150 g steamed pork, fruit salad
3 weeks
Monday	1 serving	Rice porridge, 2 tomatoes
	2 meals	banana
	3 meals	Fruit salad and soup
	4 meals	Vegetable Salad
	5 eat	2 pieces of steamed, cabbage, raisin and carrot salad
Tuesday	1 serving	200 g cabbage salad with lemon juice
	2 meals	please
	3 meals	Rice porridge and carrot salad with apples
	4 meals	4-6 unsalted crackers
	5 eat	Shrimp salad and salad with 2 slices of black bread
Wednesday	1 serving	100 g croutons and cottage cheese
	2 meals	Apple
	3 meals	Cabbage soup and celery salad
	4 meals	2 apples
	5 eat	Rice porridge and half a grapefruit
Thursday	1 serving	Fruit salad
	2 meals	please
	3 meals	Soup with breadcrumbs and 200 g of steamed asparagus
	4 meals	200 g of dried fruit
	5 eat	150 g of jacket potatoes and 100 g of roasted vegetables
Friday	1 serving	2-3 croutons and 1 orange
	2 meals	pears
	3 meals	Buckwheat porridge with water and 1 apple
	4 meals	Vegetable Salad
	5 eat	2 pieces of steamed and kelp salad
Saturday	1 serving	Omelet and 1 cucumber
	2 meals	250 g of watermelon
	3 meals	Cabbage soup, 2 slices of unleavened bread and vegetable salad
	4 meals	200 g of berries
	5 eat	Boiled fish
Sunday	1 serving	Millet porridge and 2 tomatoes
	2 meals	5 plums
	3 meals	Boiled potatoes and apple, raisin and carrot salad
	4 meals	2 boiled eggs
	5 eat
4 weeks
Monday	1 serving	Buckwheat porridge with water and 2 tomatoes
	2 meals	grapefruit
	3 meals	A plate of okroshka with 2 slices of unleavened bread
	4 meals	0. 5 tbsp. raspberries or strawberries
	5 eat	Cabbage and carrot salad with sesame oil, apples and 200 g of any meat
Tuesday	1 serving	Pear, tangerine and grape salad with additional dried apricots and 200 g of cottage cheese
	2 meals	Apple
	3 meals	Soup and 2 boiled eggs
	4 meals	4 walnuts
	5 eat	200 g of crayfish meat and vegetable salad
Wednesday	1 serving	Semolina and pear porridge
	2 meals	grapefruit
	3 meals	Soup and vinaigrette
	4 meals	250 g of berries
	5 eat	Grilled fish and kelp salad
Thursday	1 serving	Bean porridge, 1-2 bell peppers
	2 meals	Orange
	3 meals	Beef tongue stew, vegetable salad
	4 meals	200 g of nuts
	5 eat	150 g steamed pork, fruit salad
Friday	1 serving	Rice porridge, 1 cucumber, 1 tomato
	2 meals	pears
	3 meals	Cabbage soup, chicken breast, vegetable salad
	4 meals	200 g of any berries
	5 eat	Roasted vegetables and 1 slice of bread, baked without yeast
Saturday	1 serving	Scrambled eggs and 2 tomatoes
	2 meals	Orange
	3 meals	150 g of boiled beef with vegetable salad
	4 meals	200 g of dried fruit
	5 eat	Baked vegetables with 2 slices of black bread
Sunday	1 serving	Rice and pear porridge
	2 meals	3 tangerines
	3 meals	150 g boiled tongue (beef) and fruit salad
	4 meals	please
	5 eat	200 g steamed pork and vegetable salad

Before going to bed, you are allowed to drink 1 glass of low-fat kefir to normalize stomach function. The diet can be interrupted at any time, while observing the rules to get out of it.

Combine the results

The water diet, reviews of which speak of good weight loss results, like others, requires a proper exit from it, as this can consolidate the results. Different types of water diets have different exit methods.

After such a diet, which only involves taking a large amount of liquid and allowed food, you need to go out, gradually expanding your diet. You should return to your normal menu in the same period of time as you followed the diet.

There is also a mono-water diet, which involves drinking only liquids for several days.Can be called fasting. It is more difficult to leave such a diet, because the body adapts to such a diet and rebuilds metabolic processes. The longer such a diet has been followed, the more cautiously you should approach its termination.

After fasting for 48 hours, you need to go out for 4 days. In this case, the body has not yet had time to rebuild itself and stopping the diet will not be difficult. It is necessary to gradually include in your diet first self-squeezed juices, then fruits and vegetables, milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, and after 4 days you can start eating normal food.

When fasting for more than 3 days, the body already has time to start rebuilding and receiving the necessary nutrients from its internal reserves, so the function of the digestive system may not be sufficient. It takes at least 10 days to get out of this state to normalize the function of internal organs.

Every day you need to add food to your diet in the following order:

1. Fresh juice.
2. raw carrot and white cabbage salad.
3. Vegetable stew.
4. Fermented milk products.
5. Cereal porridge cooked in milk or water.
6. Lean meat (you can cook it in a steamer, oven or grill).

Starting from the 7th day of release, you can combine all the allowed products, and after 3 days return to your normal diet. Also, when leaving the diet, it is not recommended to experience intense physical activity; you can do a light warm-up or exercise. Adhering to these rules will help you complete the diet correctly, thereby guaranteeing results.

When to expect results

Reviews about the water diet promise quick results, but it all depends on the individual characteristics of the body.

The effect of following such dietary rules depends on several factors:

• initial weight;
• the number of kilograms you need to get rid of;
• metabolic characteristics.

Those who need to lose weight are better.If a person has 1 to 3 extra pounds, it is better to abandon the water diet altogether, because it will not bring results. You can lose from 5 to 10 kg in 30-60 days, and more than 10 kg can be lost in 25-30 days.

However, keep in mind that you cannot follow such a diet for more than a month.therefore, to achieve the desired effect, you need to start it several times. After a month of drinking liquids, you should stop the diet and rest for 30-40 days, and then start again. This is necessary so as not to endanger your health by burdening the excretory system.

A water diet can relieve a person of excess weight, without forcing him to adhere to strict restrictions. However, it still has rules, compliance with which will help increase the effect of weight loss and will not harm the health of the body.

This technique also has contraindications, so before following a drinking regime, you need to read reviews and consult with a nutritionist.