Eating half a grapefruit before meals has a significant weight loss effect. Experts conducted experiments on 30 obese men and 15 obese women. In the experiment, they were asked to "eat half a grapefruit twice a day" and "eat a glass of grapefruit juice twice a day", supplemented by a low-fat and balanced diet. Three months later, the report showed that each person lost an average of 8 kilograms.
The actual operation of grapefruit diet is to eat 12 days according to this menu. The specific formula is as follows:
Breakfast: half a grapefruit (juiced, sugar-free)+two eggs (not limited to cooking methods)+two pieces of bacon lunch: half a grapefruit (juiced, sugar-free)+Sabi (not limited to sauce) Dinner: half a grapefruit (juiced, sugar-free)+meat (any cooking method is ok, fish is the best) Choose one of the following:
Red or green vegetables (can be eaten with any sauce or butter)
Salad (sauce is not limited) You can drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee or light tea at a time if necessary.
Snacks: a glass of tomato juice or skim milk.
Vegetables that can be used in salad include: red pepper, carrot, onion (red or green), tomato, broccoli, radish, cucumber, broccoli, lettuce and spinach. Excluding white vegetables, sweet potatoes, potatoes, white onions and celery. You can eat any meat, salad or vegetables at will, and you can also cook with butter, but you must minimize sugar and starch, which will produce fat.
2. How to lose weight and eat grapefruit?
2. 1, grapefruit juice
Wash grapefruit, dig out the pulp, put it in a cooking machine, break it and pour it out.
2.2. Double grapefruit iced drinks
Take out the refrigerated fruit from the refrigerator, put the pulp of red and white pomelo into a conditioning machine, add half the purified water of the pulp, turn it over for dozens of seconds, and beat it into juice; Put ice cubes in the glass, add the same amount of pre-mixed wine and juice, and serve.
2.3. Lemon citron tea
Wash the skin of grapefruit with salt water, scrape the skin (don't scrape the white part), and remove the pulp. Heat two bowls of water in the pot, melt eight crystal sugar, add grapefruit peel and cook for 10- 15 minutes. Pour grapefruit meat, squeeze half a lemon juice in, and simmer while stirring until the sauce is thick. Take out grapefruit juice, let it cool, add some honey and stir well. Sweet and sour, stored in the refrigerator, you can take a spoonful at any time to make drinks or tea.
2.4. honey grapefruit tea
Peel, endothelium and stalk the grapefruit, leaving only the fruit grains, add sugar and salt in turn, then squeeze the pulp with a tablespoon to drain it completely, marinate for 20 minutes, fire, pour the marinated grapefruit into a small pot and boil it, while stirring constantly, and turn off the fire when the water boils into a sticky state. After cooling completely, pour in honey and stir well.
3. Is grapefruit effective in losing weight?
Grapefruit diet is a kind of weight loss method that does not ingest sugar into the body and then promotes the burning of stored sugar and fat. In addition, grapefruit is rich in vitamins and dietary fiber, which is easy to feel full and helps to reduce appetite. Moreover, grapefruit itself is extremely low in calories, and its rich fruit acid can stimulate gastrointestinal mucosa.
Help suppress overeating. If you eat 12 days continuously in strict accordance with the menu of grapefruit diet, you can help lose 5-8 kg. If you want to strengthen the effect of losing weight, you can lose 2-3 kg by eating 12 days after two days.
Recover grapefruit to lose weight 2-3 times. According to the grapefruit diet menu, after losing weight for 12 days, stop for two days, repeat eating for twelve days, and then stop for two days. Repeat this cycle for 2-3 times to maintain weight loss success.
In fact, grapefruit diet relies on hunger to achieve the purpose of losing weight to a certain extent. When you can restore your normal diet, don't overeat at at once, but eat reasonably step by step. Avoid excessive diet and lose weight, even fatter than before.
To prevent rebound, the most important thing is to help the body burn calories all the time. Therefore, whether during or after using grapefruit diet, you can cooperate with a certain amount of exercise to enhance the effect of burning calories and fat. For example, do brisk walking, race walking, cycling, jogging and other aerobic exercises for about half an hour every day.