1. When do you eat? When you eat with dinner, you can slice raw tomatoes or directly make small tomatoes into salads. You can drink some tomato juice for dinner, or add some ketchup, mashed vegetables and canned tomatoes to add color to the dishes.
Of course, the most common method is to heat treat tomatoes, whether fried or boiled. In short, you can be creative and change your pattern, as long as the tomatoes on the table are red.
Special reminder: Where is the slimming secret of "Night Tomato"? Citric acid in tomatoes can promote sugar metabolism and burn fat; Lycopene can inhibit the increase of fat cells and absorb excess fat. In addition, for those "big stomach kings", the dietary fiber and pectin rich in tomatoes are simply saviors: they can effectively expand the stomach, stimulate the satiety center, send a "full" stimulus signal to the brain, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, and promote the elimination of waste in the body. What's even more amazing is that tomatoes can live in harmony with the two "enemies of weight loss". Eating with oil not only has better absorption effect, but also can eliminate constipation; When it is eaten with carbohydrates, it can effectively reduce the glycemic index, making it difficult to increase the glycemic value, thus creating an in-vivo environment that is easy to lose weight.
2. How much do you eat? You must consume more than15mg of lycopene every day. When you make up your mind to start a life of "eating tomatoes at night to lose weight", please remember that you must ensure that you consume more than 15 mg of lycopene every day.
When eating tomatoes raw, you can eat two large tomatoes. Red series (generally big red, hard skin, not easy to peel) is better than peach series (generally yellowish, bright and thin skin, easy to peel), and contains lycopene three times as much as peach series.
. Or eat 17 small tomatoes, also known as cherry tomatoes, which have higher nutritional components, and carotene, vitamin C and dietary fiber are all 1.5 ~ 2 times that of ordinary tomatoes.
When drinking tomato juice-you can drink a bottle of tomato juice. If you want more obvious effect, it is recommended to drink 2 ~ 3 bottles a day. Drinking a bottle of tomato juice is equivalent to eating two raw tomatoes.
When cooking with tomato-ketchup or ketchup, you can use nearly 4 tablespoons (80 grams and 60 grams respectively). For canned tomatoes, you can use 1 can (170g). Tomato paste and mashed tomatoes and vegetables are processed foods, which contain more lycopene than raw tomatoes.
Special reminder: The "ketchup", "mashed tomato" and "canned tomato" mentioned here are all different from "ketchup". The first three kinds are concentrated sauces made of fresh tomatoes, which are cooked and mashed in a blender, then stir-fried with olive oil, minced garlic and minced onion, and then mixed with bay leaves, rum, water and pepper. "Ketchup" is a sauce made by mixing fresh soup with prepared ketchup, adding white sugar and refined salt to dry the water. Sauce is not recommended because it is high in sugar and calories. So please read the label and ingredients clearly when buying.
3. How long will it last? Stick to it for at least three months, preferably six months. Different from the devil's diet, which pursues quick success but is particularly harmful to the health, "tomato slimming at night" hopes that people can eat beautifully, sleep soundly, have good skin and be in a good mood in addition to slimming down. Therefore, please don't expect a "miracle" like eating 5 pounds of meat a week. Although you may find that you have lost 2 kilograms in silence after one month, please stick to it.
From a medical point of view, the metabolism and other cycles of the human body take an average of six months. When the body can "remember" this state that lasted for six months, it can really last longer and more effectively. Therefore, please persist for at least 3 ~ 5 months, so that our bodies can firmly "remember" this state of light after becoming thinner.
The indispensable factor of success is to keep a regular life as much as possible, such as partial eclipse, overeating and lack of sleep. These bad habits in daily life are also not conducive to "eating tomatoes at night to lose weight." Therefore, the timing of three meals, adjusting the time of going to bed and getting up, and ensuring adequate sleep are all essential contents of the "night tomato diet".
Without this factor, it is difficult for tomatoes to exert their magic no matter how good or wonderful they are. Although lycopene has a miraculous effect on reducing fat and repelling excess oxygen free radicals, you should never rely too much on it. A good diet is the same as working habits.
It is indispensable.
Special reminder: tomatoes are excellent food, but they are often cold. Excessive consumption can cause discomfort such as diarrhea and body cold. Therefore, eating at night is by no means "the more the better", just the right amount; In addition, you can also add warm ingredients such as salt, onion, ginger and garlic when cooking, which can not only warm your body, but also solve this small problem. In addition, because tomato pulp contains colloid and soluble astringent, it will react with gastric acid on an empty stomach, forming an insoluble lump, blocking the stomach and causing abdominal pain. Therefore, please don't eat on an empty stomach.