Lemon diet: how to lose weight in a week

Here is a diet that works: the lemon diet to lose weight in a week after a 3-day impact phase. Check out the menu and contraindications of this diet

The lemon diet is an eating program much later that allows you to lose weight in a week starting with a crash diet three days: after the first 3 days based detox, in fact, you may even lose 3 kilos in 7 days. It is, therefore, a perfect diet for those who want to get a flat belly last minute, slimming in time to face the serene costume fitting. But how does the lemon diet? How can you introduce in your menu? What are its benefits? There are contraindications?

Before you begin to answer these questions it is appropriate to make a premise: the lemon is not only a great ally of the diet , so that we can call it a super-food. Among its many properties there is indeed a certain power drain , which helps to combat cellulite . Lemon is also one of the most purifying and detoxifying foods, enough to make it perfect for a detox diet , fast diet that helps to cleanse the body regenerating it. Here it is explained the reason why it is born and has much success the lemon diet, which often provides for a 3 day flash program and one estesto more than a week.

The three days of the lemon diet: cleanse before you lose weight!

Due to its detoxifying effect and draining, the lemon makes it possible both to purify the body and then to lose weight by promoting digestion and fighting swelling and water retention. In the 3 day diet, In fact, you can follow a more or less fixed menu, to begin to see the first effects not only on the detox but also on the weight loss! Here is a menu type to be followed for 3 days:

• Just wake up : a glass of lemonade with warm water
• Breakfast : fruit salad with 5 red fruits (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cherries) + an apple or a pear + a handful of fresh almonds, not roasted and unsalted
• Snack : 1 glass of lemonade + a handful of sunflower seeds or pumpkin or even almond alternative
• Lunch : salad of legumes (beans or lentils) dressed with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil. Add fresh ginger to taste to achieve a greater effect detoxifying and digestive
• Snack : raw vegetables (cucumbers, radishes, fennel) + 1 glass of lemonade
• Dinner : grilled fish with lemon juice + fresh vegetables boiled
• 2 hours before going to bed: 1 glass of warm lemonade

The detoxifying foods like lemon? Pomegranate, fennel, blueberries ...

Discover the foods suitable for detoxification , keeping in mind that the best ingredient for detoxification of the body is just the lemon! This list of foods will give you an idea to enrich your menu of 3 days during the lemon diet. Keep them in mind and use them in rotation as an alternative in our type menu.

Diet Lemon than a week: to lose 3 kg in 7 days

If you want to lose even more weight , and make the lemon diet a weight loss program , you can continue with the 7 day diet . The menus are pretty much always the same, to be repeated for a week. Many say that it works , because it is a fairly strict diet, and allows you to see amazing results. Some come to lose 3 pounds a week . Just because it is a strict diet, we should not go beyond a nell'osservarla month!

The menu type Lemon Diet 7 days

Introducing variations between foods, may be fishing ideas from the diet for a flat stomach , here is a perfect menu for the lemon diet that lasts seven days . As you can see, with respect to that of the 3 days Shock, here it is introduced some nutritious food in addition:

• Just wake up : lemon juice diluted in warm water
• Breakfast : salad of red fruit with low-fat plain yogurt and 2 tablespoons of oatmeal + soy milk
• Snack : 8 unsalted almonds or toasted + 1 glass of fruit juice diluted with water
• Lunch : soup of fresh vegetables + 2 slices of bread buckwheat, kamut or quinoa + 1 kiwi
• Snack : 2 oatcakes + cherry tomatoes to eat raw
• Dinner : fish, chicken or grilled tofu seasoned with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil + green leafy vegetables boiled or sauteed in a wok with a tablespoon sesame seeds + 1 fresh fruit
• Before going to bed : Lemon juice in warm water (if you want you can add us as ginger or a dash of honey)

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A variant of this type menu, to help you get some idea of what to eat, it would be this:

• Just wake up : lemon juice in warm water
• Breakfast : red fruits (pomegranate and cranberries best cherries and raspberries) mixed with oatmeal and low-fat plain yogurt
• Snack : fruit salad topped with lemon juice
• Lunch : quinoa salad boiled seasoned with lemon juice and ginger to taste + bread kamut or buckwheat + 1 plain yogurt or alternatively 1 kiwi
• Snack : 1 tablespoon of sunflower seeds + 1 bunch of grapes
• Dinner : bass fillet on the grill or in the oven, seasoned with lemon + side dish of green vegetables steamed + 1 trick gluten
• Before going to bed : lemon juice in warm or hot water

The contraindications of the diet here is what you need to know

The lemon diet is effective, reliable, and in addition to deflate, to drain, to lose weight and fight cellulite, regenerates and purifies the body, but you have to pay attention to the drawbacks : it is a very strict diet, as we said, and must not go over a month . Like all strict diets, no longer it works as soon as you stop to follow, and you tend to take back the pounds lost unbalancing the values in the body. It is a very varied diet , which favors only white meat, lean fish (always boiled or grilled), fruit and vegetables, and can quickly get bored by creating chronic fatigue, low concentration, moodiness. It is one of the many reasons why should be followed for a short time. Suggest that you first consult an expert nutritionist or doctor if you follow this diet, and in any case if you simply want to lose weight fast in order to be ready for the costume fitting , simply follow this diet for seven days because it will give its results, and in any event no later than two weeks.

To lose weight fast, discover the best foods for a flat stomach

In addition to foods that help detoxify and purify, the foods for a flat stomach is a good opportunity to switch food during the lemon diet . The small yellow allies are not absent here, but among fish, green leafy vegetables, avocado, fruit and nuts will have that fun to invent your menu!

Tomo Indea Khamis, 23 Mac 2017 Diet Weight Loss