Cherry diet
To everyone who loves to feast on sour berries and get benefits from this, we recommend a weekly cherry diet. Following all the recommendations, you will not only be enriched with vitamins and minerals found in cherries but also get rid of excess weight.
It is best to eat fresh cherries. In dietetics, cherry juice is also used, which improves metabolic processes, strengthens the body, improves appetite. Folic acid and iron contained in cherry juice are useful for anemia, and Kakhetins and anthocyanins strengthen the walls of blood vessels. Cherry juice with milk (1: 1) is useful for arthritis, fever, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, and mental disorders. Cotton swabs impregnated in the pulp of chopped fresh cherry leaves are used to stop nosebleeds, and dressings are used as wound healing agents for damage to the skin.
In oriental medicine, the fruits of cherries were used as a means of enhancing the secretion of gastric juice, fortifying and expectorant.
In addition to the berry itself, to improve its health, the leaves of this tree are also used. They have antiseptic properties. Cherry leaves make an excellent vitamin tea. For its preparation, it is necessary to chop the crushed cherry leaves (0.5-1 teaspoon) with a glass of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes and drink with honey. Delicious herbal tea can be made from cherry branches. The drink has an expressive aroma and infusion of saturated color. To do this, you need to boil the branches and give them the opportunity to well insist.
For the cherry diet, you can use any kind of cherry. One of the most useful is ripe fleshy and sweet fruits. It is very good if they are grown in your area. Therefore, the cherry diet is best used seasonally during the mass ripening of cherries in your area. In addition to the cherry itself in the diet, you can use a decoction of the stalk, which I drink cold 15 minutes before eating. It is believed that it also contributes to weight loss.
The basic rules of the cherry diet:
- cherry juice, fresh cherry is best eaten 20-30 minutes before the main meal;
- the number of meals is three, there is nothing to eat or drink between them/it is allowed to eat a glass
- of cherries two hours before bedtime;
- try to use the liquid in a small amount during the diet, limiting yourself to the diet menu;
- exclude sweets from food, do not sweeten tea and coffee;
- when cooking foods, try to use less salt and oil;
- kefir is best used at 1%. 7-day cherry diet menu
MondayBreakfast: 1 glass of cherry juice, 1 egg, 1 grapefruit;
Lunch: salad of apples, carrots, and cherries with cream, 1 cup of tea or coffee, boiled potatoes;
Dinner: 200 grams of fresh cherries, 1 cup of kefir, toast, and vinaigrette.Tuesday
Breakfast: 300 grams of fresh cherries, scrambled eggs and a glass of kefir;
Lunch: 1 glass of cherry juice, boiled potatoes, and boiled chicken;
Dinner: a salad of carrots, cherries and dried apricots with sour cream, cherry compote.Wednesday
Breakfast: 1 glass of cherry juice, vegetable salad;
Lunch: soup with rice, cherries and dried apricots, boiled potatoes;
Dinner: boiled fish and a glass of kefir.Thursday
Breakfast: 300 grams of fresh cherries, 2 eggs, a glass of tea;
Lunch: 1 glass of cherry juice, boiled meat, and vegetable stew;
Dinner: a salad of carrots and cherries, boiled potatoes, a glass of yogurt.Friday
Breakfast: a glass of cherry compote, 2 eggs;
Lunch: boiled potatoes, boiled fish and a glass of kefir;
Dinner: a glass of cherry juice, boiled meat.Saturday
Breakfast: a glass of cherry juice, 200 grams of fresh cherries, vegetable omelet;
Lunch: carrot and cherry salad, boiled fish and boiled potatoes;
Dinner: 400 grams of fresh cherries, boiled meat and a glass of kefir.Sunday
Breakfast: 300 grams of fresh cherries, 2 eggs, tea or coffee without sugar;
Lunch: a glass of cherry sack, vegetable salad, vegetable soup, boiled potatoes;
Dinner: fruit and berry salad with cherries, boiled potatoes, a glass of kefir.