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Advantages of buckwheat with kefir
Why are we getting better? Is it just because of overeating? Hardly. After all, many will say with confidence that they don’t eat so much, but at the same time they can’t do anything with those extra pounds. And the point here is that our body is terribly slagged. Poor quality foods, like all sorts of fast food or treats that contain more chemicals than nutrients, polluted air, constant stress and irregular meals cause our digestive tract to refuse to function as it should. And this entails, first of all, a metabolic disorder and an imbalance in the work of the body. Hence the extra weight.
Of course, the environment adversely affects health, but with the help of proper nutrition, we can at least partially restore the functions of the organs of our body. Moreover, this can be done with the help of very simple, affordable and inexpensive products, namely kefir and buckwheat.
Kefir is a fermented milk product made from fermented milk with the help of special bacterial cultures and is an excellent stimulant for the digestive tract. Buckwheat, on the other hand, helps the body to remove toxins and contributes to the normalization of metabolism, while saturating it with vitamins and microelements necessary for life, in particular, iron. In addition, both of these products are low in calories. And if you combine them together, you get just the perfect diet dish. It is worth noting that buckwheat porridge belongs to the category of slow carbohydrates, that is, it takes a lot of time to fully assimilate it, which creates a stable feeling of satiety. And, as a result, a person eats less and loses weight more.
A buckwheat-kefir diet is also shown to cleanse and restore the liver.
Cons of buckwheat with kefir
There is no need to talk about any pronounced harm to the body of such a diet – whatever one may say, both products are dietary and healthy, which is why they are even included in the menu of hospitals and sanatoriums, but you still need to know about some contraindications.
Firstly, with caution, buckwheat with kefir for weight loss should be used by people suffering from diabetes. Of course, both of these products are not prohibited for diabetics, but in their case, kefir must certainly be no fatter than 1%, and you should not overdo it with the amount of buckwheat. The fact is that it contains a fairly large amount of starch, which, breaking down in the body, turns into glucose, and that, in turn, increases the percentage of sugar in the patient’s body. However, such a process starts only from the excessive use of this product.
Secondly, it is better for people with problems of the gastrointestinal tract not to start such a diet without listening to the opinion of a specialist. Buckwheat with kefir is also contraindicated for people with individual lactose intolerance.
Those who do not have the opportunity to get advice from a nutritionist should go on a diet with caution and stop the experiment at the first negative reaction of the body.
How to cook buckwheat with kefir
There are several ways to prepare this delicious and healthy breakfast.
- Boil buckwheat in water without adding salt and oil, cool and pour XNUMX% kefir.
- Sort dry buckwheat, rinse and pour boiling water so that the water covers the cereal. Cover the dishes with a towel and leave overnight, then in the morning, when the water is completely absorbed, pour kefir in the proportion of 1 share of buckwheat to 2 shares of kefir and eat without adding any oil, salt, or sugar.
- Pour raw buckwheat with XNUMX% kefir and refrigerate overnight. However, this recipe has one minus – it is much more beneficial for the body to eat warm food.
- Rinse buckwheat, grind in a coffee grinder, and then pour kefir and let it brew. In this form, cereals are easier and more efficiently absorbed by the body.
Attention!
Carefully monitor the freshness of kefir, for which pay attention not to the expiration date, but to the date of manufacture. The fresher the kefir is (1-2 days), the more effect you will get and the tastier the dish will be. Older kefir (from 3 days), firstly, becomes sour, and secondly, it acquires fixing properties, which leads your diet to the opposite effect – toxins and toxins will linger in the body in excess of their time.
How much to eat buckwheat with kefir
Buckwheat with kefir for weight loss is not the kind of diet that you need to sit on for a long time and tightly. The optimal time for such nutrition is a week, a maximum of 10 days. And you need to use it only in the morning on an empty stomach. More than once a day is not worth it.
If you overdo it with such a diet, you can get the result just the opposite of what you wanted. Yes, at first the weight will go away, but if you don’t stop in time, it will not only return, but it can also become almost twice as much.
Why does this happen? And the reason is that after a while the body “understands” that it begins to lose its store of nutrients, set aside for a rainy day, and begins to replenish it in a panic. So much so that it almost doubles this stock. To prevent this from happening, you should not let him “understand” what is happening.
The results
So, you have decided on a kefir-buckwheat diet and are already preparing in advance for violence against your body, as there is a week of tasteless and non-calorie breakfasts ahead. However, it is not. Buckwheat with kefir has a rich taste, and if you want to diversify something, you can add grated unsweetened apple or dried fruits (except raisins) to it. In addition, a big plus of this diet is that it is short-term, so it will not take long. And the incentive for this will be stable weight loss: every day, standing on the scales, you will notice how another kilogram has gone.
But you need to carefully leave the diet – do not immediately attack high-calorie foods, but gradually diversify the table: add salads, lean meat and fish to the menu. Otherwise, you risk not only nullifying all your efforts, but also gaining more than before the diet. By the way, for those who are losing weight, it is very useful to diversify the table with white cabbage salad.
Dietitian Reviews
Nutritionist (fitness nutritionist) Natalya Koneva, Chelyabinsk:
– Buckwheat with kefir is an excellent breakfast, as it includes proteins, fats, and carbohydrates! Moreover, these carbohydrates are complex, which means there will be no jumps in blood glucose, so the feeling of hunger will not come in an hour, as it would be after a bun, etc.
But this only applies to breakfast, since eating one buckwheat with kefir during the day turns out to be unbalanced. The body needs adequate nutrition in order to establish a carbohydrate-fat metabolism (due to the failure of which extra pounds appeared), and this is achieved through the correct ratio of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and a variety of diets.
Nutritionist, healthy lifestyle coach Arina Pallo from Velsk, author and host of the Healthy Slimness project:
– If you grind dry buckwheat in a coffee grinder to medium grains, add it to a glass of kefir up to 2.5%, insist until it swells, you get a wonderful breakfast. Nourishing, cleansing and beneficial for the pancreas!