Old recipes that helped our grandmothers lose weight

Beauty standards in the days of our grandmothers

Many, many years ago, there were no diet pills, gyms, slimming apps, fashion magazines, and fitness blogs. There was only work, as well as worries about housekeeping and housekeeping. If a woman worked in the field, then that was her fitness. And all the treatment was carried out with what was always at hand: herbs and decoctions.

By the way, at the time of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers there was no cult of harmony. Thinness (from the word “bad”) was considered, on the contrary, something bad. The delicate girls seemed sick to people, associated with malnutrition and ill health. It was a corpulent, healthy-bodied lady with good forms that was considered a prominent and well-formed woman.

The only thing that was taken care of at that time was the waist: its thinness was considered a sign of femininity and aristocracy. And almost every woman tried to catch up with the notorious 90-60-90. For the rest, they lost weight not for the sake of reducing volumes, but for the sake of the health of the body, getting rid of the problems that arose due to excess weight.

Recipes that helped our grandmothers lose weight

• Buckthorn bark broth

For the broth, they took 3 tablespoons of buckthorn bark and coriander, 1 spoonful of licorice root, 2 tablespoons of mountaineer herb, tricolor violet and bearberry leaves. Finishing touch: 4 tablespoons of senna leaves, which is responsible for the laxative effect of the drink. All herbs were combined and sent to a container, took a tablespoon each, brewed this amount in a glass of hot water and let it brew for a day. From the next day and within a month, the decoction was taken according to the scheme one glass per day. Wellness baths were made from the same ingredients.

This herbal extract helps cleanse the body of toxins, which is an important step towards losing weight.

• Weight loss recipe using buckthorn

They took equal parts of juniper fruits, buckthorn bark and senna grass. The ingredients were poured with boiling water and wrapped, creating the effect of a thermos. The broth was supposed to stand for two hours, and only after that it was necessary to cool and strain the drink. Took a tablespoon with each meal.

• Apple and celery diet

The following method helped our predecessors to lose weight quickly but safely: the apple, celery root and horseradish were ground and twisted, slightly salted and added with yogurt. This gruel was divided into seven parts and eaten all week in the evenings. According to the proportions, they took 3 apples, 1 tablespoon of root and the same amount of horseradish.

Modern nutritionists, of course, will be horrified by this recipe, because they insist on the separate intake of fruits among themselves, and the simultaneous intake of fruits and a dairy product predict the deposition of fats that are obtained from fructose.

• Dandelion tea

The tea was prepared from fresh dandelion leaves, drenched in boiling water. A glass of broth was left to infuse overnight, and in the morning it was drunk 15 minutes before each meal, that is, one glass of tea was divided several times.

This unusual tea helped to improve digestion and speed up the process of losing weight.

• Cabbage juice

Until now, cabbage is considered a valuable vegetable in the fight against obesity. Previously, the juice of white cabbage was drunk half an hour before meals (it turns out that there were 3-4 doses of juice a day). It was supposed to consume the drink for a month, starting with a third of a glass and gradually increasing the amount to a whole glass per dose. Modern nutritionists do not write off the benefits of white cabbage juice, but they believe that one glass per day will be enough.

• Bay leaf decoction

A glass of water was poured into a container, heated and three bay leaves were placed in hot water. After five minutes of boiling, the broth was removed from the heat and insisted for three hours. After that, it was filtered and taken in a tablespoon before meals. The course of such a diet lasted no more than three days.

In another recipe for a decoction with bay leaves, cinnamon appears. Our great-grandmothers knew about its beneficial properties, so you can make a decoction like this: they took 5 bay leaves and a cinnamon stick per liter of water, boiled everything for 10-15 minutes, and then cooled it down. The finished and infused liter of the broth was taken for three days, a glass every morning on an empty stomach.

At one time, these diets helped our grandmothers maintain a healthy weight. However, you should not assume that these are miraculous methods that will now save you from extra pounds and centimeters. After all, then there was more manual labor, the compositions of food products were more natural, and the ecological situation remained many times better than now.