From time immemorial, buckwheat has been considered almost the most useful cereal of all. And this is no accident, because it contains a huge amount of compounds that are beneficial to health, which means that it treats many diseases of a chronic nature. But it turns out that with the help of buckwheat, you can also lose weight, and quickly and much more. To do this, it is not enough just to introduce buckwheat dishes into your diet – you should follow a buckwheat diet for a certain period of time.
The benefits of buckwheat for weight loss as a method
The ability of buckwheat to fulfill women’s dreams of a slim figure is based on the very rich chemical composition of the plant food. Buckwheat contains:
proteins that prevent weight loss due to the destruction of muscle tissue, which is fraught with most of today’s popular diets;
slow carbohydrates that energize and give a feeling of satiety that lasts for several hours;
dietary fiber, freeing the body as a whole and the intestines in particular from decay products harmful to health;
vitamin P or rutin (quercetin), which breaks down body fat, lowers the level of “bad” cholesterol in the blood and provides reliable protection against cancer due to its antioxidant activity;
trace element iron, important for maintaining a high level of hemoglobin protein;
amino acids lysine and arginine, which have a beneficial effect on metabolism.
Interestingly, the calorie content of buckwheat is quite large – as much as 350 kcal per 100 g of delicacy. However, this fact is not at all an obstacle to losing weight – quite the contrary. Thanks to this energy value, buckwheat replenishes the human vitality and, by providing a slow intake of glucose into the blood, improves the course of metabolic reactions in body tissues. A normal metabolism is the key to a slim figure!

Sitting on a buckwheat diet, you will strengthen other aspects of your health. Here are just some of the positive aspects of such a diet: activating the immune system, improving heart function, increasing the elasticity of the walls of blood vessels, antithrombotic action, preventing atherosclerosis and stroke, a positive effect on vision, normalizing bowel and stomach functions, rejuvenating the body, eliminating the problem of hair loss, increasing stress resistance.
to explicit The advantages of the method of losing weight include the ease of preparing buckwheat dishes, the loss of up to 1 kg of excess weight per day of the diet without vigorous physical activity, the relatively low cost of cereals.

General rules of the buckwheat diet
However, a diet based on the use of buckwheat to a greater extent is quite strict. Below you can find the basic principles of this weight loss method.
1. The main product of the diet for the duration of the diet is buckwheat groats steamed with boiling water. The vegetable raw material processed in this way retains almost completely its original chemical composition.
2. Every day you need to drink plenty of fluids – a maximum of 2 liters. This is not only pure table water, but also mineral water without gas, and green tea without sugar, and herbal infusions.
3. It is not necessary to completely exclude table salt from your menu, but you will have to greatly reduce its use. Otherwise, your efforts will be completely in vain, because an excess of table salt in food binds water and contributes to the stagnation of fluid in the tissues.
4. Have the last meal of the day no later than 4 hours before going to bed.
5. Buckwheat diet should be chosen only if you have nothing against buckwheat. Committing daily violence to yourself, which consists in eating an unloved product, is fraught with a nervous breakdown, that is, a breakdown in the diet.
6. You can diversify the diet menu with herbs, honey, berries, fruits and dried fruits. However, you need to use them in scanty quantities and only when it becomes completely unbearable for you to sit on the same buckwheat with water.
7. The buckwheat diet provides for a complete rejection of sweets, smoked, pickled, fried, fatty foods. It is also impossible to enhance the taste of dishes allowed by the weight loss method with spices, spices, seasonings and sauces.
8. You can lose weight using this method from three to 14 days, but no more. Ignoring this recommendation can lead to the development of a feeling of disgust for buckwheat as such, or a significant decrease in the effectiveness of the impact of cereals and dishes from it on your body.

How to steam buckwheat? Very simple. Take a glass glass, fill it with dry cereals, rinse this amount of the product with cold running water and pour it into a saucepan. Boil water in a separate container, pour 500-700 ml of cereal with it. Close the saucepan with the future porridge with a lid, wrap it with something warm. In this form, leave the buckwheat overnight in the room. In the morning you can eat ready-made porridge. If you have a thermos, use it instead of a saucepan.
There is also the so-called “cold” method of making buckwheat porridge for weight loss. Buckwheat should be poured with warm water, while taking 1 part of the cereal and 3 parts of the liquid. Water should be at room temperature. In the same way, we close the container with the buckwheat mixture with a lid and leave it all night, after wrapping it in a towel or shawl.
You can pour buckwheat not with water, but with kefir. You will need 100 g of raw cereals and 300 ml of a fermented milk drink with a low percentage of fat. Mix these two ingredients in a saucepan, leave on the table overnight.

Varieties of buckwheat diet
In total, there are several options for the method of losing weight, based on eating steamed buckwheat. The most strict and difficult to implement is the buckwheat mono-diet. She allows you to eat only buckwheat and no other products. True, you can eat porridge in any volume. It is recommended to drink purified table water. The maximum duration of such a diet is 3 days. During this time, you are guaranteed to lose 2-4 kg of excess weight.
The lightest buckwheat diet is considered the most gentle variation. Within its framework, you can eat not only buckwheat, steamed with boiling water or kefir, but also cottage cheese, dietary meats, vegetables – both fresh and stewed; fruits, berries, herbs. It is appropriate to enrich your diet with honey and dried fruits. Do not harm the delicacy with a small amount of nuts or peanuts. The results of a light diet are not so stunning: in a week you will lose 2-3 kg of weight, no more. But the probability of stress for the body is close to zero.
Another type of diet we are considering is the kefir-buckwheat method of losing weight. He prescribes to combine the use of steamed cereals with that of 1% kefir in an amount of up to 1 liter per day. This diet is good because it can last up to two weeks without harm to the body. During the specified time, you will get rid of a dozen kilograms of excess body weight.
Repeated compliance with any of the above types of buckwheat diet can be done only a few months after the last practice of the chosen method of losing weight.
Unfortunately, the technique has a number of shortcomings. By adhering to a buckwheat diet, you risk provoking digestive problems, exacerbation of chronic ailments, malfunctions in the metabolic process, deterioration of hair and nails. In some cases, you are likely to develop exhaustion of the body. Be careful!