Tomato Diet: Slimming with the super vegetables
Whether in a salad, filled with couscous or sliced on a piece of bread: Tomatoes are extremely versatile and are therefore one of the most popular types of German vegetables. But can one lose weight with the long-running burner? The tomato diet should make this possible anyway!
What is the tomato diet?
The tomato diet is one of the classic mono-diets (see also: rice diet), through which one lose up to three kilos in four days can. Depending on the severity of the diet, there are almost exclusively tomatoes on the nutritional plan? which makes her very one-sided. It should not be done for more than a few days.
Why is the tomato so healthy?
There are many good reasons to lose weight on tomatoes as a slimming agent:
- 100 grams contain only about 17 calories (kcal). For comparison: The same amount of apples already comes to 52 kcal!
- Tomatoes contain the phytochemical lycopene. Lycopene reduces the breakdown of collagen? that prevents cellulite
- They consist of 90 percent water, but are also very filling
- Tomatoes contain up to one percent of potassium, which promotes water balance and helps flush toxins out of the body
- Tomatoes barely raise blood sugar levels, preventing food cravings
- Small cherry tomatoes are also suitable as a healthy snack in between
Can I lose weight permanently with the tomato diet?
Three kilos in just four days is a very ambitious goal? to achieve that, should the three daily meals consist exclusively of tomatoes, So from tomato juice and tomato soup. If you feed yourself that way, you'll probably lose weight a bit, but you're probably going to hang the tomatoes on your neck on the second day.
Recipes to vary
In the slightly softer variant of this diet, you feed yourself Although mainly of tomatoes, you may combine them with other foods ? For example, you could eat a vegetable casserole with tomatoes, mushrooms and zucchini. Also a delicious recipe: tomato bread!
Careful, JoJo!
A mono diet always carries the great danger of the JoJo effect. Once you finish the diet and eat normally again, unfortunately the lost pounds will come back sooner than you would like. Therefore, the tomato diet is really only if you want to lose weight in a short time, for example, because the holiday is coming up and your bikini figure is not as you imagine (this could also help our Abnehmtipps).
Prefer no tomato diet?
The tomato diet is not for you? Then try it with weight loss without hunger or the Volumetrics diet!
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