The homeland of such a well-known plant as a celery - the Mediterranean. The ancient Greeks considered it a magical plant that returns youth and gives beauty, and also a powerful aphrodisiac. Women of Ancient Greece used celery as a means to prolong youth and maintain a good figure, since this plant really helps maintain the hormonal balance of the body, it has a favorable effect on the skin condition and generally helps maintain a fine physical shape.
A diet based on celery, of which there are several varieties, has proved to be quite effective. In diets can be used as leaves, and roots, and stems. Caloric content of celery is about 16 kcal per hundred grams. To taste it is bitter, but it brings undoubted benefit to the body, thanks to the provitamin A, vitamins B, C, E, PP, magnesium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, calcium, essential oils contained in it.
Celery very well helps in the fight against obesity. Also with its help toxins are excreted from the body, the metabolism is normalized. To prevent obesity, you should drink 2 teaspoons of celery juice 30 minutes before meals three times a day.
With celery, along with vegetables such as carrots, cabbage, beets and radishes, you can improve the complexion and restore body strength. It is necessary to add celery to all the meat dishes during the diet. Thanks to it, gastric juice is better produced, and food is digested much faster.
Eating celery salad "Slimness" for dinner you can lose weight by 2 kg in 7 days. For him, wash, clean and chop the root of celery, add grated carrots and turnips, mix, salt and season with lemon juice and vegetable oil.
In another version of the diet based on celery, at lunch you need to eat a salad according to such a recipe: you need to boil two eggs, as well as carrots. In addition, take a fresh cucumber and stalks of celery. All these ingredients are cut and mixed. Fill this salad with sour cream.
The menu is usually calculated for a week, the duration of the entire weight reduction course is approximately two weeks. The main dish of the celery diet can be considered a soup based on this plant, to which you can add all kinds of fruits, vegetables, rice, sour-milk products, lean meat and stuff.
One of the possible options for a soup recipe for celery is as follows: put a finely chopped celery with vegetables, add tomato juice and put on fire. After that, the soup should be boiled on high heat for about ten minutes, then another ten minutes to simmer under the lid.
For another recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- 400 grams of celery.
- A pound of fresh cabbage.
- Three tomatoes.
- Two yellow peppers.
- Six medium bulbs.
Pour 3 liters of water into the pan. Vegetables are chopped, added and cooked for half an hour. To taste, salt and pepper are added.
Diet diet for the week:
- Monday is celery soup, fruit. Fruits can be eaten in any quantity, but bananas should be excluded from their list.
- Tuesday is the same as on Monday, but raw vegetables are added.
- Wednesday - celery soup and raw vegetables throughout the day. In the evening, it is allowed to add boiled potatoes in a uniform to the diet.
- Thursday is the same soup plus a liter (for the whole day) of kefir. It is allowed to eat two or three bananas during the day.
- Friday - Tomatoes are added to the soup, not more than a kilogram and about two hundred grams of boiled meat or fish. On this day you must drink a total of at least two liters of fluid.
- Saturday is celery soup, you can also add a little dietary meat and raw vegetables.
- Sunday - soup of celery, raw vegetables, brown boiled rice.
In order to get the best effect, you should not make any changes in the menu or combine this type of diet with others. You will have to exclude from the diet all sweet, smoked, pickled, salted and flour products. Celery soup can be consumed in any quantity, like tea with coffee, but without sugar. This diet is difficult enough to pass it for two weeks, but it brings very, very good results.