Onion diet

One of the most popular diets recently has become the onion diet. It helps to effectively reduce weight, allowing you to lose up to a kilogram per day without additional stress, and enriches the body with useful microelements.

Onion diet and its essence

A popular vegetable that every housewife has, it turns out to have excellent fat-burning properties. Onions are also remarkable because they significantly reduce the concentration of cholesterol in the blood and prevent the formation of plaques on the walls of blood vessels. Onions contain rutin, which speeds up metabolic processes and prevents the formation of fat. In addition, onions improve immune defense and help the body resist colds, normalize the gastrointestinal tract, are good for healthy skin and hair, prevent the development of cancer and free the body from toxins.

This diet has only one contraindication - it cannot be used by people with high stomach acidity.

Onion diet for weight loss

Despite the name of this diet, you don't have to eat only raw onions. The main dish is onion soup, but it is prepared not according to the traditional French recipe, but using a modified version, without wine and croutons.

Among the components of fat-burning onion soup there is always celery. These vegetables have negative calorie content, that is, the body receives less energy from these products than is expended on their digestion. As a result, the energy content of one serving of this soup is about 35 kcal. This low-calorie soup can be eaten during the day whenever you want. True, it is best to eat soup in small portions, but often. This will reduce the volume of your stomach, then after finishing the diet you will not gain weight.

In addition to these two vegetables, add to onion soup cabbage, tomatoes and carrots. These vegetables contain a lot of fiber, which is useful for intestinal motility.

There are two options for the onion diet. In the first case, you are allowed to consume exclusively onion soup throughout the day. In the second, less strict version, it is allowed to add other products. It is recommended to keep this diet for no more than a week.

You need to eat onion soup every day. As a supplement to it you can use:

• Monday – some low-calorie fruits.
• Tuesday – several baked potatoes.
• Wednesday – some raw vegetables.
• Thursday – some vegetables and fruit, allowed to eat 1 banana and drink a glass of low-fat milk.
• Friday – several tomatoes and a small piece of boiled meat.
• Saturday – a small piece of boiled beef, cabbage stewed with pepper.
• Sunday – brown boiled rice, raw vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice.

Drinks you can drink include unsweetened green tea and pure water.

To make onion soup, use one of the following recipes.

Do not cook the soup for future use; it loses its wonderful properties overnight. Therefore, prepare a new portion every morning and eat it throughout the day.

Reviews about the onion diet

It’s worth noting right away that this diet is suitable only for those people who like boiled onions. If its taste disgusts you, then it will be difficult for you to eat onion soup for days on end. If you really want to go on an onion diet, then put the fat-burning soup through a blender. In a week of eating this way, you can get rid of 4 extra pounds.

According to reviews from those who have lost weight on this diet, you shouldn’t get too carried away with additional permitted foods, otherwise you won’t see any weight gain. Also, do not sit on onion soup for longer than the prescribed week. Otherwise, the weight will rise, and you will begin to experience a persistent disgust for soup. Repeating a diet after a break does not give the same results as the first time.