Onion diet

One of the most popular diets in recent years 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 turns out to have excellent fat burning properties. Also, onions are remarkable in that they greatly 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 defenses and help the body resist colds, normalizes the digestive tract, is beneficial for the health of skin and hair, prevents the development of oncology and frees the body from toxins.

There is only one contraindication for this diet - it cannot be used by people with high acidity of the stomach.

Onion diet for weight loss

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

Among the components of fat-burning onion soup, celery is always present. These vegetables have a negative calorie content, that is, less energy is supplied to the body from these products than is spent on their digestion. As a result, the energy content of one portion of such a 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 so that you will not gain weight after the diet is over.

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

There are two options for the onion diet. In the first case, the use of exclusively onion soup is allowed 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.

Every day you need to eat onion soup. As a supplement to it, you can use:

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

For drinks, you can use unsweetened green tea and clean water.

Use one of the recipes below to make onion soup.

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

Reviews of the onion diet

It should be noted right away that this diet is suitable only for those people who love boiled onions. If its taste disgusts you, then it will be difficult for you to eat onion soup all day long. If you really want to sit on an onion diet, then pass the fat-burning soup through a blender. For a week of such food, you can get rid of 4 extra pounds.

According to the reviews of those who have lost weight on this diet, you should not get too carried away with additional permitted foods, otherwise you will not see any plumb line. 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 the soup. A repeated course of the diet after a break does not give the same result as the first time.