Fasting day on cabbage (solyanka, carrots, beets, tomatoes)

General rules

In order to maintain normal weight or get in order after holiday feasts, many take fasting days.
For unloading, various vegetables and fruits, kefir, cottage cheese and other products are used. Nutritionists recommend spending a fasting day on cabbage (its various types). Why was this particular vegetable chosen? First of all, due to its low calorie content: 100 grams of Chinese cabbage contains 16 kcal, white cabbage - 25 kcal, red cabbage - 26 kcal, cauliflower - 30 kcal, Brussels sprouts - 35 kcal and it contains more protein, kohlrabi - 42 kcal. Low carbohydrate content and minimal fat make it a healthy food for obesity and diabetes .

Tartronic acid has a positive effect on fat metabolism - it slows down the process of converting carbohydrates into fats and the formation of new fat deposits. Therefore, holding fasting days once a week and frequently including this vegetable in the diet helps bring your weight in order. Keep in mind that heat treatment destroys this acid.

Cauliflower and broccoli are champions in the content of glucosinolates , which suppress inflammatory processes, fight free radicals, turning into isothiocyanates . Isothiocyanates also prevent the deposition of fat in fiber because they have the ability to stabilize blood sugar levels. Red cabbage contains natural fat burners ( anthocyanins ) that give it its color.

In addition, other beneficial properties of the vegetable are taken into account:

• Insoluble fiber (its content is 2-3 g/100 g) is a natural sorbent (removes excess cholesterol ) and also normalizes intestinal function (improves peristalsis), preventing constipation . It slows down the absorption of carbohydrates, preventing an increase in blood glucose and fat levels. The body spends a lot of energy on digesting coarse dietary fiber. Moreover, energy consumption exceeds the energy value of cabbage, so all cruciferous vegetables are classified as foods with a negative calorie content.
• Rich in vitamin C - 100 g contains 66.7% of the daily value. In addition, the vitamin and mineral composition includes: vitamins A , PP, K (63% of the daily value), U, B, as well as potassium (12%), calcium, phosphorus, chromium (10%), cobalt (30%) , iodine and sulfur (3.7%).
• The outer green leaves contain folic acid , which has a positive effect on metabolic processes.
• The predominance of potassium salts over sodium is manifested by a diuretic effect.
• choline content helps normalize fat metabolism in the body.
• Freshly squeezed juice has a laxative, bile- and diuretic effect, stimulates the production of gastric juice, and has an anti-inflammatory and wound-healing effect.

Basic rules for a fasting day:

• You can use any type of cabbage - white, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, Savoy, kohlrabi, broccoli.
• The daily intake of any type of cabbage is no more than 1.5 kg.
• Eat raw or stewed, dividing into equal portions. A salad is prepared from the raw one, seasoned with a small amount of oil. When stewing, a minimum of oil is also added, and to add flavor, onions and tomatoes (tomato juice or tomato paste).
• You can supplement the menu with non-calorie foods (low-fat fish, seafood, boiled chicken breast or turkey), the calorie content of which is 80, 113, 84 kcal, respectively.
• Compliance with the drinking regime: water, herbal or green tea, infusion of berries, decoction of rose hips in a total amount of 1.5-2 liters.

Preservation of beneficial qualities during heat treatment makes it possible to diversify the diet. You can stew this vegetable with carrots, sweet peppers and tomatoes. With five meals a day and portions of 250-300 g per day, you will consume up to 1.5 kg of cabbage. However, when stewing, you will have to minimize the amount of vegetable oil, since the calorie content of the dish increases from 25 to 47 kcal. Also, do not overindulge in salt and seasonings, which increase appetite.

Sauerkraut is also rich in valuable substances, and its calorie content is reduced to 19.4 kcal per 100 g, and this is its advantage. If you wish, you can spend a fasting day on sauerkraut. As a result of lactic fermentation, lactic acid is formed, which prevents the proliferation of pathogenic microflora, which heals the intestines.

the vitamin C requirement and has a calorie content of up to 39 kcal. To unload, take a kilogram of product and divide it into 5 doses. Each serving is seasoned with a spoonful of vegetable oil (no more, since it is high in calories). Protein products can also be included in the diet.

It must be remembered that the fermented product contains a lot of salt, which must be limited when unloading. In addition, the high content of organic acids can irritate the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, so it is not recommended to use it for peptic ulcers , gastritis , colitis , pancreatitis .

In this regard, if you have no contraindications from the gastrointestinal tract to eating cabbage raw, it is best to take it for unloading. You can choose from different meal options on this day.

Menu options

A proper one-day diet includes 1.5 kg of food. This amount includes only 1 or several types of cabbage or a combination of cruciferous vegetables with other products.

The freshly prepared dish is divided into 5-6 equal portions of 250-300 g and consumed throughout the day every 2-2.5 hours. The last meal should take place no later than 19.00. In addition to food, drink at least 1.5–2 liters of liquid per day. This could be green tea, rosehip decoction, herbal teas, clean water. Liquid prevents dehydration of the body and helps cleanse it.

Salads, soups, steam puddings, and stews are prepared from vegetables. Some people eat only 1 dish during a fasting day, for example, salad, while others prefer to alternate first courses with second courses.

You can use the following sample menu for 1 day from different dishes when losing weight:

1. Breakfast: white cabbage salad, green tea.
2. Second breakfast: 1 apple.
3. Lunch: broccoli cabbage soup, kohlrabi salad.
4. Afternoon snack: red vegetable salad.
5. Dinner: stewed cruciferous vegetables of any kind with carrots and onions, tea with lemon balm and mint.

If you really want to eat between meals, you should drink clean water to reduce your appetite.

Fresh cabbage

Some people prefer to spend their fasting day on only 1 dish, most often a salad. This mono-diet is convenient because it saves time: in the morning you chop the vegetables, divide them into parts, and you can forget about cooking.

Fresh cruciferous vegetables are good because they contain more beneficial vitamins and minerals than processed foods.

For a mono-diet you will need 1.5 kg of cabbage (one or more types). Freed from the upper leaves, washed and dried heads of cabbage are finely chopped, add herbs (parsley, dill, celery), as well as spices and herbs (coriander, black pepper, cumin), which accelerate the process of losing weight. Salad dressing in dietary meals is lemon juice, which is sprinkled on the ingredients. Vegetables can be seasoned with olive oil. Since it is a high-calorie product, it is added to the dish in small quantities to make the salad taste more pleasant.

Braised cabbage

Not all people can eat raw cabbage due to its hard texture. It is better for them to include a boiled or stewed product in the fasting menu. For the second course, you can use not only heads of cruciferous vegetables, but also other low-calorie vegetables: tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, peppers.

To prepare a dietary dish, you need to take 1 head of cabbage, 4-5 ripe tomatoes, 2 bell peppers and 2 carrots, 1 onion. The products are washed, the skins are removed from carrots and onions, the stalks are removed from peppers and tomatoes, and the peppers are freed from seeds. The cabbage is finely chopped, the carrots are chopped on a coarse grater, the tomatoes are cut into cubes, the peppers are cut into strips, and the onions are cut into half rings.

All vegetables, except tomatoes, are placed in a deep frying pan or saucepan, 150 ml of water is poured into it and simmered for 20 minutes under the lid. Then add tomatoes, black pepper and curry and simmer for another 15 minutes. Do not put salt in the dishes, because... It is better not to use it in dietary nutrition. The finished dish is divided into 5-6 servings and consumed hot or cold.

Sauerkraut

Sauerkraut contains a lot of folic acid, which accelerates fat burning, and vitamin C. It is better to unload it in winter. To ferment, chop the head of cabbage into strips, add 2 coarsely grated carrots, a handful of caraway seeds, and a couple of cloves of garlic, passed through a garlic press. There is no need to add salt and sugar to the dietary dish.

The ingredients are placed in a deep saucepan and poured with boiling water so that there is a 5 cm layer of liquid above them. The cabbage should sour within 5 days. Then it is taken out of the pan, divided into parts and placed in the refrigerator.

You can eat no more than 1 kg of sour product per day, so the serving size is 165–200 g. To improve the taste of the dish, you can add a little chopped herbs and a few drops of olive oil before eating.

With apples

Cabbage goes well with unsweetened apples. From these products you can prepare a fresh salad with lemon juice or stew them with carrots. Low-calorie foods will help you lose weight and fill your body with vitamins. For dishes you need to take 600–700 g of cruciferous vegetables and 800–900 g of apples.

With kefir

A good cleanse for the body can be achieved by adding low-fat kefir (1 liter) to 0.5 kg of cabbage. During the fasting day, these products can be consumed together as part of a salad or separately from each other.

This is what a sample menu of fermented milk and cruciferous ingredients looks like:

1. Breakfast: salad of white vegetables, seasoned with kefir. Tea with mint.
2. Second breakfast: 1 glass of kefir.
3. Lunch: boiled broccoli, kohlrabi salad without kefir dressing.
4. Afternoon snack: a portion of shredded cabbage with parsley, 1 glass of fermented milk product.
5. Salad from any cruciferous vegetable, green tea.
6. Before going to bed, you should drink 1 glass of kefir.

In addition to the above products, you need to consume at least 1 liter of clean water. A side effect of such a diet is stomach turmoil, loose stools, and flatulence.

Authorized Products

In addition to the main product, on the day of fasting, depending on the option chosen, you can consume:

• Low-fat fish (hake, pollock, cod, blue whiting, haddock) - 400 g. The fish is boiled or baked without salt; bay leaves and onions can be used for cooking.
• Fresh apples up to 800 g.
• Carrots, onions and bell peppers when preparing stewed cabbage.
• Kefir 1% - 1 liter.
• Boiled beef, chicken breast or turkey fillet.
• Weak green tea without sugar, rosehip infusion, herbal tea.
• Still water.
• Vegetable oil and lemon juice for salad dressing.

Table of permitted products

Permitted and prohibited products

During the cabbage diet for 7 days, you must eat only approved foods. These include fresh cabbage. It is allowed to be eaten in any quantity. For variety, you can use different varieties.

Fruits will be beneficial, with the exception of bananas. It is allowed to eat fish and meat, but only low-fat ones and in small quantities.

As for prohibited foods, these include:

• salt and sugar;
• fatty, smoked;
• spicy, sauces, various fatty dressings;
• flour, confectionery products;
• carbonated and alcoholic drinks.

It is recommended to prepare the menu for the week during such a diet in advance. For example, this option would be suitable:

The menu can be changed depending on your own preferences. Before going to bed, it is recommended to drink a glass of kefir.

Fully or partially limited products

• Animal fats.
• Meat and fish of fatty varieties.
• Fatty dairy products.
• Smoked meats, sausages.
• Any bread.
• Sweets, chocolate, candies, cookies, pastries, cakes, pastries.
• Sugar.

Table of prohibited products

Advantages and disadvantages

Contraindications

You cannot use cabbage fasting days for weight loss if you have the following contraindications:

• diabetes;
• problems with the gastrointestinal tract, including increased stomach acidity and inflammatory bowel processes;
• kidney and liver diseases;
• heart pathologies;
• lactation;
• obesity;
• flatulence;
• age after 55 years.

Since you will have to eat a lot of cabbage during the day, it can aggravate these diseases and lead to serious complications in the future.

With the world - one by one. Scientists are still arguing where the vegetable was first grown as a garden plant suitable for food. Among the most reliable options are Georgia, Greece and Italy.

Reviews about fasting day on cabbage and results

Any low-calorie mono-meal is dangerous because the weight lost due to water quickly returns when switching to a normal diet using salt. However, a fasting day helps maintain the achieved weight if done regularly. Unloading can prepare you for the transition to a healthy diet or another diet, but a balanced one, which will be carried out for a long time. As a result of long-term proper nutrition and combining it with physical activity, a positive result in terms of weight loss is achieved.

Reviews about this unloading are varied. Those who love this vegetable and tolerate it well consider the fasting day healthy and easy. The occurrence of flatulence and “seething” in the stomach forces you to abandon such a fasting day.

• “... I love cabbage in any form, but my favorite is stewed, so I chose it for unloading. I stewed it according to the usual recipe in oil, with onions and carrots. But I used very little oil and salted it sparingly. I make a kilogram of product per day and divide it by 5 times - that’s enough for me. I make sure to drink coffee in the morning, and during the day - water and green tea (maybe with honey). Of course, no bread or crispbread. I don’t feel hungry, but my friend can’t do without a piece of boiled chicken twice a day. My result is minus 500 g of weight. I usually do this day after the New Year holidays. Next time I take kefir, and a week later - cottage cheese. But apples cause a terrible appetite, so I can’t stand eating them for even half a day.”
• “... This diet suits me and I can tolerate any cabbage well. I never even cook cauliflower, but chop it finely and add it to red cabbage or savoy cabbage. Peking is generally a fairy tale, because it is gentle and does not have a specific smell. Every day I make salads from different types, so it was difficult for me to sit for one day. On this day I also took different types of vegetables for a total of 1,300. I made salads with lemon juice and olive oil, I add very little salt, but I added parsley, dill and cilantro. Drink as usual - tea, water. The results with raw cabbage are the best: the intestines are cleansed, fluid and weight are removed. After the holidays, unloading is simply necessary.”
• “... I tried it only once and this unloading did not suit me. First of all, I was hungry, so I supplemented my diet with boiled fish. I prepared 700 g of salad with vegetable oil. At first I didn’t add salt, but the second time I added a little salt. After the second breakfast, turmoil and bloating began in the intestines. Lunch passed with a squeak, because by this time unpleasant painful sensations in the stomach had already begun. Therefore, there was no salad for the remaining two meals - I finished the fish and drank warm tea. By the evening it eased and after that the intestines calmed down. I had never eaten cabbage in such quantities before, so I felt such discomfort. It should have been cooked in a stew. I won't try again. The result is minus 400 g.”

Fasting day plan

Fasting days on cabbage are carried out according to one of the schemes, which we will consider further. Nutritionists recommend not limiting yourself to white cabbage; there are other varieties of this vegetable - kohlrabi, Beijing, Brussels sprouts, broccoli and red.

Vegetable dishes that are not subject to prolonged heat treatment have a great advantage. By consuming fresh, raw vegetables, you retain absolutely all their richness and benefits.

One of the main factors in the fight against extra pounds is the regularity of fasting days. The body and metabolism will respond to the constant supply of microelements and complexes, stimulating the burning of fats and the elimination of under-oxidized toxins.

The frequency of dietary or fasting days is individual. You should choose one day per week. It is important to consider the correct start and end of the fasting day. In the following days, you should not eat easily digestible carbohydrates, sweet soda, salty, fatty, or canned foods.

Psychological attitude is the main factor. It’s worth deciding what you want from a fasting day. Quickly lose a couple of extra pounds or normalize your metabolism and achieve results due to the proper functioning of the digestive system.

Water is an integral component in every diet. Water is involved in the breakdown of fats, proteins and carbohydrates, and the removal of all unnecessary waste substances through the kidneys. Many people are mistaken in the fact that by limiting yourself to fluids you can lose more extra pounds. The more water, the more the cells are saturated, intracellular metabolic processes are launched and all unnecessary breakdown products with excess liquid are removed. You need to drink as much as you want, especially during the hot season.