Pumpkin diet: 8 kg in 12 days!

Do you want to lose weight, but don’t want to starve and limit yourself in food? Then the pumpkin diet is what you need! Pumpkin is a low-calorie product containing a large amount of vitamins and beneficial elements such as beta-carotene, vitamin C and folic acid. It is also rich in rare vitamin T, which helps break down fats faster.

The basis of the pumpkin diet is low-calorie dishes with pumpkin, fresh and baked. A variety of dishes and menu rotation will help you cope with your diet and not suffer from monotony. This diet is designed for 12 days, divided into 4-day phases: your diet will be repeated every four days.

Sample menu for each day:

The first day
Breakfast: pumpkin porridge, tea or coffee without sugar
Lunch: pumpkin soup and pumpkin salad with apple
Dinner: pumpkin pancakes - 250 g, mint tea

Second day
Breakfast: pumpkin salad, tea or coffee without sugar
Lunch: vegetable or pumpkin soup
Dinner: apples, fresh or baked, mint tea

Day three
Breakfast: unsweetened pumpkin-rice porridge without butter and milk, tea or coffee without sugar
Lunch: meatball soup
Dinner: pumpkin salad with pineapple

Day four
Breakfast: pumpkin salad
Lunch: vegetable soup or borscht, baked peppers
Dinner: baked pumpkin, low-fat cottage cheese

Between breakfast, lunch and dinner, if you feel very hungry, you can snack on unsweetened fruit. There are no restrictions on the diet, but people suffering from intestinal and pancreatic diseases need to be careful with raw pumpkin.

The pumpkin diet can help you lose up to 8 kilograms in 12 days, but remember that after finishing the diet you need to continue to monitor your diet and exercise regularly so as not to gain back the lost kilograms.