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Most weight loss diets involve limiting the amount of food consumed and excluding certain foods from it. Sometimes people, especially women, in an effort to lose extra pounds, reach the point of fanaticism and deprive themselves of vital substances. Kombucha for weight loss allows you to reduce weight smoothly, without shocks and negative consequences for the body.
Losing weight with kombucha is not only healthy, but also delicious
Does kombucha help with weight loss
Kombucha is a gelatinous mass, a symbiosis of acetic acid bacteria and yeast fungus. With its help, water, tea leaves, sugar make a delicious drink that quenches thirst well and helps in the treatment of many diseases.
If the product is consumed regularly, metabolism normalizes, metabolism accelerates, and this contributes to weight loss. But it is most effective when combined with diet and exercise. You can add medicinal herbs to the infusion or even replace the tea leaves with some of them.
The composition of a healthy drink
It would seem that it is impossible to lose weight with the help of kombucha if a large amount of sugar is used to prepare the drink. But in the process of fermentation, it first breaks down into carbon dioxide and alcohol, then the alcohol is oxidized. The result of the joint action of two different microorganisms combined into a colony is a drink with such a complex composition that scientists still have not fully understood it.
The benefits of kombucha infused with black tea are due to the content:
- organic acids, including gluconic, acetic, malic, lactic, citric, pyruvic, phosphoric, kojic;
- glucose and fructose;
- vitamins, including groups B, C, PP, D, R;
- microelements;
- enzyme linase, catalase, sucrase, protease, carbohydrase, amylase, zymase;
- fatty acids;
- alkaloids, including caffeine;
- lipids phosphatides and sterols;
- antibiotic jellyfish;
- purines;
- pigments.
How kombucha contributes to weight loss
Science considers overweight or obesity to be a chronic metabolic disease. The most important role in it is played by digestion and oxidative processes in the body.
The disease develops as a result of an imbalance between consumed (calories) and expended energy. Simply put, when they eat a lot of tasty, but unhealthy foods, but move little, fatty deposits appear in the abdomen, thighs, and breasts. Disruption of the digestive and endocrine systems, slagging contribute to a set of kilograms.
The benefits of kombucha for weight loss are as follows:
- normalization of the work of organs, including the gastrointestinal tract, endocrine glands;
- removal of toxins and toxins;
- acceleration of metabolism, which contributes to the burning of fat;
- the presence of enzymes that help digest food;
- mild laxative and diuretic effect.
Diets, especially those based on complete rejection of certain foods, often deprive a person of essential vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. And those where diuretic and intestinal motility enhancing agents are used for weight loss, draw out the remnants of nutrients.
It is difficult to name an organ or system that does not suffer from an unbalanced diet. Weight does not always go away or quickly returns, and health is undermined, chronic diseases are exacerbated.
The properties of kombucha for weight loss just help to avoid the negative consequences of removing foods rich in one element or another from the diet. By simply including kombucha in a weight loss diet, a person gets a whole range of vital substances.
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Kombucha diet for weight loss
Medusomycetes often insist for 3-4 days and begin to drink the resulting drink, mistakenly calling it kombucha. It tastes very pleasant, somewhat similar to young wine with a low alcohol content.
And then they do not understand why the weight does not go away. Some people feel worse and their illnesses are exacerbated. The fact is that at this stage only yeast fungi work, they break down sugar into ethanol and carbon dioxide. Essentially, fermentation takes place, the same as when making wine. It turns out not a healing, but a low-alcohol drink.
Acetic acid bacteria begin to act only on the 4th-5th day. They break down alcohol that has not had time to ferment sugar into components that react and form many new compounds.
This drink can already be called kombucha. In order for the kombucha to become healing, it is usually insisted for 6-10 days, not counting the time when it lies at the bottom of the jar.
You can take the drink in different ways, it depends on the diet and lifestyle of the person. It has diuretic properties, it is not good if the urge to urinate is disturbing at work related to travel or socializing. And drunk on an empty stomach, low-alcohol kombucha excludes driving.
Features of the interaction of kombucha with food
Kombucha, drunk immediately before, during or after a meal, will immediately begin to interact with the food. It does not have time to be digested by enzymes naturally secreted by the body, but is immediately broken down by the infusion.
Foods are quickly excreted, a person feels such hunger, as if he had skipped a meal. So they get better from kombucha, not lose weight.
But there are exceptions:
- To improve digestion, 20-30 minutes before meals, drink half a glass of warm infusion diluted with boiled water.
- If the food turned out to be of poor quality or was cooked incorrectly, but it turned out late, 1/2 cup of kombucha will disinfect and cleanse the gastrointestinal tract.
- The same dose of kombucha infusion helps to get rid of heaviness in the stomach, to avoid other consequences of overeating.
Classic
You can lose weight with the help of kombucha infused for 6-8 days. It is diluted with one or two parts of boiled water and 1 glass is taken:
- before meals - 60 minutes;
- after - after 2 hours.
The drink will help the food to be digested and removed from the body faster, but not earlier than it gives up all the nutrients. Kombucha's ability to cleanse the stomach and intestines also contributes to weight loss.
Kombucha is drunk from 3-4 to 6-8 weeks, then they must take a break for a month. The infusion will give the greatest effect if you simultaneously adhere to a diet and give the body physical activity.
How to drink kombucha for weight loss breakfast
According to reviews, if kombucha for weight loss is taken in the morning, instead of breakfast, 7 kg can go away in a month. But at the same time, you should abandon white bread and sweets.
Such a diet requires willpower, since there is a huge temptation to make up for the calories lost in the morning with interest during lunch. And from overeating, even in the middle of the day, the whole body suffers.
How to Take a Kombucha Smoothie for Weight Loss Dinner
This recipe is only suitable for very obese, obese people. For ordinary dumplings and those who just don't like their own reflection in the mirror, it is safe to lose up to 1.5 kg per week, but here 3-4 go.
Dinner is replaced with a cocktail of herbs, vegetables and kombucha infusion. In a mixer, grind and mix with a glass of kombucha:
- carrots - 1 small or 1/2 medium;
- fresh unpeeled cucumber 10-12 cm long - 1 pc .;
- celery greens or petiole - 50-60 g.
This is a very powerful fat burning shake. After it you want to eat incredibly, but you need to endure, otherwise there will be no effect.
How to lose weight on herbal kombucha
If you drink kombucha for weight loss with the right herbs, the benefits will be much greater. So, while on vacation, a week in the morning, instead of breakfast, you can take a mixture that cleanses the stomach, intestines and kidneys.
Take 1 part:
- fennel fruit;
- peppermint;
- parsley seeds;
- dandelion root.
Mix with 3 lobes of buckthorn bark. Separate and fill with a liter of hot water 6 tbsp. l. collection, boil for 30 minutes.
The cooled broth is filtered, mixed with an equal volume of kombucha. Insist 3 days. Drink 0.5 liters in the morning warm one hour before meals.
It is important to stay at home after taking the infusion. It has a pronounced diuretic and laxative effect, but drinking kombucha is much safer and healthier than pharmaceutical preparations.
Infusions of herbs and kombucha enhance the action of each other
Fasting day
When losing weight, it is useful to arrange fasting days with kombucha once every 1-2 weeks. To do this, mix:
- kombuchi 6-8 days - 1.5 liters;
- milk - 1 l;
- honey - 4-5 tsp.
Drink during the day.
Warning! You will be hungry for food. You cannot arrange such fasting days for diabetics, ulcers and people for whom fasting is contraindicated for other reasons.
Recipes and infusion rules
To make kombucha, you will need a three-liter jar, sugar, tea leaves, water, and kombucha:
- Pour 2 tbsp. l. tea 2 liters of boiling water. The brew must be of good quality.
- Dissolve 200-240 g of sugar in a hot liquid.
- Allow the mixture to cool completely.
- Kombucha is placed on the bottom of a clean three-liter jar.
- Gently pour in the sweet nutrient solution.
- Tie the neck of the can with clean gauze.
- They are placed in a bright, but protected from direct sunlight place. They are kept at a temperature of 23-25 ° C.
To speed up the fermentation of the infusion, a glass of ready-made kombucha is poured into the solution. The drink first acquires a wine smell, then vinegar. Only at this stage does it become useful.
For weight loss with the help of kombucha, a 6-8-day infusion is usually used. The time until the jellyfish lay at the bottom of the jar does not count.
Limitations and contraindications
Before drinking kombucha to lose weight, it is recommended to consult a doctor or at least a nutritionist. Direct prohibitions on self-use of kombucha are:
- diabetes;
- an ulcer or gastritis, aggravated by high acidity;
- alcoholism;
- hypotension.
In case of severe obesity, it is forbidden to drink infusion of kombucha sweetened with honey. Kombucha should not be consumed by people who are going to drive vehicles, it contains alcohol.
Kombucha and weight loss: reviews of doctors and nutritionists
Domestic official medicine does not recognize, but does not deny, the medicinal properties of kombucha.Doctors advise or prohibit the intake of kombucha infusion based on their own experience and personal opinion, there are no recommendations from the Ministry of Health regarding the product.
Nutritionists suggest that at the same time as consuming kombucha, adhere to the rules of a healthy diet, do not overeat, exclude or limit high-calorie foods, and exercise. But this already leads to weight loss.
Conclusion
Kombucha for weight loss has a good effect if you drink it regularly for at least a month. At the same time, you need to eat right and actively move. Kombucha will give an impetus to weight loss, help the body to remove toxins and excess fluid.
