We all love cucumber, but did you know that this vegetable is full of essential nutrients and water, helping our body to detoxify? Cucumber is full of fiber, zinc, magnesium, vitamin B, C, and E, and it can improve your overall health.
If you consume cucumbers, you will remove toxins from your body, clean your digestive system, and fasten your metabolism. This veggie can be used as a powerful diuretic, and it can reduce the excess water from your body. You can use cucumber in your diet, and it will be very effective when it comes to losing weight.
Besides all the great benefits of cucumber, you can also use it to treat skin problems, such as acne. Cucumber will also be great if you want to lose weight, and you can even lose up to 7 kilos in just seven days. This should be your diet plan:
- Breakfast: 2 hard-boiled eggs, a bowl of cucumber salad.
- Snack: 5 plums or 1 apple or peach.
- Lunch: 1 piece of toast with a bowl of cucumber salad.
- Snack: cucumber shake.
- Dinner: 300 gr. of a fruit of your choice.
Cucumber salad
You will need:
- 400 gr. of cucumber
- 200 ml. of sour milk or yogurt
- A pinch of salt
- Onion
Directions:
Cut peeled cucumber to slices, add salt and mix everything nice and well. Add sour milk and onion in the end, and mix it gently.
In between the meals, you can eat a cucumber shake as a snack.
Cucumber shake
You will need:
- 1 cucumber
- 1 apple
- A handful of spinach
Directions:
Put all the ingredients in a blender and mix it until you get a nice mixture. Put this smoothie in a glass and drink it fresh, because it can lose its properties really fast.
