Menstrual period weight loss recipes
April 19, 2023
If you want to achieve weight loss during your period, you need to choose weight loss recipes according to the peculiarities of this period, so that you can protect your health and burn fat and lose weight at the same time. Here is a look at what are the recipes for weight loss during menstruation.
Barley and yam soup
Ingredients: 200g of yam, 200g of barley, 50g of red sugar, 10g of starch (corn)
Method.
1. wash the barley and soak it in warm water, peel and wash the yam and cut it into small dice.
2. boil water in a ladle, put in barley and cook until seventy years old, then add the diced yam.
3. continue to cook over low heat until cooked.
4. add brown sugar and boil, add 25 grams of water starch (10 grams of starch plus water) to thicken and spoon out.
Barley and yam soup is more suitable for consumption 7 days before your period, you can replace breakfast and dinner with barley and yam soup this week and eat normal lunch. A slow weight loss period is possible a week before your period, when endocrine fluctuations begin and hormone production becomes more intense, which can lead to acne, pimples and irritability. And both barley and yam are good for regulating the body's hormonal and endocrine effects, plus the starch-rich paste satiety is very strong.
Jujube Apple Puree
Ingredients: 2 apples, 3-5 fresh red dates
Directions: Just put the apples and dates together in a juicer and puree them.
You can eat the jujube and apple puree during the 7 days of menstruation. Generally, you can eat breakfast and lunch normally during these 7 days, and you can eat 1-2 servings of jujube and apple puree at dinner time, until you are about 7 minutes full.
Yam and red dates rice
Ingredients: 3 taels of rice, 10 dates, 2 taels of yam, 20 ml of rice wine
Method.
Soak rice for half an hour, soak dates until launched, peel yams; cook rice in a rice cooker, put dates on one side of the drawer and thinly sliced yams on the other; simmer rice until water is dry, turn dates and yams and pour them into the pot, continue to simmer until the rice cooker trips automatically. Mix the rice, dates and yam well and drizzle in a spoonful of rice wine.
You can replace the rice with eating yam and red dates 7 days after your period. Red dates are good for nourishing your body after your period because they are good for nourishing your qi and blood, while yams nourish your yin and kidneys and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis to speed up the body's detoxification and digestion. Follow the noon full, morning and evening moderate degree of satiety to carry out, can achieve more desirable results.
Cold shredded seaweed
Ingredients: seaweed, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar
Method: Cut the kelp into shreds, after the water in the pot boils, blanch the kelp for 3 minutes, take it out and put it into the cool water. Add garlic, ginger and rice pepper into a small bowl, add soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and a little salt, mix well; fish out the seaweed and put it into a plate, pour the seasoning into it, mix well with chopsticks.
Kelp is relatively rich in dietary fiber, which can help cleanse the stomach and intestines of toxins and help expel waste from the body. However, it is important to note that it is not advisable to put too spicy seasonings during menstruation, so pay attention to this scale.
Red beans and barley porridge
Ingredients: 100g barley, 50g red beans, dates (dried) 25g, sugar 30g
Practice.
1, the barley and red beans washed and soaked in advance (about twelve hours).
2, soaked barley and red beans into the pot, high heat boil.
3, wait for the soup to boil, add red dates.
4, turn to medium-low heat slow stew, until the red beans slightly open flower cooked soft to eat.
Red beans and barley have the effect of clearing heat, diuretic and swelling, and red beans and barley are specific high fiber and low fat characteristics, have a better laxative effect, menstrual drink red beans and barley porridge, not only can benefit the blood, weight loss effect is also good.
Broccoli mixed with fungus
Ingredients: 1 broccoli, 20g fungus, 1 section of carrot, appropriate amount of seasoning
Directions: Soak the fungus first, blanch the broccoli, and put the carrot together when the broccoli is almost blanched, after it is cooked, then put it in cool water to cool. After blanching the fungus, put it into a pot with the broccoli, add MSG and mix well. Pour oil into the frying pan, add the pepper and fry it, then cook it in the pot while it is still hot and mix well.
Menstruation is a more important period for detoxification, and it is also beneficial for weight loss because of menstrual detoxification. Broccoli and fungus are both foods with anthocyanin and detoxifying effects, and eating some during the period can help detoxify and lose weight.
Fresh celery and lily
Ingredients: 350g celery, 100g lily
Directions: Remove the roots of celery, remove the leaves and soak; remove the roots of lilies and break them into small cloves. First fry the celery in a frying pan, then add the lilies together, preferably with salt to taste.
Both celery and lily are foods with rich dietary fiber, which can help cleanse waste from the intestines and stomach and cleanse the body of toxins.
Corn and carrot ribs soup
Ingredients: 300g ribs, 300g corn, 300 carrots
Practice: peel carrots and cut hobble block, corn washed and cut small, pot of hot water, first blanch the ribs under the pot; another pot of hot water, wait for the water to boil the blanched ribs into the boil, ribs cooked for 5 minutes to put the carrots and corn into it, cooked for 10 minutes on high heat, slow cooked for 30 minutes with seasoning can be served.
Corn and carrots are rich in vitamins, can promote digestion, drink during the period can not be supplemented with nutrition, weight loss and slimming effect is also better.
Oolong tea soup
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon of oolong tea leaves, 4 to 5 pieces of konnyaku, 3 small shiitake mushrooms, 1 small piece of carrot, 4 to 5 sticks of bean pods, 2 taels of pork.
Directions.
1: Cut pork into thin slices and mix with a little salt, pepper, sesame oil and tahini powder.
2、Soak mushrooms, slice carrots and shred bean pods.
3、Rush the boiling water into the oolong tea leaves, then pour it out, then rush into about 5 bowls of boiling water, and let it stand for about 1 to 2 minutes, then pour out the tea soup.
4: Add the tea broth to the pot and bring it to a boil, then throw in the mushrooms, carrots, and konnyaku. After the mushroom flavor comes out, quickly add the meat and bean pods to the pot for about 2 minutes, then turn off the heat.
Drinking oolong tea can reduce phlegm and fat, prevent cancer and lighten the body. Oolong tea can lower cholesterol and Konjac does not contain calories, so you can drink some in moderation to slim down during your period. Tea hurts the stomach and is contraindicated for people with stomach ulcers, and should not be consumed with insomnia in the late afternoon.
What to note about menstrual weight loss recipes
1, try to eat less snacks, to avoid the situation of eating late. Especially eating fried foods or sweets, are foods that contain very high calories.
2, rice, flour and other starchy foods, although not missing, but also to grasp the amount of food, do not eat too much.
3, in cooking food, you can try to put less oil, can not put the seasoning as much as possible. And because of the special nature of menstruation, try not to put more spicy seasonings.