One Week Cucumber Diet Plan to Lose Pounds Very Fast

To fight body fat, you certainly need food that is low in both fat and calories. 

Therefore, cucumbers that are rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals, and low in calories may be the key to your weight loss.

In this article, we will show you a one-week cucumber diet plan to lose pounds very quickly.

Let’s get started.

What is the potential benefit of a cucumber?

Cucumber is high in water content, antioxidants, soluble fiber, and low calories, which is believed to promote weight loss. 

According to the Health Line, cucumber is linked to a variety of health benefits, like helping to lower blood pressure, reduce blood sugar, prevent constipation, and even prevent diabetes complications.

Additionally, cucumber can maintains your skin healthy, improves irritation, and reduces inflammation. 

What is the cucumber diet?

Now it’s time to learn how the cucumber diet actually works.

This cucumber diet aids weight loss very fast, making you eat fewer calories.

Specifically, the diet plan requires you to eat cucumbers just as the primary food of your meals, along with some protein-rich foods such as eggs, chicken, fish, and nuts.

According to the editors at Health Line, the cucumber diet is a short-term diet plan that encourages quick weight loss.

However, many variants of the diet claim that following a 7 to 14 days plan can help lose 15-pound (7-kg) weight loss, meaning seven days for seven kilograms.

That’s because this diet forces you to replace fruits, vegetables, and other food that you eat with cucumbers.

Now get this:

There are no rules for this cucumber diet plan.

In other words, the diet recommends that anytime you are hungry, you should only consume cucumber.

The idea is that cucumbers have low-calorie content, you can consume as many as you desire, and you still regulate your calorie deficit.

But cucumbers have a low protein content. So for this reason, the diet recommends you add some high protein foods such as eggs, chicken, fish, nuts and, cottage cheese.

In addition to that, you can also eat carbs in this diet plan, such as brown rice and potatoes.

How to do the one week cucumber diet

Day 1

Breakfast: 2 eggs with one cucumber

Snack: 2 cucumbers

Lunch: Cucumber salad with Greek yogurt. You can drink lemon juice or coffee.

Snack: 2 cucumbers

Dinner: Roasted chicken or boiled potatoes plus cucumbers

Day 2

Breakfast: Cucumber shake (one cucumber blended with one apple and a handful of spinach)

Snack: 2 cucumbers and a handful of almonds

Lunch: 2 cucumbers, 1 orange, and a slice of cheese

Snack: green tea

Dinner: 2 cucumber and cottage cheese

Day 3

Breakfast: 2 eggs, whole bread slice, cucumber, and cheese (You can replace cheese with tofu)

Snack: 2 cucumbers and one apple

Lunch: cucumber salad with tomatoes plus olive oil

Snack: 1 apple

Dinner: Salmon, cucumber, and roasted or boiled potatoes

Day 4

Breakfast: Whole grain bread, cheese, and cucumber.

Snack: 2 cucumbers, one bowl of strawberries

Lunch: Brown rice, cucumbers, and chicken

Snack: 1 banana.

Dinner: Cucumber salad, vegetable soup, and 1 cup green tea

Day 5

Breakfast: Cucumbers, two boiled eggs, and Greek yogurt.

Snack: 2 cucumbers

Lunch: steamed vegetables with tomatoes, cucumbers, roasted or boiled fish

Snack: 2 cucumbers and a handful of almonds

Dinner: Cucumber and boiled potatoes

Day 6

Breakfast: Cucumbers, one sweet potato, or one baked potato

Snack: one cucumber and one orange

Lunch: steamed vegetables with tomatoes, cucumbers, roasted or boiled fish

Snack: 1 cucumber and one apple

Dinner: 1 kale salad with carrots and cucumbers and one bowl of strawberries

Day 7

Breakfast: Cucumbers, two bananas, and one glass of milk

Snack: 2 cucumbers and one orange

Lunch: Chicken, Cucumber salad with tomatoes with olive oil

Snack: 1 cucumber and one apple

Dinner: 1 bowl of brown rice, cucumber salad, 1 cup green tea

In conclusion

The cucumber diet is a trend diet that requires you to eat only cucumber, some protein-rich foods, and it promises to help you to lose pounds very fast by restricting calories.

But you can only follow this cucumber diet plan for seven or 14 days to prevent nutrient deficiency.