The Diet Logs

If you lose weight but it keeps finding you again, maybe you should make a simple adjustment to your everyday routine and eat half a grapefruit just before your breakfast, dinner and evening meal. Recent studies have shown that grapefruits can help you to shed those unwanted pounds.

Many people find grapefruit juice extremely bitter but surprisingly enough it is the bitterness in the fruit that causes weight reduction as it contains chemicals which stop fatty acids from entering your cells and storing them as excess pounds. By eating half a grapefruit before a meal, you will become slimmer and healthier as you will also receive your daily intake of Vitamins A, C, folic acid and potassium. If you suffer from water retention, you will be relieved to know that the juice in a grapefruit also acts as a safe diuretic without causing dehydration, which helps to reduce those feelings of bloatedness whilst cleansing your system of toxins.

If you really despise the taste of grapefruit do not despair, the beneficial properties of this versatile fruit can also be obtained from grapefruit oil, which you can inhale as a vapour to obtain similar results. Aromatherapists have confirmed that not only will the hot oil act as a diuretic but it will also aid with obesity and help reduce cellulite. On top of all of these wonderful benefits, hot grapefruit oil will help to lift your mood and cleanse your body.

Whilst all of these amazing changes are taking place it will also help to make your complexion more radiant and fresh looking by clearing acne and combating greasy skin. If there isn’t as much ‘thatch on the roof’ as there used to be, grapefruit oil will also make your hair fuller and thicker, as this mighty fruit has also been known to promote new hair growth!

So if anyone in the future ever compliments you on your clearer skin or your sleeker exterior, you don’t have to tell them your well guarded secret, just tell them that you heard it on the grapevine that certain fruits are very good for you!

Donna Jennings wrote this on March 12th, 2007 and filed it under Dieting, Healthy Eating, Weight Loss |