According to nutrition experts, just 3 days on the avocado diet will help you lose around 4 pounds. But the most important thing about this diet is that avocado is very beneficial for the health, and such a diet will not exhaust the body.

Avocado contains tons of healthy components: B vitamins, minerals and fats essential for the body for proper functioning. In terms of calories, avocado is low: 118 kcal per 100 g of the fruit’s pulp.

In order to start the avocado diet, you must know how to choose the right avocados, since ripe avocados contain all essential components and only ripe avocados have a soft taste.

How to choose avocados?

In order to know whether avocado is ripe or not, it’s enough to touch it. If the avocado is not ripe, it’s hard to the touch, while ripe avocados are rather soft to the touch, and its skin must squash a little.

Avocado-based diet

It’s enough to do just 3 days of the avocado diet per 2 weeks or per month. Each day of the diet will be similar to one another and the caloric intake is pretty much the same for all 3 days. By the way, you will have enough energy for the gym, so don’t skip your workouts just because you’re on a diet!

Sample menu

Breakfast

Half of a ripe avocado with fat-free cottage cheese or natural yogurt. Choose low fat dairy, since avocado itself has lots of healthy fats.

Lunch

You can make yourself a salad made of avocados: slice the fruit into cubicles and mix it with a boiled egg, greens and a cucumber, or make yourself toasts of whole-grain bread with cucumbers and avocados.

Dinner

For dinner, eat 100 g of turkey meat (or chicken) or white fish, a quarter of an avocado sliced into small slices and fat-free cottage cheese.