A YouTube star attempted an extreme tomato diet for one week where she would eat dozens of them every day in order to promote fat burning.
Remi Cruz, 24, invited followers into what she eats in a day for her latest video, as the YouTuber — known under the name MissRemyAshten — has focused the last year on eating healthy and working out.
The Los Angeles, California, native revealed in the video that her nutritionist, who also works with the Kardashian family and Marvel actors, advised doing a tomato-focused diet for one week to help burn fat and increase weight loss.
Revealed: Remi Cruz, 24, revealed to her YouTube followers that she was on a tomato diet for a week, which sees her eating dozens of tomatoes in one day
Day in the life: Her morning starts with a workout before she fuels her body with a protein shake. No tomatoes were included with Remi’s breakfast
Important: The diet was recommended by her nutritionist, who works with members of the Kardashian family and Marvel actors. Remi had a bowl of cherry tomatoes for a snack
‘I’ve been on this pretty crazy diet with my nutritionist,’ Remi said at the beginning of her video. ‘I talked about it in a vlog but basically I am on the “tomato diet”… for now, I am in tomato jail.’
She continued: ‘Tomatoes are actually the best food to burn fat. So we’re trying this tomato diet just for a little bit, not for too long, just to kind of see how my body reacts.’
Remi is certainly not the first person to promote the benefits of tomatoes as far as supporting weight loss; according to Livestrong, nutritionist Dr. Ann Kulze refers to the tomato as a ‘superstar’ as far as helping people to slim down.
The website adds that tomatoes make for a great low-calorie snack, and can be considered an ideal ‘high-volume’ food that helps to fill you up, without adding too many calories, fats or sugars to your daily intake.
For Remi, consuming high quantities of tomatoes certainly isn’t a long-term plan – but she explained that her nutritionist suggested the diet as a way to ‘crack down’ on her weight loss and see what results might follow.
More tomatoes! After her mid-morning snack, Remi then used tomatoes as ingredients for the salad she had at lunchtime. The salad also included a turkey burger, avocado and cucumbers
Delicious? Remi admitted she was so used to eating tomatoes that she now popped them ‘like candy’. She also had cherry tomatoes as a mid-afternoon snack
Dinner time: Her last meal of the day included salmon on a bed of greens and tomatoes. She treated herself to a bowl of raspberries for dessert
She noted that the tomato diet was not ‘sustainable’ for long periods of time, but that it was instead intended for a week to see how the body reacts to the food.
To start her day, the YouTuber consumed some nut butter with fruit before hitting the gym for her first workout.
She will then made a protein shake after her workout and had a mid-morning snack of cherry tomatoes to satisfy her hunger until lunch.
‘Honestly in the beginning of this, eating plain cherry tomatoes, I wasn’t that into it —but now I eat them like candy,’ Remi said. She’ll eat a cup of the cherry tomatoes during the snack break.
Lunch for the day involved a homemade turkey burger placed on top of a salad of greens and vegetables. Included with the salad was avocado, cucumber and, of course, tomatoes.
Her mid-afternoon snack was supposed to entail a tomato paleo pizza Remi purchased from the grocery store, but she burnt it in the air fryer. So instead she consumed carrots and cherry tomatoes.
Positive thinking: Remi revealed in an earlier videos she has lost more than 50lbs while focusing on a healthier diet and working out
Feeling good: ‘It’s something that I am so proud of,’ Remi said in a previous video about her new diet and exercise habits
‘Basically I can have as much vegetables as I want throughout the day,’ Remi said about her diet.
Dinner then involved salmon with a salad on the side that included tomatoes to fulfill Remi’s tomato diet.
But the YouTuber was prepared to go off the tomato-focused diet the following day as she was meeting with her nutritionist to see her progress in the last week.
‘I feel leaner,’ she said in the video.
Losing weight and eating healthy has been a focus for Remi in the last year. She previously revealed to followers her change in diet and exercise helped her lose more than 50lbs.
She has gone from a size 14 to a size 6 with the addition of a consistent workout schedule and meetings with her nutritionist.
‘It’s something that I am so proud of,’ Remi said in previous video. ‘I have completely changed my lifestyle, and I’ve never been this happy in my entire life.’