The Three Day Diet
The beginning of the three-day diet is uncertain. Some people believe that they go back to the 1980s when these kinds of diets were faxed from person to another. Three-day diets go by many different names, including the fax diet, Army diet, Navy diet, Cleveland Clinic diet, and many others. Often they are just referred to as three-day diets. Although many versions of this diet claim to have been created by one medical institution or another, no therapeutic institutions have ever been known to come forward to claim responsibility for, or even to recommend, one of these diets. Many associations that have these diets named after them, such as the British Heart Foundation or the Cleveland Clinic, go out of their way to inform dieters that the diet did not originate where its title claims.
The 3 Day Diet is one of the most accepted short-term fad diets around nowadays. Many people adopt the diet to try and achieve short-term weight loss. Unfortunately, most people simply gain the weight back on again.
The 3 Day Diet is simply a low calorie diet. There is nothing magical – no mystical chemical reaction that goes on. Weight loss is due to a sudden drop in calories – some of this may be fat – but most will be from water loss. This plan it is to be used for 3 days at a time. If you follow it correctly you can lose up to 10 pounds in 3 days. After 3 days of dieting, resume eating normally for four to five days, do not overeat. You can start back if you like.
You can add herbs, salt, pepper, lemon, vinegar, Worcestershire, soy sauce, mustard & ketchup to your diet. Drink 4 glass of water or diet soda or any diet drink without sugar or use only diet sugar.
It is a calorie cut down, as long as you eat the same amount of calories in any type of food you will lose weight fast. You can switch the diet food around any way you wish or replace the foods you see for another with the same caloric value.
What You Can Eat
The 3 Day Diet is a very specific food plan that must be followed exactly. Portions must be eaten precisely as specified and dieters are warned not to overeat — otherwise the promised 10 pound weight loss may not be achieved. Likewise, dieters should not under-eat, even if they are not hungry. The detailed plan does not mention or recommend any exercise.
Breakfast on the first day begins with coffee (no sugar), one half a grapefruit, and a piece of toast with 1 tablespoon peanut butter. For lunch, you are allowed a can of tuna, a piece of toast, and black coffee. Dinner consists of 3 ounces of chicken or lean meat, a cup of green beans, one cup of carrots, one apple, and one cup of regular vanilla ice cream. The other two days of the diet are moderately similar in meal quantity, though the specifics change, e.g. Day 2 recommends two beef franks for dinner in place of three ounces of lean meat. The diet claims that weight loss of 10 pounds is achievable over the 3 days that the diet lasts.
