Three Day Diet - Fast & Simple Weight Loss

The 3 Day Diet offers quick and easy results, but it has virtually no credibility among dieticians. Little evidence exists to back-up its claims.

The 3 Day Diet promises rapid short term weight loss of up to ten pounds after the first three day period. It claims to achieve this by encouraging a special metabolic reaction that stimulates fat burning. Repeating the diet after four to five days of normal eating allows further weight loss.

Physiologically, the purpose of suggesting dieters regularly return to their usual eating style is to prevent a body's metabolism from slowing and entering fat-storing mode, even though it is dieting.

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The diet involves severely restricted calorie intake. Nutritionists estimate the specified meal plan totals as little as 1000 calories per day and warn that this is dangerously below most people's basal metabolic rate.

The diet has been in circulation since around 1985. No one has ever claimed credit. It is sometimes attributed to the well-known Cleveland Clinic, but that medical icon has consistently distanced itself from the program. No book, scientific articles or other publications providing evidence for the diet's claims have ever been published.

The diet dictates individuals follow its meal plan exactly, without change:

Day 1

Breakfast

Black coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets artificial sweetener

1/2 grapefruit or juice

1 piece toast with 1 tablespoon peanut butter

Lunch

1/2 cup tuna

1 piece toast

Black coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets artificial sweetener

Dinner

3 ounces any lean meat or chicken

1 cup green beans

1 cup carrots

1 apple

1 cup regular vanilla ice cream

Day 2

Breakfast

Black coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets artificial sweetener

1 egg

1/2 banana

1 piece toast

Lunch

1 cup cottage cheese or tuna

8 regular saltine crackers

Dinner

2 beef franks or hot dogs

1 cup broccoli or cabbage

1/2 cup carrots

1/2 banana

1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream

Day 3

Breakfast

Black coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets artificial sweetener

5 regular saltine crackers

1 ounce cheddar cheese

1 apple

Lunch

Black coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets artificial sweetener

1 boiled egg

1 piece toast

Dinner

1 cup tuna

1 cup carrots

1 cup cauliflower

1 cup melon

1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream

Dieters must drink at least four cups of water (or calorie free beverage) per day.

The 3 Day Diet cautions dieters not to under-eat, even if they are not feeling hungry. Food portions must be consumed as specified above, exactly.