The Military Diet, A.K.A. The Grapefruit Diet

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You might remember the Grapefruit Diet. It's not much different, they just put a new twist on it. Review the review but with a grain of salt. If you know what I mean.

The Promise

The plan claims that you may lose up to 10 pounds in a week if you follow it. It’s a very strict, low-calorie diet with some foods that seem healthy and others that don’t. There are set foods to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but that’s it. There are no snacks, and there’s no wiggle room about food choices based on your tastes.
The diet itself only lasts for 3 days. After that, switch to a normal, healthy diet for at least 4 days. If you’d like to lose more weight, you can repeat the program as often as you’d like, as long as you take 4-day breaks every time after you do it.
Never follow the diet longer than 3 days in a row. If you do a search on your browser, "military diet" you'll find they have food suggestions for  the 4-days you're off the diet.

What You Can Eat and What You Can’t

Every morsel you’ll eat on this diet has been chosen for you ahead of time. You’ll need to follow the plan completely to get the best results.
It doesn’t include superfoods like salmon, almonds, or quinoa. Instead, you’ll find normal choices, like canned tuna, hard-boiled eggs, and cheddar cheese. Some meals have bread, but they aren’t the healthy whole grains you’d expect. At least one meal includes saltine crackers.
There’s a 3-day menu to follow, with a total of nine different meals. For example:
One breakfast menu requires you to eat:
  • 1/2 grapefruit
  • 1 slice toast
  • 2 Tbsp. peanut butter
  • 1 cup coffee or tea (no cream or sugar)
One dinner menu includes:
  • Two hot dogs without buns
  • 1 cup of broccoli
  • 1/2 cup of carrots
  • 1/2 banana
  • 1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream
You can drink water and black coffee or tea, but no soda, milk, juice, or alcohol. Stick to the menu as much as you can. You’re allowed to switch out some foods if you have food allergies or other dietary needs. But only make swaps that the diet approves. For example, you can have sunflower seed butter instead of peanut butter or a tofu dog instead of a hot dog. But don’t switch the grapefruit to an orange or the vanilla ice cream to a scoop of mint chip or cookie dough.

If  you haven't figured this out yet, over three days your only consuming about 1000 calories. The average American will consume about 10,000 calories in 3 days, so that's how you lose weight. It's 3 days of starvation and that's about all the body can take before your body will stop burning calories and go into hibernation mode. Hibernation mode is your body's safeguard against starvation which was a problem for ancient man, who had a problem finding food during the winter.



The diet may work but I wouldn't try it. I think all the weight will come back after you stop the diet. If you notice, the diet is restrictive and you probably can't do it very long. This way of losing weight is not any good for long term weight loss.

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