Still in the middle of my series on different fad and normal diets and here’s another diet that found online, Its called the Scarsdale diet plan and it has a very specific diet that you are supposed to stick to and you cannot substitute anything unlike some other quick weight loss diets. The exact name of the diet is the Scarsdale 14 day medical diet plan. From what i have read you lose 20 pounds in 14 days. Here’s the diet plan: [Read more...]

Another diet i came across recently is called the grapefruit juice diet, i can’t really understand how it works and i can’t find anything online that actually describes the science of process behind it. The promise is that you will lose 52 pounds in 10 weeks! Yeah that’s a lot of weight to lose. Here’s the grapefruit juice diet plan:

The Rules:

* You must drink eight 8oz. glasses of water daily (64 oz. total per day).
* At any meal you may eat until you are full.
* You must eat the minimum listed at each meal. (yep, this diet list the minimum you should eat).
* You cannot eliminate anything from the diet. Especially the bacon at breakfast and the salads. You must eat the bacon and salads. These combinations of food burn the fat, omitting one part of the combination will cause the whole thing not to work.
* The grapefruit or fruit juice is important because it acts as a catalyst that starts the burning process. Don’t add or reduce the amount of grapefruit or juice.
* Cut down on coffee, it affects the insulin balance that hinders the burning process. Try to limit to 1 cup at meal time.
* Don’t eat between meals. If you eat the suggested foods you will not get hungry.
* You can fry food in butter and use butter generously on vegetables.
* Do not eat desserts, breads, and white vegetables or sweet potatoes.
* You may double or triple helpings of meat, salad or vegetables.
* Eat until you are stuffed. The more you eat the more weight you will lose.
* Stay on the diet 12 days, then stop the diet for 2 days and repeat.

Diet Plan:

Breakfast:

* Either 1/2 grapefruit OR 8 oz. juice (unsweetened)
* 2 eggs any style
* 2 slices of bacon

Lunch:

* Either 1/2 grapefruit OR 8 oz. juice (unsweetened)
* Salad with any dressing
* Meat any style and any amount.

Dinner:

* Either 1/2 grapefruit OR 8 oz. juice (unsweetened)
* Salad with any dressing OR a red or green vegetable cooked in butter or spices.
* Meat or even Fish any style cooked any way.
* Coffee or Tea (1 cup)

Bedtime Snack:

* 8oz. glass of tomato juice or 8 oz cup of skim milk.

The chocolate diet? That sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? In my world i could never put the words chocolate and diet in the same sentence but truth it seems is stranger than fiction and there is a diet that based around eating chocolate. The Chocolate Diet is an attractive Fad Diet because it includes everyone’s favorite food, i mean, who doesn’t love chocolate? Besides Chocolate it also includes pasta and popcorn. This sounds like the tastiest diet ever. Some credit should be given to Lenny Neimark and author who wrote the book The Pasta, Popcorn, and Chocolate Diet although I am unsure if he invented it or was just repeating something he has heard before. Enough of that now, here’s the diet:

Here Is The Chocolate Diet Plan: Each day is the same, you have to use different lowfat pasta sauces and different varieties of fruits to make it less monotonous.

Breakfast:
• fresh fruit
• fruit salad
• shredded wheat with non-fat milk and strawberries

Morning Snack:
• popcorn
• fruit

Lunch:
• salad*
• pasta salad*
• spaghetti

* = w/low-cal dressings

Afternoon Snack:
• popcorn
• vegetable sticks
• fruit smoothie: Blend 1/2 frozen banana, 1/2 cup frozen peaches (or other fruit of choice) with 1 cup non-fat skim milk.

Dinner:
• fettuccini w/garlic tomato sauce
• whole wheat pasta primavera
• salad
• steamed vegetables

Evening Snack:
• popcorn
• up to 1 oz. chocolate

All Day:
• water
• carbonated water
• mineral water

The following items are to be avoided while on the Pasta-Chocolate Diet:
• Alcoholic beverages
• Salt/sodium
• Sugars (artificial sweeteners are okay)
• Oils
• Oily fruits (avocados, olives, coconuts)
• High sugar/cal fruits (raisins, figs, dates)
• Fried foods
• Dairy products
• Red meats
• Nuts and seeds
• Unauthorized snacks (chips, junk food, candies, cakes, pies, etc.)
• Coffee/caffeine
• Carbonated soft drinks

I haven’t tried this diet and i don’t really know anyone who does and i find it hard to imagine that it would work. Have any of you tried it? Does it work?

Here’s another fad diet that you might have heard of. It’s the famous cabbage soup diet. The principle is that you make a cabbage based soup which you can eat at any time of the day, whenever you are hungry. This is a 7 day diet and i’d take a bet that you would probably not want to eat cabbage again for a long long time after you try it. Here’s the cabbage soup diet recipe: [Read more...]

Chances are that you’ve heard of the famous 3 day diet that helps you lose 9 pounds in 3 days. When i heard of it the first thing i thought was that this 3 day diet was a fad diet and would never work. Since i am all about experimentation i thought i would give it a try. I followed the guidelines exactly for three days and believe it or not i lost around 11 pounds in the 3 days. I got sick of eating tuna but on the other hand the results were exactly what the diet said it was. Now the problem is that for all the things that have been said about it, there is not a single bit of evidence of why it works. Here’s the breakdown of what you need to do:

Instructions:

Drink 4 glasses of water or diet soda per day.

You can add herbs, salt, pepper, lemon, vinegar, Worcestershire, soy sauce, mustard & ketchup to your foods.

DAY 1

BREAKFAST
Black Coffee or Tea w/1-2 packets of Sweet & Low or Equal
1/2 Grapefruit or Juice
1 Toast with 1 Tbsp. Peanut Butter

LUNCH
1/2 Cup of Tuna
1 Toast
Black Coffee or Tea w/1-2 packets of Sweet & Low or Equal

DINNER
3 Oz. 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 w/1-2 packets of Sweet & Low or Equal
1 Egg
1/2 Banana
1 Toast

LUNCH
1 cup cottage cheese or tuna
8 regular saltine crackers

DINNER
2 beef franks
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 w/1-2 packets of Sweet & Low or Equal
5 regular saltine crackers
1 oz. cheddar cheese
1 apple

LUNCH
1 boiled egg
1 toast
black coffee or tea w/1-2 packets of Sweet & Low or Equal

DINNER
1 cup tuna
1 cup carrots
1 cup cauliflower
1 cup melon
1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream

The  reality is that the 9 pounds you are supposed to lose with this 3 day diet is probably not fat but just water and muscle. This isn’t a good thing if you are looking for something long term. On the second run of the diet i lost 7 pounds which means that its not something you can do over and over again and get the same results. My advice to you? I do not recommend doing this diet but if you really want to then do it only if you are not interested in maintaining muscle mass but are looking for a quick loss of weight to look better or fit into clothes that you cant for an event that is coming up.