In 1985 the famed three day diet first came on the scene. It boasted creation of a specific metabolic reaction to cause quick weight loss and the system to be cleansed. This reaction has never been validated or even attempted to be explained.
The diet is to be followed for only 3 days, with an off period of generally 5 days in between diet times. All the versions of this diet share in common nebulous steps that must be followed and foods that must be eaten in order for the diet to work. What better way to blame the dieter when it doesn't work than you botched the formula.
Breakfast on the first day comes with coffee (no sugar), one half a grapefruit, and a piece of toast with 1 Tbsp peanut butter. For lunch, you are to eat a can of tuna, a piece of toast, and black coffee. For dinner it's 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 are about the same but with some substitutions such as hot dogs instead of lean meat. The diet crows that weight loss of 10 pounds is achievable over the 3 days that the diet lasts.
Hogwash is the answer. The question is what is a specific reaction to that claim? As stated the metabolic reaction has never been examined much less proven. Any weight loss would be mostly water loss due to a lack of carbs which help the body retain water. That could lead to dehydration.
Once the three days end the weight will return, primarily because it's mostly water. But also because any weight lost from the skipped calories will be regained when the starving diet victim returns to normal, or in this case heavier than normal, eating. Deprive the body of water for three day cycles enough times and a person could develop kidney damage, dehydration, or a host of other dangerous conditions.
The 3 day diet is best treated as a no day diet. In other words, don't do it. - 15683
The diet is to be followed for only 3 days, with an off period of generally 5 days in between diet times. All the versions of this diet share in common nebulous steps that must be followed and foods that must be eaten in order for the diet to work. What better way to blame the dieter when it doesn't work than you botched the formula.
Breakfast on the first day comes with coffee (no sugar), one half a grapefruit, and a piece of toast with 1 Tbsp peanut butter. For lunch, you are to eat a can of tuna, a piece of toast, and black coffee. For dinner it's 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 are about the same but with some substitutions such as hot dogs instead of lean meat. The diet crows that weight loss of 10 pounds is achievable over the 3 days that the diet lasts.
Hogwash is the answer. The question is what is a specific reaction to that claim? As stated the metabolic reaction has never been examined much less proven. Any weight loss would be mostly water loss due to a lack of carbs which help the body retain water. That could lead to dehydration.
Once the three days end the weight will return, primarily because it's mostly water. But also because any weight lost from the skipped calories will be regained when the starving diet victim returns to normal, or in this case heavier than normal, eating. Deprive the body of water for three day cycles enough times and a person could develop kidney damage, dehydration, or a host of other dangerous conditions.
The 3 day diet is best treated as a no day diet. In other words, don't do it. - 15683
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