3 Day Diet Menu

Can You Really Lose 10 Pounds in 3 days?

3 Day Diet Menu is a low calorie low carbohydrates  eating plan that will very likely lose you a lot of weight fast and in a short period of time. Whether you will keep the weight off or not is entirely a different story. The meal plan is also referred to as the Cleveland Clinic Diet, however the Cleveland Clinic disassociates themselves from it.

Cindy Moore, a former director of nutrition therapy at the prestigious clinic is reported to say, "There is no such thing as a Cleveland Clinic diet." She adds, "It is an urban legend that is not nutritionally sound, and the only reason it causes weight loss is because it is so low in calories, not because of any food combinations or metabolic reactions."

The 3 day diet menu like many other fad menus is not associated with any particular authors. It dates as far back as 1985 when it started making rounds through faxes. Now with the internet, you can get the regiment to follow by searching online.

Such low calorie menu plans inspite of unsubstantiated claims of "special foods" tend to primarily depend on a calorie deficit to get results. It has been shown that if you eat fewer calories than you need in a day, you will tend to lose weight. However, if you are looking to lose body fat, such diet programs work against you.

For example, if you are looking to lose belly fat fast, easily and permanently you need to Go Beyond Calories. You need to Go Beyond Calories and focus on two things, just two things. Watch the video below to see these two things.

The 3 Day Diet Menu

The meal plan revolves around a cycle of three days on-diet and four to five days off-diet. During the three on-diets days, you are supposed to follow a specific regiment of meals which you are not allowed to deviate from.

The following four to five days you are allowed to eat your usual meals. There is only one big caution. Donot overeat during your off-diet days. It is claimed that you can undo the gains of the on-diet days by overeating on off-diet days.

Here is how your three days of on-diet should be like...

Day One of The  Diet Menu:

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 Two of The Diet Menu:

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 Three of the Diet Menu:

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

You should also drink atleast four glasses of water. You are allowed a diet soda or any other diet drink that does not have sugar. The diet also does allow you to add herbs, salt, pepper, lemon, vinegar, Worcestershire, soy sauce, mustard & ketchup to your foods.

What To Expect

The 3 day diet menu plan is severely restricted in calories and carbohydrates. The use of vegetables like carrots and cauliflower as well as a fruits like banana and water melon tries to introduce a level of full spectrum nutrition. So you are getting some proteins, some vitamins some minerals as well as some fiber and alittle of carbohydrates.

Considering that you only follow the menu for just three days, the diet will most likely lead to a huge drop in weight. This is especially if you do not over eat during the off days.

But here are two likely problems that will occur. The first is that you are likely to struggle with hunger during your on-diet days. The meals inspite being nutrition-dense as opposed to calorie-dense are still very small in size. So they will rarely be filling.

Secondly, the diet will most likely lose you water first, then muscle tissue. Both will lead to a drop in the scale but you will not have lost a lot of body fat. This is even worse because it drastically drops your metabolism, making it harder to lose weight.

Most of us forget, we are not trying to lose weight parse, rather we are looking to lose excess body fat. Unfortunately, it is very possible to lose weight without losing excess body fat. And when it comes to losing body fat, especially belly fat, you will need to Go Beyond Calories. You need to Go Beyond Calories and focus on two things, just two. These two are…

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