This is the kind of diet I've always avoided, but it's perfect for my blog - it's an online craze making big calls on what it can achieve in terms of weightloss: up to 10b in 3 days. I thought I would give it a go. I was also very keen to investigate any drastic diet that included ice cream every day!
I used the diet plan from this source, which has really helpful information on substitutions (I'm vegetarian so needed to make a few).
http://blessedmommy.hubpages.com/hub/Lose-Up-To-10-Pounds-In-3-Days-On-The-3-Day-Diet
It was really easy to buy everything I needed, all the meals are simple. Two things that struck me are that the diet is very high in dairy (especially for vegetarians substituting cottage cheese for tuna), and very low in vegetables. It's not the way I usually eat at all.
Breakfast on the first day was delicious: wholemeal toast with peanut butter, half a grapefruit and coffee.
Lunch was bland but fine.
Dinner (with my tofu 'meat' substitute) was also yummy, and dessert - apple and banana (which I warmed) with vanilla ice cream was a real treat!
The first day was really easy and I felt full with no temptations to snack or cheat.
Day 2 breakfast felt balanced - dry toast, egg and half a banana - and I was full till lunch, which, with a huge portion cottage cheese, was also filling.
My issue on day 2 was lack of energy without the coffees allowed. As it was a busy work day and I was falling asleep at my desk, I gave in and had a cup of tea with a drop of milk which perked me up.
I was starving by dinner and ate my tofu frankfurters, carrots and broccoli, and banana and ice cream.
I went to bed really early and work up in the night coughing tonsil stones, which I rarely get. All this dairy doesn't suit me!
Unfortunately breakfast on the last day involved a huge piece of cheese, which wasn't what I felt my body needed but was at least appetising with a small app and crackers.
Lunch was small and bland, just one egg on toast. I had a major energy slump, like the day before, and ended up drinking two cup of tea. I was also unable to turn down the office chocolates I was offered and had two chocolates.
Dinner was the strangest yet this day - just cottage cheese (tuna on the original plan), ice cream and banana. I ate this and went straight to sleep at about 7.30pm.
I woke up this morning and had lost 5lb, I'm quite happy with that considering I ate so much ice cream. It's a long way from 10lbs - I did have some minor cheating though so maybe they made all the difference!? I don't think this is a very healthy diet, I don't really feel good now - I wouldn't recommend it.
Update: a week and a half on, I have maintained 4lb of this weight loss after returning to a normal diet which I'm quite pleased with.
Thursday 6 August 2015
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