The 3 Day Diet is one of most popular crash diets which is still popular even though it has been around since 1985. There isn’t any author or book associated with this diet and it’s unclear who created it.
Followers of this diet claim that you can lose 10 pounds in 3 days by following this strict eating plan. In addition, some people claim that this diet can cleanse your body from within and help reduce bad cholesterol. Whether or not this is true is unclear.
Exercise is not included in this plan. It’s strictly an eating program. However, with such a low calorie intake it is probably best not to workout at all.
3 Day Diet Eating Plan
The 3 day diet has a specific eating plan from which you may not deviate in the slightest, either in food types or quantities.
Here is the plan:
| Day 1 | ||
| Breakfast
Black coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets Sweet & Low or Equal 1/2 grapefruit or juice 1 piece toast with 1 tablespoon peanut butter |
Lunch1/2 cup tuna
1 piece toast Black coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets Sweet & Low or Equal |
Dinner3 ounces any lean meat or chicken
1 cup green beans 1 cup carrots 1 apple 1 cup regular vanilla ice cream |
| Day 2 | ||
| BreakfastBlack coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets Sweet & Low or Equal
1 egg 1/2 banana 1 piece toast |
Lunch1 cup cottage cheese or tuna
8 regular saltine crackers |
Dinner2 beef franks
1 cup broccoli or cabbage 1/2 cup carrots 1/2 banana 1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream |
| Day 3 | ||
| BreakfastBlack coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets Sweet & Low or Equal
5 regular saltine crackers 1 ounce cheddar cheese 1 apple |
LunchBlack coffee or tea, with 1-2 packets Sweet & Low or Equal
1 boiled egg 1 piece toast |
Dinner1 cup tuna
1 cup carrots 1 cup cauliflower 1 cup melon 1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream |
- In addition to the food, you need to drink at least 4 glasses of water or other zero-calorie drink each and every day.
How Does the 3 Day Diet Work
You can follow this eating cycle indefinitely and continue to lose weight, according to people who follow this diet plan. It’s just a low calorie eating plan.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Easy to use
- Affordable food choices
Cons:
- Very low in calories
- Hard to stick to
- Restrictive
- Will probably lead to long term weight gain
- May cause tiredness, dehydration, dizziness and so on
In Conclusion
Followers of this diet believe that somehow, this combination of food items helps to lose weight fast and achieve all sorts of additional health benefits.
However, as this diet provides roughly 1,000 calories each day, the weight loss probably comes from it being a low calorie diet and nothing else. There is nothing smart about the 3 day diet that I can see.
This diet isn’t recommended. It has too few calories and makes no sense really. It may cause short term weight loss, but it will mostly be water weight and you will probably gain it all back again soon.
Instead of following this plan, you can use the highly recommended and proven Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet
