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 proven or even attempted to be explained. The diet goes on for three days and then off for four or five with lots of specific and cryptic steps so that when it fails the dieter can be blamed for doing something wrong.
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 allowed a can of tuna, a piece of toast, and black coffee. Dinner consists of 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 of the diet are relatively similar in meal quantity, though the specifics change, for example Day 2 recommends two beef franks for dinner in place of three ounces of lean meat. The diet claims 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? There is no evidence for the so-called "specific metabolic reaction." The only reason this diet would work to help a person lose weight is because of the lack of calories in the diet. In fact, because the diet is so low in carbohydrates a person could drop ten pound in three days.
Of course most of that would be water weight because carbohydrates cause the body to retain water. By the way, losing that much weight from not retaining water is dangerous as the body needs water to survive.
Once the three days are over the weight will return, primarily because it's mostly water. But also because any weight lost from the lack of calories will be regained when the starving diet victim returns to normal, or in this case heavier than normal, eating.
Furthermore, such water loss could result in some serious medical problems. But hey, then you'd lose some real weight in the hospital.
The 3 day diet is best treated as a no day diet. In other words, don't do it. - 16083
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 allowed a can of tuna, a piece of toast, and black coffee. Dinner consists of 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 of the diet are relatively similar in meal quantity, though the specifics change, for example Day 2 recommends two beef franks for dinner in place of three ounces of lean meat. The diet claims 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? There is no evidence for the so-called "specific metabolic reaction." The only reason this diet would work to help a person lose weight is because of the lack of calories in the diet. In fact, because the diet is so low in carbohydrates a person could drop ten pound in three days.
Of course most of that would be water weight because carbohydrates cause the body to retain water. By the way, losing that much weight from not retaining water is dangerous as the body needs water to survive.
Once the three days are over the weight will return, primarily because it's mostly water. But also because any weight lost from the lack of calories will be regained when the starving diet victim returns to normal, or in this case heavier than normal, eating.
Furthermore, such water loss could result in some serious medical problems. But hey, then you'd lose some real weight in the hospital.
The 3 day diet is best treated as a no day diet. In other words, don't do it. - 16083
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