3 Day Diet
The 3 Day Diet is one of the typical fad diets renowned worldwide to lose weight fast. The 3 Day Diet as is named requires the dieters to follow a three-Day-meal pattern of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is like a magic that the 3 Day Diet can please the dieters due to the sudden weight loss up to 15 lbs / about 7 kg. However, the dieters may lose the pleasure of losing weight fast as they will gain their weight back when they go back to their eating habit. It could be worse that they even weigh more than did they before starting this 3 Day diet.
How the 3 Day Diet results in a sudden weight loss is simply explained by the meal pattern which contains the low calorie foods. Then, why the 3 Day Diet is called a “yo-yo” weight loss diet is due to the weight gain soon after the dieters do not limit the intake of high fat or high calorie foods. How the 3 Day Diet cannot permanently keep the weight loss is understood as the loss of water from the body instead of the burning of excessive storage of fat. As a matter of fact that the weight loss is due to the water loss, it is recommended to practice this type of diet no longer than 3 days. To sum up, the 3 Day Diet is often not recommended by a lot of diet experts as it usually ends up gaining back the body weight. Here is the meal pattern of the 3 Day Diet
BREAKFAST| MEAL | FRUIT & VEGETABLES | |
| Day 1 | 1 slice toast or 5 crackers a regular saltine With 1 tbsp peanut butter |
1/2 Grape fruit or orange |
| Day 2 | 1 egg (any style) 1 slice toast or 5 regular saltine crackers |
1 banana |
| Day 3 | 1 slice toast or 5 regular saltine crackers 1 slice cheddar cheese |
1 apple |
| Day 1 | 1/2 cup of tuna or 1/2 cup cottage cheese 1 slice toast |
| Day 2 | 1 cup of tuna or 1 cup cottage cheese 1 slice toast or 5 crackers a regular saltine |
| Day 3 | 1 hard boiled egg 1 slice toast or 5 regular saltine crackers |
| Day 1 | 3 oz any lean meat | 1 cup green beans ( or broccoli or cauliflower ) 1 cup carrots or beets 1 medium apple 1 cup vanilla ice cream or frozen yoghurt |
| Day 2 | 2 beef franks or hot dogs | 1/2 cup carrots or beets 1 banana 1 cup green beans ( or broccoli or cauliflower ) 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream or frozen yoghurt |
| Day 3 | 1 cup tuna or 1 cup cottage cheese | 1 cup carrots or beets 1 cup green beans ( or broccoli or cauliflower ) 1 cup melon 1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream or frozen yoghurt |