3 Day Tuna Diet
29 Dec 2009You might have heard of the 3 day tuna diet, maybe even in connection with a famous hospital, as an easy and quick way to lose weight over just three days. While the diet has the feel of an urban legend, there are people on the Internet who claim to have used it.
History of the 3 Day Tuna Diet
The diet has been floating around on the Internet for several years, and is often passed around as a diet recommended by a weight-loss clinic or a doctor. While it\'s not clear how this diet got started, it is known that no hospital or doctor has recommended it.
\"We all wish that weight loss and other health benefits could occur with simply making three days worth of dietary change. But severely restricting your calories, and including/excluding specific foods from the diet is not the way to long-term, sustained weight loss and health benefits.\"
Components of the Diet
The 3 day tuna diet is, as you\'d expect, a three-day plan, but it does not require you to exclusively eat tuna for the three days.
Despite the fact that there\'s no real known source for this diet, the different websites you can find it on have remarkably similar ideas of what the diet entails.
Here\'s a sample, giving you the full day\'s menu for day one:
- Breakfast
- Black coffee or tea (can be sweetened with artificial sweetener) or water
- Half a grapefruit or equivalent in juice
- One slice of toast with a tablespoon of peanut butter
- Lunch
- Half a cup of tuna
- One slice of toast
- Black coffee, tea or water
- Dinner
- Three ounces of any lean meat
- One cup green beans
- One cup carrots
- One cup vanilla ice cream
- One medium apple
- Black coffee, tea or water
The diet goes on in a similar fashion for two more days. In addition to the foods listed, dieters are advised to drink four more glasses of water (or diet soda) daily. Herbs, salt and pepper, lemon, vinegar, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup and mustard are also allowed.
After the three days, dieters are advised to go back to eating normally but not to overeat