I'm on the "military diet" aka the 3 day diet. For three days, I think I can follow through with this! Anyone else ever tried it?

 

<opinion>A diet should be a life time commitment to changing the food you like and eating those foods every day if you want permanent weight loss. Might as well fast for three days if you want temporary weight loss.</opinion>

 

Is that a detox diet of some sort?

I'm of the same opinion as Ray about diets.
I unfortunately have had to start watching what I eat. Not for weight gain/loss, but for other reasons.

 

In my mind, diet is a noun, not a verb.

What can one accomplish in three days anyway?

 

If you eat a lot of blue berries and pruns... You can move a lot of mail and drop a few pounds.

 

That would be temporary - a lot of discomfort for no long term gain.

 

All jokes aside, there isn't much if anything you can do in 3 days that will have any lasting effect.
You could stop eating completely for 3 days (wouldn't recommend it) and gain back any weight (fat and muscle) lost within the month.

What has worked for myself (besides my two young boys keeping me running) is to find some sort of activities that I enjoy (geocaching, mtn biking, hiking, camping, etc) and do some training to make those activities more fun. I ride indoors from January until the snow melts so that when I get out on the trails, riding is easy and fun. Not painful and dreaded.

I can't comment too much on diet as I've had to reduce my fat/greese intake bacause of health reasons.

 

To the OP;
Is this the diet plan (google search)?

Based on what I found (above), there is a lot of dairy product and processed foods (2 hotdogs?)

Myself personally, I would starve with this. Trying to sustain extreme physical activity (military training) on this diet would see a lot of people passing out.

My general rule of thumb (which I tend to push on my young boys more them myself) is a good, reasonably high protein breakfast (eggs, toast with peanut butter, etc) with fruit for breakfast, and a glass of milk (they love thier milk).
After breakfast, pick or snack on fruits and juice through the day. Veggies are good here, but it's hard to convince a 1 & 3yrs old to eat veggies as a snack.
Lunch varries from a sandwich, maybe soup, or something else. Fairly light. Again, more fruits and veggies to snack on throughout the afternoon.
Dinner is the regular meat with 2 veggy sides (green beans, corn, etc). If we where watching our weight, Dinner would weigh in on the veggies and less on the meat. Potatos are ok on occation, but shouldn't be a staple if you are watching weight.

Again, I'm not a person to preach diets. This is what I try to do with my boys (and myself) and it has been reasonably successful at fueling our energy packed days. The kicker is that fruit and veggies are pretty expensive (fresh anyway).

 

The first time I read the original post I didn't have a clue what the O/P was talking about so I Googled it. I found the same diet and it seemed like such a load of BS I checked Snopes but couldn't find it listed as an urban legend which it sure reads like.

 

Looks like a load to me - hot dogs? Seriously?

What's this actually supposed to accomplish?

 

Looking over the list of food again, that would have the potential of plugging up the plumbing and really make you feel like crap (on top of hunger pains).

 

You'd hear my stomach growling from a block away if I was doing that.

 

I went through with it, I slimmed down some and seemed pretty happy with it. I don't know about 10 pounds...I didn't weigh myself. I think it's more of just a portion control thing. Not a "chemical reaction" like some claim. I know it's very temporary, but it's worth trying if you wanted to do something extreme before an event

 

I wouldn't ever try this - hot dogs and saltines as a part of a 'quick' weight loss plan? IMO somone just sat down one day and threw together a plan with very few calories in it but no actual nutritional analysis was done - I mean seriously, there's only vegetables on one of the three days?

 

I wouldn't do it as an everyday thing to loose weight. That's for sure. The hotdogs and ice cream really threw me off.