14 day scarsdale plan starting Monday!!!

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  • Chrysalid2014
    Chrysalid2014 Posts: 1,038 Member
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    p.s. I found the menu if anyone's interested. It tells you exactly what you can eat; the only thing you're allowed to add is carrots and celery. (My friend's mum turned orange from eating so many carrots!)

    http://www.momswhothink.com/lose-weight-fast/scarsdale-diet.html
  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
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    Day 2 dinner... GET THOSE SPROUT DOWN YOU LOVE! You'll fart a stone off in minutes! Hahahahaha
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    In to hear how a doc recommends the Scarsdale diet in 2015. Lol.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited April 2015
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    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    I'm always surprised when people say something like "I had excellent results" and "I've done it before"...together...when it comes to dieting.
    Yup. I read it daily with with virtually every diet. MFP included.

    Yeah. That's the dirty little secret.

    Scarsdale is not that far from PSMF - workable for those with lots to lose, but generally pure misery for those looking to lose the last few pounds. And go easy on the exercise, or you'll start burning up lean body mass even with the relatively high protein content.
  • HeySwoleSister
    HeySwoleSister Posts: 1,938 Member
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    As I said in another thread....all I can think of when I see the words "Scarsdale Diet" is a megalomaniac emotional abuser getting shot by his victim/mistress.

    Because, by the time the "doctor" was killed, his diet was already considered laughable.

    Um....and this was prior to the Reagan Administration. So....COME ON.
  • Chrysalid2014
    Chrysalid2014 Posts: 1,038 Member
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    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Scarsdale is not that far from PSMF - workable for those with lots to lose, but generally pure misery for those looking to lose the last few pounds. And go easy on the exercise, or you'll start burning up lean body mass even with the relatively high protein content.

    I just looked up PSMF (had never heard of it before) but it does look similar and this would explain why no substitutions are allowed on these types of diets:

    "Eating foods that are not appropriate can stop ketosis, which not only means less weight reduction, but it can cause dangerous shifts in the body's fluid and electrolytes."
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
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    EWJLang wrote: »
    As I said in another thread....all I can think of when I see the words "Scarsdale Diet" is a megalomaniac emotional abuser getting shot by his victim/mistress.

    Because, by the time the "doctor" was killed, his diet was already considered laughable.

    Um....and this was prior to the Reagan Administration. So....COME ON.

    ^Yup.

  • uvi5
    uvi5 Posts: 710 Member
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    Chrysalid2014 wrote: »
    p.s. I found the menu if anyone's interested. It tells you exactly what you can eat; the only thing you're allowed to add is carrots and celery. (My friend's mum turned orange from eating so many carrots!)

    http://www.momswhothink.com/lose-weight-fast/scarsdale-diet.html

    As much of these foods as you'd like, like broiled fish, tuna salad, fruit salad and specified days????

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  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
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    What's so bad about counting calories? I've been doing it for almost three years, two of them at my goal weight. I'm happy, fairly fit, gainfully employed, not mentally ill, and healthy.
  • uvi5
    uvi5 Posts: 710 Member
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    uvi5 wrote: »
    Chrysalid2014 wrote: »
    p.s. I found the menu if anyone's interested. It tells you exactly what you can eat; the only thing you're allowed to add is carrots and celery. (My friend's mum turned orange from eating so many carrots!)

    http://www.momswhothink.com/lose-weight-fast/scarsdale-diet.html

    As much of these foods as you'd like, like broiled fish, tuna salad, fruit salad and specified days????

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    * on specified days
  • Chrysalid2014
    Chrysalid2014 Posts: 1,038 Member
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    uvi5 wrote: »
    As much of these foods as you'd like, like broiled fish, tuna salad, fruit salad and specified days????

    Yeah, I couldn't stick with it (even though it was 30 years ago I still remember how ill I felt!) It gives you very bad breath too.

  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
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    Wow...I didn't think anyone used the Scarsdale Diet since Jean Harris shot Dr. Tarnower.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
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    Chrysalid2014 wrote: »
    uvi5 wrote: »
    As much of these foods as you'd like, like broiled fish, tuna salad, fruit salad and specified days????

    Yeah, I couldn't stick with it (even though it was 30 years ago I still remember how ill I felt!) It gives you very bad breath too.

    Isn't bad breath a symptom of a high protein diet?
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    arditarose wrote: »
    pastry doctor

    Aha!
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    ncboiler89 wrote: »
    Isn't the Scarsdale diet a lead based diet?

    Yes, you drink lead paint and then you puke your guts out until you lose 30 lbs in 14 days!
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    Chrysalid2014 wrote: »
    The Scarsdale diet used to be "the thing" back in the 1970s/80s. My friend, who had been overweight all her life, did it for two months when we were teenagers and lost 40lbs and has maintained a healthy weight to this day. I tried it myself for a short time but it made me feel ill and I gained back all the weight I had lost within a few days.
    peranderson wrote: »
    I use it as guidance to eat the menu they tell me plus milk and some other changes ive made to make it healthier.

    I believe it is a ketogenic diet and is quite restrictive (I recall one evening's dinner was fried minced beef with cucumbers) and you are NOT allowed to make any substitutions if you want it to work, so you would not be allowed to have milk, for example, unless it is specified.

    Having said that, my friend's example proves it can work, so good luck!

    Well, if your friend did it successfully, it's good enough for us.







    /sarcasm
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    SherryTeach wrote: »
    What's so bad about counting calories? I've been doing it for almost three years, two of them at my goal weight. I'm happy, fairly fit, gainfully employed, not mentally ill, and healthy.

    Ahhhhhh! But counting calories is wayyyyyyy too slow!!!!!

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  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited April 2015
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    MrM27 wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    arditarose wrote: »
    I'm always surprised when people say something like "I had excellent results" and "I've done it before"...together...when it comes to dieting.
    Yup. I read it daily with with virtually every diet. MFP included.

    Yeah. That's the dirty little secret.

    Scarsdale is not that far from PSMF - workable for those with lots to lose, but generally pure misery for those looking to lose the last few pounds. And go easy on the exercise, or you'll start burning up lean body mass even with the relatively high protein content.

    I don't see how you are saying it's anything like PSMF.

    Similar calorie intake level, similar emphasis on protein intake, similar restrictions on exercise.



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