The Military diet!?

anna_mjrd · October 2016

So I know im probably super duper late on this but I just came across The Military Diet.... has anyone ever tried it? If so yay or nay? I mean 3 days on 4 days off. Wouldn't hurt to try right?

http://themilitarydiet.com/military-diet-plan/

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leanjogreen18 · October 2016

I used to do a lot of the quick weight loss diets out there and sure I'd lose, but they don't really teach you anything about maintaining your weight loss.

I would suggest you look read through the forums and see what most folks here are doing so you can get some support. You won't find very much support for the quick weight loss stuff here. There are a ton of diet myths out there that keep getting promoted and you will quickly learn about them if you read through some of the forums. I'm not being snarky but genuinely trying to help because there is a TON of tough love on here:).

welcome and good luck!

yirara · October 2016

Honestly, don't! If the comments above and inevitably below this won't convince you then maybe some numbers will. You don't say how heavy you are but lets say you need to eat 2000 calories per day to neither gain nor lose weight. I found online that the 'military diet' is about 1100 calories per day. Thus your deficit after three days is 2700 calories. To lose one pound you need to eat 3500 calories less. Thus you'd not even lose 1 pound, but potentially feel rubbish.

lemurcat12 · October 2016

The military diet is goofy and the food choices are unnecessarily restrictive and (IMO) disgusting (well, I like ice cream, granted). Since the benefit is low calories, if you like the idea of doing a low cal diet off and on, with maintenance on the other days, look into those forms of intermittent fasting: 5:2 or alternate day fasting. Those are IMO more sensible approaches to that idea and allow you to eat whatever you like (which for me would mean more appetizing and healthier choices than the military diet). Also, they aren't fraudulent, pretending a connection to the military or that they involve magical food combinations.

queenliz99 · October 2016

Noel_57 wrote: »

If you do a forum search for "military diet" you will see that this question gets asked a zillion times. It is just another low calorie fad diet with false claims. And has nothing to do with the military at all. But wishing you success if you try it.

Like this

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=&search=Military+diet&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=

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fallingwave · October 2016

I know people who have done it. Sure, they lost a few. But gained it right back. it's not healthy, you aren't giving your body what it needs, and it's temporary.