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Rachel7575
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I read about the military diet, you can lose up to 10 pounds in 3 days. Has anyone tried it and does it really work?
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Have I tried it? No.
Does it work? If you are in caloric deficit, anything will work.
More to the point, is it necessary? No. Is it a smart idea? No. Restriction diets, and fad diets are rarely a good idea, both health wise, and weight loss wise. You will likely put any weight you lost right back on. In addition, weight lost is likely water weight.
If you want to lose weight, eat at a caloric deficit. If you want to lose weight healthily, eat a variety of food with a reasonable caloric deficit. If you want to keep the weight off, understand that this is a lifestyle change, and ensure that the 'diet' you are on is sustainable.14 -
No. It looks like something someone's toddler made up and they posted as a joke. Hot dogs, saltines and ice cream? Just a very low calorie diet with zero nutrition. Nothing magical about it.16
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Let's just think about it for a second.
Each pound of fat is made up of approximately 3500 calories. So ten pounds is 35,000 calories.
Let's say the average sedentary person's TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is 2000 calories. To lose ten pounds in 3 days, you'd have to eat around -9666 calories per day.
Sound impossible? Then it is!
Note: when switching to a new diet, especially one low in carbohydrates, you can lose a lot of water weight quickly. This is not fat loss though, and only temporary.11 -
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I have done it a few times and always lost 5 lbs, no more, on each occasion. A friend lost 49 lbs doing it every week and swears by it.
I replaced the hot dog with an egg, in France some people call hot dogs "tubes of death"
Whether works for you! But worth a try.16 -
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It's not even a diet the military condones. And the weight you lose will immediately come back.5
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I've never tried it.
I couldn't get past laughing at the food combinations to take it seriously enough to give it a go, even when I was desperate enough to try anything.10 -
No. No. No.
Read over the most helpful posts. Buy a digital kitchen scale.3 -
You cannot mathematically lose 10 Lbs of fat in 3 days...almost all of that would be water and less waste in your system...
As former military, I can assure you that this is about the furthest thing from a military diet...10 -
Silly diet is silly. Don't do it.4
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Do you plan on staying on this "diet" for the rest of your years? That is the answer to your question.2
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I tried it and lost 7 pounds on it and didn't gain it back. I read it's called the military diet because it takes discipline. You are eating very little each day which is why you lose a lot of weight on it. I only did it once just to try it but I later realized it's just a caloric deficit. I personally don't like it and prefer to count my calories. I might do it again in the future if I have an event and need to lose some pounds quick.24
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I read it's called the military diet because it takes discipline.
It's called the military diet because when it was called the "mayo clinic diet" and other specific names the sponsors got themselves into all kinds of legal trouble as the institutions they were attaching the name to very publically threatened to sue. "Military" is generic enough that they can't be sued over the association, and wow, sounds all kinds of official.12 -
Is it time for this again?4
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What? No cabbage soup?????11
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estherdragonbat wrote: »What? No cabbage soup?????
Oops, that one's scheduled for a week from Monday. Nice catch!9 -
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Scheduling that in... hmm this one is out of order, throws the whole schedule off. I need to go have a stern talk with the OP on that one.4 -
Right after the raspberry ketones. And for anyone interested, coconut oil comes up after that.2 -
I've tried it.
Absolutely....not worth it unless you're aiming for hangry shoe eater.4 -
Don't do dumb diets. Stop falling for woo and fads.
Read the forums and see how to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way.3 -
It's unnecessarily restrictive, and doesn't teach you anything about how to keep the weight off once you've lost it.
Just plug you stats into NFL and the # of calories that it tells you.1 -
Have I tried it? No.
Does it work? If you are in caloric deficit, anything will work.
More to the point, is it necessary? No. Is it a smart idea? No. Restriction diets, and fad diets are rarely a good idea, both health wise, and weight loss wise. You will likely put any weight you lost right back on. In addition, weight lost is likely water weight.
If you want to lose weight, eat at a caloric deficit. If you want to lose weight healthily, eat a variety of food with a reasonable caloric deficit. If you want to keep the weight off, understand that this is a lifestyle change, and ensure that the 'diet' you are on is sustainable.
Thanks for your input, at this point I feel like I've tried everything.. that's why when I saw this I didn't think it would be bad, but I see the downfall it has.
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Ready2Rock206 wrote: »No. It looks like something someone's toddler made up and they posted as a joke. Hot dogs, saltines and ice cream? Just a very low calorie diet with zero nutrition. Nothing magical about it.
Lol it looks like that's your go to joke in every blog, change it up a bit9 -
pacific904 wrote: »I have done it a few times and always lost 5 lbs, no more, on each occasion. A friend lost 49 lbs doing it every week and swears by it.
I replaced the hot dog with an egg, in France some people call hot dogs "tubes of death"
Whether works for you! But worth a try.
I was watching the videos too and I see it worked for other people as well. I very much dislike hotdogs myself so I was trying to think of a good replacement lol thank you
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