The STRICT commando 7 day diet

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  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    Commando diet - eat what ever you like .. but your don't wear pants?
  • Fujiberry
    Fujiberry Posts: 400 Member
    sounds like starvation to me!
  • RECowgill
    RECowgill Posts: 881 Member
    Good god sounds like? That IS a starvation diet. Like 500 cals a day maybe less? Way to die, stupid.
  • freebier
    freebier Posts: 1 Member
    I have come to this a bit late :) but seeing that the reaction is mainly negative, I will add my 2d's worth. It works for me! The hard part is psyching yourself up for it and getting through nine eggs in a day (I usually fail). The most I have ever lost is 1.5 stones or 21 pounds. That was pre-covid and I have slowly regained half a stone or seven pounds. However, having been diagnosed with osteo-arthritis in the hips, I am using it again so that, hopefully, I can reduce the strain. I started the diet yesterday and weighed myself this morning as usual. I was four pounds down. If it is a stone, 14lbs by the end of the week I will be a happy bunny as I will be at the top limit of my so called 'healthy weight'.
  • Hiawassee88
    Hiawassee88 Posts: 35,754 Member
    Shropshire1959 wrote: »
    Commando Diet - eat what ever you like .. but your don't wear pants?

    Free Range Eating. Eat like free range chickens and roam the countryside.

  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,747 Member
    The 4 lbs was water weight, due to a lack of carbohydrates. The first two weeks on any very low carb diet brings a big drop in weight, for the same reason. This is not a sustainable diet for anything over a week and as soon as you add carbs back in, the water weight will come back.
  • nsk1951
    nsk1951 Posts: 1,304 Member
    freebier wrote: »
    I have come to this a bit late :) but seeing that the reaction is mainly negative, I will add my 2d's worth. It works for me! The hard part is psyching yourself up for it and getting through nine eggs in a day (I usually fail). The most I have ever lost is 1.5 stones or 21 pounds. That was pre-covid and I have slowly regained half a stone or seven pounds. However, having been diagnosed with osteo-arthritis in the hips, I am using it again so that, hopefully, I can reduce the strain. I started the diet yesterday and weighed myself this morning as usual. I was four pounds down. If it is a stone, 14lbs by the end of the week I will be a happy bunny as I will be at the top limit of my so called 'healthy weight'.

    I think some of the prior posters didn't read carefully ... as no way is this a starvation diet; unless the items your are starving for are baked goods and gains.

    However, I don't think 15 eggs in a week, even if only done 4 times a year is such a good idea. Also, you need to be able to like and get LAMB ...

    Still .. if it worked for you and you can follow the rules to the letter, it might be a solution to breaking a stagnation cycle. ... I did one years ago where you had to eat hotdogs and beets as part of the routine and while I was able to do it one time, I could never stick with it to repeat it every again. LOL
  • Courtscan2
    Courtscan2 Posts: 499 Member
    No thank you. I choose life. Sounds miserable. And gassy. And constipation inducing.
  • Sinisterbarbie1
    Sinisterbarbie1 Posts: 711 Member
    freebier wrote: »
    I have come to this a bit late :)

    With this level of understatement and diplomacy you will go far! I was going to say you are likely safe from negative reactions from the OP given it is a 10 year old thread, but you seem to have revived a scary zombie …
  • happysquidmuffin
    happysquidmuffin Posts: 651 Member
    Sounds boring. And annoying. What if unexpected treats come into your life that week? What if you'd rather eat an apple instead of the grapefruit? What registered dietitian came up with this idea? Oh they didn't? Someone just pulled the plan out of their butt? Hmmmm :confused:
    I mean, it might be "fun" to try as a challenge, but then again, I'd rather eat flexibly, eat the things I enjoy, eat produce that's in season, feel satisfied, and continue to lose weight slowly and sustainably.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,559 Member
    I hate old threads and I cannot lie. (Well, some of them . . . the ones like this one that contain all kinds of faddy nonsense and snarky comments.)

    Eating weird combinations of food to lose weight is unnecessary, tends to be miserable, and usually is not sustainable long enough to lose a meaningful amount of weight. Worse, it helps people learn zero about how to stay at a healthy weight.

    If someone is trumpeting something as a great diet because they used it to lose weight "successfully" 3 or 4 times (or more), but they gained it back . . . maybe it wasn't all that "successful"? Yo-yo dieting repeatedly can be harder on the body than just staying steadily kind of fat. Regained pounds tend to bring friends with them, besides.

    I get that this is supposed to be time limited, but why, oh why? "Jump starts" are not a thing. If you're the kind of person who psychologically needs a dramatic change to get started (!), why not change to something like a calorie-managed Mediterranean diet that might even be balanced and healthy?
  • JBanx256
    JBanx256 Posts: 1,479 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    We got more than that in one meal when I was in the Air Force.

    Aren't the MRE's something like 1200+ calories EACH?
  • SuzanneC1l9zz
    SuzanneC1l9zz Posts: 458 Member
    I'm female and not very big, and I'd be STARVING!! No thank you!
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,254 Member
    edited August 2022
    Short term quick weight loss infiltration technique. It will work, said in my best Forged in Fire voice.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,300 Member
    freebier wrote: »
    I have come to this a bit late :) but seeing that the reaction is mainly negative, I will add my 2d's worth. It works for me! The hard part is psyching yourself up for it and getting through nine eggs in a day (I usually fail). The most I have ever lost is 1.5 stones or 21 pounds. That was pre-covid and I have slowly regained half a stone or seven pounds. However, having been diagnosed with osteo-arthritis in the hips, I am using it again so that, hopefully, I can reduce the strain. I started the diet yesterday and weighed myself this morning as usual. I was four pounds down. If it is a stone, 14lbs by the end of the week I will be a happy bunny as I will be at the top limit of my so called 'healthy weight'.



    well, yes, just a bit.

    Like 8 years after the last post and 10 years after the OP B):D

    However the diet is as silly and pointless as it was then.

    Yes you might get a drop in weight in first day or so - that often happens with new diets. But it isnt fat loss and it doesnt continue on - so it won't translate to 14 lb by end of the week or any extension of that pace.

    ALL diets which create a calorie deficit will work in the long term- as long as you stay on them.

    This one is no exception - of course the pace slows down but it will work if it is a calorie deficit and you stay on it long term.

    Problem being, of course - nobody does stay on such restricted specific diets long term - or even medium term - so over time they do nothing.

    Far better to find what your calorie allowance should be - by putting your stats into MFP for example - and eating that amount, including foods you like and having a flexible approach to which foods you eat each day whilst aiming to have overall reasonably balanced nutrition

    A marathon, not a sprint - so find a way to eat that you can sustain over time.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,333 Member
    What is the proposed end game of doing this? My motto is how you lose is how you have to maintain it..
  • mgalsf12
    mgalsf12 Posts: 350 Member
    That looks like just another fad diet to me. No thank you.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,300 Member
    freebier wrote: »
    I have come to this a bit late :) but seeing that the reaction is mainly negative, I will add my 2d's worth. It works for me! The hard part is psyching yourself up for it and getting through nine eggs in a day (I usually fail). The most I have ever lost is 1.5 stones or 21 pounds. That was pre-covid and I have slowly regained half a stone or seven pounds. However, having been diagnosed with osteo-arthritis in the hips, I am using it again so that, hopefully, I can reduce the strain. I started the diet yesterday and weighed myself this morning as usual. I was four pounds down. If it is a stone, 14lbs by the end of the week I will be a happy bunny as I will be at the top limit of my so called 'healthy weight'.


    so, 2 weeks later, how are you going on it?

    has your pace kept up at 4lb per day?? (highly unlikely)

    Have you continued following the exact diet for 2 weeks or has this been unsustainable?

    Of course 2 weeks is a short time, but time enough to give some feedback on how you are going in the early days of it.

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,254 Member
    It's a 7 day diet.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,300 Member
    neanderthin wrote: »
    It's a 7 day diet.

    ah,ok.

    so that means freebier would have completed the 7 days by now.

    so how are you going now freebier and what is your plan from here?

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,254 Member
    edited August 2022
    People seem to get frantic when they see a diet that appears unsustainable for whatever reason. Calories could be too low and maybe a lack of proper nutrition etc. What most don't realize is our body fat is stored energy that sustains us in a deficit and we've survived a few million years quite well and actually has some important health benefits and while there is a max calorie for fat oxidation keep in mind a full fast will sustain any deficit and for as long as a person has the body fat to supply the energy for that deficit. Changing our diet as part of a healthier lifestyle has proven difficult otherwise the obesity epidemic would be headed the other way but it isn't. Taking drastic measures like larger calorie deficits and fasting specific to an intended purpose is perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned as long as the person knows why they're doing it and in many cases has the right medical supervision.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,645 Member
    Or then you get a post like another new user who wants to know if it’s ok to have a cheat day after 7 days?

    That’s the usual end result.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,295 Member
    neanderthin wrote: »
    It's a 7 day diet.
    a full fast will sustain any deficit and for as long as a person has the body fat to supply the energy for that deficit.[/quote]

    Some deaths seem to occur with prolonged fasting. Both without protein supplementation and, by the looks of it, some even when this was taken into account and protein supplementation was used.

    Are there any statistics that argue that weight loss and maintenance by fasting is more successful than weight loss and maintenance by "changing our diet as part of a healthier lifestyle"?
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,254 Member
    edited August 2022
    We would need to look at the individual cases and look at their underlying health and any risk factors for a extended fasting intervention and considering the death count caused by Doctors we would need to factor that in as well. It happens.

    Are you asking if there is any health benefit from fasting? There's probably enough scientific literature to keep you busy for the foreseeable future.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,295 Member
    edited August 2022
    There's a lot of literature that doesn't seem to prove much to date once you control for caloric restriction.

    Not even touching as to whether you're talking about extended fasting intermittent fasting or what was implied above: of fasting while you have fat stores which could be a really bad idea based on a desire for survivability.

    Then again proof in life is elusive.

    My question was is there any reason to believe that weight loss achieved through magical fasting will last any longer than weight loss achieved through any other less magical method? You seemed to imply that it might.

    I'm not aware of any such proof. Won't claim that I've gone looking for it.

    I go through life using sniff tests.

    My quick sniff test of relying on fasting for long-term weight control is that people will face a high barrier in activating their chosen tool once they've started regaining. The classic would be the: I'll fast tomorrow after the party today instead of missing the party because today is a scheduled fasting day.

    My sniff test also says that the easier and faster it is possible to go back to what works to control your weight the more chances you have of actually doing so....

    I mean those are *my* sniff tests.

    To be convinced that I should be sniffing fasting rose petals instead I would need an over-abundance of proof 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Color me skeptic.
  • LemonMarmalade
    LemonMarmalade Posts: 227 Member
    Sounds absolutely miserable.

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