Has anyone tried the 3-day diet with success?

I have been doing the diet and the 1st day when I tracked it was a little over 1200 calories. Day 2 is around 1100 calories. I haven't done out day 3 yet. That is tomorrow. Yesterday I wasn't hungry at all. I only have 1200 calories a day normally so this isn't a huge reduction for me. My biggest concern is the lack of coffee. No caffeine will be hard for me. I will let everyone know how much weight I lose after the 3 days. I'm using it to get over my plateau and get me back on track from too much birthday cake and bad eating the past few weeks.

Did it, wouldn't do it again...lost a few pounds but then put them back on again...Put me off hotdogs, cottage cheese and peanut butter for life.

My partner loves peanut butter and I now can't even stand the smell of it!!!

But each to their own, you may try and find it ok.

All the best

First off let's be clear.

I'm ALL for the hot dogs and ice cream BUT

Is this something you're planning on doing for the rest of your life?

If not I would find something else.

May I suggest a calorie deficit coupled with physical activity??

That's radical thinking that is.

NO.

Sounds like BS...Ice cream & hot dogs?????

my thoughts exactly. I would never advise the use of this "diet"

can you do it Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Fine if you are using it in an emergency to look good for one particular day but as soon as you go back to normal you will put it straight back on and maybe a bit more. If you want to lose weight and keep it off for good then eat right and exercise and you will get where you want to be and stay there.

You can lose weight eating oreos, and skittles, and cotton candy. So long as you are keeping a caloric deficit. There are dozens of people who have gotten their blood drawn before and after a diet of nothing but junk food and as long as they kept a caloric deficit, they not only lost weight, but their bad cholesterol goes down, good cholesterol goes up, and their triglycerides go way way down. Now I am not advocating that kind of dieting at all but the fact is, that decades of "nutritional science" are just plain wrong and are being proven so every day by more and more scientists. There is just a massive marketing machine and fantastic sums of money being made behind the idea that one kind of sugar is worse for you than another, or one fat is worse for you than another. It has been categorically proven that your body treats high fructose corn syrup the EXACT same way that it treats pure natural cane sugar. A calorie is a calorie. Keep a deficit, and you lose weight. Keep a surplus, and you gain weight. Period. There are chemicals, both natural and synthetic that will speed up your metabolism, but a calorie is a calorie. You can eat absolutely anything you want, and so long as it fits your macros, and you keep a caloric deficit, you will lose weight and it will be healthy. Dont forget to take a multi-vitamin so you meet your micros as well. I have lost every single pound so far eating, for the most part, like hell. And I am losing weight quite quickly I might add. Eating proper, healthy, whole foods will always be the safer and more nutritionally beneficial way to eat. But it doesn't mean that you cant ever have a burger or some candy. Or that you cant even have it several times a week. Still believe that eating several times a day "keeps you metabolism going"? Bogus. Fantastic sums of people are finding out that IM (intermittent fasting) helps them lose weight every bit as well as eating eleventy times a day, and that it makes dieting much easier for them. No matter on what time schedule that you decide eat, it doesn't matter. Keep a caloric deficit, stick to your macros, eat a multi-vitamin so that you hit your micros, and guess what? You wont even have to work out to lose weight. Although your body look a whole lot better if you do. Don't listen to BS gimmicky diets or other outrageous claims. Its just too simple for some people to believe. IIFYM - if it fits your macros. Knowledge is power.

http://www.doyoueven.com/2013/01/iifympart1/
http://www.doyoueven.com/2013/01/iifympart2/

There is no magical chemical interaction between hot dogs and ice cream. Why would people believe this? It's absurd. If you aren't sure if it's a good idea or not, think about how you'd react to someone telling you HOT DOGS AND ICE CREAM were the secret to losing weight.

Because that's what this diet is telling you.

Because the unicorns told me it was true.

Calories in, calories out. Burn more than you eat and you will lose weight. Eating very low calories for three days a week will cause a deficit. Would work exactly the same if you replaced all of the food with Pop Tarts but the same calorie intake. Me? I'd rather spread the deficit over a week and eat what I want instead of having such a prescriptive plan.

First off let's be clear.

I'm ALL for the hot dogs and ice cream BUT

Is this something you're planning on doing for the rest of your life?

If not I would find something else.

May I suggest a calorie deficit coupled with physical activity??

That's radical thinking that is.

I know, I was GOB STOPPED!

I don't see how you could possibly lose 10 pounds in 3 days on that plan. I've done Edgar Casey's 3-day apple de-tox (apples, water, nothing else) and lost about 8 pounds, but it comes back. But I got de-toxed!

Rampant diarrhea is supposed evidence of "detoxing"? 'Cause that's what would happen if I only ate a mess of Apples! :laugh:

Yeah, I don't think too many people think that far when they start detoxing or cleansing. It will consist of pooping. Watery, noisy, slippery pooping. And lots of it. Unnecessarily so, as well.

But yeah. Pooping.

Basically - from what I've read (I have not counted it out myself) it's a strick Calorie reduction diet. Day 1 gives you between 1000-1100 calories. Day 2 & 3 I think are closer to 800. Of course on that kind of deprevation diet you'll lose - but you'll be in starvation mode, and not surprisingly anything you eat in the days following will quickly make you gain it all back. If you are already on a low cal diet (1200-1500 calories) it will not be as "effective" as it would be for someone that is eating 2000 calories a day.

I seriously thought about it a few months back - but it's not worth hurting my metabolism like that. Frankly, my weightloss is a sustainable lifestyle change - there is nothing sustainable about less than 1200 calories a day (for me). Plus I love having the energy to work out!!

^^^^^^^^What she said!

3 day diet isn't going to do **** or help you, especially in the long run. Even if you do lose more than water weight over these 3 days, which i highly doubt you will, you'll put the weight right back on after finishing because you never actually changed your old lifestyle or instituted any new permanent more healthy eating habits.