Three Day Military Diet?

Well take it from someone who has seen this "diet" in action. This is in was in use as early as the mid-nineties and the title the author has given it makes it seem like it was a sanctioned thing. The author even admits in the first few paragraphs that "this is used to get in shape quickly, and also for new recruits" (Meaning short term loss to either make weight cutoff, or drop a few inches to beat the tape).

I can speak for both Navy and Marine Recruits having been a little heavy coming in Navy Boot, and being stationed at Parris Island 96-99ish. The basic diet regimen for recruits in my day who need loss (or gain) is eating the same chow as everyone else with a few modifications (No desserts, chicken/fish substitutes sometimes, fruits). In fact the ones who had it worse were the underweight ones (had to eat double chow, in same amount of time). With lots of PT. You should see some of the before and afters I personally witnessed there.

That being said, this diet, and variations have been around for some time. It is not in widespread use. There are certain physical standards that are adhered to, and this is usually used by people who are either on the borderline or over weight standards, and done in a "last minute panic" fashion. This never changes behavior, and these same people are usually repeating the process 6 months later for the next fitness test. It was usually combined with the fat burner of choice (in the 90's it was ephedra), which resulted in the ambulance picking up people around PRT season in V-fib.

My true diet when I was with the grunts consisted of chow hall stuff, lots of fast food,lots of adult beverages, and an insane amount of various physical activities. It was not uncommon to drink ridiculous amounts of Kool aid (cough) while writing our Mother's until midnight and get up and run 5 miles the next day. My eating habits were terrible in those days.

You will lose muscle on this diet, which saps your energy, and will destroy your long term resolve. Best not to even go down this path. You will rapidly gain weight back (homeostasis is a pain).

Now ALL that being said. I did have someone when I was stationed in Sicily lose 40 pounds eating nothing but apples in a two month period. He also lost around 60 points off his total cholesterol count. This was probably the most extreme this I had witnessed in my career.

Good luck no matter what choice you make!

You will never succeed with weight loss until you accept that there is no magic secret to losing weight fast. You just have to eat at a caloric deficit and wait. Then to keep it off, you have to eat at a reasonable calorie level for the rest of your life. If you don't adopt eating habits that are sustainable and realistic while losing weight, you will go back to eating too much and gain it all back.

Take the advice of the people here who have been successful. Even take a peek at what people are doing at the maintenance part of the board. They still watch calories and just eat sensibly. They don't eat whatever they want for months and then crash diet to lose weight.

I am not being a "hater". I'm sure you will lose weight in those three days and if you want to jump start your weight loss that way, that is fine. Just don't expect to be in a size 2 after a few days of miracle dieting. Doing these kinds of "diets" and then failing at losing weight in the long term is why people falsely believe that "diets don't work for me."

Diets don't work at all. Lifestyle changes do. If you can't wrap your head around changing forever, you don't want it enough yet.

For those of you trying or on the 3 day diet plan. I have stared a group "3 Day Diet" . Please join so that we can connect. Haters are not invited and can keep their opinions to themselves.

I'm fairly sure that there is no "military" diet.

I love seeing the people that actually take this seriously.

First of all you don't know me and shouldn't assume that I would need your advise. I am very familiar with dieting and have tried enough of them to know what works and what doesn't.

The preachers should stop preaching