military diet
LinziT123
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So at the weekend I over indulged,(it was bad lol) so today I started the 3 day military diet, anybody else tried it? What kind of results did you get?
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Sounds like a good way to be extremely hungry for 3 days. Crash diet isn't needed. I wouldn't recommend doing it.0
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One of the dumbest Very Low Calorie diets I've ever seen. The military don't eat like that. Why should you? It you must follow a fad diet, how about the Cabbage Soup diet? ....and you don't have to follow the diet to the letter, ...and you have a nice pot of sustaining cabbage soup.0
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I'm sorry, why do they call this the military diet?
"The Military Diet provides under 1000 calories a day" - In boot camp you try to eat as much as possible in the very short amount of time you're given, you don't starve yourself.0 -
It's call basic, I lost 20 pounds in 8 weeks and served for three years; playing around with chemical rounds was a bonus.0
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And chicken! Lots of chicken!! It comes with every meal0
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Man we've seen this on here before, I don't know how they get such a low calorie diet out of anything military. They fed us a chit load, we stayed thin from all the physical work and training.0
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Well, if you restrict yourself to eating MREs, you might end up losing weight solely because they're kind of unappetizing. (And MRE improvement recipes should be a whole cooking contest show featuring veterans, because those men and women know a thing or two about messing around with MREs to make them taste marginally better!)0
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You know the military doesn't eat like that, right?
I predict day 4 brings all the foods to you...0 -
In short, no.
And for results- you'll be hungry, and it won't help you in the long run any more than a more reasonable deficit will.
Follow the site as designed. It works.0 -
In addition to the awesome responses above, if you utilize the search function, you'll see that this "diet" comes up quite a lot. The general consensus across the board is just say no to crash diets and eat in a caloric deficit.
The three day military diet is not healthy or sustainable, and it will not help you one bit along your journey.0 -
OK so day 1, I've survived but I'm so hungry! OK I feel as if I should changed my question, what do you do to make up for over indulging?0
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OK so day 1, I've survived but I'm so hungry! OK I feel as if I should changed my question, what do you do to make up for over indulging?
Eat a few less calories the next day? Don't worry about it and get back to what I was doing, understanding that one day is going to make no difference whatsoever in the grand scheme of things?
OP, try not to worry so much about one day. It's not going to hurt your long term goals. Just get back on the horse today, and move forward. Simple as that.
Weight loss is not that complicated.0 -
OK so day 1, I've survived but I'm so hungry! OK I feel as if I should changed my question, what do you do to make up for over indulging?
You can start again. Get back on schedule and follow your calorie allowance. I've been there but I can tell you for me cutting back a lot to make up just caused the overeating to worsen. Just call it a mulligan and follow forward.0 -
OK so day 1, I've survived but I'm so hungry! OK I feel as if I should changed my question, what do you do to make up for over indulging?
Nothing! Log it, and move on, tomorrow is another day.
This "military diet is only off by about 6000 calories. I did 8 years, and 3-5000 calories is a typical day, and upwards of 7000 during intense training. This diet you're on is nothing but a crash diet, and a perfect recipe for epic failure.
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OK so day 1, I've survived but I'm so hungry! OK I feel as if I should changed my question, what do you do to make up for over indulging?
Water under the bridge. Every day is a fresh start. Really. Love your food, enjoy your choices every day.
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HardcoreP0rk wrote: »I didn't lose any weight during basic...but I didn't exactly go in needing to lose any either
I went in to play soldier and enlisted after finishing my Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from University of California at Davis (and no ROTC participation during school). Getting back into shape was an added bonus, especially after a year and a half break from collegiate bicycle racing. I lost fat but also quiet a bit of muscle as I specialized in sprinting.
Only one in my company did not loss weight and he was being processed out after deserting. Two other tried to be put on profile but remedial PT got them to minimal fitness standards and they lost weight as part of the conditioning. Even our fittest, those capable of running at 6 minute mile or less pace for two miles, lost weight so either you didn't try hard enough or are exceptional. My company was one of the first mixed sex basic.0 -
No no and NO! The military does not eat like that.0
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I bulked in basic...went from skinny girl to kick-a@@ muscled chic and starving myself wasn't in the equation. I ate a TON of calories!
I suggest returning to your normal calorie goal without trying to compensate for your over-indulgences. Just move forward from here.
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HardcoreP0rk wrote: »I didn't lose any weight during basic...but I didn't exactly go in needing to lose any either
I went in to play soldier and enlisted after finishing my Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from University of California at Davis (and no ROTC participation during school). Getting back into shape was an added bonus, especially after a year and a half break from collegiate bicycle racing. I lost fat but also quiet a bit of muscle as I specialized in sprinting.
Only one in my company did not loss weight and he was being processed out after deserting. Two other tried to be put on profile but remedial PT got them to minimal fitness standards and they lost weight as part of the conditioning. Even our fittest, those capable of running at 6 minute mile or less pace for two miles, lost weight so either you didn't try hard enough or are exceptional. My company was one of the first mixed sex basic.
Didn't try hard enough? That's laughable.
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funjen1972 wrote: »I bulked in basic...went from skinny girl to kick-a@@ muscled chic and starving myself wasn't in the equation. I ate a TON of calories!
I suggest returning to your normal calorie goal without trying to compensate for your over-indulgences. Just move forward from here.
I think it's different for women. Our bodies don't need as many calories. I know I put on a lot of muscle across my time in the army - combination of age, lifting, all sorts of things. But I can't quite remember if I actually bulked during basic. I don't think so. I think I was about the same, body weight wise. (ETA: even though my speed, APFT numbers, and strength improved dramatically). It's possible that my unit allowed us more time to eat but we ate family style and were hazed the whole time, so I don't know.0 -
OK so day 1, I've survived but I'm so hungry! OK I feel as if I should changed my question, what do you do to make up for over indulging?
log it, own it, and move on to the next day ..
it is not necessary to torture yourself for three days because you were over on calories for one day...0 -
If you had a bad weekend it's ok, just get back on the horse and try again. Try to develop long term goals and better habits as you go. Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was your weight on the scale, one bad weekend won't destroy your results.0
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So at the weekend I over indulged,(it was bad lol) so today I started the 3 day military diet, anybody else tried it? What kind of results did you get?
Sounds like a gimmick, rather than a lifestyle change.
Once you adopt healthy habits, you will be able to indulge once in a while, and it won't be bad because your lifestyle will even it out. i got to my top weight because my lifestyle WAS overindulging.
As long as you are in the mindset of using a 3-day "recovery" you are not likely in a mindset to successfully make lifestyle changes.
Instead of doing a 3-day program that will a) suck and b) reinforce your next binge (because you've trained yourself you can make up for it in three crappy days of starvation):
Just write last weekend off, and start eating well today. And eat well tomorrow. And the next day. And when you binge in the future, the next day just eat well, and the next day....
it's not a game. It's just the rest of our lives!
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Military diet? What? Who comes up with these things??!! Basic training and the school phase of training after has trainees eating huge calorie amounts most of the time to keep them satisfied and full of energy for training purposes. Once a person has graduated from these, they go on to their permanent duty assignments, and can eat in the mess halls if they so chose. Now days mess halls are serving much healthier selections than say 30 years ago, but its not all diet food they serve! Lots and lots of military people over weight--thus the increase in sizes of battle dress uniforms and the dressier uniforms. If you could only see how the military REALLY eats...0
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