the military diet
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I am sniffing a conspiracy to drive up traffic to the military diet website by referring to it here on MFP. Please don't click on themilitarydiet.com
I'm going to link a fairly objective description of the diet and the relative risk. Warning, the site has a live audio feed.
http://www.diet.com/g/3day-diet
It's a stupid diet.0 -
Conspiracy? What? Lol
Stomach hasn't growled once and usually it does, so now at least a have a good breakfast I know works for me.0 -
gypsychic33 wrote: »Conspiracy? What? Lol
Stomach hasn't growled once and usually it does, so now at least a have a good breakfast I know works for me.
Wondering how full you will be feeling at the end of the day...
OP as with others, I agree, this approach is just a catchy name to create a calorie deficit. It really is no different than any other trend - cabbage soup diet, Atkins, 21 Day Fix, etc. If you need structure in order to adhere to something, go for it, but I do not see this teaching you how to be successful in the long term. That's why there are examples of success stories from people who have tried this diet over and over.
Why not just set up MFP the way it was designed to be used, with a reasonable caloric deficit, and then eat whatever you like within those guidelines to lose the weight and be able to keep it up forever? I guess I need to come up with a catchy name for that. Let's call it the "Sustainability Diet".
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I am tracking what I eat for the next 3 weeks and see what happens. Just ate lunch of tuna, bread, and tea. I've drank 2 cups of water so far, not including the tea.0
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1 meal in and... "it works for me'.
OP, there's an effect that takes place whenever you start something new. You're experiencing it now.
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I never said it works for me... my update this am was pretty much "so far so good"
Maybe I will fail, who knows? But I want to at least try and this is how I want to try. It's not for very long, 9 days total. I also don't mind any of the foods except cottage cheese (yuk!) So it shouldn't be horrible even if it's not always easy.0 -
Wait- it promotes a diet of less than 1000 cals? I thought we were not allowed to promote vlcds?0
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Period. End of story. NO.0 -
"The Military Diet is based on the idea that some foods speed up the metabolism. These foods include:
Lean proteins
Toast
Crackers
Vegetables
Ice cream"
(From the 3 Day Diet website.)
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If you are so full you can't finish half the food on an about 865 calorie diet (I was curious so added it up), there's something else going on.
The food is not particularly filling.
I do like the idea that ice cream is magically speeding the metabolism and that it takes on all the anti wheat folks by claiming that toast and crackers are special weight loss foods, but it's still ridiculous.0 -
It was just breakfast I found so filling. Although lunch was pretty filling for me too.0
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Anything called "The _________ Diet" is usually a faddy type thing and works only for a brief period of time.0
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Team_Hound wrote: »Anything called "The _________ Diet" is usually a faddy type thing and works only for a brief period of time.
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Good thing I'm only doing it for a brief period of time
I don't really see it as any different than intermittent fasting, which a lot of people do... just my opinion0 -
I tried it. My recommendation: Don't do it. Waste of time, waste of energy. I was miserable and felt ill the ENTIRE time.
Just start logging what you eat, try not to eat too much, and start exercising. You'll eventually catch on.0 -
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http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/31910233#Comment_31910233Me Army----me don't eat military diet because there is no such thing. Believe it or not, trainees at basic and Advanced Individual training eat three healthy, square meals a day. Nothing fancy, just real food.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10129476/eating-what-you-like-vs-clean-eating-vs-following-weight-watchers-or-low-carb-or-other-method/p14legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »Eat the way you want to eat the rest of your life. If you are happy "eating clean" (however you define that) for the rest of you life then go for it.
If not, then don't. Same goes for low carb.
If it is not something you want to do forever then no use starting. Temporary changes are the base of yo-yo dieting.
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