The three week diet

Annnimal · November 2015

hi there!
I have been eating well for the past few weeks and have not lost a pound but have seen a bit of change in my body, I am trying to get a more toned body for an up coming Christmas party and am interested in the three week diet? has anyone have any opinions on this.. no rude comments please

Psychgrrl · November 2015

You can gain weight on healthy food and lose weight on "junk food." What matters is that you're eating fewer calories than you're burning. Do you know what your BMR/TDEE are in comparison to the amount of calories you're taking in? Are you weighing your solid food on a food scale and measuring your liquids? If not, you're likely eating more than you think.

There are more indicators of improvement than weight loss--you've got one of them! Inches lost! Weight loss is not a linear process, it ebbs and flows--sometimes more ebbing than flowing.

What matters in an overall downward trend over time. Remember it's a marathon, not a sprint.

bpetrosky · November 2015

So you only want opinions in favor of the fad diet?

Either way, the max recommended rate of weight loss is 2 lb/wk with very few exceptions. If you're not in the obese range, it should probably be about 1 lb/wk. If your goals are not in line with a safe rate of weight loss, you should reconsider.

Also, many people see a rapid drop early in a diet due to water weight losses. In the first week or two you might see a drop of 5-10 lbs due to that effect, and then start trending along rate determined by your calorie deficit. It's a temporary effect since you'll gain the water weight back very easily after stopping the diet pattern.

If the three week diet fits in with your goals understanding those limitations, good luck.

ETA: All this is predicated on the assumption that the three week diet is just another dumb fad diet and not a VLCD. If it is a very low calorie diet (<1000/day) than you should not do it under any circumstances.

abatonfan · November 2015

Yeah... you're not going to healthily lose 22 pounds of ANYTHING (let alone fat) in 3 weeks. It's, pretty much a glorified starvation diet followed by a low-carb diet that induces nutritional ketosis (from what I'm reading on reviews -the website itself triggered my antivirus software).

Honestly, I really recommend that you use the money that you would have spent on this diet toward getting a food scale (if you don't have one) and making sure you accurately weigh and log everything you consume into MFP. "Eating well" doesn't necessarily mean that you are in a calorie deficit (I can eat 3,000 calories in avocado or 3,000 calories in Big Macs and gain weight with either).

siluridae · November 2015

Let's go with their lowest goal, 12 lbs in 21 days. That's a 2000 calorie deficit a day.
A tall, obese sedentary woman could probably accomplish that by not eating anything at all for 21 days. Or going for a 1000 calorie deficit and then burning 1000 calories with exercise. Which would take several hours a day.
And I guarantee it is not all going to be fat, there will be some muscle there lost too. No one on that diet will gain muscle tone, as it says. One gets muscular by lifting heavy things at a calorie surplus.

Do not pay 50 dollars to get an instruction on how to starve yourself.

Calliope610 · November 2015

what exactly is the "3 week diet"?

choppie70 · November 2015

According to your diary you have only logged for one day. There is no way to make sure that your "eating well" was actually a deficit. Like it was previously mentioned, eating well alone does not guarantee the calorie deficit to lose weight.

Start weighing your food and logging accurately to make sure you are at a calorie deficit. No need to spend money, unless it is on a food scale!

Annnimal · November 2015

I have been eating the same amounts for weeks now just been too busy to log, but thanks everyone for the ideas, I will be saving my money on this and rather keep doing what ive been doing, a scale it is!