Who wants to do the military diet with me
XcelenaX
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Any one? I will start tommorrow. The diet lasts 3 days and you could lose up to 10 pounds (apparently!) So who wants to do it with me
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So what happened to the James Duncan diet?
You'd be better off just eating fewer calories than you burn. Simple.0 -
Tell me about the diet
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »So what happened to the James Duncan diet?
You'd be better off just eating fewer calories than you burn. Simple.
^^^ This.
You can't do a diet for 3 days and expect it to be the miracle cure. You need to work at it. Took you time to gain weight, will take you time to drop it.
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »So what happened to the James Duncan diet?
You'd be better off just eating fewer calories than you burn. Simple.
I might try this one first to be honest
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The food choices are disgusting, it has no benefits beyond eating at a deficit (claims about eating foods in particular combinations are scams), and while I think a VLCD for 3 days is relatively unharmful it's not a good approach to weight loss. Also, it offends me that they call it the military diet when it has nothing to do with the military.
So that's a no.0 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »So what happened to the James Duncan diet?
You'd be better off just eating fewer calories than you burn. Simple.
I might try this one first to be honest
What part of 'eat fewer calories than you burn' did you not understand? There is no need for these ridiculous faddy diets with miracle weight-loss claims.0 -
randymthompson wrote: »Tell me about the diet
Well it last for 3 days, you eat 3 small meals a day and lose weight lol i dont know how to explain it very well but if you search on google all the details will come up0 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »BruinsGal_91 wrote: »So what happened to the James Duncan diet?
You'd be better off just eating fewer calories than you burn. Simple.
I might try this one first to be honest
What part of 'eat fewer calories than you burn' did you not understand? There is no need for these ridiculous faddy diets with miracle weight-loss claims.
I already do that i go on my cross trainer for 50 mins a day and lose about 600-700 cals
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Any one? I will start tommorrow. The diet lasts 3 days and you could lose up to 10 pounds (apparently!) So who wants to do it with me
Hell no. Fainting at work is just not a good look for a man in my position.
It's a pretty dumb diet but if you are determined to do it I can't see you doing yourself real harm in 3 days (well, unless you do actually faint and hit your head or something...)0 -
You lose 10 pounds because you cut your calories way down, which results in a big water weight loss. Less calories means less food and food waste in your digestive track. It also results in your glycogen stores being reduced, which results in water loss. You can't actually lose 10 pounds of fat in 3 days.
Why not change your lifestyle to something sustainable (meaning you can last longer than 3 days with it) and lose 10 pounds the slow and steady way?0 -
Why not just eat whatever foods you like, but in the correct portions ? Weight loss comes from a calorie deficit. There's no reason to do all these fad diets. Just eat less then you burn and you'll lose weight. No need for this diet0
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You don't lose that amount of weight in just 3 days. It's not fat you are dropping. Just the poop in your bowels. lol You would be surprised how much junk we carry with us at all times. When you reduce this much you are still going to the bathroom.
Once you start eating again you will be adding food to your bowels again and the scale will go up. It's not FAT and real "weight" that is you drop. It takes TIME for actually lose weight ..
Think about it.
It's why these diets don't work. If it was that easy, MFP would promote it and we would all be doing it.0 -
I actually have done this "diet". I heard about it then watched a lot of videos and read a couple things on it and decided, no way can you lose 10 lbs in 3 days and I love experiments and again, its only 3 days it won't kill me. No magic pills or detox shakes, so I was in.
I lost 6.4 lbs but I was pretty hungry a lot of times between lunch and dinner and when I tried to do it a second time, two weeks later, just to see if results would vary depending on substitutions it allows and gave up on day 2 because I kept getting dizzy and nauseous. I wrote a blog post on my first experience. Will link.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/iecreamheadaches/view/my-three-day-military-diet-experience-803332
ETA** this "diet" did kind of help me with understanding portions a little better. I also did keep off those 6.4 lbs0 -
Dropping your Calories too low could cause you to binge once the diet is over causing weight gain.
I wouldn't chance it, it's not a permanent weight loss choice.0 -
These diets don't work. If they did, there would be no fat folks.0
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I agree with no reason to do any kind of special diet - for the most part (Personally I do follow a special WoE however it's for medical reason. I do Keto, a variation of low carb, as diabetes runs in my family and my doctor and myself where becoming concerning with my fasting blood sugar number ).
Usually, and for most people, CICO tends to work over the long run even when combined with other ways of eating (vegan, paleo, clean, south beach, skinny mama, etc.) If you are doing this as a "jump starts" as sorts, I guess it'll be fine but most likely you will gain some of it back once you get back to your non-diet eating.
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OP what's with the desire for extreme quick fix diets?
What are your stats (height, weight, goal weight). You said you are exercising, are you tracking your calories? What calorie goal did MFP give you, and why do you feel that's not working for you?0 -
I just posted this on your other thread
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May I suggest you stop and take a deep breath
I recognise this I think
it's when there is so very much information out there that you get stuck between this diet and that diet and this quick loss against that quick loss
So, are you breathing?
Right - think about what you want to achieve - picture yourself in a year, in 5 years
Do you want to have conquered your feels of being overweight or unfit or do you still want to be running around trying one fad diet after another
Because I can assure you, with 30 years of dieting experience behind me, that stopping and breathing and focusing means you can break that cycle of constantly not being quite good enough / not quite thin enough / not quite fit enough.
My advice would be to throw away everything you think you know about dieting and every pre-planned diet and just start to weigh and log your food accurately - double-checking every single entry because most of the database is incorrect
Those calorie burns you're logging for your elliptical - halve them - they're too high by far - you aren't burning that much in that short a time
Do that
Then repeat - log your food accurately, halve your calorie burns
don't get caught in another fad that will see you manipulate water weight
or do - it's your decision
but seriously - stop
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iecreamheadaches wrote: »I actually have done this "diet". I heard about it then watched a lot of videos and read a couple things on it and decided, no way can you lose 10 lbs in 3 days and I love experiments and again, its only 3 days it won't kill me. No magic pills or detox shakes, so I was in.
I lost 6.4 lbs but I was pretty hungry a lot of times between lunch and dinner and when I tried to do it a second time, two weeks later, just to see if results would vary depending on substitutions it allows and gave up on day 2 because I kept getting dizzy and nauseous. I wrote a blog post on my first experience. Will link.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/iecreamheadaches/view/my-three-day-military-diet-experience-803332
ETA** this "diet" did kind of help me with understanding portions a little better. I also did keep off those 6.4 lbs
Thank you for letting me know that it works
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Lost cause
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iecreamheadaches wrote: »I actually have done this "diet". I heard about it then watched a lot of videos and read a couple things on it and decided, no way can you lose 10 lbs in 3 days and I love experiments and again, its only 3 days it won't kill me. No magic pills or detox shakes, so I was in.
I lost 6.4 lbs but I was pretty hungry a lot of times between lunch and dinner and when I tried to do it a second time, two weeks later, just to see if results would vary depending on substitutions it allows and gave up on day 2 because I kept getting dizzy and nauseous. I wrote a blog post on my first experience. Will link.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/iecreamheadaches/view/my-three-day-military-diet-experience-803332
ETA** this "diet" did kind of help me with understanding portions a little better. I also did keep off those 6.4 lbs
Thank you for letting me know that it works
I'm letting you know it works, but its not something I'd recommend. I did this as an experiment, and I took it as a learning experience about portions and I learned a bit about my own personal hunger cues. If you want to try it for THOSE reasons then be my guest, but make sure you up what you're eating. I found its calorie counts vs the actual calorie counts of what I was eating were off by almost 200 calories a day or more. Like I said the second time around I had some pretty nasty side effects and I kept those 6.4 lbs off by continuing to make better choices and continuing to track calories. I'm sure if I would have just done this diet and then sat on my *kitten* or went back to my normal eating habits I would not have kept it off. Those 6.4 lbs were a nice little kick off but lets be real it takes work for this.0 -
iecreamheadaches wrote: »iecreamheadaches wrote: »I actually have done this "diet". I heard about it then watched a lot of videos and read a couple things on it and decided, no way can you lose 10 lbs in 3 days and I love experiments and again, its only 3 days it won't kill me. No magic pills or detox shakes, so I was in.
I lost 6.4 lbs but I was pretty hungry a lot of times between lunch and dinner and when I tried to do it a second time, two weeks later, just to see if results would vary depending on substitutions it allows and gave up on day 2 because I kept getting dizzy and nauseous. I wrote a blog post on my first experience. Will link.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/iecreamheadaches/view/my-three-day-military-diet-experience-803332
ETA** this "diet" did kind of help me with understanding portions a little better. I also did keep off those 6.4 lbs
Thank you for letting me know that it works
I'm letting you know it works, but its not something I'd recommend. I did this as an experiment, and I took it as a learning experience about portions and I learned a bit about my own personal hunger cues. If you want to try it for THOSE reasons then be my guest, but make sure you up what you're eating. I found its calorie counts vs the actual calorie counts of what I was eating were off by almost 200 calories a day or more. Like I said the second time around I had some pretty nasty side effects and I kept those 6.4 lbs off by continuing to make better choices and continuing to track calories. I'm sure if I would have just done this diet and then sat on my *kitten* or went back to my normal eating habits I would not have kept it off. Those 6.4 lbs were a nice little kick off but lets be real it takes work for this.
Yeah true, im done with fad diets
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iecreamheadaches wrote: »iecreamheadaches wrote: »I actually have done this "diet". I heard about it then watched a lot of videos and read a couple things on it and decided, no way can you lose 10 lbs in 3 days and I love experiments and again, its only 3 days it won't kill me. No magic pills or detox shakes, so I was in.
I lost 6.4 lbs but I was pretty hungry a lot of times between lunch and dinner and when I tried to do it a second time, two weeks later, just to see if results would vary depending on substitutions it allows and gave up on day 2 because I kept getting dizzy and nauseous. I wrote a blog post on my first experience. Will link.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/iecreamheadaches/view/my-three-day-military-diet-experience-803332
ETA** this "diet" did kind of help me with understanding portions a little better. I also did keep off those 6.4 lbs
Thank you for letting me know that it works
I'm letting you know it works, but its not something I'd recommend. I did this as an experiment, and I took it as a learning experience about portions and I learned a bit about my own personal hunger cues. If you want to try it for THOSE reasons then be my guest, but make sure you up what you're eating. I found its calorie counts vs the actual calorie counts of what I was eating were off by almost 200 calories a day or more. Like I said the second time around I had some pretty nasty side effects and I kept those 6.4 lbs off by continuing to make better choices and continuing to track calories. I'm sure if I would have just done this diet and then sat on my *kitten* or went back to my normal eating habits I would not have kept it off. Those 6.4 lbs were a nice little kick off but lets be real it takes work for this.
Yeah true, im done with fad diets
But, that's what this is..
Forget anything with "diet" in it.
People on here WILL help you, as long as you also put in the work, figure out a good plan for you. This will include taking a good look at what you eat EVERYDAY. Weighing EVERYTHING and if you can, move. You don't have to join a gym, but adding it workouts and exercise will help to create a deficit. It is really just that easy.
Figure out what you need to do to create a reasonable deficit that you can sustain for the long run to help you get to a reasonable weight goal.
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iecreamheadaches wrote: »iecreamheadaches wrote: »I actually have done this "diet". I heard about it then watched a lot of videos and read a couple things on it and decided, no way can you lose 10 lbs in 3 days and I love experiments and again, its only 3 days it won't kill me. No magic pills or detox shakes, so I was in.
I lost 6.4 lbs but I was pretty hungry a lot of times between lunch and dinner and when I tried to do it a second time, two weeks later, just to see if results would vary depending on substitutions it allows and gave up on day 2 because I kept getting dizzy and nauseous. I wrote a blog post on my first experience. Will link.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/iecreamheadaches/view/my-three-day-military-diet-experience-803332
ETA** this "diet" did kind of help me with understanding portions a little better. I also did keep off those 6.4 lbs
Thank you for letting me know that it works
I'm letting you know it works, but its not something I'd recommend. I did this as an experiment, and I took it as a learning experience about portions and I learned a bit about my own personal hunger cues. If you want to try it for THOSE reasons then be my guest, but make sure you up what you're eating. I found its calorie counts vs the actual calorie counts of what I was eating were off by almost 200 calories a day or more. Like I said the second time around I had some pretty nasty side effects and I kept those 6.4 lbs off by continuing to make better choices and continuing to track calories. I'm sure if I would have just done this diet and then sat on my *kitten* or went back to my normal eating habits I would not have kept it off. Those 6.4 lbs were a nice little kick off but lets be real it takes work for this.
Yeah true, im done with fad diets
But, that's what this is..
Forget anything with "diet" in it.
People on here WILL help you, as long as you also put in the work, figure out a good plan for you. This will include taking a good look at what you eat EVERYDAY. Weighing EVERYTHING and if you can, move. You don't have to join a gym, but adding it workouts and exercise will help to create a deficit. It is really just that easy.
Figure out what you need to do to create a reasonable deficit that you can sustain for the long run to help you get to a reasonable weight goal.
I think they may have meant they arent gonna try this or any more fad diets.
Well I certainly hope so anyway.
Establish a network of friends here. Even if they aren't super close friends I find that it helps greatly to see others doing so well and cheering you on. Eat real foods, just watch your portions.0 -
Why are you chasing fad diets that don't work?
Yeah, they don't work.
How do I know?
I've done this diet.
You need to ask yourself what happens after this awful diet.
Hint: you'll regain the weight even if you 'eat healthy' or count calories.
Did you know this diet has many names which scream FAD DIET.
Did you know this diet is not nutritionally balanced?
Did you know that you'll be ridiculously hangry (angry and hungry) on this 'diet'?
Please forget about these awful diets with a million rules. Set up myfitnesspal and follow it. How do you think those who have lost way over 100lbs lost weight? Not by doing those stupid fad diets. They followed myfitnesspal and ate back a portion of their exercise calories.
By the way, the in the Military they don't eat this crappy diet. They EAT. This diet is not endorsed by the military.0 -
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