Grapefruit Diet
Dliezzatti
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Has anyone tried this 12 day plan? Please share pros/cons/general reviews 
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It's a fad, I doubt if there is any legit, peer reviewed literature which actually supports this as a good idea. Instead, aim for long term, sustainable behaviour change.7
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I thought that was a thing back in the 80's when I was a kid. Is it back? LOL.6
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This has been around since the 70s, it's just a fad diet. I remember my mum and grandma doing it. Neither of them kept the weight off.6
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I did it once for two months on my doctor's recommendation. He promised I would lose 50 pounds in that time frame, but I only lost 24. I felt sure he would bother to do some tests or something to figure out why it didn't work the way it was supposed to, but he only said, "24 pounds? Well, that's ok."
But it wasn't ok with me. I did all th work, I want all the results. Of course, he probably thought I cheated half the time. I didn't though. I did what I was supposed to do, but I didn't get what I was supposed to get out of it.2 -
Check your medications, in addition to it being a fad, grapefruit also interacts with several medications.6
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So 70's. I'm having a flashback. But, as long as 70's fashions don't come back....3
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If you like grapefruit - eat it. I dont imagine it would be hard t o fit into your calorie allowance.
As part of your long term diet - but no need for a silly 12 day crash diet of it.3 -
wow, I am getting heartburn just thinking about eating that much grapefruit!2
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Oh wow, the grapefruit diet. The only thing it had going for it, was that it was less stinky than the cabbage soup diet.5
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Lacks fats and proteins, very low calorie, wouldn't meet all micronutrient requirements, and interferes with some medications. Won't likely kill you in 12 days, but sounds like a recipe for disaster and might teach you to hate grapefruit as well as set you up for binging afterward.6
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And now I have Weird Al Yankovic's song "Grapefruit Diet" (to the tune of "Zoot Suite Riot") stuck in my head. Fun song, not so fun diet.2
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Wow.......
Per WebMD - this fad diet has been around since the 1930's!3 -
Okay, I know nothing about the Grapefruit Diet. But I do know that researchers at the University of California, San Diego, looked at the utility of eating grapefruit a few years back. They looked because it is a food so commonly associated with dieting.
In a study, they had their subjects eat a half a grapefruit before meals, and they found that the grapefruit eaters lost more weight than a group of control subjects who ate a similar diet without the grapefruit.
They obviously had no clear cut explanation of why this might be so, but they speculated that maybe grapefruit primed the insulin system for the meal.
Was it a 20-pound loss in two weeks? No. Course not. But grapefruit did appear to promote weight loss to an appreciable degree.
On the other hand, I have never seen that this study was replicated.2 -
Did I just fall into a wormhole and pop out in 1978? Internet seems to be working, so I guess not.3
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I love grapefruit cups from Costco... as a snack. Eating grapefruit for 12 days sounds dreadful.1
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I tried the 20 year pizza and coke Diet. I can confirm it does not work in the quantities that trial was suggesting.5
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My boyfriend has lost 8lbs on the scardale diet in one week, but keep in mind he is 6'6. There is an app for it on the android, essentially you don't eat any carbs (except fruit) , it's a high protein diet and very low fats. Most people can't stick through it because it's terrible lol. By restricting yourself on a diet like that, you may result in binge eating and regain all the weigh you lost from its stringent diet.1
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Bring back scrunchies from your 1982 time warp2
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GiddyupTim wrote: »Okay, I know nothing about the Grapefruit Diet. But I do know that researchers at the University of California, San Diego, looked at the utility of eating grapefruit a few years back. They looked because it is a food so commonly associated with dieting.
In a study, they had their subjects eat a half a grapefruit before meals, and they found that the grapefruit eaters lost more weight than a group of control subjects who ate a similar diet without the grapefruit.
They obviously had no clear cut explanation of why this might be so, but they speculated that maybe grapefruit primed the insulin system for the meal.
Was it a 20-pound loss in two weeks? No. Course not. But grapefruit did appear to promote weight loss to an appreciable degree.
On the other hand, I have never seen that this study was replicated.
How long ago was it? And is it not possible that they ate less of the higher calorie foods?0 -
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