The three heart day diet is one of the most popular fad diets circulatng in the web today. It is variously known as the ‘3 day diet’, ‘3 day american heart association diet’, ‘Cleveland clinic 3 day diet’. It has been around since the 1980’s. People adopt this diet expecting rapid weight loss. But most of them regain most of the weight that they lose pretty soon.
3 day diet plan
The followers are asked to adhere to the diet plan strictly or else the desired weight loss will not be attained. After adopting this diet for 3 days, one should return to our normal diet pattern for 4-5 days before attempting this again. This is to prevent our body from going into a fat storing starvation phase. Basically this is a low calorie diet. There is no magic ingredient which causes weight loss. Most of the weight loss is fluid which will return soon after you return to your normal diet plan.
The Recipe
Day 1
Breakfast
- Half grapefruit or one glass fruit juice
- Tea or coffee with low calorie sweetener
- A piece of bread toast with one spoon peanut butter if necessary
Lunch
- Tea or coffee with low calorie sweetener
- A piece of bread toast
- Half cup of tuna fish
Dinner
- One cup of carrots
- 90 grams of chicken or any other lean meat
- An apple
- One cup of green beans
- One cup regular vanilla ice cream
Day 2
Breakfast
- One egg
- A piece of bread toast
- Half banana
- Tea or coffee with low calorie sweetener
Lunch
- One cup cottage cheese or tuna
- Eight salted crackers
Dinner
- Two beef pieces
- Half cup carrots
- Half banana
- Half cup regular vanilla ice cream
- One cup broccoli or cabbage
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Day 3
Breakfast
- Tea or coffee with low calorie sweetener
- Five salted crackers
- 30 grams of cheddar cheese
- An apple
Lunch
- A piece of bread toast
- One boiled egg
- Tea or coffee with low calorie sweetener
Dinner
- One cup of carrots
- Half cup regular vanilla ice cream
- One cup cauliflower
- One cup tuna
- One cup melon
The Three day diet review
This is a fad diet which is difficult to sustain in the long term. It can only be adopted by yo-yo dieters who want to lose weight very fast. If this is adopted for more than a few days, the body goes into fat conservation phase and then it becomes very difficult to lose weight. The diet does not provide the necessary nutirents and can result in malnourishment
Final verdict – Not Recommended
