Common Crash Diets That I Have Tried
As I mentioned in my first post, I have tried countless quick diets and rapid weight loss programs, in my goal to lose weight quickly. I thought I would make a list of a few of the well known ones that I have tried, and what I thought of them.
The cabbage soup diet: Luckily I have always liked cabbage – if you plan to try this diet, you had better like it too, as you will be eating a lot of cabbage! The main rule is that you can eat the soup as much as you want, which I liked because you never got really hungry. However the obvious downside is that it gets very boring very quickly, and I found I really craved other foods. Over the course of the first week, some other foods are mixed in as each day progresses, such as bananas, vegetables, and brown rice, however the key is on really limiting your food intake. I did lose 4 pounds in one week, however I found that it didn’t offer me any plan to stick to after that, and as such it wasn’t long before I put the weight back on. I also found this diet VERY hard to stick to.
The three day diet: Breakfast consists of coffee, grapefruit, and toast. Lunch was half a cup of tuna, coffee and toast. Dinner was lean meat and vegetables. I liked this crash diet and found it quite easy and simple to follow. At the end of 3 days I have lost 3 pounds, so not bad at all! Again the only problem is its quite limited, and there is no follow one for what to do at the end of 3 days. I imagine most people trying it want to lose more than 3 pounds, however it was good for some quick and easy weight loss.
Atkins diet: Probably one of the most famous diets, I never really did well with this, which was really disappointing. The diets main focus is on massively reducing your carbohydrate intake, therefore forcing your body to turn into a fat burning machine. The good thing about the diet is that you can eat as much meat and cheese as you want.
After trying the Atkins diet for 1 month, I never really lost much weight, and felt incredibly unhealthy. I was feeling so bad, that I was concerned that it might be damaging my health, particularly as I had already read reports about it being bad for your heart. Although it is an easy to follow diet, particularly if you like eating meat, I this crash diet just simply did not work for me.
Although this is not a complete list of all the crash diets I have tried, it does give you a good idea of what’s out there. I have to say though, that I did lose weight with all of them, and was particularly impressed with the three day diet, but I needed to lose so much more weight than what was possible is 3 days, so I continued to look for longer more detailed rapid weight loss regimes.
