All about the 3-Day Diet

The Three-day Diet, which is also known as the Fax diet, Army diet, Navy diet, Military diet, Cleveland Clinic diet, etc., has no specific creator. No one knows exactly when, where, and how it originated, but it has been circulating much before the Internet came. The Three-day Diet is a strict diet and claims to help you reduce up to 10 pounds in three days. Note that this is not a healthy weight loss.
Since there is no specific source of the Three-day Diet, it has various versions. All these diets run for three days, during which you need to eat specific foods that are extremely low-calorie. The foods may vary, but the duration is three days. In one version, dieters drink only water for the first day, may eat fruit and drink only fruit juice on the second day, and eat only vegetables and vegetable juice on the third day.
The most common version of the Three-day Diet is the following:
DAY 1
Breakfast: 1/2 grapefruit, 1 toast, 2 tablespoons peanut butter, 1 cup coffee or tea (with caffeine)
Lunch: 1/2 cup tuna, 1 toast, 1 cup coffee or tea (with caffeine)
Dinner: 3 ounces meat (any type), 1 cup green beans, 1/2 banana, 1 small apple, 1 cup vanilla ice cream
DAY 2
Breakfast: 1 egg, 1 toast, 1/2 banana
Lunch: 1 cup cottage cheese, 1 hard-boiled egg, 5 saltine crackers
Dinner: 2 hot dogs (without bun), 1 cup broccoli, 1/2 cup carrots, 1/2 banana, 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
DAY 3
Breakfast: 5 saltine crackers, 1 slice cheddar cheese, 1 small apple
Lunch: 1 egg, 1 toast
Dinner: 1 cup tuna, 1/2 banana, 1 cup vanilla ice cream
After the three days, you need to eat your normal meals for at least four days. The Three-day Diet can be repeated on a weekly basis. You are allowed to repeat the diet as many times as you need to reach or maintain your target weight.
The Three-day Diet is said to work by the specific combinations of these foods and some versions allow no substitution. However, there are other versions where certain substitutions are allowed to make the diet vegetarian or vegan-friendly. While the diet plan lists coffee and tea, some versions allow you to drink anything. Others allow only water and diet soda.
All the variations of the Three-day Diet have some common guidelines. You can only use salt and pepper to season your food. You cannot add fats when preparing food. Use the diet for no more than three days at a stretch. If you need to reduce further weight, add four regular-meal days in between to stretches of the diet.

The Three-day Diet is said to be “chemically and enzyme balanced,” but this balance is nowhere proven or explained. Some claim that caffeine increases body’s metabolism and thus helps you burn fat and lose weight. Grapefruit is believed to “kick start the liver into fat-burning mode.” Peanut butter, eggs, and tuna are high-protein foods. It is believed by some proponents of the Three-day Diet that proteins require more energy from the body to process, so they burn more fat to digest. Similarly, some believe that high levels of calcium in fat cells helps burning more fat. Pectin in apples limits the amount of fat being absorbed. 

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