3 Day Diet Review

What You Should Know

The 3 Day Diet plan is just what its name suggests: a strictly regulated three-day diet intended to help dieters quickly lose excess body fat (allegedly as much as ten pounds in three days), boost the metabolism, and cut cholesterol. The diet has sometimes been called The Cleveland Clinic Diet as well, despite having no real link to the Cleveland Clinic.

According to proponents of the 3 Day Diet, the food selections stipulated in each day’s diet regimen are specially designed to create certain metabolic reactions in each dieter’s body that lead to an instant decrease in body fat. The 3 Day Diet makes no recommendation regarding exercise, and is intended to be used in a pattern of three days of strict dieting, followed by two days of more relaxed eating. Sound too good to be true? We think so too.

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In theory, the 3 Day Diet does offer a few benefits over other diet pills and weight-loss plans: it’s meant to burn fat quickly, and it doesn’t require any supplements, fat burners, or other diet pills. The main issue here is that the proponents of the 3 Day Diet have apparently forgotten about human nature; a diet plan like the 3 Day Diet requires strict adherence in order for dieters to achieve the alleged ten-pound weight loss. Take a look at a sample of the 3 Day Diet’s Day One, and judge for yourself whether this diet is sustainable:

For breakfast: Coffee or tea (artificial sweetener optional), ? of a grapefruit or fruit juice, and 1 piece of toast with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter. For lunch: Coffee or tea, ? of a cup of tuna, and 1 piece of toast. For Dinner: 3 ounces lean of meat or chicken, 1 cup of green beans, 1 cup of carrots, 1 apple, and 1 cup of vanilla ice cream.

If you can see yourself continuing this bland and limited diet for three-day cycles throughout the next year, more power to you. If, like the rest of us, you need a little variety in your life (even when on a diet!), then the 3 Day Diet probably isn’t for you.

Advantages

The 3 Day Diet requires no pills or supplements.
The time-consuming meal planning is eliminated with pre-determined 3 Day Diet meals.
Proponents of 3 Day Diet claim a possible weight loss of 10 pounds in the first three days.

Disadvantages

The 3 Day Diet must be followed strictly in order to achieve the alleged 10-pound weight loss.
The 3 Day Diet makes no recommendation for exercise.
The 3 Day Diet’s effectiveness remains unproven in any clinical studies.
Even with two built-in “rest” days, the 3 Day Diet lacks variety and is unsustainable over a long period of time.

Conclusion

While the 3 Day Diet appears to offer the best of both worlds with quick weight loss and no exercise, it’s really nothing more than a starvation diet that promotes unhealthy levels of food intake. What’s more, dieters who go from three days of strictly limited meals are more likely to overeat on their “rest” days than dieters who have come up with a food and exercise regimen that works for them. While it’s true that the 3 Day Diet might result in some fast short-term weight loss, it’s likely that any weight lost during the first few weeks of the diet will be gained back with interested once dieters lose their discipline and start straying from the strict meal plan.