Has anyone tried this? A friend is 3 days in and has lost 3.3lbs already. I’m not a fan of crash diets, and I think healthy eating is the way to go, but the food in the plan looks fairly healthy, and you can have as much as you want to keep you full. I found the plan via Google, thinking of trying it out closer to the holiday, or trying to implement some of the principals into my normal diet.
Here’s the info for the first five days of the plan:
THE 5-DAY RULES
* Unless specified, you can eat as much as you like, so you should not feel hungry.
* Drink about 1.5 litres of water, herbal tea, decaf tea or coffee (without milk) a day.
* No dairy is allowed, apart from a knob of butter for cooking when stated, and as much natural live yoghurt as you like.
* Unless mentioned, all foods can be cooked in any way - roasted, fried, grilled, baked, poached, steamed etc.
* You can have unlimited amounts of any vegetables, apart from potatoes and mushrooms.
* Salad can consist of any veg - lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, cucumber, onion, beetroot and so on.
* You can snack between meals on crudités or natural live yoghurt, but try and get used to eating only three big main meals a day.
THE MEAL PLAN
DAY 1
Breakfast: Unsmoked bacon and eggs all cooked in olive oil.
Lunch: Salmon steak, veg and a side salad drizzled with olive oil.
Dinner: Brown rice (50g dry weight) and any veg stir-fried in olive oil.
* A protein-only breakfast means you’ll stay full until lunchtime
DAY 2
Breakfast: 100g puffed rice cereal (available in the gluten-free section of all major supermarkets) with natural live yoghurt.
Lunch: Salad Nicoise made from tinned tuna (in water, brine or olive oil) or tuna steak with green salad leaves, hard-boiled eggs, olives and anchovies. Dress with olive oil.
Dinner: Lamb or pork chops with unlimited veg and salad.
DAY 3
Breakfast: Plain or ham omelette. Whisk 2-3 eggs, 1/2 tsp mixed herbs, 1 sliced red pepper and unlimited ham (optional). Melt a knob of butter (no more than 1/2 tsp) in a pan. Add the mixture and cook until firm.
Lunch: Stir-fried veg with chicken or beef.
Dinner: Stuffed peppers. Boil 50g brown rice (dry weight) and stir-fry chopped mixed veg. Combine together and fill a deseeded pepper shell. Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes until the pepper is soft.
* Using brown rice instead of white balances out your blood-sugar levels and stop cravings.
DAY 4
Breakfast: Porridge made from 75g porridge oats mixed with water and cooked to your liking.
Lunch: Chef’s salad made from salad leaves, grated carrots, grated beetroot and boiled eggs together with a selection of cold meats. Dress with olive oil.
Dinner: A whole large fish (any kind, as long as it’s not smoked or cured) baked in the oven with veg and salad. Dress with olive oil.
DAY 5
Breakfast: Natural live yoghurt.
Lunch: Roast or grilled chicken with salad.
Dinner: Tomato rice pasta. Cook 75g (dry weight) rice pasta*. Fry an onion and a clove of garlic in olive oil, add a tin of tomatoes, 2tsp basil and ground black pepper and simmer until the rice pasta is ready.
* Natural live yoghurt kills off bacteria in the stomach and combats bloating
*Rice cereal and rice pasta are excellent alternatives to wheat
You can follow this diet for longer than five days if you have more weight to lose and more time before your holiday.
Anyone tried it?
