Grapefruit Diet Review Part 2

Diet Type: FAD Diet - Low Calorie, High Fat

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The diet plan is laid out as a one-week diet, and includes consuming two servings of grapefruit (or grapefruit juice) per day. The example diet that is shown on the Florida Citrus Grower’s web site places calorie consumption between 800 to 1200 per day. If you are doing the “Hollywood Grapefruit Diet”, you’ll get even fewer calories per day (approximately 400). Any diet that puts you into a starvation mode with extremely limited caloric intake is going to make you lose weight, and the grapefruit has no bearing on that. It’s unhealthy to eat at this low of a caloric intake, and while you may lose a couple pounds, the moment you go off of the diet you are going to regain the weight. Why? Because you haven’t truly changed your eating habits, and the crash-diet told your body you were starving, so it slowed down its metabolism. These two factors combine to add up to a long-term weight gain, not loss, overall. For these two reasons alone I would have to warn against the use of this diet.

The Diet Rules:

1. You must drink eight 8oz. glasses of water daily (64 oz. total per day).
2. At any meal you may eat until you are full.
3. You must eat the minimum listed at each meal.
4. You cannot eliminate anything from the diet.
5. Don't add or reduce the amount of grapefruit or juice. The grapefruit is the catalyst that starts the “magical” fat burning process in motion.
6. Cut down on coffee, it affects the insulin balance that hinders the burning process (maximum 1 cup per day).
7. Don't eat between meals.
8. You can fry food in butter and use butter generously on vegetables.
9. Do not eat desserts, breads, and white vegetables or sweet potatoes.
10. You may double or triple helpings of meat, salad or vegetables.
11. Eat until you are stuffed. The more you eat the more weight you will lose.
12. Stay on the diet 12 days, then stop the diet for 2 days and repeat.
    
    

Diet Plan:

( * yes we doubled checked this, our sources confirmed this is recommended food on this diet)

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