Some comments on - and analysis of - the diet programFirst of All, we would like to inform you that this is NOT a permanent diet recommendation! Just like you wouldn't die if you only lived on potato chips for 7 days (it'd be awful though!), your body doesn't starve of nutrients due to this diet. You are only doing some basic housecleaning here!
The most important element of the program is the 10 (ten) tall glasses of water a day. You can also flavour the water will some lemon to make the drink easier. While on the program, take only black coffee and never more than one teaspoon of oil. Preferably do not use oil because the high calorific content. No fruit juices before day seven.
Here is what happens to you body while you are on this program and how and why it works.
Day 1: You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh fruits. Fruits are nature's perfect food. They provide everything you can possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety.
Day 2:Starts with a fix complex carbohydrates in the form of a boiled potato. This is taken in the form of a boiled potato and taken in the morning to provide energy and balance. The rest of the day too consists of vegetables which are virtually calories free and provide essential nutrients and fibre.
Day 3: Eliminates the potato because you get your carbohydrates from fruits. Your system is now prepared to start burning excess pounds. You will have cravings, which should start to diminish by day four.
Day 4: Bananas and milk. You are in for a surprise. You probably will not be able to eat all the bananas allowed. But they are there for the potassium you have lost and the sodium you may have missed during the last three days. You will notice a definite loss of desire for sweets and you will be surprised at how easy this day will go.
Day 5: Rice and tomatoes. The rice is for the carbohydrates and the tomatoes are for the digestion and the fibre. Drinking a lot of water purifies your system. You should notice colourless urine today. If you do not feel like having one cup rice, you may eat less. But you may eat six tomatoes.
Day 6: It is similar to day five. Vitamins and fibre from the vegetables and carbohydrates from the rice. By now your system is in a total weight loss inclination. There should be a noticeable difference in the way you look today compared to day one.
Day 7: You may celebrate with champagne. You may also have white wine instead of champagne, but in all practical programs, and in all surveys done to measure the success of the program, General Motors employees have always preferred champagne to white wine.
More than one cup of coffee with milk is especially forbidden. Milk and oil add empty calories to your diet. Avid coffee lovers can console themselves with black coffee. However, after the first week, it will help your digestion and set your stomach. The key thing to remember is that if you are hungry at any time, then you are not following the diet correctly. Almost all people give up the diet when they are hungry because of dieting. The secret of this program is that you should never hungry. If it is a vegetable day, eat so much vegetables that you are never hungry. If it is a fruits day, eat so much fruits that you are never hungry. You may be bored of eating vegetables all day, but you should not be hungry. You can take any amount of General Motors wonder soup on any day.
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• Is this diet bad for my health? Since this diet is structured in such a way that my body starves and does not provide my daily recommended share of nutrients!
Although this diet is not just for the overweight and unhealthy, it is certainly not for the underweight and starved! That said, please understand that our body is a wonderful entity which has enough reserves for sustaining itself for long periods. This diet is not about starving (note that it explicitly mentions that some foods in the menu can be had as much as you wish - the soup!) - but about cleansing your body.
To provide a simple analogy - consider any kind of filter. Your car's, or the water purifier's. If the filter is clogged, the system's efficiency goes down. Under such circumstances, the same amount of effort produces lesser than ideal filtering effect. Our body accumulates toxic materials over time, which means that the nutrients that we intake get polluted. The end effect is not the desired one. And these toxics cause organs to malfunction. Small malfunctions add up to reduce our quality of life - without any apparently big disease. Slowly, larger malfunctions manifest in the form of diseases.
Seven days of body cleansing prepares your body for functioning better again. Don't we all service our equipments? We need to do something similar for our body.
If you suffer from some disease/disorder, then indeed you are advised not to follow this diet regime blindly.
But otherwise, you definitely do not starve your body when you follow this diet. Our body has enough reserves!