3-Day Diet Review - Which One Works Best?

This is going to be a review of the more popular 3-day diets. They are all similar actually, with just some variations. Still, you will find that each specific kind of diet works best for different types of people.

The general purpose of these diets is to lose weight as quickly as possible over a short period of time. You could think of them as sprints as opposed to the marathon of long term dieting. Like sprints, they should not be maintained for the long run. What they can be is a quick jump start to longer term, less restrictive eating plans that will shed pounds - and keep them off.

These quick 3-day diets we are featuring are all low calorie, low carbohydrate meal plans. Starchy foods like bread, potatoes and pasta are extremely limited. They all restrict carbohydrates because this causes you to lose water weight quickly.

The low carbohydrates combined with the the high protein food combinations leads to rapid weight loss. The main differences in the three types of diets we’re looking at lies in the kinds of foods you are allowed to eat.

The Mayo Clinic Diet

This is by far the most popular 3-Day diet. It is also known as the grapefruit diet, because every meal starts by eating half of a large grapefruit.

This diet focuses on eating meat and vegetables - with grapefruit as a starter. For the most part, portion size is not limited, but you are not allowed any bread or dairy. The grapefruit eaten before every meal is supposed to make you eat less because it causes you to feel full easier. Grapefruit is also known to have enzymes that help break down fat.

If you’re a big fan of bread and sweets, this might be difficult to follow. But do keep in mind, it only lasts three days so you just might be able to stick with it and lose a lot of excess pounds in the process.

Cleveland Clinic Diet

Among the three diets featured here, the Cleveland Diet is the most calorie restrictive. However, it also has the biggest variety of food. You get to eat bread, peanut butter and cheese, as well as ice cream, but the amounts you get to eat are very small.

If you like variety and if your food has to be tasty, this is probably going to be the best 3-Day diet for you. Unlike the Mayo Clinic diet though, you probably will not get that full-stomach feeling. Because this is an extremely low calorie diet it is important you do not go beyond the prescribed three days.

Tuna and Water Diet

The Tuna and Water Diet is perhaps the most extreme among these three featured meal plans. For three days, you eat as much water packed tuna as you like, along with drinking as much water as you can. But that’s all - no other food allowed.

The upside of this diet is that it is the fastest way to lose weight. The downside: many people cannot handle eating this limited variety of food, even for just three days. If you can stick to it, like some people have, you cannot, under any circumstances, do this for more than three days without risking health consequences.

So now that you have a general idea about these popular 3-Day diets, you should choose one that suits your preferences and lifestyle. Do remember not to go past three days on such limited calorie intake.

But after getting your desired quick weight loss, you should maintain it with a sensible long-term eating plan - that’s best combined with good old exercise.