The 3-Day Diet and Why No One Should Ever Consider It

Fad diets are a dime a dozen and, no matter how hard nutritionists try to talk people out of sticking to them, the truth is, they will always have a constant “fanbase.” The 3-day diet also falls in this category, promising easy weight loss with minimum effort and in record time. What it does actually is nothing short of starving the dieter and then deceiving them into believing what was lost was real fat, That’s Fit says in a review of the diet.

The 3-Day Diet consists of a very strict eating plan that must be followed to the letter for three whole days. The regime is then discontinued for another few days and can be picked up again if the results obtained are not enough. During those three days of dieting, no snacks are allowed and certainly no cheating, so this means that, what it lacks in terms of flexibility, the diet makes up for it when it comes to quick results. Another thing worthy of being mentioned about this diet is that it too claims to be based on scientific facts.

The truth of the matter is, sadly, that there is no evidence to support the claims the 3-Day Diet makes, no matter how many say they’ve tried it and can vouch for the mind blowing results it returns. Whatever is lost in terms of weight is not fat as supporters of this eating plan would have us believe but rather water. Worst case scenario, instead of burning fat, the body tries to defend itself by attacking the muscle, which inevitably results in feeling weak and deprived of energy. The 3-Day Diet is nothing short of coming out with a way of starving oneself while pretending one is taking up a much healthier lifestyle, the aforementioned e-zine concludes, which is why no one should even consider it.

“With every meal explained to the letter, you might think this classic fad diet must be a perfectly crafted formula capable of helping you shed unwanted weight in record time. The truth is, the only thing you can expect to do on it is starve. According to nutritionists, the 3-Day Diet is nothing more than a low-calorie, low-carb program that restricts how much you eat each day. By limiting your calorie intake to levels far below what the American Dietetic Association recommends, your body turns to whatever it can for fuel. One might think that would be body fat, but what usually gets shed is lean muscle tissue instead, which only lowers your body’s resting metabolism (so you end up burning less calories all day long). To make matters worse, placing your body in starvation mode using the diet only scares it into storing any calories it does take in as unwanted fat,” That’s Fit writes.

Nutritionists agree that there is no real science behind this diet and that all it does is starve the body, falling short of 1,000 calories a day, way below the minimum daily requirements. “There is simply nothing nutritionally balanced about this program from start to finish,” one such expert says for the aforementioned e-zine.