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Scarsdale Diet Stuck In The Seventies
By Omar Maskori | October 2, 2008
The Scarsdale Diet Plan was designed about 30 years ago in the 1970’s.
In typical crash diet fashion it drastically cuts down your calories and starves you for one to two weeks.
After that you go on a maintenance phase that is less strict which lasts for another two weeks. If you still need to lose more weight after that you have to repeat the starvation cycle.
Scarsdale Diet Menu
Here is a typical day on this eating plan:
Breakfast
1/2 grapefruit
1 piece of toast
coffee
Lunch
fruit salad (unlimited)
coffee
Supper
lean meat
vegetables (unlimited)
Ouch!
You barely get any calories!
The vegetables and fruits don’t provide many calories so your body has to survive off of a piece of toast and a piece of meat for the entire day.
I’d be willing to bet that you will lose weight on the Scarsdale Medical Diet simply from the extreme lack of calories.
Don’t get excited.
What will also happen is your metabolism will grind to a halt from the serious caloric restriction (yes, even after just a short amount of time)… and then what happens next?
I’ll tell you… you will gain back all the weight you lost and then some.
You see, your metabolism will be slower than it was before you started the diet. So you will quickly gain back the lost weight and then start gaining fat… faster than ever before!
Yay for crash diets!
To lose weight you have to eat less calories than you burn up (but don’t starve yourself). And stay away from silly crash diets!
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