Mayo Clinic Fad Diet: What is it?

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. At any meal, you may eat until you are full, or until you cannot eat anymore.

2. Don't eliminate anything from the diet, especially don't skip the bacon at breakfast or omit salads ... it is the combination of foods that burns fat.

3. The grapefruit is important because it acts as a catalyst that starts the burning process.

4. Cut down on coffee, it affects the insulin balance that hinders the burning process. Try to omit 1 cup at mealtime.

5. Don't eat between meals. If you eat the combination of food suggested, you will not get hungry.

6. Important: The diet completely eliminates sugars and starches which are lipids and form fat.

7. Fat does not form fat. It helps burn it so you can fry foods in butter and use butter generously on vegetables.

8. Do not eat desserts, breads, and white vegetables or sweet potatoes. You may have double or triple helpings of meats, salads, or vegetables. Eat until you are stuffed. The more you eat, the more weight you will lose!

9. You can lose 10 pounds in 10 days. There will be no loss the first four days, but you will lose 5 pounds on the 5th day and 1 1/2 pounds every two days until you are where you want to be.

10. Twelve days on the diet ... and then take 2 days off.

11. All soft drinks need to be diet and caffeine free

12. You may not have white onions, potatoes, celery

13. You may have:

red onions
cucumbers
spinach leaf
carrots
bell peppers
broccoli
lettuce
tomatoes
radishes
green onions
cabbage
green beans

14. You can have all the cheese you want except cottage cheese.

 

BREAKFAST:

1/2 grapefruit or unsweetened grapefruit juice
2 eggs any style
2 slices bacon

LUNCH:

1/2 grapefruit or unsweetened grapefruit juice
salad and any dressing
meat, any style, any amount

DINNER:

1/2 grapefruit or unsweetened grapefruit juice
meat, any style, any amount ... fish may be substituted
vegetable, any green or red (cooked in butter or any seasoning) or salad as above

Coffee or tea ... 1 cup

Bedtime snack - 8 oz. glass of tomatoes juice or skim milk.

In 2 1/2 months, you should lose 52 pounds.