Diet A-Z: Grapefruit Diet (the) - What, Why and Review

Background

The grapefruit diet originates from 1930’s Hollywood where the stars of the day would (much like the stars of today) try any crazy sounding fad diet to lose a lot weight, quickly. The idea was to eat a couple of slices of grapefruit before each of the three main meals of the day. Your meals were meant to be Atkins type foods - high in protein low on fiber. You were also not allowed to eat any snacks in between your meals. Follow this and In ten days you would lose ten pounds! At least that was the claim. However recent studies could not prove that grapefruit really did help with weight loss and almost ruined this diet… but even more recent studies have shown that it really does make weight fly off. So does it really help? Will you really lose weight on the grapefruit diet?  Well i tried it for 10 days and have the results…

How do i go on the Grapefruit Diet? - A Days Diet Plan

Well your going to need quite a lot of grapefruits - half a grapefruit before each meal. I did not have access to enough grapefruits for my weeks plan so replaced them with a full, medium glass, of pure grapefruit juice which i was informed would work almost as well.

Breakfast

Half a grapefruit - Followed by:

Bacon and egg

or

Omelette

Lunch

Half a grapefruit - Followed by:

Chicken salad

or

Stir Fry

Dinner

Half a grapefruit - Followed by:

Salmon and veg

or

Steak, egg and salad

Additional Rules

Drink eight glasses of water each day (or there about depending on your body size.

Eat your meals slowly but eat until you are full.

No white vegetables, bread, pasta, potatoes etc.

Go on the diet for 10 or 12 days, then two day off, then 10 or 12 days again.

Results

I went on the grapefruit diet for 10 days and did not repeat and I lost ….. 5 and a half pounds! I was really pleased with this as i have about 30 pounds to lose. I did not choose to repeat because i really did not enjoy going on the atkins diet after three weeks and this is so similar… well it put me off staying on it. I think its the fiber i miss so much.

Atkins Comparison and Conclusion

Comparing it with the Atkins diet, if i recall, i lost six pounds in two weeks/14 days. So the grapefruit diet beats it, slightly. My exercise regime is pretty similar as to when i was on the Atkins diet (almost non existent :s ) as was my starting weight. So im going to go for a big conclusion here and say that grapefruit really does help with weight loss! Perhaps it was down to me being quite full when i started my meal thanks to drinking a full glass of juice and i just didn’t eat as much because of it. Or perhaps its because grapefruit gets your metabolism pumping away, or helps your stomach acids or is just a very magic fruit… Either way its worth trying, especially if you were already considering going on Atkins.