The 3-Day Diet

There is a new diet that has recently gotten extremely popular, the seemly magical 3 Day Diet.  Where you can diet for 3 days lose 10 pounds and then go back to your regular eating habits, and essentially lose 30 pounds in three weeks.  Does is sound to good to be true?  Well check it out:

DAY 1
Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water 1/2 Grapefruit or Juice 1 slice toast with 1 Tbsp. Peanut Butter	1/2 Cup of Tuna 1 slice toast Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water	3 oz. any lean meat 1 cup green beans 1 cup carrots 1 cup vanilla ice cream 1 medium apple Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water
DAY 2
Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water 1 egg (any style) 1 slice toast 1 banana	1 cup cottage cheese or tuna 5 saltine crackers Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water	2 beef franks or hot dogs 1/2 cup carrots 1 banana 1 cup broccoli or cabbage 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water
DAY 3
Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water 5 regular saltine crackers 1 oz.(slice) cheddar cheese 1 apple	1 hard boiled egg 1 slice toast Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water	1 cup tuna 1 cup carrots 1 cup cauliflower 1 cup melon 1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream Black coffee or tea (Sweet & Low or Equal) or water

According to the "experts" the combination of the food and liquids in this diet causes a "unique metabolic reaction" that shocks your body and causes a drastic weight loss.  And because of the bounce back to the regular diet your metabolism retriggers, and you start the shock in your metabolism at the beginning of the week again. But I'll give you my experience with this diet.
It was a quick weight loss program that was working for a while.  While undergoing this diet I lost a total of 20 pounds, but it wasn't from the "unique metabolic reaction" it was from the sudden cut in calories.  I would cut calories for three days, lose 10 pounds and in the next four days gain five pounds back.  This diet is an unhealthy that causes an unhealthy routine called yo-yo weight, the quick and sudden changes in your weight is unhealthy for your body because your body will never become regulated to a weight.
Although it is okay to do in the short run, it should not be done in the long run.
For more information check out:
http://www.everydiet.org/diet/3-day-diet

Pros:

• Decent weight loss in a short amount of time.
• You can go back to a normal diet after three days of torture.

Cons: 

• Yo-Yo Weight
• Three Days of a hard Diet
• You have to be extremely careful, after the three days of dieting, because if you let yourself go on the next four days, you can gain back all of the weight you have worked so hard to lose.