My experience with the Military Diet

I tried out a new diet that I would like to share with everyone. Before I start, please keep in mind this is just my experience with it. I am not telling you what you should eat by any means, just putting my experience out there to help others out. Please speak with your doctor first :)

Now, I found this diet on Pinterest a few months back and it immediately caught my attention. The caption read, "3 day military diet, lose 10 lbs in 3 days! It really works!" I thought that sounded way to good to be true, and unhealthy considering it's really only healthy to lose about 2 lbs a week. I had a baby a year ago still with a good amount of baby weight so I looked deeper into this diet. The reviews were oustanding! Not very many people actually lost 10 lbs in one week, but a lot of them lost 4, 5 and even 7 lbs! I decided to give it a try.  Why not? It's only 3 days! You can do anything for 3 days! I will go through what the diet consists of, then give you my results and thoughts on it. 

Day 1:

Breakfast: half a grapefruit, one piece of toast, (I used wheat) 2 tbsp peanut butter and a cup of tea. They didn't specify which kind so I used green tea.

Lunch: half a cup of tuna, one piece of toast and 1 cup of tea

Dinner: 3 oz if any kind of meat, (I used chicken) 1 cup of green beans, a small apple, half of a banana and 1 cup of vanilla ice cream. I didn't take any pictures of the ice cream because I save that until an hour later as my little treat :)

Day 2:

Breakfast: 1 egg, (I scrambled) one piece of toast and half of a banana 

Lunch: 1 hard boiled egg, 1 cup of cottage cheese and 5 saltine crackers. This plate was pretty bland all together so I substituted the cottage cheese for some vanilla yogurt. You can find all of the substitutions on the military diet website, if you don't like something!

Dinner: 2 hot dogs, (no bun) 1 cup of broccoli (I steamed mine), half a cup of carrots, half of a banana and half a cup of vanilla ice cream

Day 3: 

Breakfast: A small apple, a slice of cheese and 5 saltine crackers

Lunch: 1 egg made however you like and a piece of toast. I forgot to take a picture for this one but I'm pretty sure you know what this looks like ;)

Dinner: 1 cup of tuna, half of a banana and 1 cup of vanilla ice cream

I did this the first time and only lost 2 lbs. at first I was bummed out but then I thought, wow, that actually seems healthy, and you can't beat 2 lbs in 3 days when the scale hadn't budged in months. The way this diet works is you do the diet for 3 days, the 4 days off making sure you watch what you eat, and then you can start it again the next week. I did another week and lost 4 lbs! I did it another week and lost 3 lbs. I am now down 15 lbs in 2 months and I'd say that's pretty good! And not unhealthy. I never felt starved on this diet. You kind of feel like it the first time because you are so restricted with what you can't eat, so you get intense cravings that make you feel starving. Read all about it on military diet.com, they have all the information you need. I like this diet because you really get all your fruits and vegetables, you learn self control, it's easy to follow, it's cheap, and it worked for me! If you feel like you can't kick the last 10 or 20 lbs, try this diet! Let me know if it worked for you!