Grapefruit Diet

[MegaMike]

Has anyone here ever done the Grapefruit Diet?

During my last year of highschool I went on the diet to drop weight for weightlifting so I could compete in the 199 category, but I weighed 250 lol.

This was me before I went on the diet the first time. ( 250 lbs )



And this was me after the diet ( 190 lbs )



I managed to get myself down to about 190, but has anyone here done this diet? I just wanna know how it worked for yall if anyone tried it.

Since graduation ( 8 months ago ) I'm back up to about 235 so I've decided to go back on the diet so I can trim off another 50 or 60 lbs. But it's so hard to not cheat!! Ugh.

 

[Dana]

that shit aint healthy for you... and thats a very old school diet.

 

[MegaMike]

Tell me more please?

 

[Boomer]

Don't rock that diet man. I lost 65 lbs in 3 months by having a balanced diet and focusing mainly on cardio. Contrary to popular belief, you have to eat to lose. Its not the fact that you're eating that is making you overweight. Its what you are eating and what you're not doing that causes you to gain fat. For instance. I'm steadily losing body fat and gaining mass.. Here's my diet. (Keep in mind I'm using BSN products and supplements)

6am: Protein Shake Lean dessert (powder and water)
6:30am: 3 scoops N.O.-Xplode (training igniter, basically energy drink)
7-8:00am: Train
Cellmass (post training recovery drink) directly after workout
9:00am: 6 eggs (4 whites, 2 yolks), 1/2 cup oat meal, apple 20 ounces water.
Drink 20 ounces of water an hour untill you hit the gallon mark. Then taper down and drink leisurely.
1:00 pm: 8 ounces white meat, 1 cup green veggies, 1 cup white rice.
4: pm: Protein shake lean dessert (milk and powder)
7pm: 8 ounces white meat, 1 cup green veggies, 1 cup brown rice
9pm: Cellmass

Wake up and start it all over again.

Lean dessert is important. Its sweet and curbs your appetite for sweets. It is absolutely delicious! Especially with milk. Cheat once a week. Its ok. Usually once a week I have a burrito with some chips and caso. Thats what I like to cheat with personally. Hit me up if you need any advice. I'll be more than happy to help.

 

[Natasha]

I'm not familiar w/ the grapefruit diet but it doesn't sound particularly healthy or nourishing. I've been doing the South Beach diet since mid-April and have lost 93 pounds. It's not so much a diet as it is a way of life. Only thing that's ever worked for me.

Oh, and I also work out twice a day, 5 times a week.

 

[Dana]

I'm not familiar w/ the grapefruit diet but it doesn't sound particularly healthy or nourishing. I've been doing the South Beach diet since mid-April and have lost 93 pounds. It's not so much a diet as it is a way of life. Only thing that's ever worked for me.

Oh, and I also work out twice a day, 5 times a week.

It's a really old diet really, I think it was conceived in the late 70s... I saw something on it on TV. I've lost almost 100 pounds just portioning and eating healthier food. I cut out a lot of red meat and eat chicken and pasta alot, and gave up chemical laden soda. I do minimal exercise ATM. I do aquatic aerobics 3 times a week. I'll start walking when this snow is gone and the streets are dry.

 

[Dana]

I'm sorry I'm off by 3-4 decades. It was conceived in the 30's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit_diet

 

[Natasha]

It's a really old diet really, I think it was conceived in the late 70s... I saw something on it on TV. I've lost almost 100 pounds just portioning and eating healthier food. I cut out a lot of red meat and eat chicken and pasta alot, and gave up chemical laden soda. I do minimal exercise ATM. I do aquatic aerobics 3 times a week. I'll start walking when this snow is gone and the streets are dry.

To clarify...I know about the grapefruit diet but I'm not familiar w/ the specifics as far as what type of plan you're actually following. I have an occasional steak but everything else I eat is lean meat like turkey and chicken. If I have pasta it's whole wheat...if I have rice it's brown...and if I have potatoes it's sweet potatoes. Any desserts or sweet treats are sugar-free and I have 1 large glass of sweet tea made w/ Splenda per night and the rest of the night I drink water or water w/ sugar-free flavor packets.

So basically you have 3 regular members here who have each lost a nice chunk of weight telling you that the BEST way to do it is a balanced diet. It may not be the FASTEST way in the world, but it's the best way...and changing your eating habits FOR GOOD is the only way you'll ever keep all the weight off.

 

[HottyToddyChick]

I did it Boomer's way and lost almost 30 in about 6 months. But I didn't do cardio- strictly weight lifting.

 

[Dana]

To clarify...I know about the grapefruit diet but I'm not familiar w/ the specifics as far as what type of plan you're actually following. I have an occasional steak but everything else I eat is lean meat like turkey and chicken. If I have pasta it's whole wheat...if I have rice it's brown...and if I have potatoes it's sweet potatoes. Any desserts or sweet treats are sugar-free and I have 1 large glass of sweet tea made w/ Splenda per night and the rest of the night I drink water or water w/ sugar-free flavor packets.

So basically you have 3 regular members here who have each lost a nice chunk of weight telling you that the BEST way to do it is a balanced diet. It may not be the FASTEST way in the world, but it's the best way...and changing your eating habits FOR GOOD is the only way you'll ever keep all the weight off.

wow see I still eat white rice and occasional reg potato but do eat sweet potato and squash. My pasta is usually lean cuisine so it's whatever.

 

[Dana]

I must be an oddity loosing so much weight in 6 months without intensive lifting or cardio.

 

[HottyToddyChick]

I think a lot has to do with your body type and what kind of weight you carried before, and HOW. I've always carried a lot of muscle, and will never be a small person.

 

[Dana]

I think alot of mine was water gain

 

[Natasha]

wow see I still eat white rice and occasional reg potato but do eat sweet potato and squash. My pasta is usually lean cuisine so it's whatever.

It's not allowed on South Beach...it's the only reason I don't. But once you stop eating them you stop craving it, as well. The carbs in white rice and white potatoes just turn to sugar...that's why they're off-limits on SB.

I must be an oddity loosing so much weight in 6 months without intensive lifting or cardio.

It depends. Such a drastic change in eating habits can have severe effects like that. I lost 45 pounds in my first 2 months w/ no exercise.

I think alot of mine was water gain

Probably not as much as you think. Maybe 10 or 15 pounds...definitely nowhere near a LARGE percentage of your loss, though.

 

[MegaMike]

Well I didn't know much of anything about the history behind the diet, but hey, it worked for me.

I lost about 60 lbs in 3 months, and didn't get any fatigue or anything. Along with dieting, I very actively lifted weights, but I had been lifting weights for a long time before I started dieting.

I simply have two slices of bacon for breakfast, some scrambled eggs and a cup of the juice.
For lunch I eat some ( not a lot ) hamburger meat, a can of green beans, and a cup of juice.
For dinner I generally eat the same thing I had at lunch, if I feel like it I'll replace the green beans with tomatoe/garlic salt.

I love me some tomatoe and garlic salt =P And I generally like the food the diet tells me to eat, so aside from the usual craving of sweets, it works pretty well for me.

Aside from grapefruit juice I drink diet, caffiene free Mountain Dew and water.

But yeah, thats what I eat for the entire duration of my diet.

 

[Natasha]

But the "diet" is your problem. You can't change your eating habits for 6 months to lose weight and then go back to your old eating habits and expect to maintain the loss. You have to change your way of eating for life in order to keep it off. IJS.

 

[Boomer]

First first first. Lets get down what you're trying to do. Are you trying to drop body fat quickly? Drop body fat and gain mass? Drop body fat while loosing as least mass as possible? Whatcha up too?

 

[Kyle B]

I'm not familiar w/ the grapefruit diet but it doesn't sound particularly healthy or nourishing. I've been doing the South Beach diet since mid-April and have lost 93 pounds. It's not so much a diet as it is a way of life. Only thing that's ever worked for me.

Oh, and I also work out twice a day, 5 times a week.

93 pounds, that's fantastic!

I personally believe that people should adopt healthy eating habits as well as excersise, and maintain them for life. Basically, instead of viewing weight loss as a string of diets, they should view it as a lifelong change.

 

[Natasha]

93 pounds, that's fantastic!

I personally believe that people should adopt healthy eating habits as well as excersise, and maintain them for life. Basically, instead of viewing weight loss as a string of diets, they should view it as a lifelong change.

Thanks!!! And I absolutely agree w/ you. The only way to lose weight and keep it off is to make a PERMANENT change. If I reach my goal weight and go "oh, okay, I'm down to my goal weight so now I can eat anything I want again" I'll end up right back where I was. NO THANK YOU!!! I don't even think that you have to be as militant as I am when it comes to the gym (twice a day, 5 times a week at the minimum) but I do think you need to walk at least 30 minutes a day, 3 - 5 times a week. The biggest thing that helped me was getting away from that "diet" mentality and thinking of it instead as a new way of life. The fact that my skin is so much softer and smoother just from a frigging change in the types of food I eat was a HUGE wake-up call that said "hey, you were eating real CRAP before...YUCK!!!" LOL