The 3 Day Chemical Breakdown Diet has been called by many other names such as the 3 day heart diet, the Mayo Clinic Diet, and the Cleveland Clinic Diet. Don’t be fooled by any of these names because it is simply a very low calorie fad diet. There’s no magical chemical breakdown in the 3 day chemical breakdown diet.
That said, the 3 day chemical breakdown diet is useful for losing about 5 pounds in a very short amount of time. It is a modified fast that allows you to have about 750 calories a day. Of course, this isn’t sustainable over time, but if you are looking to lose a small amount of weight in a very short period, it can be a godsend.
On most sites promoting the diet, you will find warnings that you must follow the stated rules because the foods work in concert to break down fat. There is absolutely no scientific evidence for this. Instead, as I mentioned before, this diet works because it has very low calories. Any 750 calorie diet will do the same.
Still, the 3 day chemical breakdown diet provides a nutritious balance of foods for the 750 calories that you do get. If you are going to try to go on a modified fast, you can do worse than the 3 day chemical breakdown diet.
Here’s the meal plan on the diet:
Day 1:
Breakfast
1/2 Grapefruit or Juice
1 Slice of Toast
1 tbsp. Peanut Butter
Black Coffee or Tea
Lunch
1/2 cup Tuna
1 Slice Toast
Black Coffee or Tea
Dinner
2 Slices (3 oz.) of any Meat
1 cup String Beans
1 cup Carrots or Beets
1 small Apple
1 cup Vanilla Ice Cream
Day 2
Breakfast
1 hard-boiled Egg
1 Slice of Toast
1/2 Banana
Black Coffee or Tea
Lunch
1 cup Cottage Cheese
or: 1/2 cup Tuna
5 Saltine Crackers
Dinner
2 Wieners
1 cup Cabbage or Broccoli
1/2 cup Carrots
?? or Turnip Greens
1/2 Banana
1 cup Vanilla Ice Cream
Day 3 on the 3 day Chemical Diet looks like this:
Breakfast:
1 hard-boiled Egg
1 Slice Toast
Black Coffee or Tea
Lunch:
1 Slice Cheddar Cheese
5 Saltine Crackers
1 small Apple
Black Coffee or Tea
Dinner:
1 cup Tuna
1 cup Carrots or Beets
1 cup Green Beans
?? or Cauliflower
1 cup Cantaloupe
?? or 1 small Apple
1 cup Vanilla Ice Cream
Do you have a big date Saturday night? Go on the 3 day chemical diet on Tuesday and watch the results. You’ll finally be able to fit into your skinny jeans. Want to knock them dead at your 10 year high school reunion? You’ll make them wish they had voted you prom queen when you go on the 3 day chemical diet.
But, as a lifestyle solution, the program is simply too limited in calories to be sustainable. Women need a minimum of 1200 calories a day over the long haul just to function.
You’ll be hungry on the 3 day chemical diet. And, that is manageable for three days. But long term, you should try a more balanced diet plan.
Posted in Video on May 19, 2012
Video: This exercise primarily targets the tricep muscle, but will also workout your chest and shoulders.
Posted in Recipe on May 18, 2012
Ingredients
2/3 cup chicken broth
1 tsp cornstarch
1 tbsp minced garlic, divided
3 tsp extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1/4-1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
1 pound raw shrimp (21-25 per pound), peeled and deveined
1/4 tsp salt, divided
4 cups broccoli florets
2/3 cup water
2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
1 tsp lemon juice
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Lemon wedges
Directions
Combine chicken broth, cornstarch and half the garlic in a bowl; whisk until smooth.
Heat 1-1/2 tsp oil in a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat.
Add remaining garlic and crushed red pepper. Cook while stirring for about 30 seconds. Add shrimp. Saut until shrimp are pink, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
Add remaining oil to the pan. Add broccoli and a pinch of salt. Cook for 1 minute.
Add water, cover and cook until broccoli is crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Transfer to the bowl with shrimp.
Add chicken stock mixture to the pan and cook, stirring, over medium-high heat, until thickened, 3-4 minutes.
Stir in basil and season with lemon juice and pepper. Add shrimp and broccoli; heat through. Serve with lemon wedges.
(Makes 4 Servings)
There are several ways that you can concentrate on your chest using Dumbbell Presses. Each of these different ways allows you to strengthen your chest muscles and surrounding muscle groups. One of the easiest ways to use Dumbbell Presses is to use the Ball Incline set up.
The Ball Incline Dumbbell Press allows you to use an exercise ball to steady and support your spine allowing you to exercise your chest without compromising your back. Settle the middle of your back into the ball with your feet flat on the floor in a semi squat position. Once you feel full stable and comfortable you can then use the weights. Bring your elbows down so that the weights and your wrists are level with your shoulders, then using your arms push the weights up above your head with your arms and elbows locked before you bring them back down and repeat. No matter what weights you are using it is always best to have a buddy with you which are often called ?spotters?. These spotters are people that are with you to help you if you need it whilst you are using the weights. During this particular exercise your spotter should hold the ball steady for you if you need it and/or be there to help you if your arms get tired.
Another technique is the Seated Dumbbell Press which concentrates on your shoulders and chest. Always ensure, specifically when dealing with weights to have a spotter with you for your own safety. Sitting on a bench with a straight back make sure that you have chosen weights that are manageable and not overboard. Choosing weights that are manageable is important for your own safety, lifting weights that are too heavy for you will rip your muscles and damage them. Ensuring your form is correct is also important as incorrect form can damage other muscles. The spotter can tell you if your form is incorrect or slips at anytime. As before make sure that you keep your arms locked and straight when lifting.
The other technique is to use a Flat Dumbbell Press to exercise your chest. Using a bench which is in the flat position and dumbbell weights that are not too heavy, you need to keep your feet flat on the floor and when lifting lock your arms. Ensure that your wrists come in line with your shoulders before you push up in your lift this makes sure that you are exercising your chest fully. Each movement needs to be controlled and done slowly, your spotter will be there to talk you through each lift so that you are minimizing your chances of hurting yourself if your chest gets tired or you need to change the weight amount on the dumbbells.
As with any kind of exercise making sure that you stretch before and after the exercises is important as this too minimizes the changes of any muscle strain injuries which can occur if you do not stretch before and after. Your spotter can also help you with this.
So the Chinese have had green tea now for around 4,000 years. They’re keen with herbs and stuff, and they stick with green tea’s ability to help you lose weight. Case in point: the Japanese. Their society is literally addicted to green tea, with local demand pushing the local supply of high-grade green tea to the limit. And if you notice, it’s rare to find overweight Japanese. And they attest it all to their insatiable thirst for green tea.
So here’s the question: are green tea weight loss diets plausible?
The quick answer to that question is a resounding yes! Whether through drinking green tea or through dietary supplements, green tea weight loss diets revolve around the time-tested reliability of green tea to help in weight reduction.
Green tea weight loss: The Scientific Studies
The Study:
There is this physiologist, William Rumpler, who’s currently investigating the effects of green tea on the energy expenditure and fat oxidation of the body when exposed to green tea. In English, that means your body’s generation of energy for you to work and the tendency to burn up fat for fuel. Both are ways for you to lose weight.
The only weight-reducing component that they’ve identified in green tea is the caffeine. However, when they had other subjects consume caffeinated water instead of full-strength green tea, they experienced some strange results. Not surprisingly, the subjects who took full-strength green tea had significantly greater energy expenditure and fat oxidation levels in their body.
The Implications:
All they could do is attribute the weight-loss effects of green tea to confounding variables. Simply put, this means that they don’t know what the heck it is in green tea that helps people lose weight. The only thing the scientists are sure about is that it helps you lose weight. More studies in this field will probably isolate what makes you lose weight when you drink green tea.
But no matter what research will yield, they’ve already proven the fact that green tea weight loss diets work. And that’s what really counts.
The Bonuses:
Other related studies about green tea indicate that not only will you lose weight, but you’ll also have a healthier life in the process: antioxidants help clean up the damaging free radicals that float around in your body, your intestinal track is less likely to absorb excess cholesterol, and your risk to get cancer is significantly lowered.
What more could you ask from green tea weight loss diets? You get what you want and even more, all for just drinking a couple of cups a day!
The Wrap-up
Green tea weight loss diets not only help you lose weight, but you’re losing it naturally and healthily. There’s no need to take in chemical poisons to lose weight; no need to undergo surgical procedures that’ll cost a small fortune and create a scar on your body. All you need is a healthy lifestyle complemented by a green tea weight loss diet, and you’re sure to go down the road to a slim and healthy future.
Mull about it over a cup of green tea.
Do you say “I want to lose my belly fat?” Do you have unsightly love handles? Do you even have a pot belly? Well, you don’t have to suffer any longer. You can have a flat stomach and no longer have to say I want to lose my belly fat.
There are several reasons why you have accumulated fat in your belly. The trick to “I want to lose my belly fat” lies in controlling the intake of the products which add to your belly fat while taking the precautionary measures that allow you to lose all of your belly fat fast. You can get slim and slender.
There are several substantive suggestions I have to the dilemma “I want to lose my belly fat.”
1. Do sit ups. Sit ups and crunches are the easiest and probably the most effective way to lose belly fat fast. You will achieve the desired results in no time. All fat is just stored energy. Therefore, in order to lose belly fat, you need to burn more calories than you consume. In order to get the best results, you need to do sit ups which are the single most effective exercise. They work on almost all body types.
2. Next, cut out the fried stuff. In order to get washboard abs, you need to cut out some kinds of foods. Fried foods will put on belly fat faster than any other kind of caloric intake. Fried foods mostly contain empty calories which are poor in nutrient value. They only provide you with calories which add to your belly fat.
3. Don’t snack between meals. Snacking is one of the best (or worst) ways to stack up that belly fat. And, late night eating is the worst kind of snacking. When you consume your calories during the day, you have a chance to burn them off. But, when you eat at night, you go to sleep and that food just sits in your stomach. Additionally, when you eat at night, you tend to engage in mindless snacking. You’ll start out with a whole bag of chips and after an hour of television, half is gone. When you snack, you are not being mindful of your food which leads you to have to say “I want to lose my belly fat.”
4. Burn it off. As I mentioned earlier, belly fat is unused energy. It accumulates in the form of fat in the stomach area. If you want to get rid of belly fat, you have to burn off more calories than you take in. All kinds of aerobic exercise is good for burning belly fat. This can include walking, running, cycling, or working out on a cardio machine at the gym. But even working basic activities like taking the stairs instead of the elevator at work or parking in the furthest lot when going to the mall can help.
If you find yourself saying “I want to lose my belly fat,” follow the four suggestions in this article and you will soon find yourself with the flat stomach that you have longed for.
Posted in Recipe on May 14, 2012
Ingredients
1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
5 pound rump of beef
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
2 sweet onions, sliced
2 carrots, peeled and cubed
Herbs and other seasonings as desired (I like Tarragon)
1 cup liquid (1/2 wine and 12 beef broth)*
Other vegetables if desired (like potatoes or mushrooms)
Directions
Season the flour with the salt and pepper and pound the mixture into the meat. Brown meat on all sides in the hot oil. Add the onions, cover and cook over low heat 10 minutes. Add the carrots, herbs, seasonings and liquid. Cover tightly and simmer 3 1/2 – 5 hours, until meat is fork tender. Add desired vegetables during the last 20 or 30 minutes.
Posted in Recipe on May 13, 2012
Ingredients
1 large or two medium fresh vine ripe tomatoes, diced
1 large poblano pepper, firm and dark green in color
1/2 cup or less cilantro, chopped fine
1 large sweet onion like Vidalia, chopped
juice of 1 large lime
1 clove of garlic (2 cloves if you are a garlic lover)
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Directions
Combine all ingredients and place in an airtight container in refrigerator to meld flavors together. Enjoy on all kinds of meat, poultry and fish or as a dipper for baked tortilla chips. This milder version can even be used on sandwiches without masking other flavors.
Posted in Recipe on May 12, 2012
Ingredients
1 – 8 ounce package fat-free cream cheese (at room temperature)
1 – 2 1/2 ounce jar dried beef (finely chopped)
3 finely chopped green onion tops
2 tablespoons pickle relish
Directions
Cream soft cream cheese and 1/2 of the chopped dried beef. Add the green onion and pickle relish. Mix well. Form into ball and chill mixture in a covered container for 1 to 2 hours. Remove from the container and roll in the rest of the dried beef. Let stand at room temp for 30 minutes before serving with crackers.
Posted in Recipe on May 11, 2012
Ingredients
2 cups diced peeled pitted ripe but firm peaches
1 cup diced unpeeled hothouse cucumber (English kind is best)
3/4 cup diced red bell pepper
1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons apricot preserves
1 teaspoon chopped canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce.
Directions
Mix all ingredients in medium bowl. Season salsa to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Stir to blend before serving.)
