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The Hot Dog Diet
Chow down on hot dogs and lose weight in 3 days!
BACKGROUND
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Criticized as one of the more bizarre fad diets around, The Hot Dog Diet is a three-day diet that is rumored to help you lose up to 10 pounds. If you think you’re going to be scarfing down chili dogs for lunch and frankfurters for dinner though, think again.
The Hot Dog Diet is a strict eating plan that allows you to eat just a few hot dogs over the course of the 3 days in addition to ice cream, peanut butter and eggs. These foods are believed to increase metabolism so that you burn calories more quickly and consequently lose weight.
PRO
- May help you lose weight
- Idea of eating hot dogs and losing weight sounds enticing (and bizarre)
CON
- Very low in calories
- Contains little fruits or vegetables
- Weight gain may be as quick as weight lost
- Little to no nutrients
- Creator is unknown
- The definition of a fad diet
- There does not appear to be any appear an "official" source of information about this diet
DIET and NUTRITION
While on The Hot Dog Diet, you’ll be consuming a meager 600 calories a day. The diet is very strict eating plan that is low in carbohydrates. On day one, you can expect to eat a piece of toast, two tablespoons of peanut, half a grapefruit and black coffee for breakfast. Lunch is ½ cup of tuna and one slice of toast and dinner is 2 hot dogs, 1 cup of string beans and beets each, one small apple and one cup of vanilla ice cream.
EXERCISE
There are no exercise guidelines given in The Hot Dog Diet.
CONCLUSION
The Hot Dog Diet is a very low calorie diet that may also go by other names like Three-Day Diet, 3-Day Diet, Kaiser 3-Day Diet, 3-Day Navy Diet, and 3-Day Army Diet or the Three-Day Cleveland Clinic Diet, even though it has no connection to The Cleveland Clinic. This deprivation-like diet may help you to lose weight but much of that weight may be due to water rather than actual fat loss so you are likely to gain it all back once you resume your regular eating habits.
Common Mispellings
Hot Dog Diet, 3-Day Hot Dog Diet, Hot Dog Deit, Three-Day Diet, 3-Day Diet, Kaiser 3-Day Diet, 3-Day Navy Diet, and 3-Day Army Diet, The Three-Day Cleveland Clinic Diet
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User Feedback
(Page 1 of 1, 9 total comments)Merle and Sophia
We are obsessed with this diet. We lost 40 pounds in a month! Our favorite meal was the cottage cheese! Wish we could've eaten it for all meals! We recommend this diet to all over weight people! You eat all the food you want and you lose weight!
posted Dec 14th, 2011 12:52 amterry
Are you aware that you have misspelled "mispellings"?
posted Sep 15th, 2010 2:53 pmClaire
I did this diet a few tears ago and was amazed at the results. I lost 10 lbs the 1st week and continued with less drastic results (5-6) the weeks that followed. I changed jobs and messed up my routine so fellaway from the diet. Now I am looking for a copy of the diet to start it again. Please help.
posted May 9th, 2010 5:53 pmstevie
Are the beets mandatory? Cant you substitute with another vegetable?
posted Apr 19th, 2010 6:42 pmMaryann
I have tried sooooo many diets, But I have heard really good feedback on this one Today is my second day....and I feel good!!!Wish me luck!!!
posted Mar 23rd, 2010 7:32 pmfaira
I did this diet a really long time ago and lost 15 pounds. Luckily, I kept it off through exercise. Now, back to my old weight, I have decided to try this diet again. I'm on the first day, and things are going well...I'm hoping to at least shed 30 pounds with exercise. So, we will see how it goes! Wish me luck!
posted Mar 22nd, 2010 7:32 pmeq
I tried this diet and it works. My husband and I each lost 5 lbs every time we tried it. A co-worker lost 25 lbs over 4 weeks of sticking to this diet for Monday-Wednesday, then going back to his normal routine on the days between. My mom dropped 15 lbs in 3 weeks doing the same.
posted Oct 27th, 2009 4:53 pmAdmittedly, it's not for long term, nor is it lifestyle-changing. However, if you aren't the type to commit to those kind of programs, then at least this takes the pounds off and gives some sense of success to anyone willing to follow it exactly for three days.
ldorval
I did not like eating the cottage. That was the hardest lunch for me
posted Sep 23rd, 2009 7:55 pmMichelle Johnson
It work for me it gave me a jump start
posted Feb 22nd, 2009 6:42 pm