Grapefruit Diet

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The rules to be followed when one is on the 12 days grapefruit diet

What are rules that need to be followed:

  1. You must drink eight 8oz. glasses of water daily (64 oz. total per day).
  2. At any meal you may eat until you are full.
  3. You must eat the minimum listed at each meal. (yep, this diet list the minimum you should eat).
  4. You cannot eliminate anything from the grapefruit diet. Especially the bacon at breakfast and the salads. You must eat the bacon and salads. These combinations of food burn the fat, omitting one part of the combination will cause the whole thing not to work.
  5. The grapefruit or grapefruit juice is important because it acts as a catalyst that starts the burning process. Don't add or reduce the amount of grapefruit or juice.
  6. Cut down on coffee take grapefruit or grapefruit juice. Coffee affects the insulin balance that hinders the burning process. Try to limit to 1 cup at meal time.
  7. Don't eat between meals. If you eat the suggested foods and grapefruit and grapefruit juice you will not get hungry.
  8. You can fry food in butter and use butter generously on vegetables.
  9. Do not eat desserts, breads, and white vegetables or sweet potatoes.
  10. You may double or triple helpings of meat, salad or vegetables.
  11. Eat until you are stuffed. The more you eat the more weight you will lose.
  12. Stay on the diet 12 days, then stop the diet for 2 days and repeat for another 12 days..

 

Do and Don't when you are on the Grape fruits diets

The Do's and Dont's of the what you can eat!

Things you May NOT Have

Things You May Have

Red onions White onions
bell peppers Potatoes
Radishes Celery
Broccoli Peas
Cereal Cucumbers
Corn Carrots
Starchy vegetables Green Onions
Leaf Spinach Potato chips
Pasta Cabbage
Peanut Butter Tomatoes
Corn chips Green Beans
Jelly or Jam Lettuce
Sweet pickles Chili (no beans)
Pretzels Mayonnaise (hence the term Mayo diet)
Fruit Any cheese
Low-fat / fat free or diet salad dressings Hot Dogs
  Cole Slaws
  Reg. Salad Dressing
  Green Vegetables
  1 tsp Dried Nuts
  Dill or Bread / Butter Pickles

 

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