Aug 30 2009
Weight Loss With A 3 Day Tuna Diet
Time to lose some weight fast? Then the 3 day tuna diet might be just what you are looking for!
On this diet you will lose weight quickly, but don’t expect any miracles from that as 3 days is not really a long period of time. At least it is be enough time to totally redesign you body. But it’s fine if you need to lose just a few pounds for a special occasion, like a wedding, or when you are in need of a beach body diet for your upcoming holiday.
What food are you going to have on the 3 day tuna diet?
Well, you guessed it ? tuna! Lot’s tuna! There is a version of the 3 day tuna diet where you are allowed to eat small amounts of other food at meal times, like eggs, crackers and vegetables. In other versions you only eat tuna, nothing else. The reason is, that version is actually more like a fast, meaning you create a huge calorie deficit as you eat next to nothing. But with having some small potions of tuna, like 3-5 times 50-100 g of tuna fish, you counteract the back draft of a fast which is that muscle tissue is being destroyed to give the body the amino acids it needs to survive.
The tuna fish portions will provide the protein which is digested into amino acids and your body can then use them for vital functions. Thus your muscle is preserved, which in terms of weight loss is important as muscle tissue is an important contributor to your metabolic rate. And in the end you will want to lose fat, not muscle, don’t you?
Is the 3 day tuna diet for 3 days strictly?
If you can’t put up with 3 days of tuna fish in a row, just do one or two days as a kick start for your weight loss. Or do one tuna diet day per week, that is not so hard to do and it can add up over time. For weight loss the average calorie deficit is important and when you cut 1,500 to 2,000 calories this way in one day and eat reasonable the other days of the week, you are still losing about 1 pound every two weeks! But your specific weight loss depends on your individual amount of calories needed each day to lose weight.
As for going on the 3 day tuna diet for longer than 3 days, rather check with you GP if there are any contraindications health wise for you specifically. People have been on fasts for long periods of time, but I would rather assume that you are not really looking forward to having tuna every day at some stage! Also remember that you are sending your body into starvation mode by keeping the calorie intake too low over a longer period of time.
Conclusions:
Going onto the 3 day tuna diet can serve as good way to jump start your weight loss while preserving your muscle mass. However, as you will not learn any healthy eating habits by following this diet, the harder part of the weight loss comes after the 3 days of tuna, unless you have achieved your weight loss goal by then.
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