1. Still Popular After all These Years
The Scarsdale Diet is best selling book written by Dr. Herman Tarnowner in the 1970s. The book, which is still in print, claims that dieters can lose 20 pounds in two weeks. No wonder it sold like hotcakes. The diet is precisely balanced meals that contain 43% protein, 22.5% fat and 34.5% carbohydrates. Your total calorie intake for the day is around 1000 calories, about half the daily recommendation for most people. After phase one (first two weeks) dieters eat a few more calories as part of the "keep trim" phase.
2. Grapefruit is King on the Scarsdale Diet
Grapefruit is synonymous with dieting, thanks to the Scarsdale Diet. A typical breakfast on the Scarsdale Diet includes a half a grapefruit or other fruit in season, a lean slice of toast and coffee or tea, sans milk, cream or sugar. Lunch is some fish or lean meat, vegetable or salad and a spoonful of olive or sunflower oil for some essential fatty acids. Dieters may only drink water, coffee, tea, club soda and diet soft drinks.
3. Cheating is not Allowed
If dieters want the Scarsdale Diet to works it magic, they must follow it to a tee. There is no in between snacking allowed. In fact, herbal appetite suppressants are encouraged as part of the diet plan. Dieters should also stay away from alcoholic beverages while following the diet program. If you must eat in between meals (weak human that you are), select low calorie vegetables like carrots and celery.
4. It's all About Calories in Versus Calories out
Even though it is a low carb, low fat diet plan, the Scarsdale Diet works because it limits calories. It's as simple as that. You could eat a diet of cupcakes and potato chips and as long as you limit it to 1000 calories a day (that's half a cup cake and a handful of chips) you would still lose weight.
5. Scarsdale Diet was a fad for a Reason
Popular in the 1970s, the Scarsdale Diet, like so many other diet fads, fell out of fashion, largely because it didn't work. However, like bell bottoms and paisley shirts, wait long enough and it will come back into fashion. Today there is a resurgence of Scarsdale Dieters, particularly in Southern France. Medical experts agree that this quick-start diet plan helps people lose water, not weight and once they resume old eating habits, the weight will come right back.
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