Healthy Food Choices for the 3 Day Diet

The 3 Day Diet is a very regimented diet plan that consists of one thousand calories. Learn how to make healthy food choices for the 3 Day Diet from a licensed dietician and nutritionist in this health and nutrition video.

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Follow regimen
Eat 3 meals
Include fruit, whole grains, starches, vegetables & protein
Limit sugars

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Christine E. Marquette is a registered and licensed Dietician with the Austin Regional Clinic in Austin, TX. She conducts nutrition therapy for ages 2 and up for all dietary needs.

The author of the three-day diet is not known, but this diet plan has been circulating on the Internet for several years. It's a very regimented plan consisting of three days that have three specific meals consisting of about 1000 calories. It must be followed precisely. At the end of the three days, you can resume normal eating for four to five days, and then restart the diet plan as you desire. What the typical plan consists of breakfast and lunch, both include either black coffee or tea and you're allowed one or two packets of Sweet'N Low. The breakfast meal always includes one fruit, one starch, and then a combination of protein and fat. So, for example, the day one breakfast would include half of a grapefruit, it would include a piece of toast, and then it would also include a tablespoon of peanut butter. Your lunch on that day would also include a piece of toast and it would include about half a cup of tuna. You could also have, again, your one or two packets of Sweet'N Low with the black coffee or the tea. Your dinner meal on that day will include a protein, a starch, two vegetables, and a fruit. It could be any source of lean protein. Your vegetables could be of any type of non-starchy vegetables, things like broccoli, carrots, cabbage, that type of thing. And then, the fruit it's going to stick with either half a banana, an apple, or half of a grapefruit.

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