Healthy Food Choices for the Grapefruit Diet

The Grapefruit Diet allows a person to eat half a grapefruit with each meal. Learn how to make healthy food choices for the Grapefruit Diet from a licensed dietician and nutritionist in this health and nutrition video.

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Eat grapefruit with other foods
Several phases
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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 current grapefruit diet includes half a serving of grapefruit at each one of your meals. However, it is not just a purely grapefruit or grapefruit juice diet. Your first meal is very regimented. It includes that half a grapefruit as well as two eggs and two slices of bacon, and it's purported that you have to consume these particular foods. You can't limit them. You have to eat both eggs and both slices of bacon. Your second meal, lunch, also includes half of the grapefruit, but in addition, it includes any type of meat that you want in an unlimited quantity as well as a salad with whatever type of dressing that you would like. Your dinner meal again includes half of the grapefruit, again, unlimited amounts meat, and any type of vegetable as long as it is either green, yellow, or red. So that would include things like bell peppers, any type of bell peppers whether it was the gold, the red, or the green, as well as salad-type vegetables, red onion, that type of thing. For your last meal, it's actually a snack and this, similar to the first meal, is portion controlled. It would be actually one glass of tomato juice or one glass of skim milk.

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