The Mayo Diet

The Mayo diet became very popular in the 80's, and it should be noted that it's not for those who do not like eggs, because you are not allowed to eat very much else but eggs for a full two weeks. But it can result is a weight loss of 5-7 pounds very quickly and has been proven effective.

How the diet works:

The mayo diet is a very restrictive diet that must follow for 14 days. The number of calories you eat each day should not exceed 1000. You have to give up most foods: fat, sugar, milk and fruits (except grapefruit). The grapefruit is part of this diet because it helps you to burn fat.

The same goes for eggs. With this diet is recommended six eggs per day, as eggs are high in protein but low in calories and help you to lose weight.

A typical day of the diet:

For breakfast: grapefruit, 2 boiled eggs, unsweetened tea or coffee without sugar, a biscuit or roll.

Lunch: 2 eggs (cooked without fat) or 100g lean meat (again cooked without fat), tomatoes (one piece), grapefruit and tea without sugar.

At dinner: two eggs, a green salad, celery, cucumber (how many you want), toast and unsweetened tea.

Advantages:

You can lose 5 to 7 pounds in two weeks if you keep to the diet every day. The diet is also very cheap, easy to follow and requires little cooking. And because of such low-calorie diet, you lose a lot of weight in a short time.

Disadvantages:

This diet should be followed for a full 14 days, putting your metabolism in danger because of very low number of calories you consume each day. Deficiency of protein, calcium, vitamins and potassium is inevitable.

You'll be tired in these 14 days because the body tends to take the energy it needs from adipose tissue (fat tissue), but also from the muscle tissue and bone. Eggs are rich in cholesterol, which can damage the cardiovascular system. You will be very hungry.

Our advice:

It's strongly recommended that you check with your doctor or nutritionist before beginning on the diet.

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