The 3 Day Chemical Breakdown Diet

The idea behind a 3 day chemical breakdown diet is to use the proper combination of food to lose weight as quickly as possible. Which sounds like a lovely idea, but there are a lot of questions as to whether the combination of foods has anything to do with it.

There are scientists on both sides of the fence about the 3 day chemical breakdown diet. Some believe that the proper combination of foods creates a mix of enzymes that optimizes fat loss. Other believe that since food is broken down to its most basic combination before entering the bloodstream, the exact combination of foods used in the 3 day chemical breakdown diet is irrelevant.

Generally speaking, claims of as much as six to ten pounds lost on the 3 day chemical breakdown diet are not uncommon. There’s no question that the diet will absolutely cause you to lose weight quickly, it’s just the reasons why that are in question.

There are three reasons that the 3 day chemical breakdown diet will help you lose weight, even if the idea that a specific mix of chemicals in food will help you lose weight. One, it’s very high in fiber compared to most diets, which will help clean out your gut. Two, even with the ice cream and peanut butter, the 3 day chemical breakdown diet is low in carbohydrates, which will cause you to lose water weight. And third, it’s low in calories, which will help you lose fat.

The usual menu for the 3 day chemical breakdown diet looks like this:

Day One

Breakfast

½ of a whole grapefruit or 4 ounces of grapefruit juice, unsweetened
1 slice of toast with a teaspoon of peanut butter

Lunch

1/2 cup of water packed tuna
1 slice of toast

Dinner

A quarter pound of any meat
1 cup of string beans
1 cup of carrots, cooked or raw
1 small apple
1 cup of vanilla ice cream

Day Two

Breakfast

1 hard-boiled egg
1 slice of toast with a teaspoon of peanut butter
or
1/2 Banana with a teaspoon of peanut butter

Lunch

1 cup of cottage cheese
5 plain crackers

Dinner

2 hot dogs
1 cup of cauliflower
1/2 cup of carrots, cooked or raw
or
1/2 banana
1 cup of vanilla ice cream

Day Three

Breakfast

1 hard-boiled egg
1 slice of toast
I piece of cheddar cheese

Lunch

1 slice of cheddar cheese
5 plain crackers
1 small apple

Dinner

1 cup of water packed tuna
1 cup of beets
1 cup green beans
1 cup cantaloupe
1 cup of vanilla ice cream

As you can see, the diet is high in vegetables and low in starches, which makes it a fairly healthy diet. The only real problem with the 3 day chemical breakdown diet is that it’s very low in calories, usually less 1,000 per day, which makes it unsafe to stay on long term. But for quick weight loss over the short term, the 3 day chemical breakdown diet is one of the best available.