For all those people who know me, I am not one who would go in for any diet or weight reduction or exercises. I am fitness conscious, but not at the sake of my happiness or time or desires!
Having heard a lot about this diet, I just wanted to try this out once and incidentally, a cousin of mine from chennai sent the mail to me about the diet and how it works. Since the both of us are vegetarians, the mail contained the diet in the eyes of a vegetarian and I am reproducing the same here:
GENERAL MOTORS WEIGHT LOSS DIET
The program was developed in conjunction with the grant from the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. It was first tried at the Johns Hopkins Research Centre and was approved for distribution by the Board of Directors of General Motors Corporation at a general meeting on August 15, 1995. This program is designed for a target weight loss of 5-6 Kgs. per week. It will also improve your attitude and emotions because of its systematic cleansing effects. The effectiveness of this seven day plan is that the foods eaten burn more calories than they give to the body in caloric value. This plan can be used as often as you like to without any fear of complications. It is designed to flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well being. After seven days you will begin to feel lighter by atleast 10 pounds. You will have an abundance of energy and an improved disposition.
During the first seven days you must drink 10 glasses of water each day.
DAY ONE
All fruits except bananas. Your first day will consists of all fruits you want. It is suggested you consume lost of watermelon and cantaloupe.
This is how it works:
You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh fruits. Fruits are nature’s perfect food. They provide everything you can possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety.
DAY TWO
All vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the new and cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the account or type. Avoid oil and coconut while cooking vegetables. Have large boiled potato for breakfast.
This is how it works:
Start with a fix complex carbohydrates in the form of a boiled potato. This is taken in the form of a boiled potato and taken in the morning to provide energy and balance. The rest of the day too consists of vegetables which are virtually calories free and provide essential nutrients and fiber.
DAY THREE
Any mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity. No bananas yet and no potatoes today.
This is how it works:
Eliminate the potato because you get your carbohydrates from fruits. Your system is now prepared to start burning excess pounds. You will have cravings, which should start to diminish by day four.
DAY FOUR
Bananas and milk. Today you will eat as many as eight bananas and drink three glasses of milk. You can also have I bowl of vegetables soup.
This is how it works:
Bananas and milk. You are in for a surprise. You probably will not be able to eat all the bananas allowed. But they are there for the potassium you have lost and the sodium you may have missed the last three days. You will notice a definite loss of desire for sweets and you will be surprised at how easy this day will go.
DAY FIVE
Today is a feast day. You will eat 1 cup of rice. You also have to eat six whole tomatoes and drink 12 glasses of water today to cleanse your system of the excess uric acid you will be producing.
This is how it works:
The rice is for the carbohydrates and the tomatoes are for
the digestion and the fiber. Lots of water purifies your system. You should notice colorless urine today. Do not feel you have to eat one cup rice, you may eat less. But you may eat six tomatoes.
DAY SIX
Today is another all vegetables day. You must eat 1 cup of rice today and eat all the vegetables you want cooked and uncooked to your hearts content.
This is how it works:
It is similar to five. Vitamins and fiber would be from the vegetables and carbohydrates from the rice. By now your system is in a total weight loss inclination. There should be a noticeable difference in the way you look today compared to day one.
DAY SEVEN
Today your food intake will consist of 1 cup rice, fruit juice and all the vegetables you care to consume.
This is how it works:
You may celebrate with champagne. You may also have white wine instead of champagne, but in al practical programs, and in all surveys done to measure the success of the program, General Motors employees have always preferred champagne to white wine.
Tomorrow morning you will be five to eight kgs. lighter than 1 week ago. If you desire further weight loss, repeat the program again. Repeat the program as often as you like, however, it is suggested that you rest for three days before every repetition.
You have your system under control now and it will thank you for all the purging and cleansing you just gave it. Even more than a diet program it is good to follow this diet once in a while to clean your digestive system and remove toxic substances that have accumulated in the system.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
The most important element of the program is the 10 tall glasses of water a day. You can also flavor the water will some lemon to make the drink easier. While on the program,
take only black coffee and never more than one teaspoon of oil. Preferably do not use oil because the high calorific content. No fruit juices before day seven.
More than one cup of coffee with milk is especially forbidden. Milk and oil add empty calories to your diet. Avid coffee lovers can console themselves with black coffee. However, after the first week, it will help your digestion and set your stomach. The key think to remember is that if you are hungry at any time, then you are not following the diet correctly. Almost all people give up the diet when they are hungry because of dieting.
The secret of this program is that you should never hungry. If it is a vegetable day, eat so much vegetables so that you are never hungry. If it is a fruits day, eat so much fruits that you are never hungry. You may be bored of eating vegetables all day, but you should not be hungry. You can take any amount of General Motors wonder soup on any day.
GENERAL MOTORS WONDER SOUP
The following soup is intended as a supplement to your diet. It can be eaten any time of the day in virtually unlimited quantities. You are encouraged to drink large quantities of
this soup.
23 oz water
06 large onions
02 green peppers
03 whole tomatoes
1 cabbage
1 bunch celery – add herbs and seasoning as desired.
Remember folks, never be hungry. Just keep hogging, without any idea of the quantity or the quality. Just ensure that you drink loads and loads of water, clear your bladders regularly and are never hungry.
Did this work for me? If that is a question that you might have in mind now, lemme tell you that it did! I lost 6 frikkin kgs within a week.
Now, I would have remained so if it was not for my bloody ten tonned tongue. On the 7th day, I binged on ghee, sweets, rice, oil, pakodas, bajjis etc and screwed up all the week’s efforts. Needless to say, the weight loss was compensated within a couple of days!
Most of you would be interested in knowing how would you probably survive in office or if u r alone at home following the diet. Though it is difficult, it is do-able. All that you need to do is to keep your emotions under control, get lunch (the day’s diet) in a lunch box to your office or prepare the same at home and keep hogging.
However, lemme also tell you this that due to our inflation / economy, this diet would turn out to be a damn expensive one, esp. if you follow this diet just a week before a festival, assuming, like me, that you diet for a week and enjoy during the festival!
I would be undertaking this diet again sometime soon. Will keep you guys posted. Till then, happy binging!!!
