This diet method lets you eat Vanilla Ice Cream. Isn’t that bizarre? This diet is totally different than the others, it only needs 3 days to lose around 10 pounds. Because of that, I wanted to give it a try.

Day 1
I started day one on Tuesday. I bought some foods I needed for the next 3 days because I was actually running out of food in the fridge, ouch how sad. You need a total preparation before you do this diet.

• Breakfast 
  1/2 grapefruit
  1 slice of toast
  2 tbspn of peanut butter
  1 cup of coffee (with caffeine) or teaHow I did it :
  I didn’t have grapefruit, so I substituted grapefruit by putting 1/2 tsp of baking soda in a glass of water
  What I felt :
  2 tbspn of peanut butter but I only had 1 slice of toast. I started feeling nauseated before I had tasted it but actually it felt okay at first but then I felt queasy in the last bite. After I had spent the peanut butter and toast, I drank a glass of baking soda and I felt more queasy than ever. I like peanut butter but not that much.

• Lunch
  1/2 cup of tuna
  1 slice of bread or toast
  1 cup of coffee (with caffeine) or teaHow I did it :
  I substituted tuna with chicken. I added a little bit of spices like pepper and salt in it. Very little. I couldn’t eat plain chicken for God’s sake.
  What I felt :
  I started enjoying this diet. Though two hours after meal I had felt hungry, I couldn’t get some snacks and eat and smile. I had to wait for dinner.

• Dinner
  3 ounces of any meat (same size as deck of cards)
  1 cup of green beans
  1 small apple
  1/2 banana
  1 cup of vanilla ice cream How I did it :
  Meat that I ate was chicken, I didn’t eat 3 ounces of chicken, that was quite too much for me. And I only ate 3 green beans, I don’t know if that was the same as 1 cup of green beans but I only ate 3. I also substituted small apple with pears. I had a quite big pear and I only ate half of it.
  What I felt :
  Dinner is my favorite in military diet because I could eat ice cream. I felt hungry at 9 above, I used to eat whatever I wanted whenever I felt hungry but this time, I had to control my lust on foods.

Day 2
I woke up at 7 and went to the kitchen immediately. I know that we technically have to wait at least two hours before breakfast, but I didn’t mind, I cooked for my lovely belly. But you know what? I successfully lost 2 pounds from Day 1! Let’s see what would happen in Day 2.

• Breakfast
  1 slice of bread or toast
  1 egg cooked (however you like)
  1/2 bananaHow I did it :
  I made omelette because I hate sunny side up egg. I accidentally added too much butter, so the omelette looks oily in the pic above. But I left it for a couple of minutes and wrapped the omelette with tissues to get the oil absorbed.
  What I felt :
  That was enough for breakfast.
• Lunch
  1 cup of cottage cheese
  1 hard boiled egg
  5 saltine crackersHow I did it :
  I went out that day, so I put the meal into a food container. I substituted cottage cheese with 1 slice of cheddar cheese. I didn’t find saltine crackers but I found a cracker which has 9 calories. All you need to know is, each saltine cracker has 13 calories.
  What I felt :
  It was good but I’m not satisfied. People who are on diet will never be satisfied, will they?

• Dinner
  2 hot dogs (with no bun)
  1 cup of brocolli
  1/2 cup of carrots
  1/2 banana
  1/2 cup of vanilla ice creamHow I did it :
  I kinda cheated in the afternoon. My mother brought me meatballs and I ate 3 because I was tempted. And I also had no hot dog that time, I completely forgot about hot dog. So, I think it was fine and I became a vegen by substituting hot dogs with a cup of green beans.
  What I felt :
  It tasted so vegetable.

Day 3
I lost 2 pounds from day 2. It was the same as I had lost from day 1. I had known this from the start, I wouldn’t lose weight up to 10 pounds, maybe 6 pounds or less. But however, I had been doing it for 2 days and I only needed one more day to finish.

• Breakfast
  1 slice of cheddar
  5 saltine crackers
  1 small appleHow I did it :
  I substituted small apple with grapes though I substituted it with pear on day 1. Color up your life, guys. Don’t get stuck on the same menu.
  What I felt :
  It was okay.

• Lunch
  1 slice of bread or toast
  1 egg (cooked or however you like)How I did it :
  I made scrambled egg because I had made omelette and hard boiled egg in the past 2 days. I also added a little bit of spices too like pepper and salt. I can’t live without seasoning.
  What I felt :
  It was delicious.

• Dinner
  1 cup of tuna
  1/2 banana
  1 cup of vanilla ice creamHow I did it :
  I substituted tuna with chicken like I did on day 1. I also ran out of vanilla ice cream, so I added strawberry ice cream in it.
  What I felt :
  It was delicious because I met vanilla ice cream.

This diet method is well-known as military diet and that’s how I did my military diet. It was kinda bad in the first day, especially in the breakfast menu. But day by day, especially on day 2, I started getting used to it. In day 4, I’ve successfully lost 5 pounds. But however, I have to do this continuity to lose more weight. You can do this every week with 4 days off each week. It’s all about habit, I liked having snacks and eating sweet foods but as you can see in the military diet menu, they have less sweet and salty foods. And I think that’s why they let you eat vanilla ice cream at night because human’s body needs sugar. And brain can’t work entirely without sugar, people who don’t consume sugar, they tend to feel tired when they think.

If you need any questions, feel free to comment below. Good luck with your diet, have a great day 🙂

Read more about military diet here.

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