The 3 Hour Diet Plan in a Nutshell:
Fitness journalist and author of The 3-Hour Diet: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin, Jorge Cruise created a diet that focuses on eating every 3 hours and even encourages eating candy every day. Not a king-sized Snickers bars, but more of those mini-individual snack sized chocolate bars. That is, if you can eat just one.
Not only do you eat every three hours, but you eat breakfast within one hour upon rising and stop eating three hours before bedtime. In between your three meals are two 100-calorie snacks. This way of eating, Cruise believes, will keep your metabolism high so you burn more calories, increase energy and decrease appetite and put you on track for losing 1-2 pounds of fat a week. The 3-Hour Diet focuses on portion control and the timing of your meals.
Each plate of food should consist of:
- A Rubik’s cube, representing your carbohydrate portion at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- A deck of playing cards, symbolizing your protein serving at each meal; this is approximately 3 ounces, and Cruise says it can be anything you like — from chicken to cheese, eggs, and fish.
- A water bottle cap represents the amount of fat on your plate — a little more than one teaspoon. This can be salad dressing, butter, olive oil — any fat you favor.
- Visually stack three DVD cases; this represents how much fruit or vegetables to eat at each meal.
Pros:
- No bad foods; eat what you want, even candy
- No counting calories
- Eating frequent meals can speed up metabolism and burn more calories
Cons:
- There are no guidelines to what foods you can and cannot eat
- You can eat candy
- You have to eat every three hours, 5 times per day. This may be hard with certain jobs/lifestyles
- Some people gain weight because they are eating too often
- Physical activity isn’t a part of the diet
Foods You Can’t Eat:
- There are no foods you can’t eat
Potential Risks:
No potential risks.
Oodora’s Opinion:
At first I thought this was a complete fad diet, but I think eating few hours is a great thing; I even do it myself. However, the fact that he insists on you eating candy daily, processed fast and frozen foods and has no emphasis on exercising tells me you shouldn’t waste your time with the 3-Hour Diet plan. If you take a look at the meal plan below you will see what I mean.
Sample 3 Hour Diet Meal Plan:
Breakfast
McDonalds Egg McMuffin, 1% milk & apple
Lunch
Lean Cuisine Cheese cannelloni, side salad with nonfat dressing
Dinner
1 small baked potato, 3oz grilled chicken, 1tsp butter, 1 cup green beans
Treat
12 M&M’s
Sample Snacks - Pria Double Choc bar and Nabisco 100 calorie Oreo cookie snack
Freebies - 1 diet coke, 1 coffee, 1 non dairy creamer
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