The origins of the 3-day tuna diet are unclear. No one knows for sure who started the diet and whether or not it works. People usually learn about it via word of mouth or on the Internet. Some people assert that the diet was recommended by a doctor, health clinic, weight-loss guru, or hospital, but no one has come forward with any ironclad specifics. There have been rumors that the diet came from the Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit medical center, but there is no proof the clinic had anything to do with its creation either.

While a person might imagine eating nothing but tuna while on the 3-day tuna diet, individuals on this diet do eat other things. Besides tuna, a person on this diet might also eat bread, fruit, peanut butter, vegetables, lean meat, eggs, cheese, and even dessert. He may also season his food or top it with such things as salt and pepper, various herbs, ketchup, and mustard. A person on this diet may drink coffee and tea in addition to at least four glasses of water on each day of the diet. Soda is allowed as well, as long as it is diet soda.

Accounts of the recommended menu for the 3-day tuna diet vary, but most of them allow for drinking water, tea, or coffee at breakfast. The dieter should drink his coffee black and any sweetener that is used should be artificial. Along with the beverage, the dieter may have a single slice of toast that has about one tablespoon of peanut butter spread on it or a boiled egg. The meal plan changes each day, but tuna is consumed at least once per day.

The lunch and dinner meals on this diet differ from the breakfast recommendations. For lunch, the dieter can choose to drink tea, black coffee, diet soda, or water and eat one-half cup of tuna. The dieter may also eat a single piece of toast or a few crackers. At dinner, the dieter may fill his stomach a bit more, eating about three ounces of lean meat and two cups of vegetables. For dessert, the dieter may enjoy two sweet treats: a cup of vanilla ice cream and an apple.

Following this diet could prove unhealthy. A dieter on the 3-day tuna diet may take in fewer than 1,000 calories in a day’s time. This is generally considered too few calories to support good health and normal body function.

The best time to follow Refreshing diet is summer – season of the vegetables. Apply two times a week within a month. Current diet is perfect for gradual weight loss. Refer to this diet if you want to feel better without going on long term monodiet or if you are trying out diets.

Breakfast: one glass of sour milk (curdled milk) or a glass of warm water sweetened with a tsp of honey.

Lunch: one glass of fruit juice or some fruit or raw vegetables.

Dinner: salad with raw vegetables (green salad, green onions and garlic, radish, cucumbers, parsley, fennel, spinach, cabbage and etc.) and a glass of fruit juice.

Supper: muesli. A table spoon of oatmeal flakes presoak for 12 hours in three table spoons of cool water. Before serving add table spoon of honey, juice of half or whole lemon, carefully stir. Grate about 200 g of raw apples or other fruit and lay out on oatmeal flakes. Strew muesli with a table spoon of pounded walnuts, almonds or peanuts.

To make organism cleansing maximum effective, try to prepare correctly. For a few days prior to the beginning of a cleansing course limit consumption of sugar, caffeine (tea, coffee and sodas), vegetable oil, alcohol, meat and dairy products, preferre fish and salads with crude vegetables.

First day:

Right after wake up, drink a glass of water with slice of lemon. Take invigorating shower and pound your skin with towel to strengthen blood circulation. Put on the most convenient clothes. You will have lots of rest and also you will be engaged in simple physical exercises – therefore choose light comfortable clothes which do not constraining your movements.

• Breakfast
  Begin day with fruit salad. Fruit stimulate work of a liver which should first participate in process by splitting the saved up stocks of toxins. For those people experiencing difficulties with digestion, instead of fruit drink couple of glasses of fresh fruit juice. Juice is acquired easier because after squeezing most part of fiber goes away.

After a breakfast do small gymnastics, try do not strain. Don’t choose difficult exercises demanding strong physical activity. Your purpose is to bring your body in a tone instead of pumping up muscles. Make a little break after exercising and go for a walk. When back to house, drink glass of water or green tea.

• Dinner
  Indulge itself with vegetable salad. Vegetables are very useful for organism cleansing; therefore the portion should be large. Make salad filling out of olive oil and lemon juice.

It is quite possible that you will feel light weariness. It is normal; after all, fighting against slags organism spends lots of forces and energy. Therefore try to have rest after dinner. Lie down; take a nap for an hour or so.

• Mid-morning snack
  Make a glass of fresh fruit juice or green tea. Even if you will feel very hungry, try do not eat anything extra. Limit yourself with an apple or handful of sunflower seeds.

Before a supper take a walk if possible, swim for a while in pool. This procedure will not only calm and simultaneously encourage you, but also will have favorable influence on lymphatic system.

• Supper
  During days of clearing do not have supper after 6 pm so that organism had enough time for digestion. Boil a mix of vegetables and season with greens.

Before going to sleep, take weakening bath. Add sea or usual salt and essence in water. Lie down for 15-20 min so that toxins had time to get on skin surface, then get out of a bath and wrap in with a warm towel. Do not forget to drink some water before fall asleep.

Second day

AS WELL AS at first day, have glass of mineral water with a lemon after wake up. Then go take contrast shower. It stimulates blood circulation, strengthens tone of muscles and a skin. Remember, procedure always should come to an end with cold shower.

Breakfast
For a breakfast have fruit again. You can make a salad with it, or eat in “as is”.

If the feeling of weariness amplifies, do not worry, these are toxins continue to leave your organism. Simply drink more water to accelerate process, and try to fall asleep. Unpleasant symptoms will soon disappear.

Dinner
The same as and the day before, make vegetable salad.

Do some physical exercises. Try to descend in a sauna, they have good clearing effect. After all, large quantity of toxins is deduced through skin.

When back home, do not forget to drink some water and try to relax before a mid-morning snack.

Mid-morning snack
Glass of fruit juice or cup of green tea.

Supper
Prepare a mix of vegetables cooked on steam. Instead of using salt and pepper as a seasoning use rosemary or parsley. Parsley possesses diuretic effect and clears blood; rosemary improves work of liver and stimulates blood circulation.

After a supper have a rest in front of the TV or read a book. Before going to bed take one more tremendous weakening bath. Next morning you will feel absolutely rest, freshened up and got prettier.

The popular TV show host and actress – Joan Lunden (49) did not always loved fruit…

- But I have learnt to eat them, – Joan says, 170 cm high, which have managed to lose weight from 86 kg to 57 kg. According to Joan, fruit – ideal assistants in fighting against excess weight.
You, she assures, are able to “burn” up to 11 lbs for a week if seriously work on absorption of fruit. The best way thoroughly to take pleasure of fruit is to create grand fruit salad, hide it into fridge and eat when you hungry. Joan recommends fruit that “burn” fats faster: apples, kiwi, and citrus.

Three-day diet

• Day first

Breakfast: half of melon, half pack of yogurt.
Dinner: salad with kiwi slices, oranges and strawberry, mixed with contents of one pack of yogurt.
Supper: half grapefruit, 170 g fast chicken meat; salad with vegetables filled with a lemon juice.
Dessert: 2 plums.

• Day second

Breakfast: 1 cup of berries mixed and quarter of a cup of cereals (granola).
Dinner: few slices of pineapple.
Supper: 1 orange; 170 g of cut turkey breast with salad leaves.
Dessert: 2 nectarines.

• Day third

Breakfast: few slices of water-melon; cup of low-fat vanilla yogurt.
Dinner: puree from pulp of one banana and one cup of strawberry, filled with apple juice.
Supper: 170 g fish (flounder or halibut), soaked in a lemon juice; cup of Brussels sprouts.
Dessert: 1 cup of cold yogurt with any berries.

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The diet proceeds 4 days. Loss of weight of 2-4 lbs.

The Bulgarian diet is reduced to the use of one dish – grate fresh crude carrots, add honey, a lemon juice and any of fruit. This dish is used as a breakfast, a dinner and a supper within 3 days. For the fourth day include in the menu a fried potatoes, bread, apples, from the fifth pass to a usual food.

1st day

Breakfast: an apple juice cup; 1 ration roasted “English muffin” from “McDonalds”.

Dinner: lettuce “Делюкс” with жаренными on fire chickens from “Макдо”.

Supper: 115 g boiled turkey breast cuts; steamed vegetables; fruit salad “Boston Market” from this institutions.

Dessert: carrots and celery stalks.

2nd day

Breakfast: salad with carrots.

Dinner: “a gentle chicken” from “the Burger King”.

Supper: a sandwich with roast beef; the sliced beet.

Dessert: 1 apple.

3rd day.

Breakfast: a creamy croissant.

Dinner: “Wend’s” lettuce.

Supper: chicken meat (fried breast).

Dessert: 1 orange.

The Mexican diet is calculated for 4 days. For this period on the Mexican diet it is possible to lose 4-6 lbs if you have not reached desirable result, repeat it in 2 days.

The first day of a diet:
Breakfast – a cup of unsweetened coffee, an orange, 2 eggs;
Dinner – 8 plums;
Supper – an orange and 1 egg.

The second day of a diet:
Breakfast – coffee and 1 cheese slice;
Dinner – an orange and 1 egg;
Supper – glass of buttermilk and pear.

The third day of a diet:
Breakfast – glass of strong sweet tea;
Dinner – cucumber, tomato and 1 cheese slice;
Supper – milk (one glass).

The fourth day of a diet:
Breakfast – cereals with juice;
Dinner – cucumber, tomato and salad (not acute);
Supper – 2 oranges.

Strawberry – very useful and tasty berry. It helps with treatment of anemia, gout, some illnesses of a digestive tract and respiration organs, strengthens immune system and possesses anti-inflammatory action. The strawberry is rich with useful vitamins and mineral substances. It recommend at an idiopathic hypertensions, disturbances of metabolism and an atherosclerosis.

But also, this remarkable berry will present good mood and will help to forget about stresses and sleeplessness!

But the most important thing, on the basis of this berry it is possible to prepare set of low-calorie dishes of excellent taste and quality. Lose weight with pleasure on a strawberry diet that will allow to get rid of 4lbs just after 4 days.

1 day

Breakfast:Fruit salad (320 calories).
250 g strawberries, half of banana and half of apple to cut slices. To admix with 50 g natural yogurt (1,5% fat content) and 1 tsp of honey.

Lunch:Strawberry milk (100 calories).
From 100 g strawberries to prepare mashed potatoes, to add 100 ml of low-fat milk and half of teaspoon of honey. To pour in in a glass, to add 50 ml of mineral water (without gas), all to mix.

Dinner:Salad from a strawberry and an asparagus (270 calories).
300 g a white asparagus to clear, the rasping extremities to remove. To cut slices and to cook 5-8 minutes in the added some salt water. 150 g strawberries to cut circles. 100 g a cucumber to clear and cut longways on thin slices. 1 slice gрудки to cut a turkey strips. An asparagus, a strawberry, a cucumber and meat to spread out on a plate. For sauce to admix 6 items of spoons of water in which the cube has been dissolved, 1 item of l. A lemon juice, 1 tsp of olive oil and 10 g cut parsley. Salad to sauce and strew cedar nuts (20).

Snack:Strawberry yogurt (130 calories).
150 g strawberries to wash out and cut half-and-half or on a quarter. 75 g natural yogurt 1,5 %-s’ fat contents to admix and a half a teaspoon of honey to homogeneous mass and to water fruit, having added 2 items of l. Corn-flakes.

Supper:Juicy salad (330 calories).
300 g a potato to boil. 1/2 bulb of onion clear and finely chop. 1/2 fascicles of a sheet celery to wash out and finely to cut. 100 g strawberries to cut fine cubes. 50 g low-fat cottage cheese to mix with 50 g natural yogurt (1,5%’ fat content), 5 g parsley and 1 tsp of lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper (small amount). Then add an onions,  celery and a strawberry. To submit a potato together with a cheese-strawberry cream.

2 day

Breakfast: Bread with a strawberry (200 calories).
150 g strawberries to cut on half’s. On 2 slices of wholegrain bread with sunflower seeds spread 50 g of cottage cheese (20 % fat content max); lay the strawberries on the top.

Lunch: Exotic cocktail (130 calories).
From 150 g strawberries to prepare puree. Mix with 50 g yogurt (1.5 % fat content) and 100 ml of pineapple juice.

Dinner: Fritters with a strawberry (450 calories).
100 ml of milk (1.5 %’ fat content), 1 tsp of honey and 1 egg mix, gradually adding 50 g flour and salt. Make a dough and allow it to stand within 30 minutes. 200 g strawberries wash out and sprinkle with 1/2 tbsp of lemon juice. From the dough bake on a frying pan with anti-stick covering, without addition of oil, 2 thin fritters. 50 g apple puree slightly warm up, add 1 tbsp of concentrated apple juice. Mix with a strawberry. Spread out on fritters and accurately combine them in shape.

Snack: Strawberry buttermilk (120 calories).
150 g strawberries wash out and clear. Prepare from berries puree with addition of 150 ml of buttermilk and 1 tsp of honey.

Supper: Cabbage salad with a strawberry (260 calories).
200 g of cabbage crush. 1/2 pods of yellow sweet pepper wash out, remove kernels and to cut into strips. The tomatoes wash, cut lobes. 100 g strawberries cut into circles. 30 g natural yogurt (1,5 % fat content), 2 tbsp of low-fat cottage cheese, 15 g of lemon juice and 1 tbsp of water to mix. Add salt and pepper. All carefully mix and add sauce. With dish serve 4 crisp breads.

3 day

Breakfast: Cereals with strawberry (310 calories).
150 g strawberries wash out and cut. From half of berries, 50 ml of sweet milk and 1 tbsp of the concentrated apple juice to prepare puree and mix with 100 g low-fat cottage cheese. Half of banana clear, cut into slices, mix with strawberry-cottage cheese mass and 2 tbsp of cereal flakes.

Lunch: Strawberry kefir (140 calories).
Prepare puree from 150 g strawberries, 150 ml of low-fat kefir and 1 tsp of honey.

Dinner: Sweet melon with a strawberry (240 calories).
From 250 g melons remove seeds using spoon, cut it on small pieces and to clear of a peel. 150 g of strawberries cut on halfs. Spread everything out on a plate. A thin slice of a gammon lay over a melon and strawberry. Mint branch wash out, cut in large pieces and strew on ready dish.

Snack: Orange-strawberry puree (140 calories).
Prepare puree from 150 g strawberries, 150 ml of orange juice and 1 tsp of honey.

Supper: Vegetable (all sorts) with spicy strawberry sauce (360 calories).
150 g a potato clear and cut fine cubes. 100 g a cauliflower wash out, part on inflorescences. 100 g of carrots to clean and cut fine cubes. A potato and carrots to braise on a frying pan with some butter, approximately 10 minutes, not steaming out. Cauliflower put in a frying pan and to cook under lid within 3-5 minutes. 100 g of strawberries cut on thin circles. Half of spoon of a butter to warm up in small ware, brown 10 g of flour. Pour in 80 ml of milk (1,5 %), add salt and pepper. Add to sauce strawberry. Vegetables bridge to strawberry sauce. Serve with couple slices of wholegrain bread.

4 day

Breakfast: Cheese with a strawberry (290 calories).
2 slices of wholegrain bread spread with low-fat cottage cheese. 30 g of Camembert (30% fat content) cut into strips. 70 g strawberries wash out. Half of berries cut on circles, lay together with cheese and put on bread.

Lunch: Vitamin mixture (210 calories).
Half of apple clear, cut in slices. Half of orange clear, part it on lobes. From fruit, 100 g strawberries, 1 teaspoon of honey and 150 ml of sweet milk make puree.

Dinner: Cod on a strawberry (250 calories).
100 g salads wash and crush. 150 g strawberries cut circles. Half of bulb cut thin half rings. 100 g a fillet of a cod water 20 ml of a lemon juice, to salt and pepper. Slightly fry from each side with 1 tsp of vegetable oil. The remained lemon juice mix with 1 tbsp of water, mustard, salt, pepper, 1 tsp of apple juice and 10 ml of vegetable oil. Salad, strawberry and onions put on a plate, add sauce. Cod put on the top.

Snack: Marinated strawberry (140 calories).
300 g strawberries wash out, 1.5 tbsp of water mix with 1 tbsp of lemon juice and 1 tsp of honey. Mix with fruit, wait about 30 minutes. Serve with 50 g yogurt.

Supper: Salad from vegetables with sauce (300 calories).
Prepare puree from 100 g strawberries, 50 g natural yogurt (1.5% fat content) and 50 g low-fat cottage cheese. Bridge about 5 ml of a lemon juice and 5 ml of apple juice, add salt and pepper. 100 g of carrots, 100 g of sheet celery and 100 g sweet peppers wash out and cut. Pour the sauce before serving.

The given diet concerns the category of protein-vegetative (to the most numerous in a camp of short-term diets). The quantity of carbohydrates and fats is considerably lowered, also as well as the general caloric content of a diet. Weight loss will occur quickly enough, however more than two weeks following this diet is not recommended.

The menu for two days

The first day

• Breakfast (7-8 am): 100 g salad from any vegetables without salt with vegetable oil, 70 g boiled low-fat meat, unsweetened strong tea.
• Snack (11-12 am): big apple or pear.
• Lunch: 100 g a boiled chicken, 150 ml of vegetable soup, fruit drink with dried fruits without sugar.
• Dinner: omelet with 3 eggs without milk, 30 g of cottage cheese.
• For the night: glass of buttermilk or glass of juice (apple, tomato).

The second day

• Breakfast: 100 g boiled fish, 70 g a boiled potato, unsweetened tea or coffee.
• Snack: 100 g apples or a glass of apple juice.
• Lunch: 200 ml of vegetable soup, glass of fruit drink without sugar.
• Supper: 200 g vegetable ragout on sunflower-seed oil, unsweetened strong tea.
• For the night: glass of mineral water.

The mix of an egg yolk with honey contains a large quantity of vitamins and mineral substances, and also necessary proteins and carbohydrates. The additional advantage will be brought by half of lemon which is required to be eaten daily in any kind (you can also add it into yolk-honey mix). In the conditions of the limited dietary food fullness of diet vitamins has huge value. In the rest the given diet differs nothing from other very low-calorie diets. After a week on this diet you will lose 4-8 lbs of excess weight.

1 day

• Breakfast: 2 egg yolks and the honey teaspoon, shaken up in mixer, a cup of tea or coffee with a lemon.
• Lunch: 90 g cheese, tea or coffee with a honey (1 teaspoon).
• Dinner: broth (1 cup), a piece of black bread, an apple, pear or an orange.
• For the night: tea with a lemon.

2 day

• Breakfast: A mix of egg with honey, coffee or tea with a lemon.
• Lunch: Egg with honey, 100 g cottage cheese, tea with a lemon or coffee.
• Dinner: 150 g fish or the fowl prepared without fat, salad from fresh vegetables, and tea with a lemon.

3 day

• Breakfast: Egg with honey, an apple, tea with a lemon.
• Lunch: 50 g cheese, a piece of rye bread, 200 g the salad watered with a lemon juice.
• Dinner: 300 g boiled non-starch vegetables, egg, and tea with a honey teaspoon.