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Greenlane Diet
The Greenlane diet (also known as the British Heart Foundation Diet)
is a poor fad diet that has been circulating for many years. Please note that the British Heart Foundation has nothing to do with this diet whatsoever.
The diet has circulated in the form of a one page sheet that claims you can lose 10 pounds in 3 days. The diet has been popular in the UK – but it’s exact origins are unknown.
Interestingly, the diet bears a striking resemblance to the Scarsdale diet – also written in the 1970s.
Greenlane Diet Plan
The Greenlane diet is a very low calorie diet – a typical day’s eating culminates in only 700 calories. This is a crash diet – a sudden and severe reduction in calories that results in primarily fluid loss. The diet should never be undertaken for more than 3 days, any longer and your body will immediately slow down metabolism and place you on target for yo-yo dieting (and subsequent weight gain).
The Greenlane Hospital diet contains a small selection of foods; Dry toast, fruit, tuna, ‘snax’ biscuits. Snax biscuits are a cracker made by the food brand Griffins in New Zealand indicating that this diet may have originated from this part of the world (which does have a Greenlane hospital in Auckland). However this cannot be verified.
Sample Meal Plan
This diet is not recommended
| Breakfast
5 ‘snax’ biscuits (dry crackers) |
| Lunch
1 boiled egg |
| Dinner
1 cup of tuna |
| Drinks
Black coffee/tea/water |
Look here for other low calorie meal ideas.
This diet has changed my life.
Weighing 23 stone, i was depressed
I tried the diet and lost 12lbs in 3 days.A week later i tried it again and kept going
9 months later I weigh 10 stone and I am the happiest most confident person you will ever meet
Hey all. Just want to add in here, that being from NZ myself that it did originate from here. It was designed by Greenlane Hospital for thier cardiac patients to lose weight quickly before surgery. And yes, there is a lot of fluid loss on the first round of the diet. This happens with every diet I know in the first week, thats why initial weight loss is always the highest. Just make sure you drink twice as much water whilst on it. This diet has been around for years. I did a couple of times as a teen too. The key is the low kj and if you don’t go over 8000kj a day on the other 4 days then the weight will keep coming off.
hey guys
so yrs and yrs ago i did greenlane diet for 6 months once a wk and it worked!Am doin it again to get myself bck on eating smaller portions!!gd luck to all that are tring G.L!!!!