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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.
on third day of diet today and have already lost 6lbs! so really excited for final weigh in tomorrow morning. finding it really good i save my ice cream for later in the evening so i have something to look forward to, otherwise i would snack!! will continue with this next week .
Hey guys
If youre looking for the complete meal plan, go to the British Heart Foundation Diet on the right hand side where all the diets are listed.
Its right near the bottom of the comments list.
Im starting the British Heart Foundation diet today.
Good Luck guys.
Im planning to start this diet tom, however im not a tea or coffe drinker, so if i skip it and drank water instead will i still lose the same weight??
thanks.
Hi from New Zealand…. I’ve done this diet, and yup it sure works. Vienna’s are Frankfurter sausages.
Oh and serene don’t know if you saw it but the full 3day meal plan was posted a few months back by Punkgirl, just read through the older posts (^_^)
I started today and I weigh 84kg..my aim is 60. I’ve done this diet before and lost 17kg. I gained 6 of that back over a period of 6months but only because i partied way too much than i should have and ate completely unhealthy, not gonna make that mistake again! Wish me luck*
Im going to give this a shot. Im a kiwi living in Australia and Im pretty sure the Jatz/Clix biscuits over here are pretty much the same as Snax back home.
me and my mum are starting this.
do you have to add exersize aswell??
Can anybody tell me how to get the full three day meal plan menu and not just the example one day menu? i’ve lost the copy i had!
yes it does work though not to the level claimed. I lost 14kg in 6 weeks, healthy is side effect!
Does anyone know if this diet really works? And also, if you have done it, did the weight stay off?
Well done jodi. I used ritz biscuits
Finished the three days. Today is day 4 & I weigh 93KG. Used Ryvita instead of cruskite but have ordered the snax biscuits from a NZ shop in Australia.
Day 3 ..another kg gone!
I thiught I had cruskits in the cupboard to substitute for Snax but I didnt so used 2 ryvita for lunch yesterday & one for breakfast this morning.