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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.
Hi all – new year, back to it…..
Didnt do the diet over the Christmas/New Year period had about 3 weeks off it.
Got straight back to it on the 5th January and feeling fine!
I have read all the comments on the board this morning and some of you have said some really lovely stuff about me
Aww 
Thanks for your lovely thoughts and I am glad that I could help.
Good luck everyone – have fun! Dont forget the vitamins to keep those energy levels up!
Hi guys. Please remember that this diet is designed for people who are on 100% bedrest. If you are an active person please add an additional (non-acid) fruit. Dont do this diet if you are a serious sports person, and dont do it for more than 3 days in a week as it forces your body into Ketonosis. If you have diabetes it is extremely dangerous…see your doctor, there are modifications that you will be able to do if you are careful.
Last note: this really does work and I’ve seen amazing results for alot of different people… and now for me.
Have a lot of family that have done this diet, being from Auckland I know of the diet but have never tried it, I started today and will let yall know how I go, I dont’ like seafood at all so am changing the Tuna with either Egg White omelette or Cottage cheese for those that don’t eat Tuna. Pretty sure if you take a Multi vitamin you shouldn’t get so tired. Will let ya know
Im on my 2nd day, and this diet has really inspired me to exercise too! Im adding spices and herbs to the meals to make them a little bit more robust too, and changing a couple of things eg strawberries instead of a few other fruits, and Im drinking heaps of water.
Hi, I have just started on the three day Greenlane Diet as I walk about 8-12 kilometres a day is it ok to drink more water in between meales.
This is my 5th day and I am feeling GREAT already I did 3 months on a shake programme and didnt feel that good after a short time, Im also going to try the other programme someone has written on here because this one there is very little food(of course its a diet) but I use alot of energy up in my job.
hey folks..well weighed in after 3 days on the greenlane and i lost SEVEN pounds! thrilled to say the least, gonna watch what i am doing this week and doing it again on monday till wednesday
starting today, pal and my auntie are trying this as well, shall be in touch with our(hopefully good) weight losses.
Hya all, I thought it just another Diet with no way out, but then I was pleasently surprised by the results i achieved, i lost 7lb in the three days (purly becuse i couldn’t face beetroot, Melon nor Cottage Cheese) but it was a group of us that underwent this diet and one person lost 9lb, one person lost 8lb and myself lost 7lb (what a result to jump back on the scales at the end of the three days to see that i had lost the weight (horrah) lol. I would recommend eating health in between to maintain a balance. I would try this diet again in in the near future for the duration for the 40 days….
hi all!
i managed to stick to this diet for three days and i lost about 2kgs!
LOLLY, yups i do – i felt sleepy and tired most of the time, and i got hungry real fast as well…
Hy folks, how we al doing? So pleased I found this page, lots of postive comments on it, shell-belle oh my god, how well have you done?? Well i am a 35 yr old guy and was horrified to find i am 13stones 2 lbs-I want to get to 10 and a half stones ideally, starting the diet today, going to do it monday till wednesday and then watch what I am doing rest of the week-prob stick to “scottish slimmers” plan thurs-sunday which I lost a lot of weight on before, seems like a very easy to follow plan and VERY effective with fast results
got all my food for the diest in today. Shelle-belles list of what she eats on the diet is very clear-was not sure what “cups” were and you have specified weights which is much clearer, good luck to all and I shall keep you posted on my weekly Monday weigh in!
does anyone find their energy levels are extremely low while on this diet?
i tried this diet with my mum and sister we only lasted two days
but i lost 2kg and have kept it off for over a month now plan to start it again tomorrow. does anyone find their energy levels are extremely low while on this diet?
just started on this diet this morning!
i realize that i get hungry more compared to when i fasted on just water for 3 days.
let’s hope this diet really works like how it did for some of you here!
hey guys .. all ur posts on dis page have been reely helpful and exceptionally motivating !!!
any ways
i’ve jus started the greenlane diet wid a frn today ..
umm im a smoker .. is dat gonna affect my success ..????
Wow shell-belle
Your weightloss is inspiring, Ive been trying to lose weight all my life to the point that nothing and i mean nothing seems to work for me any more and the sheer disappiontment of it all has made me binge eat even more. this has inspirated me to give dieting yet another go and I pray that this works as good for me as it has for you. I’m going to start tomorrow and will keep you posted on the results. I too was woundering if you can have trim milk in the coffee .
Hi to all I am going to start this diet tommorrow and love my morning coffee can I cut a little somewhere so I can have milk in my coffee… Thanks
Hi just started the diet today – Is black coffee/tea restricted to meal times only i;e 4 cups? Thanks
Can you do this diet breastfeeding?? I know I should exercise and eat healthy but it just doesn’t work. I want to know if the chemical break down will follow into my milk and make my beautiful chubby little girl lose weight as well????? I’m starting to get really down thinking about my weight and have down this diet before so I know it works. Some one please answer my Q.
Thanks
Im starting this diet tommorrow i cant wait i have never felt more determined my goal is 37kilos i cant wait to fit into my old clothes
WOW i have been following this diet and im on my second round and im not sure how much ive lost but i know i have as i can now easily fit into clothes that were a bit of struggle to get into before so im gonna solider on and stick it out coz i know it works….and finding this site helps more just to read about others and how effective this diet has been for them just motivates me more….so wen i feel the need to eat more i just hop online and read all your stories!!! KEEP IT UP!!!!!!
wat do u eat if u dnt like tuna
this is so great… i read about this one day and thank God for Google, cause i found this diet online. I never had a weitht problem, but when i went to college, my compass turned… I am going on this diet tomorrow first thing…
Thank you guys!!!
Personally, I drink diet soda’s if I have to go out in the week (but do have alcohol at the weekends!).
As for the substitute for tuna, I guess there is always chicken or turkey, or if you are a veggie, you could have Quorn I guess?
Although I am no longer, I was a veggie for 12 years and quorn soaked in some sage for a few hours and then roasted in a little oil with a sprinkling of ground black pepper, and a little Paprika or Chilli is delish!
Each to their own. To be honest, I would have thought that if you need to substitute something because of an allergy, or you simply dislike something, as long as you are sensible and subsitute something of a similar calorific value, you can’t really go far wrong….. like pear for apple, melon for banana, chicken for tuna etc…
Good luck everyone.
im so angry this did not work for me, im 26 and 12st trying to join army and was told to loose 10lb went on this stuck to it like glue even tho i hate tuna and peanut butter makes me gag!!! but i stuck it out and trained all week really hard in gym an all i lost was 2lb am so down, am i doing somthing wrong?
What do you eat if you dont like Tuna?
this does work i done this diet last year i cheated a little bit hence had a packet twiglets and had a pear instead of an apple cos they make me ill, and i lost 7lb by the 3rd day, it def works but only a short term fix.
have been told this diet makes you lose 4.5kgs in a week or the 3days could someone please confirm that this is true and if so how regular do you have to exercise? the fat has to go somewhere right!!!!
me and my partner have just started this diet today thank you shelle-belle for the subtitut food as i am not very keen on the grapefriut but love oranges i have been told this diet works so i’m hoping for the best well done to all that have lost more than 4.5kgs in 3 days hope i’m one of them aswell.
emz – thanks
4 stone is not insignificant! Well done to you too! Let us know how you get on…….