Blog #2: GM Cleanse

Today’s blog will feature the GM Diet, or seven day guide to rapid weight loss. I will explain what the cleanse consists of and in my next blog examine closer the effects it has on the human body.

The company General Motors, “...reportedly developed the GM Diet to help its employees lose weight and feel healthier. GM is said to have collaborated on the diet with both the Food and Drug Administration and the US Department of Agriculture and that it was first used in field tests at Johns Hopkins Research Center in 1985,”. Therefore, GM invented a means for its employees to lose weight and maintain health together in a communal setting. The whole concept behind the diet is that people expend more calories than they consume. Participants claim to lose up to 10 to 17 pounds in a week and have to drink six to eight glasses of water a day, now a trend that people across the nation have adopted. 

DAY 1

• You can eat any fruit but bananas. There is no limit on quantity; eat as much fruit as you want. It is recommended that you eat a lot of melons on the first day, it will boost weight loss. 

DAY 2

• All veggies today. You can eat them either cooked or raw and there is restriction on the types or amount you can eat. You can even have a baked potato for breakfast on this day, with a pat of butter if you like. This will provide the body with the complex carbohydrates that will provide energy for the rest of the day. 

DAY 3

• Except for bananas and potatoes, you can eat a mixture of fruit and vegetables on this day—as much variety as you like, in whatever quantities. Potatoes are no longer needed because carbohydrates will come from the fruit. By this stage the body is prepared to start burning excess pounds.

DAY 4

• Bananas, milk and soup make up the menu. You can eat up to eight bananas and three glasses of milk on this day (although you may find that you don’t eat all the bananas). You may consume as much of the soup as you like. (There is a recipe listed for this soup!) The bananas are important because they will help to replace the potassium and sodium that the body would have lost in the previous three days. There should be fewer cravings for sweets by this point.

DAY 5

• Today, you will eat beef and tomatoes: six whole tomatoes and two 10 oz. portions of beef. The beef can be eaten in the form of hamburger patties. All of the tomatoes should be eaten but not all the beef needs to be consumed. Increase your water intake by one quart today to help the body cleanse itself of the uric acid that will be produced by digesting the beef. The meat will provide your body with iron and protein and tomatoes provide fiber, which aids digestion.

DAY 6

• You will eat beef again today but will replace the tomatoes with a variety of vegetables of your own choosing. You may eat as much of each as you like. Note that by this day, the body is completely inclined towards weight loss and you should see a noticeable difference.

DAY 7

• On the last day of the plan, you eat brown rice, fruit juice and unlimited vegetables. After following the meal plan for the last seven days, you should have completely cleansed and flushed out your system and should also find that you are 10 to 17 lbs. lighter than you were a week ago.

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