Three-Hour Diet
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Three hours is Jorge Cruise’s magic number. Don’t be confused by the title – this diet requires you to diet more than three hours to lose weight. Cruise believes that how often you eat is almost as important as how much you eat. He points to many studies that indicate by eating every three hours, you increase your basal metabolic rate and energy levels, suppress your appetite, lower your cholesterol, and reduce your belly fat. You also turn off your “starvation protection mode” (your body’s way of protecting you from starving to death by slowing down and holding on to your fat deposits), making it impossible to lose weight when you are on a diet.
Cruise promises that by following the Three-Hour Diet, “you will see up to two pounds disappear every week and you will lose belly fat first.” On this diet, you eat breakfast within one hour of rising and then eat every three hours, but stop eating three hours before you go to bed (not counting a small, 50-calorie nighttime snack).
Cruise also streamlines his exercise plan to “Eight-Minute Moves,” or a few minutes of aerobics and calisthenics that anyone – no matter how busy – can find time to do. He advises you to keep a journal of what you eat and when you eat it, and to overcome emotional eating through various mental techniques. He provides “daily visualizations,” such as picturing yourself slim and wearing a bathing suit at the beach next summer, to keep yourself enthused about dieting. He also provides calorie counts of items served in most popular restaurants.
See: Cruise, Jorge. The Three-Hour Diet (New York: Harper Resources), 2005.
Created:
2005
Categories:
Six Meals or More
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No
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Sample Menu:
The Three-Hour Diet involves a system of filling a nine-inch plate a certain way at every meal. One-half the plate contains vegetables and fruits, the equivalent in size of three DVD cases. One-fourth of the plate contains protein, the size of a deck of playing cards. The other fourth contains carbohydrates, the size of a Rubik’s Cube. If you are still hungry, you can go for another three DVD cases of vegetables and fruits.
One “Rubik’s Cube” carb equals half a bagel, English muffin, or hamburger bun, or 1/2 cup of cereal. Certain fleshy vegetables, such as peas and corn, count as carbs. A protein “deck of cards” equals 6 ounces of yogurt or a small serving of meat, poultry, or fish. A DVD case of vegetables and fruits can be two cups raw or one cup cooked vegetables or a serving of fruit such as an orange, a fig, 1/2 cup grapefruit juice, 1 cup watermelon, etc. A 50-calorie treat after dinner can be a small bag of M&Ms, one cookie, or whatever you crave that is 50 calories. Cruise allows 400 calories each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; two 100-calorie snacks during the day; and the 50-calorie treat at night. If you weigh less than 150 pounds or are under 5’3, limit breakfast to 200 calories only.
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