tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60158311301377486692024-02-20T04:05:04.986-05:00The Cheerios DietEat three meals a day. Two of those being Cheerios. In specific rotation.<br> <br>
cheerios, cheerios, DINNER <br>
cheerios, LUNCH, cheerios <br>
BREAKFAST, cheerios, cheerios<br><br>
repeatThe Cheerios Magicianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274579673108185757noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015831130137748669.post-62737873704287705572007-03-13T02:21:00.000-05:002007-03-13T11:25:55.162-05:00The Cheerios DietI've been thinking of different ways I could do The Cheerios Diet, and I woke up tonight with I believe the perfect solution. I just have to write it down.<br /><br />Here it is...<br /><br />1) Eat 3 meals a day<br />2) Have 2 be normal sized bowls of Cheerios<br />3) Eat in a specific order to keep the body guessing, and the psyche satisfied and stimulated<br /><br />4) cheerios, cheerios, DINNER<br /> cheerios, LUNCH, cheerios<br /> BREAKFAST, cheerios, cheerios<br /><br />I guess I borrowed this idea from diets like The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, which lets you eat one "reward meal" a day. And the Slim Fast Diet, where you drink a shake for breakfast and lunch, and eat a moderate sized dinner. Both of these do work if you keep at it because they're just simply ways of tricking yourself to reduce the calories you consume. But I see one real problem with both.<br /><br />The body is a very complex machine, if you keep doing the same thing everyday for a while, it will find a way to do its job more efficiently. Efficiency to your body equals less calories burned--the dreaded weight loss plateau.<br /><br />My way fights this by having the big meal at different times everyday, your body doesn't get into a set pattern. No, I don't find it likely that the body can discern eating a big dinner one day, lunch the next, and then breakfast after that as a set pattern. You have to do something everyday for a while for it to catch on.<br /><br />Why dinner, lunch, breakfast?<br /><br />It would seem logical to go B, L, D in consecutive days but you would be eating a big D then waking up and eating a big B. The patterns go like this...<br /><br />B c c c L c c c D B c c c L c c c D BLD<br /><br />c c D c L c B c c c c D c L c B c c DLB<br /><br />In BLD, you can sense a definite pattern of c c c, which if done long enough your body might catch up on, thus causing plateaus. Also you have D and B consecutively which isn't giving the body enough time to be truly get hungry.<br /><br />In the preferred DLB, the pattern seems much more random, and that is always good for calorie burning. Since you are basically "calorie cycling" without counting calories.<br /><br />The Cheerios Diet works because you are tricking your body to not only reduce calories drastically, but also calorie cycle.<br /><br />This is how you reduce calories...<br /><br />1st day you eat a C (250 cals), C (250 cals), and then DINNER (about 1000-1200 cals)<br /><br />2nd day C (250 cals), LUNCH (less than 1000 cals), C (250 cals)<br /><br />3rd day BREAKFAST (natually less than a big lunch), C (250 cals), C (250 cals)<br /><br />So on a D day, naturally you eat 1500-1700 calories<br />L day, less than that maybe 1300-1500<br />B day, gotta be less, when was the last time you ate a huge 1k+ B after a large L the day before<br /><br />Even if you eat a monstrous DINNER, the moderate sized LUNCH, and smaller BREAKFAST will definitely make up for it.<br /><br />If you just ate dinner everyday, you would probably be ravenous and throw down a huge caloric load. This way you can eat what you want one meal a day, but you have to eat it at breakfast every three days, and it is hard to eat that large a meal earlier in the day.<br /><br />That's all for now. I'll be starting this tomorrow, which is really later today I guess.<br /><br />I think I've really found something crazy enough that it just might work<br /><br />Will be weighing in every 2 weeks.<br /><br />FIRST WEIGH IN: 205The Cheerios Magicianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274579673108185757noreply@blogger.com6