I thought i would try it since my weight loss is slowing down a little. I started today and wondered if anyone had success with it or if anyone wants to come along for the ride with me. Here's the diet.

How to break a plateau

#1 - Do this for 10 days to break a plateau

#2 - Drink 2 quarts of Water a day

#3 - You must have (at least) 65 grams of Protein supplement and all your vitamins/minerals supplements each day

#4 - You may consume up to 3 oz of the following high protein foods, 5x a day

beef

pork

chicken

turkey

lamb

fish

eggs

low fat cheese

cottage cheese

plain yogurt or artificially sweetened (?)

Peanut Butter

beans/legumes

You may also have:

sugar free popsicles

tea or coffee

sugar free soda

sugar free Jell-O

broths/bullion (sp?)

crystal light drinks

#5 - If it's not on the list, you can't have it for 10 days!!!!

#6 - Keep a food diary and try to get up to 30 mins of exercise daily

DETOX FROM THOSE CARBS !

Good luck and keep me posted!

See to me, that's just a ridiculous fad diet. Banding should free us from drastic measures like this, look at the foodlist. How is that balanced? Terrible for you! And how is it a detox when you're filling yourself full of animal products (and all the hormones and chemicals they contain?). Not to mention artificially sweetened products and salty bullions.

This is the induction phase of Atkins. It was my pre-op diet given to me by my nut minus caffeine and soda. I lost 11 lbs. in 2 weeks, and would do it again, but no more than once or tops twice a year, since it obviously can't be good for you.

Too much protein is bad for the liver and kidneys.

Yes, this will break your plateau for sure because it's a very strict low-carb diet which is diuretic...you will lose about 8-12# of Water weight. When/if you re-introduce carbs back into your diet you will regain the weight. Sorry!

It certainly will not harm you to do this for 10 days. You will probably be light-headed, have headaches, maybe some nausea, and you may feel very tired. Just know that going in....

(I was a low-carber for 3 years.)

I will start this on Monday with you. I am going away for vacation this weekend. So I would just be setting myself up for falure. But Monday I am in. I have done this before banding and it did work. And now that we have the band hopefully we will not gain the weight back. Good luck to you.