The Sacre Coeur Diet

[island_sands]

This diet was made by the Sacre Coeur hospital for patients who have to have heart surgery and need to lose weight rapidly.

Soup:

1 or a can of diced tomatoes
3 large onions
1 large beef bouillon with no fat
1 sachet Low Fat Lipton soup (e.g. chicken, noodle oregano 40% less fat) (I omitted this as i cant find it in Dubai)
1 celery stick
2 cans green beans
2lbs carrots
2 green peppers

Season to taste using salt, peppper,curry parsely or Bovril. (I added garlic, red chilli and Thai lime leaves)

Cut the veggies and cover with water, boil for 10 minutes, reduce heat and boil til tender.

You can eat as much of this as you wish any time during the week of diet when you are hungry. The soup has 0 calories. The more you eat, the more weight you lose (of the soup!)

Drink cranberry juice, lots of water, black tea/coffee, skimmed milk.

Day 1
Fruit except banana. Cranberries and watermelon recommended. Eat as much fruit and soup as you want today.

Day 2
When you are hungry you can ahve all kinds of vegetables cooked or raw, try to eat green vegetables but dont eat peas or corn.

Day 3
Eat soup, fruits or vegetables. dont eat potatoes. If during these 3 days you have stuck to the diet you should have lost 5 to 7 lbs. (I lost 4lb on Day3, will see again on Day 7)

Day 4
Bananas and skimmed millk. Eat at least 3 bananas and drink lots of skimmed milk. Bananas are high in calories and carbs, but on this day your body needs potassium adn carbs. The proteins and calcium will make you feel less hungry.

Day 5 (I am now on Day 5)
Beef or chicken and tomatoes. You can eat 18oz or 20oz of beef or chicken and a can of tomatoes or lots of fresh tomatoes. eat the soup, at least one bowl per day.

Day 6
Beef or chicken and vegetables. eat when you are hungry, you can eat 2 or 3 steaks if you wish with green leafy veg. NO POTATOES! Eat at least 1 bowl of soup today.

Day 7
Brown rice, non sweetened juice and vegetables. Be certain enough to eat to satisfy your hunger. do not forget the soup. you can put cooked veg in your rice.

At the end of the 7th day, if you were serious about the diet, you will have lost 10 to 17lbs. If you wish to lose more than 17lbs do not restart this diet for two days.

This diet is rapid. The burning of fat is the secret because you burn more calories than you eat. Very important that you do not drink alcohol during this diet!

If you have had alcohol do not begin this diet for a least 24hrs.

Each person's digestive system is different and each person will react differently. After the 3rd days you will have more energy. Eat fibre or bran.

You can eat the soup at any time (take it with you in a thermos). The more soup you eat, the more you will lose!

You can eat boiled chicken or cooked to replace beef. You can replace beef with fish if you wish, for just 1 day only.

Do not eat bread or alcohol. No diet or non diet soft drinks. No fried foods.

Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day, black coffee, tea, non sweetened juice, cranberry juice or skimmed millk. ( i cut out a lot of the milk).


GOOD LUCK!!!

[Mr. X]

Potatoes - the British & Irish staple - fattening? Typical! I think there might be something in that (I wonder about our other staple, wheat too). My little brother (who was much bigger than me - taller & wider) just gave up potatoes (carbs) in the evening & started doing a little regular light exercise (& he dislikes & disapproves of exercise). The weight just dropped off him. I think he may have given up on the exercise now too. If anything though, he has lost a little more weight over the last year - looks much healthier I think. I suppose I'll have to loose some now . Actually, I lost a modest half-stone, 7lb, over the summer (w/o trying*) primarily from spearing (& kayaking) activity I think (& eating plenty of simple, fresh seafood & garden vegetables!). Downside: unfortunately the custom fit wetsuit occasionally lets cold water down my back now.

*I did cut back on chocolate/sweets a bit -- a real temption now we're back in Blightly. The American chocs & sweets are pretty disgusting & so not a problem - high fructose corn syrup, burnt tasting Hershey bars, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Crackerjack & Twinkies - yuck. They have Dove bars in the US now, which are ok (like Galaxy). British choc. unfortunately is packed with heart clogging, orangutang habitat destroying palm oil/fat .

[Scuby]

Personally I use the Sacre Bleu diet - the name derives from people's reactions when they see what I eat before diving!

[penguinator]

Looks pretty fancy! Might give it a try.

Im not really trying to lose weight, but I am trying to get an optimal Body fat percentage. At the moment I am at about 15%, but I would like to get down to 10%.

Just ruined it though, at a blueberry pie from the bakery but that was after a 60km Bike ride!

[jome]

There is one diet guaranteed to work in weight loss - and the best thing is you don't have to even change your eating habits at all!

It is simply:
-Drink a pint of egyptian tap water
After that, you can eat or drink anything for days and I guarantee you will loose weight! Tried and tested by many freedivers recently

[penguinator]

I went a few years back.... oh my I was so tempted by all the fresh mango juice... But I knew I couldn't indulge because of the water. Israel was much nicer.

[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by penguinator

...Im not really trying to lose weight, but I am trying to get an optimal Body fat percentage. At the moment I am at about 15%, but I would like to get down to 10%...

I'm not so lean these days nor am I a naturally lean sort of person but I got down below 9.25% while training for triathlons: regular coached swimming training - torture, weights, plus run & bike training &, best of all, racing. Time consuming but fun at the time. I was measured as part of program before & after a semester of gym training (my weight was unchanged but my body fat was reduced -- so worth measuring). I peaked about a year or 18 months later - when the complexities of life caught up with me - so I probably got a bit below that. I reckon I had previously been quite a bit leaner than that from time to time when climbing, especially when climbing in California & Spain, and harder routes (for me) in the UK - but was never measured. It's pretty easy to to tell though - waist measurement is usually a pretty good indication, number of strict form pull-ups, muscle definition, etc..

If "getting ripped" is your goal, you should check out the American attorney/health nut Clarence Bass:
Ripped: the Sensible Way to Achieve Ultimate Muscularity
Lean for Life: Stay Motivated and Lean Forever
He's managed to maintain ultra-low bodyfat for decades (about 2.5%...pretty much brain, vital organs & virtually no subcutaneous fat). He gets checked periodically by a University (Alburquerque?) and his age & fitness are improving as he gets older. He started off as a competitive power lifter, became a body builder but is now more of an all round health nut. His main things are weight training (although in recent years he started getting into aerobic exercise too: biking, rowing machine, treadmill) and constant diet: he eats the same thing everyday! If his waist gets a little bigger, he eats a little less. Eats really healthy too, big bowls of porridge & salad. Interesting ideas on how food is processed & insulin (apple > apple sauce > apple juice). It's his life though -- not an after thought. Although, I have a friend in Illinios, in his 50's that would give Clarence a run for his money.

[arca_tern]

So, I love fitness, and diets and all, but here's the deal.
Anyone with Google and a "copy paste" of "sacre coeur diet" will find out shortly it is a haux (not done by sacre coeur), and no doctor/nutritionist has backed it. not saying it doesn't work, just saying beware.

[Morg]

How is this possible? "The soup has 0 calories".

Doesn't everything have calories? I hear plain celery even has negative calories... the meaning behind that is it takes more energy to consume it then the calories you get out of it.