If you’re looking to drop a dress size before the weekend, the GM Diet will support your plan with a menu of solid and nutrient dense foods. The programme works by limiting your diet to various fruits and vegetables, as well as some milk and meat products. Throughout the 7 days, the dieter can help themselves to unlimited quantities of the GM Diet soup, which consists of low to no calorie vegetables boiled in chicken or beef stock. Also known as the Cabbage Soup and Sacred Heart Diet, soup recipe details and a day-by-day diet plan can be found here.
Not unlike the Sacred Heart and Cabbage Soup diets, the GM Diet has a folkloric history of its own. Though unsubstantiated by General Motors, the corporation apparently created the General Motors diet in 1985, in conjunction with the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. General Motors, the largest company in the world at the time, designed the weight loss plan for their staff and families, and accompanied it with a fitness regime and on site diet support. Details of the GM Diet have become widely available in books and online and the GM programme is known throughout the world as a fast and easy weight loss plan.
The GM diet plan is devoid of calorie dense foods and, in its current incarnation, dietary salt, well known for its fluid retention properties. Drinking high volumes of water is, as required by the GM Diet plan, a great way to flush out toxins, but it will also send it the message ‘you don’t need to store water’ to your body. This allows for what feels like a massive drop in body fat in a very short amount of time.
The dieter will be struck by the feelings of lightness upon completing the GM diet plan, and they might feel that they have cheated the system somewhat. Most short-term weight loss plans require an abstinence from food, and this is certainly not the case on the GM Diet.
Though the General Motors Diet is nothing short of a crash diet with enough complexity to amuse the dieter for at least 7 days, the biggest challenge to anyone who takes part it is the strong urge to binge on forbidden foods when they’ve completed the one week diet. The weight gain, which will be the re-uptake of salts and therefore water into the body, will feel like a failure and the dieter might be tempted to crash diet again, creating a yo-yo momentum which is tempting to continue.
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