Haven for the Heartbroken

Bread and Butter Diet

The basic gimmick of this diet is that you get to eat a slice of bread with butter at every meal. Here is the basic diet. It's a four day diet and you can switch any of the breads with a bread that you like, or if you can't find a particular bread. Here is the diet. A note, this diet is more of a crash diet than a fad diet, it is low calorie, averaging about 850 calories a day. So, you will feel hungry during this diet.


Day One:

Breakfast:
1 slice whole wheat bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1/2 cup orange juice

Lunch:
3.5 ounces drained water-pack tuna
green salad
1 slice protein bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 small apple

Dinner:
4 ounces broiled cod
1cup steamed broccoli
1/2 cup steamed peas
1 slice rye bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 orange


Day Two:

Breakfast:
1 slice raisin bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 soft boiled egg

Lunch:
3.5 ounces pink salmon
3 ounces lettuce
1 tomato
1 slice white bread
1teaspoon butter

Dinner:
4 ounces broiled hamburger
1 hamburger roll
1 pickle
green salad.


Day Three:

Breakfast:
1 slice corn bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 cup grapefruit juice

Lunch:
2 hard-boiled eggs
1 green pepper
1/2 cup green beans
1 slice French bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine

Dinner:
4 ounces broiled white meat chicken
1/2 cup mixed vegetables
1 slice bran bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine


Day Four:

Breakfast:
1 slice cracked wheat bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine

Lunch:
1 ounce Muenster cheese
1/2 cup stewed tomatoes
1 cup steamed summer squash
1 slice Italian Bread
1 Teaspoon butter or margarine

Dinner:
4 ounces dark meat turkey
1/2 cup corn
green salad
1 slice pumpernickel
1 teaspoon butter or margarine

Cabbage Soup

Instructions:
Eat as much cabbage soup as you desire for seven days and you can lose 10 to 15 pounds. The recipe varies slightly, but basically includes a variety of low-calorie vegetables such as cabbage, onions and tomatoes, flavored with bouillon, onion soup mix and tomato juice. Each day of the seven-day program has specific foods that must be eaten, including potatoes, fruit juice, many vegetables, and on one day, beef.


Day One:
Eat only fruit, all the fruit you want except banana.
Drink unsweetened tea, black coffee, cranberry juice and water.
Eat as much soup as you like.

Day Two:
All you want - fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice.
Stay away from dry beans, peas and sweet corn.
Reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter for dinner.
Eat as much soup as you like, but no fruit for today.

Day Three:
Combine days one and two, eat as much fruit, vegetables and soup as you like but no baked potato.

Day Four:
Eat as many as eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup.
This day is supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.

Day Five:
You may have 10-20 ounces of beef (300-500g) and a large tin or up to six fresh tomatoes.
Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body.
Eat your soup at least once today.
You may eat broiled or baked chicken (skinless) instead of beef. If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for the beef.

Day Six:
Eat beef and vegetables today.
You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with fresh vegetables or salad.
NO BAKED POTATO.
Eat your soup at least once.

Day Seven:
Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables all you want.
Be sure to eat your soup at least once to day.
No bread, alcohol, or carbonated beverages - not even diet soda

Caroline Kettlewell

Breakfast:
½ cup fat-free yogurt (100 cals)
total: 100 calories, 0 gms fat

Lunch:
1 clementine or 1 small orange ( 45 cals)
total: 45 calories, 0 gms fat

Dinner:
3 bites of dinner (approx. 100 cals) total: 100 calories, 2 gms fat

total: 245 calories, 2 gms fat

Chicken Soup

Breakfasts Choices
On the chicken soup diet you are allowed one breakfast a day. Now you can try a different breakfast every day, and this is the best way because it will give you a good nutritional balance. Since there are only 5 different ones to choose from, for the last two days of the diet, repeat the ones you liked the best.

Ingredients for the Chicken Soup:
2 Tbs. oil, best if you use olive oil
4 parsnips cut into 1/2 inch pieces (this is about 1 lb. of parsnips)
4 ribs celery sliced
1 turnip cut into 1/2 inch pieces (3/4 of a pound)
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
1 Tbs. chopped garlic
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
16 cups reduced fat, low sodium, chicken broth
7 cans (5 oz. each) of chicken, or 5 cups (1 1/2 lbs) fresh chicken (cooked)
1 bag (16 oz.) frozen carrots
1 box (10 oz.) frozen broccoli florets
1 box (10 oz.) frozen chopped collard greens
1 1/2 cups frozen chopped onions
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup chopped fresh dill or 1 tbs. dried dill.

Cooking Instructions:
Using a large pot, heat the oil over a medium head. Add the parsnips, celery, turnip, jalapeno pepper, garlic, salt and cayenne pepper. Cook all the vegetables until the are crisp-tender...this should take about 15 minutes. Add the broth, chicken, carrots, broccoli, collard greens, onions, lemon juice and dill. Bring it to a boil, reduce heat and let it simmer for 5 minutes.

This will make 26 cups of soup.

Okay, here are the Breakfast dishes:

Breakfast 1:
1 cup vanilla nonfat yogurt combined with 1/2 cup chopped fruit salad and sprinkled with wheat germ.

Breakfast 2:
1 cup ricotta cheese combined with 1/2 tsp. of sugar and a dash of cinnamon.
2 pieces while-grain bread, toasted
3 dried figs

Breakfast 3:
1 1/2 cups Total cereal
1/2 cup nonfat milk
1/2 cup calcium enriched orange juice

Breakfast 4:
1/2 cup prune juice
1 small whole-wheat bagel, topped with 1 oz of fat-free cheddar cheese melted.

Breakfast 5:
1 1/2 cups cooked Wheaten Cereal
1/2 cup nonfat milk

Now remember, you have one of these breakfast dishes every day and then as much of the chicken soup as you want.

Marya Hornbacher Diet

Breakfast:
1 grapefruit ( 100 cals)
total: 100 calories, 0 gms fat

Lunch:
2 fat-free pretzels from a bag ( 20 cals) 4 carrot sticks, ( 12 cals) 4 celery sticks ( 5 cals) 3 tsp mustard (5 cals)
total: 42 calories, 0 gms fat

Dinner:
½ cup fat-free, sugar-free yogurt ( 60cals)
total: 60 calories, 0 gms fat

total: 202 calories, 0 gms fat

Mixed Carb 400 Diet

Breakfast:
1 cup fat-free, sugar-free yogurt, any flavor (120 cals)
total: 120 calories, 0 gms fat

Lunch:
2 slices reduced-calorie bread (90 cals)
1 medium apple (100 cals)
total: 190 calories, 1 gm fat

Dinner:
3 cups shredded iceberg lettuce (24 calories!)
3 tsp Wishbone Fat-Free Italian (30 cals)
8 baby carrots (40 cals)
total: 94 calories, 0 gms fat

total: 400 calories, 1 gm fat

Rainbow Diet

Monday (white):
Breakfast: ½ apple (40.5 cals)
Lunch: ½ apple (40.5 cals)
Dinner: 1 cucumber (24 cals)
Total: 105 cals

Tuesday (yellow):
Breakfast: 1 banana (108.5 cals)
Lunch: 1 banana (108.5 cals)
Dinner: ½ cup corn (66 cals)
Total: 283 cals

Wednesday (fast):

Thursday (orange):
Breakfast: ½ orange (31 cals)
Lunch: ½ orange (31 cals)
Dinner: 1 carrot (26 cals)
Total: 88 cals

Friday (red):
Breakfast: ½ cup strawberries (21.5 cals)
Lunch: ½ cup strawberries (21.5 cals)
Dinner: ½ red pepper (16 cals)
Total: 59 cals

Saturday (purple/blue):
Breakfast: 10 blueberries (8 cals)
Lunch: 10 blueberries (8 cals)
Dinner: 10 raspberries (24 cals)
Total: 40 cals

Sunday (green):
Breakfast: ½ cup grapes (57 cals)
Lunch: ½ grapes (57 cals)
Dinner: 1 cup lettuce (7 cals)
Total: 121 cals

Week total: 696 cals

Russian Gymnasts

This is the diet of Olympic silver medalist Irina Tschachina ( 5"6 and weighs only 99lbs!) it was such a success for her now many other Russian Gymnasts are following this diet. Here it is:


Breakfast:
Glass of either orange or apple juice

Lunch:
Fruit Salad (made off kiwi fruit, orange, pineapple, and peeled apples)
Glass of fruit juice (from one of the above fruits)

Dinner:
Glass of non carbonated water*
Green apple

Anyone on this diet for 5-7 days can loose between 4 lbs-11 lbs
*non carbonated means non fizzy, so like normal water.

Super Oatmeal

Breakfast:
One packet instant oatmeal, any flavor (120-160 cals)
total: 120-160 calories, 2-4 gms fat

Lunch:
Diet soda (0 cals)
total: 0 cals, 0 gms fat

Dinner:
Tea w/ no-cal sweetener (<5 cals)
total: <5 calories, 0 gms fat

total: 120-165 calories, 2-4 gms fat

Vegan Model

Breakfast:
1 slice reduced-calorie bread (45 cals)
1-2 cups black coffee, or with no-cal sweetener (0 cals)
total: 45 calories, ½ gm fat

Lunch:
1 medium-large apple (120 cals)
total: 120 calories, ½ gm fat

Dinner:
8 baby carrots (40 cals)
total: 40 calories, 0 gms fat

total: 200 calories, 1 gm fat

Low Calorie Meals

1/4 Cup Long Grain Brown Rice

1 Large Tomato