5. Drink only coffee, tea, club soda, diet sodas and other sugar-free
drinks. Your primary drink should be water.
6 . Prepare salads without oil, mayonnaise or rich dressings – you may
use lemon and vinegar, a vinagrette or mustard dressing.
7 . Eat vegetables without butter, margarine or other fats; lemon may be used
for flavour.
8 . Eat only the leanest meats – remove all visible fat before eating,
remove all skin and fat from poultry before eating.
9 . You don’t have to eat everything on the list, but you must not add
or substitue foods on the menu.
10 . Eat until you are satisfied, not stuffed.
11. DO NOT stay on the diet for more than fourteen days – those wishing
to continue their weight loss should follow a ‘two weeks on, two weeks
off’ approach to the Scarsdale Medical Diet.
The Scarsdale Diet menu plan is as mentioned, very strict. The
specifics of this vary depending on where you receive the diet information
from, however, the general menu is as follows – where no portion
is specified, you may eat as much as you like:
Every day, breakfast is a cup of black coffee or tea with non-sugar
sweetener if desired, a slice of toast and half a grapefruit.
Day 1:
Lunch – any amount of lean beef, chicken or fish plus tomato
salad and coffee or tea.
Dinner – broiled fish plus tomato and lettuce salad plus grapefruit
or melon.
Day 2:
Lunch – any amount of fruit salad plus coffee.
Dinner – hamburger without bread and as many cooked vegetables
as you like.
Day 3:
Lunch – tuna salad and grapefruit or melon.
Dinner – two lean pork chops and mixed green salad plus coffee.
Day 4:
Lunch – Two eggs, cottage cheese, 3oz squash, 1 piece of toast
and coffee.
Dinner – chicken plus spinach or green pepper plus coffee.
Day 5:
Lunch – all the dry cheese you want plus spinach and one piece
of toast.
Dinner – broiled fish plus cooked vegetables or green salad and
one piece of toast.
Day 6:
Lunch: as much fruit salad as you want plus one cup of coffee.
Dinner: broiled chicken without skin, tomato and lettuce salad, grapefruit
or melon and coffee.
Day 7:
Lunch: cold or hot chicken plus tomato and lettuce salad, grapefruit
or melon and coffee.
Dinner: lean beef with mixed salad and coffee.
The Scarsdale Medical Diet is criticised by many for limiting the
food choices for dieters, therefore restricting the vital nutrients
that dieters take in. Proponents of the Scarsdale approach are quick
to counter this criticism by pointing out that the Scarsdale diet is
not intended to be a long-term dietary programme, but rather a quick
way for relatively healthy people to lose around one and a half stone.
That ‘quick fix’ approach is the other key criticism dieticians
have for the Scarsdale programme – they point out that following
it for more than two weeks is detrimental, and that many dieters who
follow the Scarsdale diet plan end up gaining the weight back soon
after stopping the diet as their weight loss was temporary. |
