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Citrus-and-Protein Diet

Basic Rules

You Must Have:
– 1/2 grapefruit or 4 ounce glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice at the start of each meal

You May Have:
– As much meat, fish, eggs, and plain cottage cheese as you like.
– Vegetables, also as much as you feel like eating except for sweet and starchy ones listed below.
– A little butter on vegetable, and/or sauteed meat, fish.
– Salt (but try not to use very much–retains water in body tissue).
– Bedtime snack of grapefruit juice, tomato juice, or skimmed milk.
– Up to two glasses of white wine a day.

You’re Forbidden:
– Fruit, except grapefruit and lemon.
– Whole milk, cheese (except for cottage), or cream.
– Sauces thickened with flour or eggs … and no high-calorie condiments (ketchup, mayonnaise, chili sauce, etc.). Clear sauces made with stock or bouillon and wine are okay.
– Corn and beets–both vegetables are high in sugar; corn is also high in starch.
– Pudding, rice, potaoes, bread, pasta–starch turns to fat awesomely fast.
– Alcoholic beverages other than wine.
– More than one cup of coffee or tea per meal. Cutting back on caffeine when you cut back on food helps you stay calm on a diet.
– No sugar whatsoever!

Ten Day Eat-as-Much-as-You-Wish Menu

All Days:

Breakfast
1/2 grapefruit or 4 ounces unsweetened grapefruit juice
2 eggs, any style
Tea with lemon or black coffee (optional)

Lunch
1/2 grapefruit or 4 ounces unsweetened grapefruit juice
Meat or fish, prepared as you wish–baked, broiled, grilled, sauteed, braised–as long as you avoid thick sauces
Green or raw vegetable salad, dressed with one tablespoon oil and one tablespoon vinegar (you may sprinkle in herbs)
Tea with lemon or black coffee (optional)

Dinner
1/2 grapefruit or 4 ounces unsweetened grapefruit juice
Meat or fish, again cooked as you like
Salad, dressed with one tablespoon oil and one tablespoon vinegar
Tea with lemon or black coffee (optional)

Bedtime
4 ounces grapefruit juice, tomato juice, or skim milk (optional)

(From the Daily Mirror Book of Successful Slimming, as excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine, October, 1980.)

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