The Greenlane Diet
Greenlane Hospital is a specialist heart surgery hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. The Greenlane diet has travelled around the world by word of mouth. Its origins were as a quick weight loss diet for very obese subjects needing urgent heart surgery. Well that is the story I have heard and it rings true. Morbidly obese people are at much greater risk in surgery and a quick strict diet to get rid of a few pounds in a hurry is reasonable. The Greenlane diet is not meant as a crash diet for ordinary healthy folk who are not about to go under the surgeons knife.
I live in New Zealand and The Greenlane Hospital does exist. I haven't rung them to check whether this is their diet though.
In spite of the above, ie that it wasn't intended to be a crash diet for everyone, one of my friends goes on the Greenlane Diet once a year to lose accumulated weight. She says it works really well and she finds it relatively easy to do. She gave me the version she uses and it is lot different from the ones I have seen on various message boards around the net. For example it is said to be a 3 day diet where you can lose 10 pounds. That is ridiculous. You could never lose 10 lbs in 3 days unless someone cut your arm off!
The Greenlane diet is not a 3 day diet, it s a 4 week diet, and there is no promise that you will lose 10lbs. Those bits have been added, though my friend tells me she drops about 5kg (11lbs). It isn't hard to stick to because the strict part is only for 3 days after which you can eat normally. No doubt that is where the 3 days rumor began.
So this is the Greenlane diet as given to me:
Greenlane Diet Day 1
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner |
| 1 grapefruit | 1/3 cup of Tuna | 2 slices of meat (any) 3oz |
| 1 piece of toast with | 1 piece of toast | 1 cup chopped beetroot |
| 2 teaspoons peanut butter | water, tea or coffee no milk | 1 cup green beans |
| water, tea or coffee no milk | 1 small apple | |
| 1 cup Weight Watchers ice-cream | ||
| water, tea or coffee no milk |
Greenlane Diet Day 2
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner |
| 1 egg poached | 1 cup cottage cheese | 2 frankfurters |
| 1 piece toast | 5 Ritz crackers | 1 cup of broccoli |
| ½ banana | tea or coffee no milk | ½ cup carrots |
| tea or coffee no milk | ½ banana | |
| ½ cup weight watchers ice-cream | ||
| tea or coffee no milk |
Greenlane Diet Day 3
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner |
| 5 Ritz crackers | 1 boiled egg | 1 cup of tuna in brine |
| 1 slice cheddar cheese | 1 piece of dry toast | 1 cup of beetroot |
| 1 small apple | black coffee/tea or water | 1 cup of cauliflower |
| black coffee/tea or water | black coffee/tea or water |
Greenlane Diet Days 4 to 7
Eat normally but do not over eat.
Repeat this week's plan to make a total of 4 weeks. You should have lost quite a few pounds by the end of the month. Now you don't need me to tell you not to stay on it more than one month do you?
Thats it. Good Luck!
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