3-Day Fruit Diet: A Balanced & Healthy Weight Loss Plan

Weight-loss diets are numerous but may stress limited kinds of foods that don't provide ongoing nutrition and energy for the body. The Three Day Fruit Diet is a 1,500-calorie-per-day diet recommending fruit for each meal, but it includes foods from all the major food groups to insure a well-rounded diet. Any number of foods can be incorporated into tasty and nutritious menus in a given three-day period.

Breakfast

• Breakfast suggestions include cereal, blueberry bagel, pancakes, whipped topping, skim milk, cream cheese, banana and strawberries. These should be combined to equal about 350 calories with a selection from the grain, fruit and dairy groups for each breakfast.

Snacks

• The diet suggests mid-morning, mid-afternoon and bedtime fruit snacks of 60 to 70 calories each. Recommended fruits are bananas, apples, peaches, plums, oranges, grapes, kiwis, cantaloupe, pineapple, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and raisins or dried cranberries. Yogurt with fruit can also be eaten for a snack.

Lunch

• Lunch entrees for the diet might include apple, raisins, dried cranberries, strawberries, pineapple tidbits, lunch meat, tuna or chicken salad, salad dressing, chopped walnuts or pecans, salad greens, spinach, sliced tomato, whole grain bread, pocket bread, crackers, peanut butter and skim milk. Lunch includes fruit, grain, protein and vegetable servings that total 450 to 500 calories.

Supper

• Supper menus can include steak, pork chop, chicken breast, potato, green beans, carrot salad, cabbage slaw, asparagus, whole grain bread, rice, butter, mozzarella, mayonnaise, orange and cranberries or raisins. Supper should total from 500 to 550 calories with foods from fruit, grain, protein and vegetable groups.