Away from cars, the GM Diet is a nutrition plan that promises to help you lose about 7 kilograms in one week without even exercising.
It sounds very tempting, but how true and effective is this diet? What’s the plan based on and how does it affect your health?
In this article, we’ll tell you everything about the GM diet, its plan, pros, cons, and health impact, and you can choose whether to follow it or not.
First: What is the GM Diet?
The GM Diet is a plan that cuts out many food groups and only allows certain foods on specific days.
The GM Diet creator claims it can help you lose about 7 kilograms in one week, which is the length of the diet plan, broken down into seven days with specific foods for each day.
Second: What do experts say about the GM Diet?
The GM diet includes healthy foods but is very strict about how and when to eat them.
For example, you can only eat fruit on the first day of the diet, so the diet seems unrealistic and isn’t backed by science.
Third: What can you eat inside the GM diet:
The GM diet is a 7-day weight loss plan that involves eating specific foods on specific days while skipping many food groups and drinks, and drinking something called (GM miracle soup) when you feel hungry, which explains how strange this diet is.
The GM miracle soup is a mix of (celery, tomatoes, onions, sweet pepper, and cabbage). It's supposed to help you lose weight. You can eat it between meals. Although the ingredients aren't bad at all, it’s unlikely this soup will help you lose weight.
Interestingly, the GM diet doesn’t limit calories or the amount of food. You are free to eat as much as you want, although eating a lot of any food can hurt your weight loss progress.
Fourth: What foods does the GM diet include:
There are food groups that fit with the GM diet plan, which are:
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Fruit.
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Vegetables.
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Potatoes.
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Amazing GM soup.
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Yogurt.
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Tomatoes.
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Dairy.
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Beef, chicken, fish.
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Brown rice (vegetarians only).
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Cottage cheese (vegetarians only).
Fifth: Foods you should NOT include in the GM diet plan:
There are some other food groups that don't fit with the GM diet plan and they are:
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Processed and packaged foods of any kind: this includes chips, crackers, pastries, cakes, cookies, ice cream, other sweets, granola bars, frozen meals.
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Grains: like bread and oats, except vegetarians who might eat brown rice instead of animal protein sources.
Sixth: What is the eating plan for the seven days in the GM diet?
Choosing the foods you eat on the GM diet isn't necessarily bad. They're all healthy foods. But the combos you’re allowed can seem weird and might cause disordered eating habits.
Here is your seven-day plan inside the diet system:
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Day one:
Only fruit, you can eat any fruit except bananas and mangoes. The plan especially encourages watermelon to help with weight loss.
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Day two:
Only vegetables, raw and cooked. It's best to eat fewer potatoes in the morning meal.
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Day three:
Eat fruits and vegetables of any kind except bananas. It's better not to eat potatoes because carbs come from the fruit.
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Day four:
Only bananas and milk are allowed. Eat only 6 large bananas or 8 small bananas, and drink three cups of milk. It's better if the milk is skim or 2% fat at lunch, plus one cup of cabbage soup.
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Day five :-
You can eat protein from beef, chicken, fish. Besides meats, you're allowed only 6 tomatoes to make the magic soup.
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Day six :-
You can eat any meats, beef, chicken, fish, plus unlimited amounts of vegetables except potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, and corn.
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Day seven :-
Only brown rice, fruits, fruit juice, and vegetables.
Seventh :- Benefits of following the GM diet :-
Despite the unique nature of the GM diet and its unsustainable plan, it sticks to some noticeable healthy features which are :-
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Includes healthy foods :-
If the creator of the GM diet did something right, it's choosing a healthy group of foods, with options like fruits, vegetables, animal protein, milk, and the magic soup, all offering great health benefits.
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No calorie counting :-
One standout thing in the GM diet compared to other diets that stress calorie restriction, maybe the creators were smart to know from the start that eating fruits and vegetables usually leads to weight loss, since they have low calorie density.
Of course, on days when you eat animal protein and drink milk, the calories are higher, but still, there’s no focus on counting calories any day during the plan, which is a positive for people who find it hard to track calories.
Eighth :- Downsides of following the GM diet :-
Don't let the perks trick you into thinking the GM diet is a sustainable and healthy plan, so here are the downsides of this diet:
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Weird and not sustainable prep:
It's clear now that the GM diet is completely strange, the seven-day plan with random food groups that don't seem sustainable even for one week.
Most people start the diet, follow it for a day or two, then realize how silly and exhausting it is. Plus when you're really hungry, who wants to eat soup called 'weird' instead of a hearty or even a snack meal?
Even if the claim of losing 7 kilograms in one week sounds tempting to follow the GM diet, you should seriously think about what you will do after losing all that weight in one week. What’s your next step? How will you keep that weight off? Because surely it will come back after you stop the GM diet.
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Claims not backed by science:
Evidence-based diets are the best to follow. When a diet is supported by scientific organizations and researchers from many fields, you know it’s a suitable, manageable choice.
But when a diet makes bold claims not backed by any scientific studies or major organizations, like the GM diet, you should stop and think twice before following it.
