General Motors Diet

I started on the GM diet today. And I feel GREAT! Many people I know have done it before and not gained it all back. I think this just might be the one "diet" worth doing. What do you think?

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Hi,

I signed up this website just to share my experience with GM diet. I am someone who can put on weigt the moment I cheat on my food. But I am paranoid about being overweight and always keep watching what I eat - got used to not eating to my heart's content now. But still, to shed whatever extra I have put on over the year, I do GM diet once in a year. Today is my 3rd day of my 5th GM diet and these are my opinions and experiences.

Opinion: like few of you, I also doubt how authentic is the information that, it was made for GM employees since it is not on the GM website. But doesn't matter because the diet makes sense to me.

The key is, you got to love fruits and veggies to do this diet.

Experience- I have not really lost the weight drastically (may be 2-3lbs from 124lbs) the way it promises, but I have observed that my body keeps loosing weight for a long term even after I get back to my regular diet (again- which I always watch). So, I think GM diet helps my system to gain an intertia to loose weight - which is what I need.

Like everybody else, I do find it quite difficult  (miserable) for first two days, but by the end of third day, all of my cravings are gone and I am as good as normal. (I am at the end of my day three and really glad that first 2 days are over) I had to cheat for my first two diets but I think I have got the trick now. Keep eating fruits and veggies before you get hungry. I keep all kind of my favourite fruits handy during the first day (I prefer melons and loups but staying only on those makes me feel miserable by the end of the day) and really stuff myself up. On day two, I make my salads and veggies interesting which again helps me stuff myself up (by using differnt combinations of veggies and using different 'less fat' dressings- Zesty Italian  is my favourite which I use only for my GM diet just to look forward for it). Also bake vegetables with different seasonings. Lot of sprouts cooked in boiled water for 3-4 mins with favourite seasonings. Day three, combination of the above. Keep yourself busy doing things you really like to do. Once my third day of diet is over, my system really gets used to the change and rest of the days of my diet passes by like any other normal day. One more key point- don't think of covering up for your losses of food after your diet is over. Think of first two days if you get tempted.

Keep the faith.

PGN

If you google it you'll find several articles that explain that GM and the other authorities mentioned in the diet had nothing to do with it.  It's an unhealthy, restrictive fad diet that's been around for years.  Please dont promote it here.  We want healthy, sustainable weight management, according to the calorie-count mission.

pgn, calorie-count is devoted to healthy weight management, not fad diets.  Please don't promote them here.

please see my response: here.

There are a reason why fad diets are called "fad diets".  Fads come and go.  So do these diets.  If you want something that is going to actually make a positive difference to your health and weight, follow a menu plan that has the proper amount of nutrients and calories and find an exercise plan that works for you, that you will want to stay with.

Here's the Calorie Count diet...it really works!

Eat a balanced diet containing all the food groups with lots of vegetables and fruits.  Calculate your basic sedentary calories expenditure based on your age, height, weight, and body size.  Eat a minimum of 1200 calories for men, 1500 for women, plus half of whatever you burn with exercise, making sure your deficit is no more than 1000 calories per day.

You will lose 1-2 pounds per week.  When you've achieved your weight loss goals, eat as much as you burn and exercise to maintain your weight.

Hi

I have tried this GM Diet. But I say the first 3 days are not encouraging. But if one follows it strictly it make you light. I believe this diet can be modified into a chronic 1 month programme instead of acute 7 days. I have seen in Thailand people eat meat but in a boiled with lots of herbs and vegetables and fruits. The actual meat content is less and water content is high. I have adapted to a indianised thai diet where i eat veg/ meat or rice boiled in lots of water and spices. it tastes nice if you need recipe mail me at muktiray@gmail.com

muktiray, as you can see from the other posts, this is a website for healthy weight loss not fad diets. You should read some of the threads at the top of this forum to learn about how to lose weight in a healthy manner. However, if you are just here to promote this diet, please don't bother.

Amethystgirl,  my interest in loosing weight brought me to this forum. I do not have any intention to promote any diet. My only concern was to share my experiments with diet which has helped me to loose weight

thanks again

I find the hostility of these postings to be shocking.  Muktiray, good for you for sharing.  This is intended to be short-term diet in order to jump-start your fat burning metabolism and cleanse your system.  It works!  You get all of the nutrients your body needs, you can eat all you want, you drink lots of water and it works to cleanse your colon and allow your liver and kidneys to rid your body of toxins.  Of course on a daily basis we should all use common sense in our eating choices and this is not meant to be a long-term eating plan.  There is nothing wrong with a cleanse and this one is not nearly as radical as what else is out there (try 21 days of lemonade, maple syrup and cayenne pepper!  now that's silly).  In fact, it is very doable and is designed specifically to be giving your body specific nutrients in an intentional, methodical series.  People should be more thoughtful before they post such wildly hostile remarks.

losing weight, and maintaining it even for a year doesnt sound like a bad idea to me.. name one diet that u can follow forever?

 

How about well balanced healthy eating and a moderate amount of exercise? That's pretty easy to maintain I'd say. Not to mention it is exactly what this site was created to promote.

And I really don't understand the whole "kick off to the diet" thing? Why not start the right way, the healthy way, and learn to lose weight in a sustainable manner. Who cares if it takes an extra month or two? At least this way you have gained some knowledge on how to lead a healthy lifestyle which you CAN do forever. Knowledge is power my friends.

 Edit: Just realized how old this thread it. Guess it's a lost cause for the OP most likely. I wonder how the GM diet worked out for her.

When I read the title, I thought it would be the get laid off and not be able to afford food anymore diet.   Around here, that is the GM,Chevy, and Ford diet.

Original Post by hikinghippie:

When I read the title, I thought it would be the get laid off and not be able to afford food anymore diet.   Around here, that is the GM,Chevy, and Ford diet.

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Original Post by smwhipple:

Original Post by hikinghippie:

When I read the title, I thought it would be the get laid off and not be able to afford food anymore diet.   Around here, that is the GM,Chevy, and Ford diet.

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That's one approach. I honestly thought it would be a joke thread recommending we drink motor oil to cleanse. Then I realized they were serious. *sigh*

Seriously, what's with the stupid gimmicks? A balanced diet isn't all that hard to achieve. Apparently people don't want to have to think about what they're putting in their bodies and would rather eat a big bowl of gross, stinky soup.

The OP posted in 2007 and hasn't logged in since 2008.

There is certain irony of the posts to this thread objecting to a "jump start" scenario.  In any change of behavior we always jump-start, whether it is not-smoking, learning a new language, keeping a clean home, improving our education, working on our career.  Think of it as immersion instead of fad and it may just be more understandable.  The issue is that many people need to psychological boost early to keep their morale high.  If you did not get immediate personal or public feedback to reinforce the behavior of better eating, then we would stop faster than we usually do.   Pithy comments such as “calories in, calories out” ratios are condescending and make those who do need a jump start feel stupid. You all know where that leads.

As all of us know that have ever had to struggle with weight, the early days are very important to the long term, all needing something to provide feedback that we can in fact can do it and it will be worth it.  Most people struggle with the psychological effect of needing to lose 35 or 40 pounds yet being told it happens 1-2 pounds a week.  Should we be alone on an island with zero options and zero temptation, that might be endurable, but we instinctively know that there are days that the “bad me” will want to come and play so viewing a year of 1 pound a week makes more people lose momentum early.

When I see morbidly obese people in the gym, I feel for them, knowing they have to be looking at two or three years to get there at 1-2 pounds a week, which is more than most people can manage, again, psychologically.  Think about how many people fail in all (not just fad) diets and how soon they fail.

This diet may be a fad as the purists here believe, that I do not debate.  Personally, I lost 13 pounds on it after I hit a plateau and was losing the faith.  This is no different than being in a gym daily for the first month then tapering off to a more rational approach of being there four or five days a week. The diet is self limiting in that the monotony drives you to not continue often.  That and the cabbage soup prevents you from being in public for the duration.

It took me 15 years to get where I peaked so I know it will take some time to get back to where I need to be, but using everything I can to achieve that goal is part of the landscape.   This just happened to be a tool in that effort.

This is just my opinion.  I could be wrong.

@ Vikingstar

I am a person who has started out with over 100 pounds to loose, and so far have lost twenty three, and still going as strong as the first day. You don't have to feel sorry for us. Mentally, for me, it's not about wishing I was 150 pounds already (a healthy weight for my height), although I have days like that, but the reinforcement comes in losing steadily. As long as you are getting smaller, and know it's a choice you have made for yourself, it is an empowering and strong feeling. The feeling of success shouldn't just come on the day you reach some magic number, it should be in the knowledge that you have begun to treat yourself well, and begun on the path to making a new, healthy you. And there are plenty of fabulous moments along the way, as you reach mini-goals, and as you feel your body get healthy, limber, and responsive. So, please, don't feel sorry for us, feel proud of us, like we are for ourselves, because just showing up in that gym is something powerful that person is doing to make themselves better.

jnnlaster -

I understand your point well.  I said that I feel for these people, not that I feel sorry, because of a long road ahead that, at 1-2 lbs per week provides ample opportunity to fall from the wagon.  I will not be condescending and espouse other pithy comments about it such as “Hang in there” or Way to go” as if you had not already thought of that.  I find vacuous encouragement made by those that believe that have influence on me laughable.   If I cannot muster the internal motivation to continue on this path, nothing they will ever ssay to me will assist.

My personal battle with this issue started at 120 lbs above "healthy weight" (according to the charts-and unrealistic to me) after never having to worry about anything I ever ate as a kid.  I do feel for the collective you (having been there), but not feeling sorry, for a number of reasons, and most assuredly not in a sense as being objects of pity.  I simply understand from that personal experience that it’s a long road and the comment was that the purists in this string were deriding the jump-start as a waste of time and less than worthless.  

I apologize for any implication that I was feeling pity. 

VS

I know this is a really old thread, but I am interested in the concept of jump-starting weight loss.  In my personal experience, it leads to short term happiness, then when the scale slows down, discouragement.  That may be fine for people with a small amount of weight to lose, but for those of us facing 100 pounds or more, it may not be the best strategy.

I am 10 months into my weight loss phase, almost halfway to goal, and still going strong because I chose to think of this as a lifestyle change, not a diet.  Very little will actually change once I am at goal, so really, this is how I plan to live for the rest of my life, not just the next 14 months it will take to get to goal.