Diet #1 & #2: Modified High Protein Diet
Use this diet first and for 2 weeks
This is an entirely new and updated version of Dr. Schoonmaker's diet that I read in Sports Illustrated 30 years ago. It is effective and satisfying, reducing the later desire for chicken, meat, eggs, and dairy. I believe this diet changes metabolism by "filling up protein stores" similar to an Atkins-type diet and also gives you an overflow of certain foods to prepare you for the next dietary steps.
Where the quantity of food below is not specifically limited, you may eat as much as you desire plus the berries/vegetables/soups/stews of Diet #4.
Drink one quart of water or green tea per day.
No butter/margarine/grease or oil, but you may use Pam Spray. I recommend Inka/Cafix/Pero/Roma/Raja's Cup as my preferred coffee substitutes, or simply hot water with lemon.
You may have herbs but not spices or ketchup. Up to three sticks a day of Carefree gum is allowed.
You may use the "Zero" salad dressing recipe* below.
Nothing else is permitted.
Weigh yourself only at night for these two weeks.
Monday
Breakfast: Blueberries/strawberries/raspberries/blackberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, grapefruit, or Florida's Natural brand Ruby Red Premium, not from concentrate grapefruit juice. Take any medicines one hour after the juice.
Lunch:
Tofu salad, veggie burgers, or sliced and pan fried seitan [fry with Sauce described below] or unlimited beans such as lentils/chick peas/lima beans/pinto beans/split peas or bean soups. No potatoes.
Dinner:
Fish (wild, not farm raised) or bison steak or hamburger: As much as you want. One piece of dry, stone-ground, organic, whole grain sourdough bread such as Baldwin Hill. Grapefruit or grapefruit juice, Inka or Raja's Cup, green/bancha/kukicha or herbal teas. No potatoes. Have the cooked vegetables/soups of Diet #4 - as much as you like.
Tuesday
Breakfast and Lunch the same.
Dinner: same with wild salmon (preferred) and/or bison steak/hamburger.
Wednesday
Breakfast and Lunch the same.
Dinner: same with tuna (preferred) and/or bison steak/hamburger.
Thursday
Breakfast and Lunch the same.
Dinner: same with trout (preferred) and/or (ideally) pasture fed veal/pork/lamb and drinks as before.
Friday
Breakfast and Lunch the same.
Dinner: same as Wednesday.
Saturday
Breakfast and Lunch the same. A fruit salad for lunch - as much as you want.
Dinner: beans, veggie burgers, or seitan, plus cooked vegetables and drinks.
Sunday
Breakfast same.
Lunch: herbed smoked tofu, cooked veggies and soups, grapefruit, and drinks.
Dinner: take your pick of any of the above proteins (includes fish, etc.) and cooked veggies/soups and fruit.
Comments:
*Zero salad dressing: Salt, pepper, parsley, and mustard.
Sauce: One teaspoon each of toasted sesame oil + mirin (sweet rice cooking wine) + tamari + three tablespoons of water heated in a pan until just starting to bubble.
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H. Robert Silverstein, MD, FACCHartford, CT