The 10 Days 10 Pounds Off Diet, also known as the Grapefruit Diet, and also known as the Mayo Clinic Diet,
was the most popular quick weight loss diet of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The Mayo Clinic stated they had no
connection with the diet. All meals started with half a grapefruit or 6 ounces of unsweetened grapefruit juice.
After your grapefruit, breakfast consisted of as many eggs as you wanted, up to a dozen, cooked any way you
liked. You also had to eat one slice of bacon for each egg you ate, and finish your meal with one cup of coffee or
tea. Lunch started with half a grapefruit again, and then was unlimited salad with sugar-free dressing, and as much
meat or fish or poultry as you wanted, and finished with a cup or tea or coffee. Dinner was a repeat of lunch,
with the addition of an unlimited serving of any low carbohydrate vegetable. If the diet appeals to you, go ahead
a try it for 10 days. But if you want to lose 10 pounds, limit your calories to no more 1500 a day. Figure half a
grapefruit is 50 calories, an egg is 80 calories, and a slice of bacon is 75 calories. Salad is calorie free, but count
the calories in your dressing. Figure that a portion of protein the size of your fist is about 400 calories, and low
carbohydrate vegetables are 50 calories per cup.