The Birmingham Hospital Diet Plan

The diet is used at the Birmingham Alabama Hospital Cardiac Care Unit for patients who need to loose a lot of weight quickly before having surgery. You can loose up to 40 pounds a month on this diet. This diet works on a chemical breakdown and is proven to work, but you must follow the diet exactly! Drink water between meals. You can have vinegar or lemon on greens, cabbage, and tuna. Salt and pepper can be used, but no other seasoning. The diet is used for three days then you eat what you normally do, but do not overeat.

Day One Breakfast
1/2 grapefruit or juice
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
1 Plain toast
tea or coffee

Day One Lunch
1/2 cup tuna
1 plain toast
tea or coffee

Day One Dinner
2 slices meat (3 oz)
1 cup green beans
1 cup carrots or beets
1 small apple
1 cup vanilla ice cream

Day Two Breakfast
1 egg
1 plain toast
1/2 banana
tea or coffee

Day Two Lunch
1 cup cottage cheese or tuna
5 saltine crackers
tea or coffee

Day Two Dinner
2 hot dog weiners
1 cup broccoli or cabbage
1/2 cup carrots
1/2 banana
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream

Day Three Breakfast
1 slice cheddar cheese
5 saltine crackers
1 small apple
tea or coffee

Day Three Lunch
1 hard boiled egg
1 slice toast
tea or coffee

Day Three dinner
1 cup tuna
1 cup beets or carrots
1 cup cantelope
1 cup cauliflower or greens
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream

So far I have not made it past the first day on trying this diet plan, but i keep trying. I am also beginning to like peanut butter for breakfast since I have never been a breakfast food fan.

How I did today!

I had one mug of coffee on the run for breakfast. I was still running for lunch so I had one slice of whole wheat bread with peanut butter spread on it, and a 12 oz coke. I had to go to the grocery store before I could make dinner so I decided on a $5 Subway sandwich with all the veggies they could get on it for dinner. I was really hungry, and I would not be able to eat anything tomorrow until after 12:00 since I have a doctor's appointment and have to have a fasting blood test so I ate 3/4 of it.

Looks like I got to start again!

I did not do very well on my diet this weekend. Hubby sabotaged me when he bought a box of the chocolate Little Debbie cakes with the raspberry cream in the middle knowing that I cannot resist the things. I have been off my diet all weekend. The Little Debbie cakes were all gone this morning. Today I had a cup of coffee and peanut butter on one slice of wholw wheat bread for breakfast. A bowl of Campbell's Tomato Soup, a grilled cheese sandwich, and a 12 oz coke for lunch. Potato soup, corn bread and water for dinner. Tomorrow I will try my diet again.

I got to lose a few pounds.

When I was sixteen I moaned around because I missed having a perfect figure by 1". To have a perfect figure your hips and bust had to measure the same, and your waist had to be exactly 10 inches smaller. My measurements then were 33, 24, 34. How I wished that I had this same problem today. I have packed an additional 70 pounds on my 5' 2" frame since that time, and my measurements are now 43, 39, 44. I have to go to the doctor next month to get my cholesterol checked and to get my two blood pressure pill perscriptions renewed, and he will again try to force me to take those pesky cholesterol lowering pills so now is the time to try to lose weight.

My grand-daughter wants me to try the Birmingham Hospital Diet Plan with her which is just a three day diet so I think that I am going to try the Birmingham Diet Plan for three days a week, and then the South Beach Diet Plan for the other four days each week until I either give up or arrive at my ideal weight whatever that is. I am starting the three day Birmingham diet first thing in the morning, and I have listed what I plan to eat tomorrow below, and I will let you know how well I followed it.

Note: I am used to having two 12 ounce cans of Coke each day, and I have never really been a coffee drinker so to give up my Cokes and drink coffee in its place I am going to have to add cream and sugar to my coffee. I have found that I cannot tell the difference between Splenda and real sugar in the coffee though, and Splenda does not add any calories. However all the creamers that I looked at seemed to have 20 calories per teaspoon. I finally picked Coffeemate's Chocolate Creamer, and I really liked the creamy chocolatey taste that it gives to my coffee. I am adding three teaspoons of the creamer this week which adds 60 calories to each cup of coffee, and I plan to try to cut it down to two teaspoon next week as I get a little more used to the taste of the coffee.

Day One Breakfast
1 Cup orange juice
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
1 Piece plain toast
Coffee

Day One Lunch
1/2 Cup tuna with vinegar or lemon
1 Piece plain toast
Coffee

Day One Dinner
3 Ounces Meat
1 Cup Green Beans
1 Cup Carrots or Beets
1 Cup Vanilla Ice Cream