The pineapple diet is considered a fad diet, and it is true to some respect. One thing about this type of diet and eating plan that that throws a lot of people off is that there isn't a simple laid out eating plan for the pineapple diet the way there is for say, the cabbage soup diet, which is another diet based off of the idea of negative calories.

One person's version of a pineapple diet could be very different than a different person's version of this diet. This is often true with fad diets, and the pineapple diet is a fad diet, but one that could work really well for some people.

Some people have referred to the pineapple diet as a three day fad diet, while others have said that they've done a eating plan similar to the cabbage soup diet, only with pineapple, and that it worked well. There is also argument over whether you have to have fresh pineapple or if canned pineapple works, and want the actual eating plans are. So I guess in a way there really isn't one pineapple diet, but actually a lot of pineapple diets, plural.

In the three day version, or at least in one three day version of the pineapple diet, you eat nothing but one entire fresh pineapple the first day (and drink a lot of water), on day two you do the same thing but also eat two cans of tuna for protein, and on day three you do the same as day one: just pineapple and lots of water (ice water is said to be best).

This is a fad version of the Metzger pineapple diet, although when Joann Metzger created the pineapple diet, she also used a lot of tablets that contain a special amount of pineapple, and she claimed to lose over 40 pounds of fat in just 6 weeks and kept it off for good.

Another version of the pineapple diet is a three week version where you eat three small sensible meals a day that are low calorie, low fat, and have pineapple as a side, and you have 2-3 snacks a day of pineapple. Pineapple is a negative calorie food, at least it's one of the fruits listed on the negative calorie diet, so that would make sense that this fruit would make a good diet food.

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Originally published on various other sites by myself.