The 2-4-6-8 Plan
With this plan, you vary your daily calorie intake to ensure that your metabolism stays active - i.e., you don't go into starvation mode. Some people choose to add an extra day (1000 calories), but I prefer staying in triple digits. Note: During this diet, you can have all the water, diet soda, and black coffee you want. If you add milk or sugar to the coffee, be sure to calculate in those calories.
| Breakfast | Lunch | Snack | Dinner | Total: | |
| 200 day | 1/2 c Fiber One Cereal: 60 |
1 c chicken or beef buillion: 5 | 8 Quaker Apple Cinnamon Mini Rice Cakes: 60 | 1 Campbell's Soup at Hand Chicken 'n Stars: 60 |
185 |
| 400 day | 1 c Quaker Puffed Rice Cereal + 1/2 c nonfat milk: 90 | 1 Campbell's Soup at Hand Chicken 'n Stars: 60 | 3 plain Quaker Rice cakes: 105 | 1 and 1/3 cup Total Corn Flakes + 1/2 cup Skim Milk: 150 | 395 |
600 day |
1 and 1/3 cup Total Corn Flakes + 1/2 cup Skim Milk (150) | 2 slices Orowheat Lite Bread + 1 slice Kraft Fat Free Cheese: 110 |
8 Quaker Apple Cinnamon Mini Rice Cakes: 60 | 1 Stouffer's Lean Cuisine Chicken Fettucini: 270 | 590 |
| 800 day | 1 c Fiber One Cereal + 1/2 c Skim Milk: 165 | 2 slices Orowheat Lite Bread + 2 slices Kraft Fat Free Cheese: 140 | 3 plain Quaker Rice cakes: 105 |
1 Stouffer's Lean Cuisine French Bread Deluxe Pizza: 330 |
800 |