I am currently cutting down after the winter of trying to build muscle. I got up to 189 lbs. I did a slow diet the last few weeks and took off about a 1 lb. I decided to diet quickly and went on the tuna and green bean diet.

This is where all you consume is tuna for protein and eat a lot of green beans, carrots and broccoli in support. Those vegetables have very few calories. You can eat an awful lot of green beans and broccoli and only consume 40 calories or so.

The diet I am doing is along those lines but slightly different. It leaves me consuming 1300 calories a day.

Breakfast is a protein shake with two scoops of whey protein and to cups of fat free milk. This is the best part of the day as normally I am starving on this diet.

Morning snack is a Banana (140 calories). Lunch is a plain piece of toast (100 calories) and a packet of tuna (80 calories). To fill up I eat a bunch of green beans, broccoli and carrots. When you are starving on 1300 calories a day, Broccoli is like manna from the heavens. It is watery, smooth and tasty.

Dinner is not much different, toast and tuna. Green beans, broccoli and carrots. Afternoon snack is another banana as well. I have been doing this diet for five days now and have dropped from 187 lbs to 182 lbs. About a pound a day.

After today I will be going back to a normal diet as doing such restricted calories for more then three to five days is not good for your body. The tuna and green beans diet has been effective in leaning me down, and as an added side effect, it really makes you appreciate the simplest foods. Especially in this modern world of fructose corn syrup and cheap salty processed food.

Greek Yogurt and Raisins for sweets. Awesome.