Registered dietitians have strong opinions about this intense eating plan.

It’s normal to feel overwhelmed if your health aim is to lose weight. Beginning your weight reduction journey can make it seem like you have a long way to go before you reach your goal weight. This might result in the mentality of wanting to drop as many pounds as possible each week, even if it necessitates picking up some strange habits.

The desire for losing a lot of weight super quickly is what propelled the GM diet into popularity in the 1980s. According to a website devoted to the eating plan, the GM diet centers around the idea of burning more calories than you eat. But it isn’t that simple. To reach this goal, the eating plan calls for some unusual practices, such as eating only fruit one day and then only vegetables the next. This extreme way of eating is rumored to lead to losing as much as 17 pounds a week.

What Is the GM Diet?
According to a website devoted to the GM diet, this eating plan was developed in 1987 by General Motors as a way for employees to lose weight. However, this is no proof that General Motors employees actually tried this eating plan. The diet follows a seven-day schedule, with different rules on what someone can eat (and not eat) for each day. But the theme of each day is that calorie intake is kept super low with the intention of leading to quick, substantial weight loss.

On the first day of the GM diet, followers can only eat fruit (except for bananas, which are not allowed). On the second day, only vegetables and olive oil are allowed. Once you get to day three, you can eat both fruits and vegetables (once again, except for bananas). On day four, dieters are advised to eat eight small bananas and four glasses of milk.

For day five, the menu consists of brown rice, tomatoes, and chicken or fish (or tofu or cottage cheese, if you’re a vegetarian). These foods are also permitted once again on day six, with the inclusion of vegetables. Finally, on day seven, all of these foods are allowed with the addition of lots of fruit juice. Each day, it’s advised to drink lots of water.

It’s important to know that there are no scientific studies backing up the GM diet and it doesn’t seem to be developed by a doctor or dietitian.

What Registered Dietitians Think of the GM Diet

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