The Toronto Hospital Diet is effective as well as healthy. It was created by doctors in Toronto General Hospital for heart patients going to OP. They had to lose weight and optimize their blood chemistry in order to be operated. Good nutrition, vitamins and minerals had to be part of the diet.
If this diet was made for heart patients, it must be good for anybody!
It's actually so healthy that doctors say you can stay on it as long as you like! Normally it's for 2 weeks. Many diets are extremely one-sided, that is, omit one food group completely. For example the diets with low (or no) carbs ( that is breads, pasta, potatoes etc.). This is actually not good, as the body needs carbohydrates! With no carbs at all, you get weak, crave, get bad moods. You need good carbs to function. A couple of days are OK, but not longer. Also, you can't go through with a no-carb diet easily.
The Toronto Diet is based on a “Miracle soup”, of which you can eat as much as you like, plus specific different foods every day. The soup is a very healthy plant-based soup, which
- hydrates you
- cleans out your system/detoxifies
- provides you with minerals and vitamins
- protects from colon cancer
- does not make you fat
For the exact instructions of this diet, check out this link:
http://www.augen.de/Toronto_General_Hospital_Diet.498.0.html?&L=9
As you see, you do get some carbohydrates on specific days, as well as proteins. Now, after this diet, you can integrate part of it to you daily food program. Important: Don't start to eat all kinds of junk again afterward!!! Remember the Yo-yo!
My advice is to make the soup maybe 2X a week and eat it instead of your big meal that day. Or have the soup in your fridge right in the front and use it as a snack ( instead of chocolate, pizza or big fat sandwiches). Try to make a transition to eating more healthily overall, use some of the days in the diet as your model.
Good luck, hope this diet will help you drop some pounds!
