Aside from the basic military diet meal plan and eating schedule (which we\u2019ll go over in a moment), there\u2019s no official military diet and the recommendations and rules vary based on who you ask.
Furthermore, there\u2019s no fitness guru claiming credit for the military diet.
There\u2019s no diet book promoting its eating principles.
There\u2019s no official website on the diet and the main argument thrown around in its favor is the rumor that Khloe Kardashian used it to lose weight . . . at some point . . . maybe.
Despite this dubious track record, it\u2019s still wildly popular, as evidenced by the 150,000 people who search for it every month online.
Some of the appeal is understandable, too.
Like many weight loss diets it has an attractive schtick:
What are the downsides, then?
For starters, the meal plan you\u2019re supposed to follow looks like the diet of a famished racoon rooting through a restaurant dumpster.
There\u2019s no rhyme or reason to any of the food choices, and it\u2019s almost as if someone threw them together purely to troll people who don\u2019t know any better.
For example, dinner on the third day of the diet is 1 cup of tuna, \xbd a banana, and 1 cup of vanilla ice cream.
The meals are also designed to provide no more than 1,000 calories per day for the first 3 days of the diet, and the other 4 days of the week you\u2019re allowed no more than 1,500 calories.
If you aren\u2019t familiar with what 1,500 calories looks like, that\u2019s very little food\u2014about half as much as most people eat.
That being what it is, there\u2019s a groundswell of dieters eager to learn more about the military diet and plenty of vloggers, influencers, and other bush-league diet gurus happy to spread the gospel.
You probably know enough about dieting, though, to be skeptical. In fact, I\u2019ll wager a hotdog and half cup of vanilla ice cream that you have a lot of questions about the military diet, such as . . .
You\u2019ll learn the answers to all of t