ABCD (Ana Boot Camp Diet) !

Ana Boot Camp

Reviewer: Diet Choices editors

The Ana Boot Camp is a 50-day near starvation diet of uncertain origins that is passed around on internet forums.

Background

The Ana Boot Camp is an internet diet passed around on forums devoted to pro ana

What You Eat

The Ana Boot Camp Diet is a simple 50-day schedule listing the number of calories that the dieter is advised to eat. Calorie levels range from zero to 500 calories (one day only lists 800 calories), in an apparently random pattern.

Week	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
Week 1	500	500	300	400	100	200	300
Week 2	400	500	Fast	150	200	400	350
Week 3	250	200	Fast	200	100	Fast	300
Week 4	250	200	150	100	50	100	200
Week 5	200	300	800	Fast	250	350	450
Week 6	Fast	500	450	400	350	300	250
Week 7	200	200	250	200	300	200	150
Week 8	Fast	Slowly return to a normal diet

Dangers

Ana Boot Camp supplies very few calories. The Ana Boot Camp is 50 days long, making the Ana Boot Camp diet is potentially extremely dangerous.

The Diet's Theory

The diet is based on the concept of calorie shifting, a dieting theory born from the idea that when you reduce your food intake suddenly, your body shifts into "starvation mode," an evolutionary defense mechanism in which your body's metabolism becomes more efficient in order to cope with an expected shortage of food. By varying the number of calories each day you presumably trick the body into not realizing that it is being confronted with a shortage of food, thus preventing starvation mode.

(source : http://dietchoices.com/diet-plans/ana-boot-camp-abc-diet/ )