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How do I lose weight on the Tony ferguson diet? What foods can I eat? What do I have to avoid? Dietitian Juliette Kellow explains.
Reviewed by Dietitian, Juliette Kellow BSc RD
As the name suggests, this phase is designed to help you lose weight.
Quite simply, you replace two meals a day with a Tony Ferguson diet shake, soup or bar and then make your third meal.
The meal you make yourself should include one serving of protein-rich food together with low GI vegetables. Men are allowed bigger portions than women.
Protein Rich Foods | Low GI Vegetables |
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Lean red meat | Aubergine |
Poultry | Broccoli |
Fish | Leeks |
Eggs | Tomatoes |
Cottage Cheese | Mushrooms |
Ricotta | Mange Tout |
Tofu | Peppers |
Soy mince | Spring Onions |
On the Tony Ferguson diet, you stay on the weight loss phase for as long as you like – usually until you reach your target weight – but you should follow it for at least two weeks.
In a similar way to other Meal Replacement regimes, throughout the day you should have a minimum of three servings of veg and two servings of low GI fruits.
Fruits you can include are: | |
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Apples | Grapes |
Apricots | Mangoes |
Bananas | Oranges |
Berries | Peaches |
Cherries | Pears |
You are allowed three treats a week.
You also need to have one to three servings of good fats a day, depending on your weight. For example, if you weigh between 10 and 19st, you are allowed one to two servings a day where a serving is equivalent to 1 tbsp olive oil, ½ small avocado, 10-15 almonds or 2 tbsp seeds.
You can spice meals up with herbs, spices, lime and lemon juice, chilli sauce and tomato puree.
All of this should be washed down with 2 litres of water, which you can mix with diet or sugar-free cordials or use to make herbal, fruit or decaffeinated tea.
In order to maximize the effects of the diet, in a manner similar to that of Low GI diets, foods you must avoid on the Tony Ferguson weight loss diet are:
Breakfast Cereals | Pasta | Rice |
Noodles | Bread | Potatoes |
Beans | Lentils | Biscuits |
Sweets & Chocolate | Fizzy Drinks | Fruit Juice |
Tony Ferguson Chocolate Shake
Spicy guacamole dip with veg sticks
Tony Ferguson Chicken Flavour Soup with steamed veg
A small banana
Indonesian style beef curry. Plus Tony Ferguson Raspberry Jelly and a nectarine
125ml skimmed or semi-skimmed milk
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To find out more about the Tony Ferguson Diet visit www.tonyferguson.co.uk.
If you’d like to devise your own diet plan (or use one of ours) why not take a 24hr free trial…
You’ll get full access to the UK’s largest online calorie and nutrition database, extensive recipes and plans databases, and you can calorie count your own recipes and plans.
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