What is the total cereal diet?
                                
                                
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                                Originally popularized by brands like Special K, the cereal diet involves replacing two meals a day with low-calorie cereal and milk. This strategy, sometimes referred to as the total cereal diet, focuses on creating a rapid calorie deficit to promote quick weight loss over a one- to two-week period.