New Diet for Jean

[JPenny]

I've decided to try the Idiot-proof diet. Cost: $27.00 to download menus and handbook.

http://fatloss4idiots.com/?hop=needjob

On the website you choose up to 30 foods you like (from their list of foods) and they come up with an 11-day menu plan that gives you four meals per day. Then you get three days off to each whatever you want. Seems like it's more protein than carbs, although you do have a day that's mostly fruit, and another day that's all veggies. The idea is to switch around what you eat each day to keep your metabolism "guessing."

Has anyone else tried this diet? I'm shopping today, and starting tomorrow. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Jean :wave:

[WillFlyToDisney]

I have never heard of that one. Keep us posted on how that one works out.

The easiest diet is STRESS. I have lost 14 lbs in 2 weeks. :thumbsup:

[EyesSkyward]

Has anyone else tried this diet?

I am no doctor. Or nutritionist. Or personal trainer. Or anything that would have any authority on this subject, but anyway...

I hate to say it, but any diet that claims, in big, flashy letters, that you will "lose 9 pounds every 11 days" is probably rubbish.

A genuine pound of real, permanant weight loss (not "water weight" or other trickery) is roughly equivalent to 3500 calories. So 9 pounds is a 31,500 calories. To lose those 9 pounds over 11 days, you'd need a deficit of 2863 calories each day!

Now, if you're already taking in 1500-2500 calories to maintain your current weight (I'm just guessing here, but most people probably fall in that range) how can you possibly cut out 2800+ calories?

I'm very happy that you're excited and commited to losing a bit of weight and getting healthier. But I'm honestly a bit skeptical of the merits of this program.

- Jeff

[noflyingfan]

That diet sounds a little weird to me too. I don't know if I buy the "shocking your metabolism" thing. I am no more an expert than Jeff (except that I've been on a bunch of diets), but it seems to me that mixing up the foods you eat isn't going to accomplish anything. Why not eat the right amounts of the right foods every day, and your body will do what it is supposed to do. "Shocking" your body is just going to confuse it, and I don't think confusion will translate to weight loss.

I recommend Weight Watchers for anyone. It is easy and in my opinion the best diet out there. I know very few people who have given a real effort to Weight Watchers and failed.

[WillFlyToDisney]

I recommend Weight Watchers for anyone. It is easy and in my opinion the best diet out there. I know very few people who have given a real effort to Weight Watchers and failed.

True. I have a few friends who have lost the weight and kept it off. Another key to the WW success is that you can still attend meetings even after you reach your weight goal just to keep you eating healthy and on the right track. You can join WW online too.

One of my roomies in college was a Nutrition major and she said the same thing Sean did - the only way to REALLY lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in. Period. Doing that requires discipline in what you eat and how much exercise you do.

Good luck, Jean! I wish you lived closer so we could be workout buddies!

[noflyingfan]

Of course, I tried WW a few years ago and failed miserably...but that's because I didn't give it a real effort. I did do the Richard Simmons diet in its heyday, which is basically the same as WW except you record what you've eaten differently, and I did really well.

[EyesSkyward]

Lots of exercise? You have to create a calorie deficit by increasing the calories you burn, decreasing the calories you eat, or both.

Yeah, I thought about mentioning it, but it would've just made it even sillier. I mean, how would someone who maintains their current weight with, say, 2000 calories, get a 2800 deficit even with exercise?

Don't eat a single thing all day, and go run 7 or 8 eight miles on top of that? (Probably not even metabolically possible to keep that up for 11 days!)

Eat a mere 1000 calories, and run 16-18 miles each day?

Or just eat what you normally do and run a full marathon daily? :eek:

- Jeff

[JPenny]

Don't eat a single thing all day, and go run 7 or 8 eight miles on top of that? (Probably not even metabolically possible to keep that up for 11 days!)

Eat a mere 1000 calories, and run 16-18 miles each day?

Or just eat what you normally do and run a full marathon daily? :eek:

- Jeff

You'd think keeping up with all these ornery kids would count for something!!! On top of that, I blame birthing all these rascals for my "middle-age" spread. Life is not fair!

(Then again, I wouldn't trade my 4-year-old's bedtime hug and kiss with a sincere "I LOVE you, Mommy!" for anything!!!)

Jean :wave:


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