Grapefruit Diet

Have you tried the grapefruit diet? You know the one where you have to eat “x” number of grapefruits a day with hardly anything else. It is supposed to increase your metabolism and burn off fat. While the fresh fruit is probably good for you, the biggest challenge is that if you drastically change your eating pattern from what you eat now to mostly grapefruit, you may be in for a big shock.

Diet After Effects

One friend of mine who tested this diet, ended up with an allergic reaction to grapefruits. Due to the acidity levels that changed in his body from eating so many grapefruits, his lips swelled up. So he ended up gaining from doing this diet. Here he wanted to reduce and all the grapefruit did was puff him up. Just another reason to check with your health care professional before attempting any new diet.

Quick Overview of Grapefruit Diet

We discovered yet another video for your enjoyment which talks about this interesting diet. It doesn’t cover all of the specifics, but it sure is fun to watch.

What Does Fad Diet TV Think?

First, grapefruits are good for you as is any fresh fruit. Just make sure you don’t have any allergies. We are strong believers in eating fresh fruits and vegetables as going natural is usually a common sense approach to eating. However, your body needs more than just one type of fruit. Also no fruit will burn off all of your sins from eating incorrectly.

We rate this diet as good only from the fresh fruit vantage point. However, it too is bogus because you have to ask yourself, “Can you live on this for the rest of your life?” If not, then tag it as bogus.

Until Next Time…

No Food Diet

One of the most popular fad diets out there is the concept that you can lose weight by starving yourself. Yes, you can drop pounds using this method but usually this weight is not fat but muscle. Other challenges are that it slows down your body’s metabolism and then all bets are off. The biggest downside we have discovered with this approach to dieting is that many times it leads to anorexia.

Here is a great video that explains the No Food Diet and hopefully you can see the irony from this fad diet approach.

How many times have you tried this type of fad diet?

Here are the results that we have discovered using this no food diet. You lose weight quickly but about70% of the weight loss is fat. When you go back to normal eating habits, the weight comes back. However this time, my clothes don’t seem to fit the same way. The reason was that each time we did this cycle, we lost muscle and gain back fat with the same or more weight. Now my overall body fat is greater which makes my total body volume bigger even though I weigh the same.

Maybe We Should Call It The Quick Way To Fatness Diet

The final analysis for this fad diet approach - only do it if you want to wear larger clothes when you are done. Yes, you heard me right. This fad diet will just make you fatter than you currently are when all is said and done. This is why it is important not to measure your progress in weight but in inches. Who cares what you weigh when all you really want is to fit in that size 6 dress or those skinny jeans or just look good in your bathing suit.

What have your results been on the no food diet? Post your comments and share them.

Until next time…