Despite the frenzied hype surrounding Fat Loss 4 Idiots and its incredible backing, we remained quite sceptical of it’s claim you can lose 9lbs in 11 days and whether this diet is a healthy weight loss diet and fulfilling on a long-term basis. So we took a closer look at FatLoss4Idiots.
FatLoss4Idiots has no calorie counting or portion restriction, making it quite nice to follow – as these tasks can be quite tedious and annoying. It advises you to eat until satiation (and not until feeling stuffed). This can be quite difficult for some to do, especially if you are a faster eater – so slowing down your eating is important.
The diet generator that FatLoss4Idiots has will generate for you 11 days of basic meal plans based on your food preferences. On the 4th day of the plan there is a fruit and vegetable day. After 11 days of meal plans you are entitled to 3 days of cheat meals.
The Fat loss 4 idiots diet has 10 simple rules to weight loss.
- Manage Calorie intake
- Eat 4 times each day with approximately 2.5 hours between meals
- Make your meals yourself at home
- Rotate between protein and carbohydrate heavy meals
- Try to eat meals as plain as possible (try to keep condiments to a minimum)
- Drink a lot of water every day (rule of thumb would be 6-8 8oz. Glasses every day)
- Know when you should stop eating
- Drink only particular items
- Avoid sweets and snacks
- Get out for a walk (exercise of course is going to be a part of any fat loss plan)
When creating your meal plans, these rules should be considered.
Here is a sample meal plan:
MEAL PLAN 1
Meal #1: Chicken
Meal #2: Fruit Salad
Meal #3: Fish Filet
Meal #4: Cottage Cheese
The meal plan appears to be very simple – but simplicity is exactly what a lot of people need in a diet. Rotating high carb and then high protein, may help you lose weight, but it isn’t a sustainable option. Eventually you will want to ‘come off’ of this diet and will end up eating a lot more carbs (and most likely fat), which will result in adding the pounds back on. Not to mention too much protein can have serious health consequences.
And what about the long run? This diet doesn’t help you with that.
Strong Points
This diet program doesn’t require calorie counting, so it is easy to follow, especially with the diet plans catered to your wants. The fact it generates nearly 2 weeks of meals, means you can grocery shop once a week and be prepared properly, which is important when changing your diet.
It is good that you can have a few days to ‘cheat’ – however although for some people this may be the very thing they need to keep on track, for others it made have the opposite effect.
Weak Points
This isn’t a long-term diet system and isn’t a healthy choice.
You can use FatLoss4Idiots to lose the weight, but once you let go of the diet plan you may find yourself back at square one, unless in the time you are using the diet you educate yourself on proper nutrition to help set you up in the long run.
While you could follow this plan forever, it isn’t a healthy option. It has 1 day for fruit and vegetable, when really this should be incorporated on a daily basis (and not just one piece of fruit or vegetable but several)
Fruit is very important to any diet and fruits typically are about 80-90% carbohydrates (which doesn’t fit well with this plan anyway).
Eating too much protein can also have a negative effect on your health and this diet seems to lean towards this. A healthy diet should consist primarily of carbohydrates, and some fat and protein.
As a short-term plan inevitably you will turning back to your old diet or another diet, so you are much better off finding a diet you can maintain (a lifestyle change) and that is healthy and fun for you.
Conclusion
FatLoss4Idiots can be used to help you lose weight in the short term and many people have had success e.g.
But it is not a long-term diet and isn’t optimum for a healthy lifestyle. We do not consider it a healthy weight loss diet.
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