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1. Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage you carry, the shorter your trip.

2. "The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
—Socrates

3. If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

 

    A Diet Secrets Article   

This Week's Featured Article:
 Fat Loss 4 Idiots

DIET REVIEW
By Nikki London

 

Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet (formally called Diets 4 Idiots) is an Internet based diet which has achieved strong popularity among dieters and it needs a more thorough review.

This diet allows you to choose what you will eat, certainly making it more attractive than many other weight loss programs. Let's face it, expensive diets with specially prepared foods (which can sometimes taste very bland), tend to take a lot of effort. If you've experienced any of these diets, you'll probably be more than please with Fat Loss 4 Idiots, especially because this diet allows you to select "normal foods" from the regular supermarket.

Ten Advantages of the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet

Here are some of the advantages of this diet:

1. It doesn't take up a lot of your time, which means it is a good fit for a hectic lifestyle.

2. It is a simple program that anyone can understand.

3. The diet is easy to follow; the program holds your hand and tells you exactly what to do.

4. You are in control, eating the foods you like.

5. You get to eat more food than you're actually used to.

6. You won't feel hungry all the time like on other diets.

7. The diet doesn't seem to produce sick feelings, irritability or tiredness. Most people report it makes them look and feel great.

8. Since you see good results quickly, it is easy to stay motivated.

9. After 11 Days on this diet, you can eat whatever you want for 3 days.

10. Most important of all, the testimonies indicate that you will lose weight.

The Basic Principle Behind Fat Loss 4 Idiots

Human metabolism has been designed to slow down when there is a scarcity of available food. This mechanism triggers the body's ability to store fat for later use. But when you eat more often, your metabolism tends to rev up to keep burning the available food, turning it into energy (not fat). Any diet that restricts food or caloric intact will likely slow down your metabolism and keep as much of your food intact as fat.

The basic idea behind the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet seems to be helping your metabolism work for you and not against your efforts. The program doesn't require you to starve yourself, cut down on portions, or to eat special foods (like Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers do). You won't have to count calories at mealtime. You merely to eat the correct foods (which you will choose) at the correct intervals.

The diet requires you to eat four meals each day about two and a half hours apart. So you're actually eating more often than you're used to. If you love to snack like me, that's certainly a positive feature. Fat Loss 4 Idiots is all about eating the right foods at the right time. They call this "calorie shifting."

You might be wondering, "how am I going to find time to eat so often?" Fortunately, you don't have to sit down for an extra meal each day, you can eat larger snacks and count them as meals. This is great if you are running around because you can keep one of the larger snacks in your purse so you can eat your meal on the go.

How Fat Loss 4 Idiots Works

The creators of the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet have discovered that the human body takes several days to "sense" any change in calories. So if you shift your calories (in their special "secret" way) then your body gets "confused" and begins burning extra fat tissue.

That's what they claim is the "trick" which they use which allows their diet to force the body into producing super fast weight loss. . . and that's why they claim their diet works so much faster than all of the other programs.

Fat Loss 4 Idiots provides you with a unique online Diet Generator. This is a useful tool. No matter what your food preferences, vegetarian or not, the generator will produce a customized diet plan for you. You simply choose between seven to 15 food items from two food groups. It allows you to pick your favorite foods, then from your selections, it creates an 11 day menu plan, telling you exactly what to eat and when. There is no calorie counting or portion restriction with this diet. Their advice is to eat until you feel satiated, but not stuffed.

After the initial 11 days of following your exact diet, you will be given a three day break in which you are allowed eat whatever you want (within moderation). This tends to keep you from getting bored with your menu choices and keeps up your motivation to continue the program. Once you are done with your first 14 day cycle, you will start over again with your next 11 day diet period with new food choices.

The food is repetitive because there are only 14 different offerings for 44 meals, but you will find that hunger is not a problem. The biggest problem seems to be the lack of variety. So it is recommended that you be inventive in the way you prepare your food each day to keep it fun.

If you want, you can also get an additional package which is called the "Beyond Calories Diet". This is an extra version of the basic calorie shifting diet. It gives you more food choices, which should make it even easier to stick to your diet.

Is Exercise Required With This Diet?

Fat Loss 4 Idiots does not require any exercising. And fortunately, it is not necessary to lift a finger down at the gym to lose weight with this diet, but if you do exercise, you will more then likely improve your results.

The food choices very much resemble that of a bodybuilder's "cutting" phase where fat is reduced while maintaining muscle. The protein is high and the carbs are reduced. The calorie level is low, but at a good level for fat loss.

So it sounds like a wise idea to introduce some weight training into your routine. This should increase your muscle instead of allowing you to lose muscle through your weight loss. Exercise will also more than likely boost your metabolism even further, thus increasing your fat loss and potentially preventing relapses.

Fat Loss 4 Idiots Testimonials

It is suggested that you will lose approximately nine pounds after 11 days with this diet. But of course, the most obvious question is. . . does it really work? From the looks of the testimonials I've read, it certainly seems to for some. Here's a sampling:

"I started the fatloss4idiots diet on march 6th. The 1st 11 days I lost 6 lbs., the next 11 days I lost 6 lbs. I'm on day 4 of this 11 day cycle and I've lost 2lbs. You get fruits and vegetables along with chicken, roast, tuna... You get to choose what you like with the diet generator. I haven't had any trouble getting in to the site." --Jcotton Moller

"This diet is so easy to follow...its all the foods you love and I feel like I'm not starving myself... I'm not losing 9 pounds every 11 days like it says but that's okay. I think that much is a little too drastic. I've been losing 4-5 pounds every 11 days which I think is pretty darn good. What I like most about this diet is the fact you get a 3 day cheat period where you can eat anything you want in moderation...this motivates me even more to stick with this diet through the 11 days and not to cheat until the cheat days. It's so worth it." --Dana Garrett

"I am currently on the FL4I plan. This is by far the best diet plan ever! I am on my third 11 day cycle, I lost 10 lbs. during the first cycle, 6 lbs. during the second cycle and am in day 4 of cycle three, so I haven't weighed yet. I have tried many diets, this one offers immediate results, which is motivating and keeps you going. It's easy to follow and to the picky eaters out there, YOU choose the foods that YOU like in the diet generator." --Donella Jefferson

"My name is Wendy, I'm a 30-something mother of two from Liverpool in the North of England. I've recently lost an absolute ton of weight these last few months using the Fat Loss 4 Idiots plan and I'm finally back into my size 12's!"

There Is A 60 Day Money-back Guarantee

The only way you will actually know if this diet will work for you, of course, is to try it yourself. Even if I told you it worked for me, that doesn't mean it will for you. But the thing that struck me most about most of the testimonials is that the amounts of weight people lost were substantial over a shorter time frame. So it is very likely you will find out quickly if the diet will work for you.

Fortunately, if it doesn't work, you will have risked nothing because the program offers a full 60 day money back guarantee. So trying the diet presents almost no risk to your pocketbook, while holding great potential for truly tightening your waistline (in the right way).

I don't have a ton of weight to lose, but my husband does (ha, ha). And so we're going to try this diet ourselves. Hopefully in a couple of months I'll share my own positive (or negative) feedback with you.

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