The Fat Smash Diet Review
The Fat Smash Diet gained notoriety on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, where Hollywood celebrities followed the diet and competed to lose weight.
The Fat Smash Diet is bascically a lifestyle approach that focuses on eating healthy food and exercising. The author promises that you will change your relationship with food and start seeing results in the first nine days.
The diet plan is a 90-day program divided into four phases where you are not to count calories.
- Phase 1 is a nine-day "detox" period designed to "cleanse the impurities from your system and rid you of all your bad habits." Calories are cut way back, despite the recommended 4-5 small meals per day, and water is used to flush the body. Food is to be eaten raw, grilled or steamed. Fats are limited to a maximum of 3 tablespoons, with 1 to 2 teaspoons olive oil per day. Allowed foods include fruits and vegetables (except white potatoes and avocado), lentils, tofu, peas and beans. You are also permited a small amount of brown rice, low-fat or soy milk, oatmeal, low-fat yogurt, egg whites, and herbal tea. Skipping meals is not allowed.
- Phase 2 is a three-week period introducing more food choices, including avocado, lean meats, seafood, whole egg, cheese, whole-grain cereals, granulated sugar, butter, low-fat mayo, coffee, fruit juice, diet soda, lemonade, and club soda. Once again, 4-5 meals per day and no meal skipping.
- Phase 3 is a four-week period that combines Phase 1 and 2, while adding more foods, including, pasta and bread, and one dessert per day. Meal portion sizes are increased slightly.
- Phase 4 is the rest of your life stage . Wine, beer, pizza, and potatoes are added in moderation, along with the fundamental principles of exercise, portion control, not skipping meals, and eating 4-5 times per day.
According to the author, The Fat Smash Diet is designed to change your relationship with food and get you hooked on regular physical exercise for the rest of your life. We feel the basics of his diet are right on target, although semantic-laden and focused on short-term results. If you're going to change your habits for the rest of your life, it seems pointless to create a semi-rigid 90 day plan that elimates foods in the short-term then brings them back.
Highly restrictive diets, at any phase, are notorious with dieter's falling off the proverbial wagon. But take the advice of the Fat Smash Diet, start educating yourself on healthy eating, cut back on portions and most importantly, add exercise to your daily life.
