Hilton Head Metabolism Diet

 

Authored by Dr. Peter M. Miller in 1983. His other titles include "The Hilton Head Over-35 Diet" and "The Hilton Head Diet for Children and Teenagers". Dr. Miller believes that a person's metabolism burns 70% of all daily calories, while the rest is burned through physical activity. Therefore, the main problem in people who are overweight is their body's failure to burn calories efficiently.

The Hilton Head Diet works by changing your body chemistry to burn fat naturally. The program has two stages. The first stage is the weight reduction stage and the second is a two-week stage where you follow a weight maintenance diet. This stages are repeated until the ideal weight is achieved.

The weight reduction stage involves eating three meals a day plus two snacks (1,000 calories a day) of low-fat, high-carbohydrate foods. The idea is that eating five times a day instead of three speeds up your metabolism. On weekends 200 to 250 calories are added each day. All portions must be measured, no salt is permitted, and multivitamin/mineral and calcium supplements are recommended. Calories from fat should be kept to under 20% and at least 5 glasses of water are to be drunk. In addition daily exercise is required.

The Hilton Head Diet is your classic decreased calorie, low-fat diet with exercise. The big problem is the 1000 calorie recommendation puts it on par with starvation diets. The diet is highly restrictive and really low on calories which is going to make it nearly impossible to sustain in the long term. You are going to lose weight on the "Hilton Head Diet", but the curse of gaining the weight back seems like a foregone conclusion with approaches this aggressive. Sensibly and permanently cutting back on portions, while adding exercise to your daily life is what works for the rare breed of dieter who actually succeed in the long time.