TheTruth About Ways To Lose Fat

One of the popular fad diets in Hollywood was the grapefruit diet. Stars and starlets used it as far back as the 1930s. It became part of xerox lore, faxed from machine to machine, in the 1970′s. The diet is attributed to the Mayo Clinic, which clearly states that it has nothing to do with diet and that the diet is not good.

The grapefruit diet is a lot like Atkins, but with a grapefruit eaten with each meal. There was no cheating on this diet only three meals a day and no in between meals snacks. The diet made astounding claims lose a pound each day for 10 days. It is also commonly claimed that a dieter might not lose any weight on the first four days but then 5 pounds would magically drop off on the fifth day. It was based on the claim that grapefruit contains fat burning enzymes, something that has never been proven.

In 2004 it was proven that the diet may work. 1/2 grapefruit with each meal helped people lose 3.6 pounds in only 12 weeks. Those who drank the serving of grapefruit juice at each meal lost just slightly less weight in the same period of time. Many of the participants lost more than 10 pounds in 12 weeks. The doctor who conducted the study found that the grapefruit diet seems to reduce levels of insulin. But the weight loss may have also been due to increased levels of exercise.

Here’s a typical grapefruit diet:

- Eight 8 ounce glasses of water each day, this is a must.
- Eat until full.
- Eat all the food listed at each meal, skipping food interferes with fat burning.
- The catalyst t the whole process is grapefruit, so don’t cut it.
- One cup of coffee can be consumed at each meal.
- No snacking.
- Eat butter if you want.
- Avoid sweets and starches such as bread and potatoes.
- Eat any amount of meat, salad and vegetables to make you full.
- It’s important to eat into you’re full because the more you eat the more you will lose.
- Follow the diet for 12 days, skip two days, then start again.
- Eat one half grapefruit, or drink 18 ounce glass of grapefruit, with each meal.

Give the grapefruit diet a try.

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