The Daniel Diet - Praying To Be Thin
How Much Can You Lose? Not much - this is more of a detox plan than a diet
Difficulty? It takes discipline to stick with
Side Effects? None noted
Somewhere over time we have all heard the phrase, “You are what you eat,” which is downright frightening for many Americans. Nobody wants to turn into a deep fried doughnut. And yet, by our own choices, we have a country struggling with obesity and the affiliated complications of everything from poor self esteem to diabetes, so we continue to search for answers to heal ourselves and stop this modern plague. It seems inevitable, then, that someone would turn to a religious resource for answers. The Daniel Diet is one diet that has found a way to turn to the stories of the Bible for a solution. The basics of the diet is a story in which Daniel turned away from a high caloried rich diet to what we today would probably call vegan in order to prove his faith in God and foil a kings control and intentions. Several new books are on the market explaining the benefits of this ten day discipline.
Testimonials vary about the success of the diet. Some claim it is a great choice for weight loss, others attempt it in an apparent attempt to cleanse themselves of the detriments they see associated with nutrition that’s based on combinations of animal protein, fat, sugar, alcohol and other calories common in the intake of modern food sources.
Obviously, if your intake is loaded with items of high fat and high calorie to the ounce, a diet primarily constructed of fruits and vegetables with a few nuts or legumes on the side will result in weight loss. And some people will be attracted to the concept that it is Biblical in nature, associating their diet with God and spiritual discipline. But any diet practiced for a short period of time will most likely see its results parallel in time. It is probable that what we do for a week or so won’t change our lives forever. It is what we commit to with consistency that makes a consistent change.
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The No S Diet - Not Your Weight Loss Answer
Fat Cats: Selling Diets in America
How Much Can You Lose? 2 pounds / week
Difficulty? Hard to keep the weight off during “cheat” days
Side Effects? None noted
Dieting in America has become a very interesting billion dollar industry, probably because it preys on both our intellect and emotions, our good judgment to be healthy and our ego and emotions that hopes to be slender, ergo beautiful. So of course, everyone wants in on the action, including Engels and Kallen, 2 men who found a way to publish and market a new diet book, The No S Diet.
The premise of the No S Diet is that you eat, ” no snacks, no sweets, no seconds, except for Saturday, Sunday and special occasions. ” which sounds simple and makes some superficial sense. If you have the less than desirable eating habits of many Americans, eating less junk food in general, ie sugary snacks and seconds on the high calorie items won’t hurt a thing and would be likely to cause weight loss. But any devoted dieter knows, any serious and hopefully pro-nutrition change in eating habits may create a sustainable weight loss of 2 pounds per week. And as those dieters also know, regaining those 2 pounds is an easy task for any weekend if they go back to their standard caloric intake and calorie burning activities. Only if the dieter manages to stick to the 3 no s principles enough to change their total eating habits including weekends does this diet seem to be much help, unless your nutritional habits and caloric intake are consistently poor.
So, by all means, consider your lifestyle consumption of non-nutritional / empty calories and the size portions you consume of everything, ie how often you obviously eat too much when you pile it all together, instead of sneaking seconds and snacks so it might look like you eat less. But don’t assume any intermittent (weekday to weekend) change in calories is the magic bullet to thin. The only magic here is how 2 non-experts managed to publish another diet book. I promise I won’t help make their wallets get fat.
The 2468 Diet Might Kill You
How Much Can You Lose? 10 pounds/month
Difficulty? Very hard to stick to
Side Effects? Malnutrition, fatigue, irritability, death
Diet is a word that originally meant the generic food you eat. Our current culture has a connotation for the word diet of how you eat to lose weight. When it comes to the 2468 Diet it’s more like what you don’t eat, and the emphasis is on DON’T EAT, since this diet is followed if you eat first 200, then 400 then 600 and then 800 calories per day and then start the cycle over with 200 calories, etc . The intention of the diet is to lose weight fast, because the diet is almost a FAST………and would be very hard to follow for long. The reports of this diet indicates an approximate loss of 10 pounds per month, providing you are able to stick to this kind of self abuse.
Somewhere in our culture we are focusing on just how thin we can be, especially in reference to women. Unfortunately, too many women are living under the assumption they should look like Barbie dolls and be perfectly happy walking around starving to death to look “pretty”. The 2468 diet is as close to a starvation plan as possible. And unless you could lie down and use no energy, this diet could be dangerous as most people will be a bit light headed on this few calories per day. In other words, don’t drive or use machinery until you are familiar with the effects of the deprivation. And if the 2468 dieters are not lightheaded, they’ll be so irritable that they may be thin, but I’m betting they’ll be miserable. Whoever created this bizarre diet regimen needs to have their heads shrunk, or maybe if they follow the diet, that will happen anyway.