Except for the first two phases, the plan is in line with major health organization recommendations for weight loss. It promotes eating a diet low in saturated fat and high in fruits and vegetables, making it a sensible choice for people with high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease.
That being said, you will still need to talk to your doctor for guidance on medication changes and how much exercise is right for you. Changes in diet, exercise, and weight loss affect the amount of diabetes, blood pressure, and other medications you might need.
Created by Dr. Ian Smith, author of a book by the same name, the Fat Smash diet is a 90-day program with four phases. It's designed not only to overhaul your diet, but also to build healthy, sustainable habits.
Along with Dr. Ian's diet detox, you'll also incorporate 30 minutes of aerobic exercise for at least five of the nine days in the Fat Smash Diet Phase 1. This recommendation is in line with the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, which call for 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week.
After Phase 1, you will gradually start adding foods back into your diet. Meanwhile, you will also increase physical activity in Phases 2, 3 and 4, working your way up to one hour of exercise, five times a week. That includes strength training, also recommended by the Physical Activity Guidelines, which advises training all major muscle groups at least twice a week.
July 2014 research published in the International Journal of Obesity also encourages a diet of low-energy-dense foods. Eating this way will help you consume satisfying portions while managing your body weight. It will also keep you in step with the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which recommend focusing on nutrient density, amount and variety.
For example, the DASH diet (or Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is a lifelong approach to healthy eating that reduces sodium intake in order to lower blood pressure, explains the Mayo Clinic. Like the Fat Smash Diet, the DASH diet also encourages eating a variety of nutrient-rich foods.
i have tried this diet. DETOX is hard but its worth it. i dont think it should be called a diet, its more of a lifestyle change. i have 2 say congrats to losing 125lbs but in 3 months? how did u do it?
Some of the excluded foods in one phase are being introduced back into your diet in the next phase, so for ideal success, you need to follow these food suggestions, eat 3-4 smaller meals per day, follow the same eating schedule, and continue to exercise.
Christy Harrison is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor. She offers private coaching programs and online courses to help people make peace with food and their bodies, and hosts Food Psych, a podcast devoted to Health at Every Size, body acceptance, fat liberation, and eating disorder recovery.
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Dr. Smith's diet has been featured on VH1's number-one rated show, Celebrity Fit Club, where Hollywood celebrities follow his customized diet plan and compete to lose weight.
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The Fat Smash Diet is not a gimmick or short-term fix. It is a four-phase diet that starts out with a natural detox phase to clean impurities out of the system. Once this nine-day phase is completed, the next three phases encourage the addition of everyday foods that promote significant weight loss.
In just thirty days, most dieters will complete all four phases and be on their way to a thinner lifetime of good health. Best of all, there is no calorie counting, and Dr. Smith guarantees there never will be. As an added bonus, there are over fifty easy-to-cook, tasty recipes that make it easier to stick with Dr. Smith's plan. The Fat Smash Diet is unlike any other program on the market. In fact, it's the LAST DIET YOU'LL EVER NEED!
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This first phase of the diet lasts nine days and only allows fruit, veg, pulses, low-fat yogurt, semi-skimmed milk, egg whites, brown rice, porridge and water. The main emphasis is on fruit and veg though. You are also encouraged to do 30 minutes of aerobic exercise five times a week.
This phase lasts three weeks. In addition to the foods included in the detox phase, this phase also includes lean meat, seafood, a small amount of cheese, extra cereals, olive oil, fat-free dressings and diet drinks. Because you are taking in more calories, you now need to increase each exercise session to 35 minutes.
Update 1: I have completed the Phase 1 detox and am pleased to confirm that by diligently following the recommendations, I have successfully eliminated my craving for bread products and white rice. I have been able to say "no" to naan at two Indian restaurant outings and home-made bread at one restaurant and at home. Of note is Dr. Smith's recommendation that meals not be eaten too closely to bed-time. This has proved to be beneficial. Yesterday I made the asparagus and lentil soup. It is flavorful and filling, so, of all the recipes tried, all have been good. My weight has dropped 6 pounds from the start of the diet.
A few years ago my alternative medicine doctor put me on a similar diet. We eliminated all wheat, corn, chocolate, caffeine and the entire nightshade (potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants) family from my diet, dairy was still okay because I don't have an intolerance or digestive difficulty with that. I was extremely dilgent with the diet reading labels to make sure that all wheat and corn was removed from the diet as we were trying to determine if I had an intolerance to either of these two items. This is a bigger challenge than you'd think. Who knew wheat was a prime ingredient in that bottle of soy sacue sitting in the fridge. And, of course, corn is in almost everything in the form of high fructose corn syrup.
I went on this diet cold turkey. The carbohydrate withdrawal was H*ll. But once I made it through the first week the carb cravings were gone. I was actually amazed at how much better I felt, and, how much happier I was.
Unlike some other approaches to diet, this one promotes whole grains at the expense of processed grains. So brown rice gets an okay but you're recommended to avoid white rice, pasta and bread for the first phases. Bulgur is not addressed, but you'd laugh if you were used to a bulgur dominant tabouleh and you saw the typical Houston tabouleh.
so: i basically became an amateur dietician and did scads of research and cooking experiments to try to find things that were interesting to eat but adhered to this kind of diet. a couple of suggestions just in general:
Just this year I started using an olive oil that I'm happy to sip neat (after just kind of using default EVOO), and it makes all the difference in the world. When you're on a restricted diet, everything that's not restricted has to be as enjoyable as possible, right? I also am onto an awesome sherry vinegar that's worth every penny for what it does to everyday dishes. Obvs this extends to walnut and hazelnut oils and whatever else you're cooking with.....
The fat smash diet is designed to allow for mistakes. Dieters who overindulge or eat a prohibited food can return to phase 1 for about a week and then pick up the diet at the phase where they left off.
At the end of the three weeks, the dieter has the option of repeating the three cycles to lose more weight or of entering the maintenance phase. The same cycle cannot be followed for two weeks in a row.
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