This diet is aimed at what it says – a flat belly as well as weight loss. The Flat-Belly Diet is focused on many of the same foods featured in the Mediterranean Diet but is especially for women since bloating is a common complaint of females.
How does the Flat-Belly Diet work?
The Flat Belly diet plan discourages bloating by staying away from foods known to have that effect. This diet plan calls for small meals every four hours and says that consuming monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) in each meal will make your stomach flatter – with no exercise needed. The diet is calorie-controlled with a four-day jump start period of just 1,200 to 1,400 calories a day, then limited to 1,600 calories a day for the rest of the time you are on the Diet. Meals are made up according to receipes included in the Flat-Belly diet plan which claims to result in weight loss of up to 15lbs in 32 days.
What can you eat on the Flat-Belly Diet plan?
As with the Mediterranean Diet you can eat plenty of wholesome unrefined foods on the Flat-Belly Diet. For instance, nuts, fish, whole grains, lean proteins and just a very little red meat. These foods are incorporated into recipes included in the diet plan.
Pros and Cons of the Flat-Belly diet
The Good:
The fact that the Flat-Belly Diet involves four meals of about four hundred calories apiece does tend to keep hunger pangs at bay. The recipes in the Flat Belly Diet can be made at home very easily, and are very flavorful and varied. They are also calorie-counted so that there is no need for you to count calories yourself.
The Bad:
The primary drawback with the Flat-Belly diet is the fact that it’s claims are completely unresearched as yet. Thus far it has not been proven that it is even possible to use food intake to target a specific area of the body for weight loss. Fitness and nutritional experts also question the diet’s claim that exercise is not needed, as well as the diet’s weight loss estimates of 15lbs in 32 days. Many feel that this is unrealistic and that much of the weight lost is water loss, not fat loss.
What is the cost of the Flat-Belly Diet Plan?
The Flat-Belly Diet is in book form, written by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass, list price $25.95. A pocket version is also available ($7.99) as well as a cookbook for more recipes, costing $27.99. Foods eaten on the Flat-Belly Diet are not particularly unusual so the impact on grocery budgets should be fairly minimal.
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