Is a fruit diet good for losing weight?
You know what the cabbage soup diet, Atkins (high protein, low carbs), South Beach, and fruit-based all have in common? They won’t give you the results you’re looking for. What you need is a balanced, lower-calorie diet. The problem with any of the above mentioned ways of eating is that they are hard to make part of ones permanent lifestyle–and that’s where weight loss actually lies. I would hear clients express all the time about how they are dieting… but couldn’t wait to hit their goal so that they could start “eating normally again.” But “eating normally” is what put them overweight! Their goal was actually the reward–eating whatever they wanted again. If I were the author of a cake-based diet book, I could easily sell it to these people and retire. Body fat is stored energy. There are 3,500 calories packed away in a single pound of it. To gain it, you’d need 3,500 calories added to your diet above your maintenance level. It follows that in order to loose it, you need 3,500 calo
