Twinkie Diet

goochinator

http://www.examiner.com/weight-loss-in-sacramento/the-twinkie-diet-crazy-or-simply-revealing

Goal_Seeker_1988

The twinkie diet is BULL****! Yea, you will lose weight muscle weight but you keep your fat! That was the stupidest diet anyone has ever come up with!

NoAdditives

This came out a few months ago. Yes, you will lose weight, because losing weight is about burning more calories than you consume. But, with no real nutrition coming in your body will suffer greatly. You can develop all kinds of health problems, especially from all that sugar. And it's entirely possible that you'll begin to burn muscle instead of fat.

In the long run it's not about "weight" loss, it's about fat loss. And the only way to achieve that and have long term success is to eat a healthy diet and get plenty of exercise.

countjackula

The twinkie diet is BULL****! Yea, you will lose weight muscle weight but you keep your fat! That was the stupidest diet anyone has ever come up with!

Same principle as the starvation diet or (and no offense intended) the diet of any prisoner-of-war internment camp.

Without seeing his actual results and methodology, it's difficult to evaluate his claims. Since dietary cholesterol has nothing to do with blood cholesterol, however, it's possible that simply by losing some fat (and I'm sure he lost some from simply eating at a deficit) improved his cholesterol level.

One takeaway point from his "research" is that for successful weight/fat loss, the chief concern should be your calorie intake. If you're eating too MUCH (even if it's healthy food) you're not going to lose weight. That's a fact. You can gain weight just as easily on 5,000 calories of twinkies as you could on 5,000 calories of carrots.

Once that's addressed however, then it's time to look at WHAT you're eating in addition to how MUCH you're eating to make sure you're as healthy and successful as possible.

amycal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/chewing-on-the-twinkie-di_b_782678.html

If you are really interested in this be sure to read all sides. Here is one response to it.

hpsnickers1

He did eat vegetables and took a multi-vitamin. He also doesn't recommend it to anyone.

Also drank a protein shake daily:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

and

http://getbetterhealth.com/the-twinkie-diet/2010.11.19

firmbug

One should diet to become healthy, eating sugary chemical laden crap can't make you healthy. It elevates your blood sugar, which causes enough catastrophe all in itself, not to mention the hydrogenated crap and the fact that half Half the ingredients on a twinky package are unpronounceable! Besides, I hate Twinkies. LOL!!

Ms_Natalie

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I can't even believe people even consider this crap!