Lincoln Clinic High Protein Reduction Diet

persian_dancer

Has anyone else ever heard of this? I just started belly dancing and was looking up good diets for belly dancers and found this one. I added up the first day on their 7 days plan and it's about 750 calories a day give or take a couple. I don't think I could survive like that for 2 weeks!

Zara11

Why bother if eating 2x the amount is healthy and effective?

Look, if you're 200 pounds overweight and are on meds/doctor supervision, then perhaps so. Otherwise... I really wouldn't.

chgudnitz

Unhealthy. Forget you even read about it.

metalpalace

750 calories a day? Unless you're a midget that is a plan to kill your metabolism and a transformation into a skinnier but more flabbier version of your former self. Gross!!!

persian_dancer

Thank you for the responses! I just wanted someone elses opinion before attempting! Thanks guys :happy:

July24Lioness

There is nothing unhealthy about eating on that plan...................

With the amount of protein you would be eating, you would stay full for a long time, so there is no need to eat 1200 calories with about 400 of them being empty calories.

When you eat nutrient dense foods, the calories will always be lower and you will require less food.

No one says we have to eat a certain amount of calories..........

I sometimes eat only 600 calories on one day and the next I may eat 2100 calories............depends on if I feel like eating heavier or lighter.

mrd232

On reduction diets...from Gary Taubes' 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' as summed up by Charles Washington:

http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=1908

There's nothing inherently unhealthy about this diet (high protein, high meat reduction diet) so long as it's not performed over an extended period of time.

metalpalace

There is nothing unhealthy about eating on that plan...................

With the amount of protein you would be eating, you would stay full for a long time, so there is no need to eat 1200 calories with about 400 of them being empty calories.

When you eat nutrient dense foods, the calories will always be lower and you will require less food.

No one says we have to eat a certain amount of calories..........

I sometimes eat only 600 calories on one day and the next I may eat 2100 calories............depends on if I feel like eating heavier or lighter.

A calorie is a specific measurement of heat. In the body a calorie count is a measurement of energy derived from a food source. In this context a calorie is a calorie and has the same value of energy whatever the quality of that calorie is. Eating only enough food to derive 600 calories worth of energy for the bodies cells is not nearly enough to sustain the energy demands of your body even if you live a completely inactive life style (unless you're a midget).

You are right about nutrient dense food vs. "empty calories". Nutrient dense food is far better for the bodies cells than food with empty nutrients. But, a calorie is and always will be a calorie. You need more than 600 or 800 calories in the course of a day or you will waste away til death if you're consistent enough with it.

I think "empty calories" should be replaced with empty nutrients in everyone's vocabulary.