Eating to you blood type!

I just started it. My friend has been following it for about 6 months and lost almost 50lbs.

I am not a big fan of fad diets but I read it over and its all healthy food and their is no talk about keeping my calories dangerously low. So, I figured I'd try it.

I want to hear about this, too. Sounds like it's probably a sham, though.

it makes sense for me (i eat low carb anyway). but i'm sure it doesn't make sense for everyone.

I've got red blood, so I eat food.

LOL

Eating to your blood type.... so if I have O Neg... does that mean, I eat nothing?

Eating to your blood type.... so if I have O Neg... does that mean, I eat nothing?

I'm an O neg too...apparently we are Aliens or something

No offense to anyone here who might believe in this nonsense, but... it's ironic I stumbled across this thread, because we were just discussing the dumbest fad diets we've heard of at the nurses' station today while charting, and the blood type diet was brought up.

The nurse said she had an obese patient who dropped 25 lbs from it and swore by it. Of course it works. No matter what your blood type is, exercise is encouraged. And you're restricting certain types of food. So if you're restricting grains (like in a low carb diet), of course you're going to lose weight. You're eating less period. Even if you're eating more of a certain other types, you're completely cutting out others. Enjoy that ham, cheese, and mayo without a slice of bread to put it on. Chances are, you're going to skip it altogether. The principle behind this fad diet is stupidly easy to see through.

That being said, if you're into fad diets, go for it. Nothing wrong with just about anything that limits calorie intake. That IS the principle behind losing weight, after all. Just make sure you're getting the minimum of everything required to keep you healthy!

If you're cutting calories, everything else is just an easy way to trick yourself into doing so.

(But good to mention that if you're not exercising and cutting total calories, you're not going to lose weight, no matter which fad diet principle you live by )

Edit: Also, you O- people aren't even in the smallest blood type groups, so hush up. lol.

I'm O positive and positively love my nom noms, so there.

A family member lost a lot of weight doing this, but I'm pretty sure it had more to do with the fact that brownies, cookies, cheesecakes and candy bars were on the nono list than anything else.

Ok seriously though what is it all about. I am curious to see what they say not because I want to try it. I would say maybe it helps boost certain nutrients some people lack except I've never heard that say A pos people need more iron or whatever.

It is pseudoscience which isn't backed by research but it seems that if you follow it, you will end up restricting calories and thus should lose weight.

So what I said verbatim...

PS: Ann Louise Gittleman wrote a book about it - pretty easy read:

"Your Body Knows Best"
http://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Knows-Louise-Gittleman/dp/0671875914

Hi. I read 'Eat Right for Your Blood Type' some years ago. As someone else mentioned here, Type O are said to be the first 'official' humans - hunter-gatherers, and Type A came out of the farming communities that came later, who lived in settled groups and grew loads of crops. Type O are supposed to be more naturally carnivore and Type A more naturally vegetarian. I'm type A. I've never really followed the book as I already eat a lot of vegetarian food by choice - but I suppose it would work in that all the diets suggested for each blood type is probably 100 times better than the average Westerner's diet.

The book does give a lot of really interesting info on the kinds of diseases different blood types are susceptible too. It could be a load of twaddle, but I'm supposed to be prone to viruses, which is true for me, but have higher resistance to other illnesses. Worth a read at any rate. :happy:

C'mon guys... B positive...

Haha I'm B positive

I get to eat all the bacon!