The JJ Diet

So in your eyes, over 3 pages of negative comments from a combined force, is somehow NOT classed as using superior strength to influence another?? lol.
I suggest you re-read your statement, as it has proved my point precisley.

No. Someone saying something is not a good idea is NOT bullying. How on earth do you get that anyone can use force to enforce their opinion over the internet in this context I do not know.

Wow, the bullies are out in force! Everyone who undertakes a "fad" diet, usually will do so after looking into all harmfull side effects and after weighing up the pro's and con's for them personally.
I am yet to meet someone who cares about themselves enough to go undertake a fad diet, that would had severe risk to their health and well being, It would really defeat the purpose.
One of the most important systems offered by these "fads" is educating the dieter on the importance of maintennance after completing their programme, and if followed, people can be sucessful, much like I have been following my stint on HCG.
People are here for support in their current challanges, if you have nothing but negative to offer, then you should comment and offer advice on a forum that you do support, as this kind of rallying and demeaning another will always be unwelcome.

Not necessarily on the "will look into it" part. A friend of mine decided to try the USANA diet after her friend convinced her to purchase the products from her, and used the claim "I saw it on Dr Oz a couple weeks ago, so it must be okay". Even after I tried to convince her to DO HER RESEARCH about it, and cautioned her about the diet's unusual low calorie intake and weird eating habits. The diet even recommended avoiding exercise until phase 2, two weeks later, after ALL the bad toxins were out of the body. Total BS, and I knew it, but she wouldn't listen to me.

Here's how THAT fad diet worked for her: She turned cranky, miserable, angry, and was STARVING. So, she started making her own "rules" up. She couldn't eat sugar, BUT somehow it was totally okay for her to drink alcohol, so she started drinking sugar free Red Bull with vodka. Meanwhile, I was using MFP and counting calories. We were doing our own thing, and she jumped down MY throat for refusing to have another shot of vodka because it was over my calorie limit for the day.

Did she lose weight? Yep, 15 lbs. Did she gain it back a month later? YES and then some. She gave the diet up shortly after that.

All she could have done was come to me and ask me for advice on proper eating and exerise. I even offered to be her work out buddy. But, no, she didn't want to put in the hard work and effort it takes to lose weight and get in shape. Two years later, she's still morbidly obese and no longer seems to care that she is a health disaster waiting to happen. I can't be around her, because she looks at me as "the enemy food n*zi".

And also, why should a person have to hide in a closed forum, other than because you disagree with their lifestyle? As far as I am aware, public stoning was outlawed many years ago. Do you harass the drunk you pass in the street on the way to work?? not likely. the internet is here for us all to utilise and people have bent their manners and consideration (or lack of them) beyond the limit of everyday society.

Yeah, too bad most of the people on MFP with good advice have had to go to closed forums to express their opinions because of the massive witch hunt going on to ban them from the forums for giving honest answers to peoples questions. Oh, but public stoning has been outlawed...right.

It's a whole food diet with an elimination component of the most common problems. It uses liquid meal replacements as part of the process, which boosts the results (the few studies on them show that they seem to work well for rapid weight loss). The shakes are optional, she offers an alternative breakfast that works (oatmeal based).

The book is a lot of feel good stories to pump you up. My wife got it from her mother who has lost weight and feels great (turns out she had a soy problem, accidentally ate tuna fish with soy in it, felt horrible, now she knows), and has been on it and losing weight and feeling great. She's about to start adding things.

The book takes some short cuts... eliminate whole soy, but when she discusses soy in the book she acknowledges that fermented whole soy (Asian style) is probably fine, but GMO American soy derivatives are the problem... nonetheless, all soy is currently out of shared meals in my house.

We ate healthy before, mostly whole foods, so she lost 7 pounds in about 11 days, felt great, and is enjoying losing weight and feeling better. My wife had a gluten intolerance years ago that appeared to go away, but perhaps started to come back with too much gluten in our diet.

The diet emphasizes food journaling, tracking how you feel, monitoring your responses. So her dieters are not calorie counting (though you can), they're tracking feelings to see if it's a lagging response.

All in all, I think it's a decent book, a decent set of advice for eating healthy, and decent information on exercise.

JJ Virgin's general advice:
1. Drink a lot of water
2. Eat a LOT of vegetables
3. Don't juice fruit, eat fruit (in moderation)
4. Don't eat processed food
5. Eliminate the problematic foods entirely for a few weeks to get a baseline, then re-introduce them over the course of one food/week and see how you respond, if you respond well, keep it in moderation, if you respond poorly, leave it out
6. Exercise: moderate stuff all the time (pedometer and walk more), then burst (high intensity training) training for rapid fat loss
7. If you had problems reintroducing a food in weeks 4-10, try again in a few months

All in all, decent advice, nothing brilliant. She's obviously selling product (shakes, equipment, etc) like all diet plans do now, but the book has decent advice that seems to be working for the few people I know doing it.

I'm not, I'm pretty happy with my whole food diet, but our major meals are Virgin-friendly... it hasn't exactly killed me to swap Coconut Aminos in for Tamari Sauce in my life.