Flat Belly Diet

Tdk4685
Tdk4685 Posts: 293 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Has anyone tried the Flat Belly Diet? If so, what were your results? Was it hard to stick with?
I am thinking about starting it tomorrow.

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  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
    Nope..a calorie deficit and working out helped me..but good luck.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    Nope..a calorie deficit and working out helped me..but good luck.
    this.

    and get these:
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    use them. trust the process. be patient.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,333 Member
    if that is the Cruise guy's diet? I did that. I maintained doing it..but didn't lose weight. It is staying under five grams of sugar. something like that. he is a a book seller..not so much a true fitness expert. He's had three or four books now.. touting different methods of losing weight.
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    Yeah, it worked great!

    I lifted heavy weights, did occasional cardio, ate at an appropriate deficit so that I fueled my body but also left room for fat loss, and now I have a flat belly!

    Oh wait, what were you talking about?
  • goodtimezzzz
    goodtimezzzz Posts: 640 Member
    crap...dont do it..lift run eat to support your training and have fun..This Diet is Bogus
  • mareeee1234
    mareeee1234 Posts: 674 Member
    loving the responses haha! :heart:
  • crystalflame
    crystalflame Posts: 1,049 Member
    From what I read, it wants you to pay for a sensible diet plan and workout routine you could pretty much find for free on this site. Eat protein and healthy fat throughout the day to keep you full and preserve muscle mass, and add in walking and calisthenics to burn calories and maintain muscle. Not worth paying for, IMO.
  • Crayvn
    Crayvn Posts: 390 Member
    abs come from the kitchen...(is old saying but i feel still remains true)

    eat clean, cardio, lift, calorie deficit = nice abs :)
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    I hadn't heard of it, so I googled. Found an article on it from 2008, so it's at least that old.

    Promises how many inches, pounds lost and it doesn't distinguish it's promises from me or you.

    Seems legit.
  • Stargrace2
    Stargrace2 Posts: 48 Member
    You can't lose weight in areas you specifically point to (spot training in other words, is a myth). You can lose weight over all, and you can build muscle in those areas (squats, etc) but losing weight in just a specific area doesn't work that way. I've no idea what this diet is like, but unless it's combined with exercises that are going to tone that area, you're in for disappointment.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    As long as you don't believe the weight loss is going to be targeted to your belly, *most* of the diet is legit. It has more rules than you need if you want to lose weight, though, and because the Cal intake is the same for everyone, odds are it is not ideal for you. But, a 1600 Cal a day will promote weight loss for most, so it should still work.

    There's one week at 1200 Cals that I think is pointless, but won't hurt you other than make you really hungry if you want to do it.

    The diet promotes drinking lots of water, eating 4 meals a day at 400 Cals per meal with one serving of monounsaturated fat and less than 5g (I think) of sat. fat per meal. It recommends avoiding sodium as much as possible and keeping carbs relatively low (strictly to avoid water retention). Basically, the same macros as are widely accepted. Eating the monounsaturated fat is good for you, and is a good habit to get into. Keeping the sat. fats low is pointless and cuts a lot of food out of your diet.

    The book does have some really tasty recipes (and at least one amazingly bad one that looked like it would be good).

    Personally, I prefer figuring out how much I should be eating and sticking with that.
  • sharleenmeows
    sharleenmeows Posts: 1 Member
    My husband and I have both used this diet and have found it to be really helpful. The basic principles are sound, as others have pointed out. Some other facets: the eating plan asks that you eat four 400-calorie meals (3 meals, one snack) roughly four hours apart. Each meal has a small amount of a "MUFA" (monounsaturated fatty acid)--so either nuts, avocado, dark chocolate, olives, or oils. Drinking a lot of water (either regular water or a recipe of water mixed with lemon, mint, cucumber, and ginger) is also part of the plan--a glass with each meal plus more recommended throughout the day. Though the program doesn't *require* exercise, it highly encourages it. The book includes both cardio and weight training instructions.

    We follow this diet and do our previous cardio/weights programs. The recipes are really good; there are "fast" recipes for single-serve meals and also family recipes that are more cooking intensive. The diet has made it really easy for us to have regular go-to things to eat, with enough variety of new things to try, with all of the health benefits that come with healthy fats and nutritionally balanced meals. This is actually the only "diet" I've ever done (I tend to steer clear but this one has a lot of good sense behind it).
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