90 Day Diet

What is it?

selina884 wrote: »

kommodevaran wrote: »

That sounds really stupid and goes against everything we think we know about good nutrition, ease of adherence and successful weightloss.

Why so harsh?
It's probably a good start for people to get an all round nutrional intake. People that generally don't have a well balanced diet.

An introduction of sorts?

How is having one food group a day a "round nutritional intake." A round nutritional intake would involve a variety. A single group a day is by definition, not a variety.

The issue is that fad diets like this contribute to the harmful, unscientific mentality that one must do something exceptional or extreme to lose weight.

While different strategies work for different people (I'm eating lower carb at the moment with great success, for example), the basic principle of CICO should be in the forefront of our minds. How many times have most of us started a crazy or overly-restrictive diet only to fail within a couple of days and tell ourselves weight loss is just too hard? What if we believed from the start that we only had to eat a little less every day to succeed and stopped looking for THE solution? I believe that many more people would be successful, and I find this forum an amazing source of encouragement in this regard!

Imho. diets are only successful because they all FAIL, so people wanting to lose weight just jump from one concept to another.

If any of the diets actually worked, (weight loss, and keeping the new weight) none of us would never me here.

Truth is, no diet is needed to lose weight and stay there.

This just sounds like a prescription for failure.
Good luck to you anyway. I am on the "eat healthy for life" diet...lol

Of course it works if it helps reduce calories. That's not the issue with these diets. Eating nothing but "baby food" works too, so does the cabbage soup diet. When you choose a diet the last question you should be asking is "does it work" because most diets do work (due to reduced calories of course). What you should be asking is: "what does it teach me about nutrition and what strategies for long term maintenance does it provide?"

What do any of these statements tell you about nutrition and how do they help you with weight loss or maintenance?
1. Don't mix fruits and vegetables or fruit groups
2. Eat the same foods for dinner as lunch
3. You have to eat cake for dinner
4. Pay attention to fruit sugar in dried fruits
5. Have a full day of fruits but eat different fruit groups for different meals

Statements like the above give arbitrary rules and explain nothing useful. You can't use that information and tweak it to your day to day changes. Here are some things that might have slightly improved the diet based on the above statements

1. Nonsense.
2. Some people find that eating the same few foods every day provide better calorie control due to the relative stability of the calorie count.
3. Eating the high calorie things you love in appropriate portions to your calorie budget can help with adherence. It can be done on a specific day or in smaller amounts any day. (what if you don't want cake and want fried chicken instead? How does eating cake for dinner once every 4 days help you moderate fried chicken?)
4. Dried fruits have higher calories, so keep that in mind.
5. Eating a wider variety of fruits and vegetables gives you a better vitamin profile.

See how for the first example (your choice of diet) it's just a bunch of arbitrary rules that adds nothing to your experience. The same diet modified to be more informative is still a huge load of "not necessary", unnatural and highly unbalanced but it gives you some tools to use like having a go-to list of meals for when you can't count calories, teaches you how to moderate your higher calorie foods in appropriate portions within calories and helps you be more mindful of higher calorie choices.

An easier and a much more helpful way of controlling your weight would be to eat normally within a calorie budget without arbitrary rules and learn what portions, foods, strategies...etc work for you from experience. This would help you take that knowledge and apply it to avoid regaining the lost weight which usually happens on rigid diets.

plami92 wrote: »

hjlourenshj wrote: »

I guess people have succes with the diet because it tells them what to eat and so they not have to think for themself that much

Well, I do think every diet is like that.

That is why it's best to lose weight without going on a "diet".

What happens on day 91?