Diets: Fat Loss For Idiots

We looked into Fat Loss 4 Idiots (FL4I) at the request of a Diet Inn member.

Summary: Give FL4I money. Follow the FL4I rules, most of which are simple common sense. Follow the FL4I online meal planner. Supposedly lose almost a pound a day.

Pros: Paying attention to your diet and trying any change may make you more aware of what you eat. Some of the FL4I rules such as drink more water and eat more meals at home may help.

Cons: Your hard earned money is spent for dubious advice.

Bottom line: Avoid.

FL4I is a very heavily promoted website. There are dozens of associated blogs. Many claim to be critical of diets but appear to be purely FL4I promotional tools. The most fascinating site looks into several different diets. It recommends them with sponsored pointers to those websites. They continue by pointing out some negative with that method and suggest FL4I might be better. This website makes a promotional fee no matter which link you click.

The rules themselves are common sense like don't eat between meals, drink water, walk a bit and so on. The remaining rules are to eat 4 meals a day and to mix up your foods to confuse your metabolism.

Many statements made by FL4I don't make sense and are not found in mainstream nutritional research. They say things like "Using a Calorie Shifting diet, you induce your body to release more Fat Burning Hormones and Less Fat Storing Hormones." Nearly identical statements can be found on dozens of websites on almost as many different domain names all pointing back to the main FL4I site.

Other arguments like "Think low fat diets work? Why have low fat foods existed for years, yet the population is fatter now than it ever has been?" are meaningless. Though meaningless some people may accept these statements without thinking them through especially after seeing them repeated on several different sites.

From one of their websites: "The idea of this weight loss program is to eat 4 times a day, 2 1/2 hours apart. This where your metabolism kicks into gear and burns through the fat much faster. By changing your eating habits day by day, your meatabolism gets confused (Calorie Shifting) and that’s when you begin to lose weight."

It is not healthy to lose 9 pounds in 11 days. Following the FL4I diet plan for 11 days then take days off only to repeat doesn't sound like a sustainable diet to us.

The only way to lose weight is to eat fewer calories than you burn. Don't try to confuse your metabolism. It is much easier to confuse your mind than your metabolism.

Our advice is to avoid the FL4I website. Keep you hands on your wallet whenever they are around.

bon appetit!
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