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The 400-Calorie Fix: Prize Stallion in the Diet Line-Up?
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If you’re a typical American woman who has experienced weight gain at some time in her life, then you’ve more than likely tried some fad diet to lose those unwanted pounds.
Maybe you gave Atkins a shot and sacrificed your beloved carbohydrates for a heavy protein solution. Maybe you took the plunge and signed up at your local Weight Watchers facility and bought the whole shebang, meals and all.
Maybe you also found that after dieting you gained five to ten pounds. Statistically, this is the case with many "diets."
Whatever weight-loss plan you've attempted, if you’re like most overweight women you’ve experimented more than you care to admit. In fact you might say that you're practically an expert by now on how to diet, if only you could just keep the weight off!
Well, move over old-school diets. Prevention’s 400-Calorie Fix is on its way.
Now before you start to panic, don’t be misled by the title. This is not a 400 calorie per day diet, but a 1600 daily caloric allowance. Not bad by any female dieter’s standards, but how do you lose the weight?
Well, other than plain old calorie counting, it’s still a bit of a mystery. From early reports, one thing seems likely. You will definitely get to eat your favorite foods with this diet. If that means ice cream or brie cheese or pizza, you may have to eat a much smaller portion since you’re indulging in the heavy fat.
For your carbohydrate fix (and we know women tend to reach for these), does it mean you can eat a Starbucks regular fat bran muffin for one of your meals, which measures a near whopping 400 calories? It will probably fill you up the same way a McDonald’s hamburger and ice cream might, but is that ensuring good health for you down the line?
Now, whether you can eat fast food or will have to always make your own version of the foods you love is still unknown. The Fix diet contains 400 recipes that you are guaranteed to enjoy and benefit from, but remember, you’ll have to use them!
As far as fitness goes, the makers of the diet will surely recommend it. It could be as easy as securing a pedometer to your foot and walking each day, which is a fantastic way to jumpstart your fitness because you can increase your steps daily and see your progress quickly.
Whatever you ultimately set out to accomplish in the way of your daily fitness goals with this diet, you must exercise regularly to see a real change in your permanent weight or body shape.
One thing the 400-Calorie Fix has going for it is its allowance for dieters to eat the foods they always have, but just more conscientiously in terms of calorie counting and portion control. Hopefully Prevention’s latest diet will encourage women to eat the healthy foods that our bodies have always thrived on, such as legumes, fruits, vegetables, fish, greens, and nuts.
But whether the Fix will really fix us is still anyone’s guess.
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