I’ve been reading quite a lot recently about the fat smash diet, it got me wondering how my own diet stacks up in terms of smashing fat?
The Fat Smash Diet is a diet created by Dr Ian Smith who is probably best known as being the dietary influence on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club TV programme. As with any of these new diets it doesn’t seem to be enough to just eat a balanced calorie controlled diet, the fat smash requires that you jump through a number of hoops, or as they call it stages.
1. Detoxification – 9 days of eating mainly fruit and veg, yum yum!
2. Foundation – 3 weeks like phase one but you’re also allowed to eat some lmited meats.
3. Construction – Like phase 2 but you now start to introduce some pasta and bread into the mix.
4. The Temple – From what I can gather you go back to eating what you normally eat but with a new retrained brain.
The question I’d like to have answered is just how fat smashing is the fat smash diet? How targeted is the weight loss to burning fat? Take my own 3-2-1 diet regime that I started at the beginning of January for example. In 3 months I lost 21 pounds of weight, starting of weighing 186 pound and going down to 165. Overall I lost nearly 13% of my body weight. Could I call it a fat smashing diet though? The proof is in the pudding as they say, for that you’d need to look at my body fat percentages.
When I started I had 33% body fat, out of 186 pounds that means I was carrying 61.3 pounds of fat around (what a nice thought that is). At my latest body fat test my new body fat percentage is 13.8%. So with my new weight of 165 pounds I’m carrying 22 pound of fat. So in three months I’ve lost 21 pounds of weight but lost 39.3 pounds of fat. Now that’s what I call an extreme fat smash diet!
If you’re really interested in smashing your fat then I’d go with a calorie controlled diet (but eating the foods you enjoy) and doing plenty of exercise. No doubt the fat smash diet does work in helping you lose weight, as with most of these plans that re-invent the wheel (of eating less calories), maybe the “license to print money diet” would be a better name all the same..
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