Hi Preetone,
Early Bay in an earlier post gave a breif run down of what the bodytrim diet entails: Her it is for your reference.
"first 3 days is protien only, you can have a small amount of milk in tea or coffee and water till it comes out of your ears, yuk, you must have 6 meals a day with no more than 3 hours between, and you are supposed to aim for 10'000 steps in a day, but no strenuous excercise. Then you go onto weight loss phase, you still have to have the six meals a day and the 10'000 steps but you can intruduce a 100g serving of either a starchy carb, ie toast with your protien at brekky or a 50g portion of fruit, you can then have unlimited green only veg with your lunch and dinner, all other snacks ect have to be protien only, 1 day a week they reccomend (sunday) is a free day when you can have anything you want for 2 of your meals, this appapently fools the body into going into the storage phase of diets. Then on the (monday) for instance you have a protien only day again, which uses up those sunday carbs, and back onto weight loss phase again. This is called zigzagging and you carry this on until you loose the weight you want. The last phase is maintenance, not rearly got read up on that yet as not got there yet, far from it. You are allowed protien shakes and snacks if you are rearly stuck but only for snacks, however they do say they are only if you are rearly stuck, as they do contain carbs".
So I've now completed by first 3 days of detox, and starting the weight loss phase.
This 3 days of protein only can pretty much kill you. You think at first "wow, I get to eat as much meat as I want"...but it's hard, especially if it's not washed down with any veggies. And it's difficult to be regular without any fibre! You get bloated and feel awful. Thing is, you still have loads of energy to exercise cos of all the protein. But then after your detox you can eat as much veggies for your main meals. Snacks must always only be protein only. And always eat carbs with protein. never eat carbs on its own as it spikes insulin levels.
He makes sense with his diet theory - he sites the example of body builders and how lean they are before competition,..all they ever eat prior to competition is lean white meat , egg whites and very little carbs. So I do believe it works.
I feel alot "leaner" in my belly which is where I have the most problem, (besides my upper thighs, and my tuck-shop arms (basically every part..sigh). Thing is he doesn't recommend having fruit as fruits are simple carbs filled with sugar and spikes insulin levels, which makes you crave more sugary foods... So it's hard for me as I love fruit. Anyhow, I hope this diet works for me. It's quite expensive as well - since meat is more expensive compared to fruit and veggies...
Hope this makes sense.
OK now I have to go buy a new weighing scale cos mine broke just this morning when I tried to use it!
Jim, Thanks for the site on Atkins. I'll have a thorough read tonight.