When a book on losing weight is written by a cardiologist, you can be sure that it has something of value to deliver. Through The Fast Food Diet, Dr Sinatra has found a way of making the great American addiction to fast food more healthy and amenable to weight loss!
The basic purpose of this book is simple: to help people who grab food on the go realize their dream of losing weight and getting healthy. The success of the book is that it has taken into account the erratic lifestyle of most people. Our addiction to quick-fixes and easy meals is also given sufficient leverage.
Of course, this doesn’t make fast food healthy and I still recommend you to stop eating it, but it makes it much less risky for your health and weight loss efforts.
The Fast Food Diet Overview
The book revolves around the interesting 80/20 principle. If you eat sensibly 80% of the time, you can afford to let go 20% of the time. The advantage of this approach is that you have the incentive to work hard when you know that you can take it easy at least for a while.
A six week food plan is laid out allowing three main meals and two snacks per day. Meal plans for weekdays have been specified while you can choose easy home cooked food for the weekend. Fast foods are included in the menu plan, like trail mix for snacks or a McMuffin for breakfast.
By the end of this period, followers can lose up to 15 pounds.
Fast Food Diet Review
The fast Food diet merely changes our focus to smart food decisions when choosing fast foods. As a result, you can lose weight, alleviate cholesterol levels and lower your blood pressure. The concept appeals to the modern lifestyle where people are rushing about and lining up in front of fast food joints to get their daily meal.
This is a calorie counting diet. It advocates cutting down calorie intake by about 10% and gives a number of useful tips to cut calories easily.
- Cut soft drinks
- Take small portions
- Eat slowly
- Leave off fattening foods like cheese and salad dressings
- Take more of healthy foods like salads
The diet allows the more ambitious to lose more weight if they add the walking plan to the diet plan. Although the diet only lays out a six week plan, the long term goal is to help people lose up to 100 pounds in one year.
Fast Food Diet Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Convenient
- Allows the food choices typical of our lifestyle
- Sensible
- Flexible
- Emphasizes nutrition
- The benefits of walking is mentioned
- Throws light on child nutrition and childhood obesity
- Great meal plans
Cons:
- Fast foods, even sensible ones, are unhealthy
- Weight loss is slow
- Does not emphasize exercise
- Difficult to maintain
In conclusion:
The Fast Food Diet has huge consumer appeal because it seeks to oblige and even encourage the unhealthy lifestyle choices of a generation that cannot eat properly. Although Dr Sinatra wants to help people live a balanced life in spite of this lifestyle, we cannot forget that the food choices are unhealthy, loaded with sugar and sodium. Also, there is very little emphasis on exercise.
