Have you heard of the five bite diet? In his book Why Weight Around, Dr. Alwin C. Lewis promotes a simple crash diet he argues will make the pounds fall off and make your stomach shrink. I'm going to try it out! It sounds rather unhealthy in the long term, but I don't think it will hurt to follow it for one week.
Here's the rules:
1. Eat a regular, well-balanced breakfast
2. Eat five bites of food for lunch
3. Five bites for dinner
4. Have as many zero calories beverages as you want
5. Eat at least 1 bite of protein
You can see Lewis describe his diet on Extra. He claims that after 3 days, you won't feel hungry any longer.
IMHO this is a wretched crash diet with a decidedly tabloid touch, but I'll do my best to reserve judgement. However, despite the negatives, it has a few benefits that are likely to make it successful:
1. Easy to follow. People get confused by complex diets and this is about as simple as it gets.
2. Heavy restriction means that your stomach will shrink (one of Dr. Alwin C. Lewis main arguments--he calls it a "surgery-free gastric bypass").
3. Cravings are satisfied. In small amounts. This keeps you from bingeing.
Dr. Alwin C. Lewis claims that people will lose as much as 15 pounds per week. I am going with a more conservative 5 pounds (I'm not sure how I will be able to justify all this to my husband. I'm sure I can do it at lunch, but dinner may be another story).
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It's impossible to lose 15 pounds per week unless you are heavily overweight and exercise all day everyday. For a person in the healthy-to-a-little-overweight weight range, daily caloric needs are set at around 2,000 (differs per person, but this is a general rule of thumb). A pound has 3500. You do the math. If you want to lose a pound a day, you need to not eat AT ALL and burn an additional 1500 through exercise.
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