- The Daniel Fast, or Shepherd diet, requires dieters to fast and pray in the pursuit of better health.
Actor Chris Pratt has done the Daniel Fast, which requires eating only fruits, vegetables, and unleavened bread for 21 days, as well as praying daily.
The goal of the diet, according to its website, is to help dieters “focus on their health using Christ-centered teachings,” but limiting food intake so severely could prevent a person from getting all of the nutrients they need. There is no science-backed evidence this diet works, either.
2. Baby Food Diet
On top of that, a baby food diet is unsustainable, says Palmer. When food is liquefied, the body doesn’t pick up fullness cues, which can make you feel hungrier after eating a sufficient amount of calories, she says.
Better Move: Eat in a way that you could sustain for the rest of your life without feeling miserable, says Palmer. Practicing common-sense portion control, mindful eating, and eating more minimally processed plant foods such as whole grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits, which are rich in nutrients and low in calories should get you to your goals.
3. The HCG Diet
The HCG Diet requires you to consume just 500 calories per day while supplementing with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a pregnancy hormone that is falsely associated with weight loss. “This is an incredibly restrictive, very low calorie diet that will promote rapid weight loss, but at the expense of losing both muscle mass and body fat, which could slow metabolism and make future weight management a challenge.
4. Whole30
Whole30 dieters cut out sugar, alcohol, dairy, grains, beans and other banned foods for a month.
It’s a tremendously popular plan on Instagram, where people post colorful photos of their veggie and fruit-filled #Whole30 plates.
But Whole30 isn’t really supported by science; nutrition experts say it takes more than 30 days for your body to perform a truly complete reset if you want to reduce inflammation. Besides, fiber-rich foods, which the Whole30 diet strictly limits, can improve inflammation markers and help stave off all kinds of diseases.
5. The Apple Cider Vinegar
Why It’s Nuts: “For this diet, people are supposed to add cayenne pepper and honey to a glass of apple cider vinegar, and drink three glasses a day, one before each meal,” says Ginny Erwin, R.D. This diet is a really awful idea for people that have irritable bowel syndrome or gastroesophageal reflux disease because of the spices and acidity. Plus, it’s overall irritating to the stomach lining and can cause terrible gas pains, says Erwin.
Better Move: “I recommend drinking water or herbal tea before a meal. It calms the digestive system and helps the metabolic processes move along,” she says.
6. The Werewolf Diet
Yes, this is a real thing. The Werewolf Diet diet limits how you eat based on the cycles of the moon, such as a fasting with juice for 24 hours during a full moon and not eating past 6 p.m. during other moon phases. “This diet is not backed by research, so it sets unnecessary restrictions that make it a challenge to sustain long term
7. The Special K diet
The Special K diet replaces two meals a day with a set portion of cereal flakes and milk. The plan was promoted by Kellogg’s cereal company for years as a research-backed way to be “slimmer for summer” but they’ve scrubbed all traces of it from their current website.
Subsisting on a cereal-based diet can push people to miss out on key nutrients and illness-fighting compounds that are abundant in plants like fruits and veggies. Besides, Special K doesn’t have a ton of fiber in it, so you’d probably do better to try out some other cereals that are less processed.
8. The HCG diet
Why It’s Nuts: “The HCG diet requires that you take a human chorionic gonadotropin supplement and restrict your total calories to 500 per day, equally divided into two meals,” says Ashvini Mashru, R.D., author of Small Steps to Slim. “Each meal can contain roughly 3.5 ounces of lean meat, one serving of a specified fruit and vegetable, and one piece of toast, says Mashru. It’s easy to see that this diet is deficient in calories, nutrients like protein and fat, entire food groups, vitamins, and minerals. So it’s not a plan you can sustain forever. Plus, HCG supplements have not been approved by the FDA for weight loss.
9. The Five-Bite Diet
Created by Californian internist Alwin Lewis, MD, the Five-Bite Diet requires you to skip breakfast and then only eat five bites of your meal at lunch and dinner. “The very small portions of this diet will promote weight loss, but the incredible restriction of eating only 10 bites of food per day is not a healthy way to lose weight
10. Zero-sugar diets
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“Many celebs swear by cutting out every last smidge of sugar. They ban even a gram of the sweet stuff in order to achieve their beach bodies. Sherri Shepherd favors this approach,” says Suzanne Dixon, MPH, MS, RDN, a registered dietitian with The Mesothelioma Center. This means cutting out fruit and veggies, like berries and sweet potatoes. The worst part: “You’ll miss the vitamins, minerals, and disease-fighting phytonutrients,
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