Fat Loss 4 Idiots:

An interesting alternative to conventional weight-loss diets

A brief review

Fat Loss 4 Idiots is a diet plan which appears to be unlike any mainstream weight loss program, in that low-calorie, low-carb, low-fat meals are not part of its strategy. Instead, a good part of the diet falls back to eating the foods which the user already likes, but arranged in a meal sequence and proportion which is intended to keep the person's body guessing over several days as to what kind of calories are coming next.

The thinking is that this approach leads to a good increase in metabolic rate, which of course helps to burn extra fat, with the results that as this diet plan is maintained on a regular daily basis, the user will enjoy "normal" food, yet lose weight without the need for eating any "diet" foods or calorie counting. Indeed, the user is warned that cutting back on calories at meals will result in lowered metabolic activity.

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The claim is that this weight drop can work at a very rapid nine pounds every eleven days - an astonishing claim for any diet which also presents itself as safe.

To say that the Fat Loss 4 Idiots presentation is really in your face may be something of an understatement. The very name suggests an abrasive approach which may seem designed to belittle the people who are, after all, potential customers, and the theme is continued on the website with curt and seemingly sweeping declarations on every page regarding mainstream thinking on low-this, low-that diet plans as a means to lose fat as compared with their own calorie-shifting method of metabolic increase and its associated improved fat burning.

Yet in terms of sales this product is by all reports perhaps the most successful diet and weight loss eating plan so far promoted online. And this despite the notable absence of an author's name on the website as well as any significant work to educate the user in good or healthy diet practice for life-long benefit. It all seems designed to achieve a quick fix to the customer's weight problem in as few days as possible.

It may be that this success is down to the possibility that the majority of overweight people who search online for a lose-weight diet solution really are attracted by an easy quick fix rather than a system which may appear to require a lot of thought and learning. The menu system where the user enters their food preferences and is automatically fed back with a diet meal plan for the next few days may well look good to many who would just like to lose their excess weight - and quickly - without too much real thinking required.

All that said, the Fat Loss 4 Idiots website does give a number of articles containing information concerning food and dieting to back up their claims for their diet system for those who wish to dig a little deeper and weigh up the explanations.

So does it really work? Looking online for those who follow the plan and have posted their results, it seems that of those who have participated in this diet program, not many report losing the full nine-pound goal in the space of eleven days as per the claim, though some have certainly lost several pounds quite fast in a similar number of days.

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