How can you lose your weight in 3 hours?

Called "fat" and "lard ass" by his classmates childhood, weight loss guru Jorge Cruise knows firsthand the pain involved overweight. A frequent guest on talk shows, the already thin Cruise is known for preaching the importance of small amount of resistance training for weight loss. In Diet 3 hours (HarperResource), he proposes a "diet only" approach to shedding pounds. Put simply, the plan is all about timing. Eating every three hours helps control appetite, preserve muscle and burn fat, Cruise says. Is not that exercise is not important, but the new approach helps people who can not (perhaps because of joint pains or problems with obesity) Jump-start their weight loss, at a guaranteed price for 2 pounds a week, with diet alone. Cruise has the merit of recognizing the needs of diet who want to lose weight, but have problems with physical exercise. And it offers many good tips to help these people to eat a healthy diet. It would be nice, though, to see some activities tailored just for them. Perhaps resistance training or 8 minutes in the morning (HarperResource)-Cruise 's first training-heavy diet plan-isn't possible, but soft-on-the-joints water activities such as walking and water aerobics can help very overweight or arthritic dieters become more active (after all, the Arthritis Foundation does not recommend exercise to treat arthritis). Cruise could also use a little help in the recipe department. You can have a chef on his advisory committee, but the recipes here are not as tasty as those in most diet books tops. In fact, a turkey breast in slow cooking with wet blueberry jelly without sugar and dried onion soup mix sounds very bizarre.

Fundamental principles: Since a pound of muscle can burn 20 to 50 calories a day, even at rest, using twice the calories of a pound of fat-diet who can not must preserve what they already have muscle to maintain a high metabolism. Cruise lists numerous studies that he claims to eat frequently (about every 3 hours) helps preserve muscle tissue while promoting weight loss. Why does this happen? Cruise claims that eating often keeps the body of starvation protection mechanism (what he calls SPM) When it starts to kick in SPM, Cruise says, the body tenaciously holds on reserves of fat just as it would during a famine. How the diet works: The goal is to eat within an hour of rising and then every 3 hours after that, for a total of five meals a day. If breakfast is at 7 am, eat a snack at 10 am, lunch at 01:00, another snack at 4 pm and dinner at 7 pm counting calories is not necessary, but not dieters watching portions, eat three moderate meals and two snacks a day. The plan also provides a daily treatment, such as a touch of licorice, chocolate covered four ticks, or a cup of air popped popcorn. What you can eat: No foods are prohibited, but Cruise diet encourages you to choose from lists of specific fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy and fats preferred. It also offers two approaches to meal planning. One is a project that requires a specific number of servings from various food groups. For example, lunch meat group includes 2-3 servings (a serving of meat is listed as a slice of bacon, one ounce of buffalo, or a reduced-fat hot dog). The second method is called "Cruise Down Plate." Dieters fill half of a 9-inch dish with vegetables (or fruit for breakfast) and the other half with small portions of meat and starches, plus a teaspoon of oil or butter. Both methods boil up to about 1,450 calories daily. If the diet take and keep the weight off? The evidence is simply anecdotal. There are no studies to support science that the diet of three hours of work or who delivers on the promise of losing the cover 2 pounds each week. Is the diet healthy? Probably. The diet adds up to about 1450 calories per day a safe and effective amount for most diet and probably encourage a slow, gradual weight loss. What the experts say? Registered dietitian Jane Kirby, author of Diet for Dummies (For Dummies), love the accent Cruise to eat more frequently. "Many of us eat without thinking," he says. Cruise plan "makes more people aware of what and how much to eat." What Kirby does not buy: Cruise's theory on how the window of 3 hours affects the metabolism. "Metabolism depends on a lot of things, what you eat, body composition, levels of activity." Leslie Bonci, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, shoot more holes in theory, a 3-hour Cruise. "Our bodies are smart enough not to go into starvation mode after only three hours," he says. Who should consider the diet? Dieters who skip meals, or those who overeat when they feel sad or depressed. Eating more frequent meals is a good way to control appetite and desire to squelch pig out. Bottom line: Although some of his reasons for eating more frequent meals are not always the target, the approach of Cruise for Weight Loss is practical and feasible. At one point, however, dietitians will need to start exercising.