I’m not going to pretend that my ears didn’t prick up a little when I heard about a new diet on the news last night. I’m also not going to pretend that I don’t have a couple of kilos that I would not miss if they got lost or you know disappeared forever.
I know that diets are not sustainable long term. I am well aware that energy in vs energy out is the way to lose weight sensibly and that I need a balanced diet. I know all that. But I still listen with eager anticipation for the “miracle diet”. And last night's news may have delivered it to me.
The only problem is that the miracle is that the diet got published at all. And to make matters worse it has sold over 120 000 copies
Called The OMG Diet it advocates such practices as getting into a bath of cold water once a day to “encourage your body to burn stored fat as it tries to keep warm” It will boost metabolism for up to 15 hours, says the author Venice A Fulton (Paul Khanna), as cold activates ‘good’ brown fat, burning calories to keep warm.
Fulton also recommends no more than 120grams of carbs a day which you can get from any source, so you can drink coke if broccoli doesn’t take your fancy. "It makes no difference if you get all of your carbs from cans of coke or plates of broccoli," says Fulton. The whole nutrients issue seems to have been slightly skimmed to make place for soft drink carbs.