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Crazy Celebrity Diets can work for weight loss over a longer term than just for a few days, celebrities like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston look fantastic so their diets can’t be that bad?

In Hollywood its good to be different, so diets that make sense are usually based on sound nutritional practices but specially wrapped to sell to celebrities and then onto us, their adoring fans.

As I mentioned in my last article “diets that don’t work” the sole purpose is for rapid weight loss, the better diets are ones you can use and become healthy.

The Zone Diet – (Enter the Twilight 40:30:30 Zone)

A popular diet followed by Jennifer Anniston, Brad Pitt and Rene Zellweger was created by a scientist so not surprisingly that’s why its so formula based.

You eat meals in the ratio of Carbs 40%, Proteins 30%, Fats 30% which controls hormones and the body’s insulin to stay within a healthy region to help lose fat.

It is a strict diet but its nutrient ratio doesn’t seem too bad, the diet essentially reduces the carb intake level and ups the proteins.

Its not too extreme but I would think the protein ratio is possibly too high.

If the body gets too much protein it then uses water to help digest it.  So the effect is that you lose weight quickly but its usually water weight and dehydration is a possibility so if you do try the diet drink lots of water.

It makes use of the familiar method of controlling blood glucose and energy levels.

It does ignore portion size and calorie intake but overall its a diet that will help lose weight at a steady rate.

Five Factor Diet - (Hi Five this diet)

Hollywood celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak came up with this diet.

Eat five meals a day, five ingredients per meal including protein, fats, carbs and sugar free drink.

You exercise 25 minutes minimum five times per week. and a cheat day or eat what ever you like is OK.

Jessica Simpson, Alica Keyes and Eva Mendez thought it was good enough to follow.

The draw backs are the restrictive rules, everything is obsessively five, you only eat foods that take five minutes to prepare!

What happens if you don’t want to eat 5 times in a day?

However besides all that, it actually sounds like a solid eating and exercise plan, its not magical just clever marketing spin of traditional nutritional advice.

So drop the rules follow the basic out line and this diet could go from from good to great.

Meal Replacements - (Why replace real food)

Created to replace normal meals the calories intake is measured and controlled for you, just the way Kim Kardashian apparently likes it.

This diet actually does work, its used by the medical profession as a preparation before surgery for obese people.

It’s designed is to be nutritionally balanced but living off shakes and food bars (fibre?) should not be done too long usually no longer than 12 weeks.

Not having enough fibre would cause bowel problems and maybe the attitude to real food can be an issue in terms of the psychological effects.

If you can handle the one dimensional food of shakes and bars you will lose some weight but it would be very unsatisfying to sit down to a plate of food powder … but just add water!

Raw Food Diet - (As long as its not moving)

Its philosophy is that cooking food destroys the enzymes that assist with digestion. So the idea is that 75%  of your diet should be uncooked food.

The food variety is obviously very natural like fruits, vegetables, seeds, legumes, dried fruits, nuts and seaweed and mineral water.

Demi Moore is fan of the theory about raw eating and she has kept pretty well for an older female.

But the missing food groups are meats, fish and dairy so there would be deficiency in nutrients add these back in and you will have a very healthy diet but really eating raw food is unnecessary.

Remember to lose weight keep your calorie intake lower than you need.

Over all these diets aren’t too bad, you can lose weight with these and use them longer than a few days.

However you can do better with smarter nutritional strategy like intermittent fasting or following a natural unprocessed food consumption like the paleo diet.

This article and the last article “diets that don’t work“  I’ll choose a crazy celebrity diet to follow.

Hopefully you will come back to visit and find out the result.