Weight Loss Research

While there are thousands of people going through prescriptions, eating only this, not eating that, following this, calculating that, etc, there is a very simple 2 step formula to losing weight. You don’t have to pay for an expensive prescription or over the counter weight loss pill. You don’t have to count every single calorie in every bit of food you eat. You don’t have to cut out all carbs or cut out all fat. It’s fairly simple really. 1. Eat less-if you normally have two bowls for lunch, have one. You automatically cut your calories back when you eat less of the same thing, and it is naturally easier to burn off. So whether it’s having 1 less hamburger or a 6 inch sub instead of a foot long, eat less 2. Exercise-if you have trouble walking up the stairs to go to bed, we have a serious problem here. Obviously, you don’t understand the meaning of exercise. But if you exercise more, you burn more calories and therefore have the capacity to lose more weight. If you do these two very basic and simple things, you are guaranteed to lose weight. You can achieve results that you may have seen with nothing else, because surprise you’re using a diet and exercise plan that actually makes sense!

What in the world is the MUFA diet?  That’s what I thought when I first saw it.  It is apparently an acronym for a rather unknown diet called the Mono Unsaturated Fatty Acids diet.  It has been known as a fad diet, and it generally has been featured on shows like Good Morning America, which I never watch and would explain why I’ve never heard of it before this.  Either way, they rave about it, and they call it the next big trend in celebrity weight loss. 

They claim that a thin body and flat belly is all about the food and attitude, period, end of story.  To some degree this is true.  But then they claim “Not a single crunch required.”  In short, they are saying that you don’t need exercise, which is unfortunately not true, or else I would be amazingly skinny by now, unhealthily so actually.  Exercise is required, though sensible eating certainly helps too.  One cannot be complete without its other half.

There have been other fad diets such as the chocolate diet, which is actually based off the chocolate plant which tastes rather different than the chocolate you are used to eating, even dark chocolate at the grocery store.  But they claim that you can eat five basic groups: oil, nuts, seeds, avocados, olives, and chocolate.  Sorry to say.  But as much as this sounds like the diet of the century, it doesn’t work the way you think.  You need diet AND exercise, and it doesn’t work with the foods they are prescribing.