"A camel is a horse designed by a committee."
It means that when you get a bunch of people together (or combine a lot of different ideas) to improve ANYTHING, you end up with something is completely different.
In other words, it is a...
Hybrid Diet
It's bits and pieces of every other diet thrown in together.
Hybrid = Half of one thing and half of another. The technical term is, "Half Ass".
The primary reason that it works is that you take is you have decreased you caloric intake.
Foundation of Weight/Fat Loss
The foundation of EVERY weight loss program is taking in fewer calories than you burn.
That means NO diet that does not first address decreasing/expending more calories than you need will every work for weight/fat loss.
Thus, EVERY diet in which you have a calorie deficit will work.
24 Hour Fast
Your are definitely decreasing your daily/weekly caloric intake by fasting.
There is not much value in fasting. You going to feel like crap.
It is also becomes mentally tough to starve yourself.
Fast Weight Loss = More Muscle Loss
Any fast weight loss program is going to decrease a larger percentage of your muscle mass.
Think of it like trimming fat off meat.
When you chop it off quickly, you end up cutting more of the meat/muscle off.
If you take your time and trim it slowly, you get more fat off and keep more of the meat/muscle.
Macros
There is definitely something to manipulating the percentage of carbohydrate, protein and fat in your diet.
However, the FIRST step in weight loss is to decrease you caloric intake.
Drs. John Ivy and Layne Norton
Ivy is an Exercise Physiologist and Norton is a Nutritionist.
Both have presented documented research that shows that the most effective method of decreasing body fat and retaining muscle mass is to to gradually decrease you caloric intake.
Dropping Calories
The data shows that decreasing your caloric intake by about 10% works best.
Example: 3000 kcal Day Intake
Decrease you caloric intake about 300 kcal a day.
So, instead of ingesting 3000 kcal a day, you are now taking in 2700 kcal a day.
Other on this board have posted the same information.
Sticking Point
Every weight/fat loss diet has a sticking point.
That occurs due to...
The General Adaptation Syndrome
In plain English, that means you body "Resets your metabolism" and learns to maintain body fat and muscle on you new lower caloric diet.
That means weight loss will take place for 2 - 4 weeks. Then your body will figure it out and learn to maintain you weight.
Rebooting You Weight/Fat Loss
Once you hit your sticking point, you need to once again decrease you caloric intake about 10%.
Example: 2700 kcal A Day
Take you kcal a day down to about 2430 kcal a day (2700 X 10% = 270. 2700 - 270 = 2430).
Goal Weight
Once you reach your goal weight, you gradually increase you caloric intake every so slowly.
While you will have some increase in body fat, the gradual increase in kcals insures that it is more muscle than fat.
Yo-Yo Diet
Dropping weight and increasing your kcals too high too quickly falls into "Yo-Yo Dieting".
Research has shown that you end up gaining more fat back.
Summary
The Hybrid Diet will work but it is senseless.
The Hybrid Diet is like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly.
A fly swatter works and does less damage.
Kenny Croxdale
