Fast Food Diet Review

What You Should Know

The fast food diet is a concept designed to appeal to people’s rush-about lifestyles in which they feel the need to grab quick but filling food without having to prepare it. Of course, fast food is designed around both convenience and great taste, and this diet says that you can use this staple of modern Western culture to–unbelievable as it might sound–lose weight, too. You can experience higher energy, and lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, too, says this diet’s creator, Dr. Stephen Sinatra. All you have to do with fast food is what you should do with other food–make smarter choices about it.

The fast food diet centers on Sinatra’s 80/20 rule: make very careful food choices, whether in fast food or any other kind of food, 80% of the time, and the other 20% of the time you can eat just about anything you desire without worry.

List of Ingredients

See your local favorite fast food restaurants’ ingredients lists. If they don’t post them, you can probably find them listed on the Internet.

Product Features

The fast food diet is flexible by nature. Eat sensibly 80% of the time, and the other 20% of the time you can eat all the french fries and belly buster burgers you crave. Now, what does it meant to eat sensibly within the fast food diet definition?

Order bottled water or unsweetened iced tea instead of soft drinks, sugary punch, or shakes.

Order grilled chicken or fish instead of fried versions and instead of burgers.

If you get salads, get them with vinegar oil dressing on the side.

Order fruit parfaits instead of things like ice cream or brownies for dessert.

Get a baked potato instead of fries or fried onion rings.

Use mustard instead of mayo or ketchup as a condiment.

Have things like pancakes or a ham-and-eggs bagel for breakfast instead of sausages, steak, or fried hash browns.

Eat three meals a day, including breakfast, so that your metabolism stays up.

You are also supposed to get yourself a pedometer so that you can be sure you have walked at least 4.5 miles per day–walking four to five miles per day is the only exercise recommended by the fast food diet.

Pro’s

• *Go on a diet without sacrificing “sinful” foods that taste great.
• *Diet without making any significant changes to your lifestyle.
• *Forget about “no pain, no gain” and still lose weight.

Con’s

• Even “healthy” fast food is highly processed and contains more sugars and salts than sensibly home-cooked foods.
• For people trying to lose weight, perhaps fend off obesity, eating french fries and bacon cheeseburgers with one out of every five meals is not going to help them at all.
• No emphasis on the need for a workout plan–walking is only good for maintaining current fitness level, not for improving it.
• The entire “diet plan” is simply one industrial paperback book written by Dr. Sinatra–meaning it could be very difficult to maintain even this much discipline.

Conclusion

While the fast food diet probably works for a few people who happen to have naturally higher metabolisms, the fact is that this “diet” is just one more appeal to a physically and mentally lazy American lifestyle that, even in the face of an obesity epidemic, few people want to give up. There is no emphasis on jogging, bicycling, or otherwise changing the rat-race lifestyle, or preparing more nutritious and less-expensive foods at home.