The Five Bite Diet is a contemporary fad diet created by Dr. Alwin C. Lewis, a medical practitioner from Burbank, California. The diet is explained in his book "Why Weight Around? Changing the Weight Loss Strategy." The premise of the diet is that you take only five bites of a meal at any one time.
The Five Bite Diet
According to the website of "Cosmopolitan" magazine, the five-bite diet allows you to drink as much water as you want with and between meals. At lunch, you are only permitted to take five bites of any food, similarly at dinner you are only allowed to take five bites of any food. Lewis recommends also taking one multivitamin tablet each day and a small amount of protein, which he does not quantify.
Adjustment
According to Diet Choices, the premise behind the Five Bite Diet is that after three days of being on the program, your body will have readjusted, and you will feel full much quicker. Lewis claims that once you have lowered your body mass index to 18.5, you will not feel hungry as often, you will have more energy and you will feel more in control of your eating habits.
Claims
According to Celebrity Diet Doctor, Dr. Lewis claims to have lost about 60 pounds in just 40 days on the Five Bite Diet. He claims that you can eat any food you like on this diet, even McDonald's, and still lose weight. He also claims that when you have reached your target weight, you can slip straight back to your normal diet.
Crash Diets
The Five Bite Diet is another from of extreme crash dieting. Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, cardiologist and professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, warns that crash dieting can be harmful to your heart, as can colon detox plans. Rosenfeld considers a crash diet to be one that limits the user to 1,200 calories or less per day. Such rapid weight loss can also slow your metabolism down, which may actually lead to weight gain.
Warning
The danger of this diet is that is does not provide enough calories or enough essential daily nutrition. This can upset the balance of your digestive system and cause serious illness such as low blood pressure and malnutrition. Even if this diet does promote rapid weight loss, this system does not offer any guaranteed means of maintaining a healthy weight afterward. This can lead to yo-yo dieting. You should consult a doctor before considering any weight-loss program.
