1. Protein Makes You Skinny
The Stillman Diet is very specific. Your food choices are limited only to beef, lamb, veal, chicken, turkey, lean fish like cod and flounder, shrimp, scallops, lobster, oysters, clams and crab. You can also eat eggs and low fat cottage cheese. Don't prepare any food with butter, margarine or oil. You can use spices, seasonings, salt, pepper, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, ketchup and cocktail sauce, but no mayonnaise or salad dressing. Eat 6 small meals a day.
2. Water and More Water
Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day to combat constipation and wash the by products of fat loss out of your system. There are no restrictions on coffee, tea or diet soda. Stillman recommends a vitamin supplement during the diet for nutrients missed from fruits, vegetables and monounsaturated fats. He also suggests a visit to the doctor before starting the diet to rule out any high risk factors that a high protein diet could worsen.
3. Fastest Diet Ever
Stillman predicts you will lose 7 to 15 lbs. in the first week and 5 lbs. every week after that. This extreme, ketogenic diet causes your body to stop pulling energy from the sugar stored in your blood stream and organs and start burning fat for energy. One bite of ice cream will set you back a day or so while your body has to readjust again. He also predicts it will work for 100 percent of people who try it.
4. Why Would You do This?
The Stillman Diet is a good method to use when you hit a plateau or you want to kickstart your weight loss. Irwin Stillman, a doctor from Brooklyn, lost a good deal of weight himself on the diet and prescribed it for over 10,000 overweight patients. He originally based it on Dr. Eugene Dubois theory of the cost of digestion, which claims that it takes up to 30 percent more calories to consume protein than carbohydrate and dietary fat.
5. Tips and Tidbits
You'll probably get a headache from carbohydrate depletion in the first few days. Sluggishness, sleeplessness and crankiness will also plague you. After those symptoms subside, you should feel a renewed sense of energy. You won't be hungry since the diet has a natural appetite suppressing effect. It's important to stick to the 6 small meals a day so you're body doesn't think your starving and convert to a survival mode of holding onto body fat.
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