The Bead Diet is the informal name for the Accu Weight-Loss Program. Created by Drs. Joseph Cheu and Charles Schwartz, it is based on the hypothalamic hypothesis, which says your body has a set weight at which it will try to stay at all times. This is the weight to which you return after you abandon a diet; the weight that you don't have to struggle to maintain because it comes natural to you. The Bead Diet works to help you control that set weight through diet and natural medicine.
Vegetable Days
In the Beads Diet, you have two vegetable days, followed by two milk days and then you repeat the cycle. During vegetable days, you can eat up to 1 ½ lbs. of vegetables. This is the raw weight of the vegetables, but you can cook them after weighing them. You can choose any vegetables you like except starchy ones such as potatoes. The diet recommends making vegetable soup using vegetable stock --not beef or chicken stock---to help you feel fuller, since you'll have the liquid component as well as the vegetables for your meal. No fruits and no juices allowed during vegetable days.
Milk Days
During the two milk days, you only drink up to 20 oz. of full-fat milk or whole yogurt with no sugar. You can incorporate the milk into different recipes. The official Accu Weight website suggests milk shakes, mocha or latte drinks and yogurt desserts using calorie-free flavorings. During the milk days, no solid foods are allowed.
Other Foods
The Accu Weight diet recommends using Walden Farms products during the program. Walden Farms is a company that makes products that are free of calories, carbs, sugars and fat. Syrups, chocolate and caramel dips, BBQ sauces, salad dressings and peanut spreads are available. These are all made using artificial flavorings and colorings, to ensure they stay at zero calories. You can use these products to flavor your milk or vegetables.
Other Elements
Food is just one of the elements that form the Bead Diet; all of them are equally important, however. Chi Gong Breathing is one of those elements. Chi Gong or Quigong is a Chinese breathing technique used for self-healing. In the Bead Diet, the breathing helps control appetite and improve energy levels, both mentally and physically. The diet also uses acupressure in the forms of beads you stick behind your ear to help you control hunger.
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