What Is the Hallelujah Diet 60 Day Challenge?

What Is the Hallelujah Diet 60 Day Challenge?
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The Hallelujah Diet 60 Day Challenge is the structured dietary program to get you ready to follow the Hallelujah Diet for life. For the first 60 days after you sign up, you receive a daily email with videos, tips, testimonials and recipes to help motivate you to lose weight and stick with the diet.

Hallelujah Diet Allowed Foods

The Hallelujah Diet is a vegan diet that involves consuming 85 percent raw food and 15 percent cooked food. Consume vegetable juice for breakfast and leave the cooked foods for dinner, eating only raw foods and juices for the rest of the day. Raw foods on the allowed list include soaked oats, vegetables and vegetable juice, raw nuts and nut butters, bean sprouts, avocado, flax seed oil, olive oil and fresh fruits. Cooked foods include beans, whole grains, vegetables, herbal tea, pasteurized juices, rice milk, almond milk, soy cheese, honey, molasses, maple syrup and carob powder.

Foods to Avoid

On the Hallelujah Diet, don't consume any alcohol, caffeine, dairy, eggs, fish or meat. You also avoid beverages containing sugar or artificial sweeteners, carbonated beverages, most soy products, dried fruits containing sulfur, canned fruits, white flour, white rice, nuts and seeds that are roasted or salted, salt, lard, margarine, hydrogenated oils, chocolate and canned vegetables.

Nutrition Information

The Hallelujah Diet is very restrictive, and eliminates whole foods groups, such as dairy. With this type of diet, it is difficult to meet all your nutrient needs without very careful planning. At the very least, take a vitamin B-12 supplement, since this vitamin is not found in vegan foods. It may also be difficult to get sufficient amounts of protein, including all of the essential amino acids, on this diet.

Considerations

Many people will have trouble staying on this diet since it is so restrictive. Also, you may suffer from a lack of energy or feel depressed while following the Hallelujah Diet. Consuming only juice for breakfast may be partly responsible for this, since not eating a healthy breakfast can adversely affect energy levels, mood and mental performance. It can also lead to eating more calories throughout the day, which isn't good if you are trying to lose weight. Raw food diets can also cause indigestion.

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Article reviewed by Jenna Marie Last updated on: Jul 27, 2011

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