The seven-day belly blast diet has caused quite a stir in the United States and in Europe over the past few months.
This has led to a lot of people wondering how it works and wanting to know what is this diet all about? The seven-day belly blast diet program was designed by TV nutritionist Josh Bezoni and is based on three simple principles.
The first is that of calorie confusion, which is tricking the body into burning off more calories than it would normally.
The second technique is based on eating the right types of food, and finally the thermal burn technique to fat busting.
Traditional dieting usually involves eating less food and being more active or taking lots of exercise.
The seven-day belly blast diet uses different methods.
One of the problems with traditional dieting is that when the body is starved of food it releases hormones so that it can store fat more easily.
When this happens, once the diet is completed the body piles back on the extra pounds.
This is a serious limitation for most dieting programs.
Josh has identified 37 different foods which have a positive dieting effect: they help to kill belly fat whilst at the same time crushing food cravings.
For example good foods to eat, surprisingly, are dark chocolate, peanut butter and turkey legs.
As these foods do not pile on the pounds then it is okay to eat as much as you wish.
This prevents the dieter from becoming hungry and prevents the body from switching into food scarcity mode where it aims to conserve large deposits of fat.
Just as the body uses hormones to regulate itself according to circumstance so you can use the bodies hormones against itself to burn up more fat.
This is what Josh calls the calorie confusion method.
By varying the amount of food eaten from day-to-day, week to week and even hour to hour, you can trick the body into burning off more calories than it would otherwise.
So a combination of eating the right foods at the right time can work wonders in destroying belly fat.
Finally the seven-day belly blast diet looks at those foods which burn off lots of calories just by being eaten.
For example, we have all heard the story of celery which takes more calories to digest than there are in the celery.
Well it is the same principle.
Some foods may have 1000 calories in them but if they take 400 cal.
to digest then you have only eaten 600 cal.
in total.
By using this type of food in what is called the thermal burn technique your eating habits can remain a pleasure even when shedding pounds every week.
Again it's about eating the right type of food.
Sometimes eating more food can help you burn off more calories.
These three techniques together help avoid the main problem faced by most other diets.
By preventing the body believing that there is a food scarcity and that it needs to store fat, the dieter can avoid hunger pangs and the rebound effect which comes after completing a diet.
Indeed, given that you can eat plenty of food with the seven-day belly blast diet there is no reason to have any hunger pangs at all.
Because of this many people continue with the seven-day belly blast diet for a long time after reaching the target weight.
It's not just a diet but an entire nutritional program, which will help you keep a good healthy weight.
So the seven-day belly blast diet doesn't use the traditional methods of eating less and exercising more, rather it is about eating the right types of food and using your body's natural mechanisms to burn off fat quicker and easier.
By confusing your body into believing that you're not really dieting, then there is no reason your body to slow down your metabolism.
This way your metabolism remains high and you shed weight fast.