Hollywood Diet Review

Miracle Diet or Fad?

Does the Hollywood Diet work? This has been my experience. After struggling with my weight for over five years I was starting to get desperate.

I had tried all the most popular diets, spent money on diet programs such as MediFast and Jenny Craig, and even joined a health club without success. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t lose the weight. I’d lose a few pounds occasionally, but before long I gained it back again.

When I heard about the Hollywood Diet, my weight was completely out of control—I was at a plateau at work because upper management considered me too unattractive to be promoted since I’d be dealing directly with customers and my husband was threatening to leave me not because of how I looked but because I had lost my desire to go anywhere or do anything.

The Hollywood Diet consists of a diet drink in both a 24-hour and 48-hour version. The drink consists of all natural juices, botanical extracts, and all the nutrients you need in order to promote good health. The diet promises you will lose five pounds in 24 hours or ten pounds in 48 hours, but you are not supposed to drink or eat anything else during that time frame.

The juice provides nourishment as well as detoxifying the body according to the available information. I was sceptical about its benefits, but I was at a point in my life when I was willing to try anything.

I began with the 48-hour formula, and though I did lose some weight, it was not what they promised. In addition, I was starving. Fortunately the nutrients in the juice kept me from becoming completely run down, but I was too hungry to be able to do much beyond going to work.

I tried it for two weeks in 48 hour intervals each time, hoping maybe if I ate healthy meals in between, I would be able to handle it until I lost the 35 pounds I needed to lose. To some people 35 pounds may not seem like much, but I’m barely over five feet tall, so on me, that’s a lot of extra weight.

What I discovered was that the weight I lost when I was drinking the juice was nothing more than water weight because as soon as I ate regular food, I gained the weight back again. It wasn’t because I wasn’t eating right because once I began the Hollywood Diet, I forced myself to eat healthier foods.

For example, my breakfast was a serving of whole grain cereal with skim milk, for lunch I had a salad of some kind with low fat dressing, and dinner was lean meat broiled or baked with a low calorie vegetable and occasionally a some whole wheat pasta or brown rice. My snacks were limited to fruit or sugar-free gelatine or pudding.

The Hollywood Diet certainly did not work for me or anyone else I know who had tried it. When I discussed it with my doctor he told me it was unhealthy for someone who needed to lose more than a few pounds and advised me to stay with the eating plan I was using when I didn’t drink the juice.

Amazingly, it was the in between days eating that helped me to finally get on track. I’m now following a program where I am eating healthy foods and exercising.

Review by Tara Meekins