Sacred Heart Diet

Soup Diets For Successful Weight Loss

While searching for a diet I could actually accomplish, I found the Sacred Heart Diet. At first it looked really good. It was supposedly developed for cardiac patients who were over weight to loss pounds safe and fast. I figured if it was good for these people, it had to be good for me too.

As I researched further I noticed the diet had many other names. I am not sure why, but this seemed to send off a red flag to me. Upon looking deeper into the diet I realized this was not a long-term diet at all, but rather a short-term solution. The diet claims to be able to be used in 2-week terms with a week off between stopping once cycle and resuming the next.

The problem I noticed right away with the Sacred Heart Diet was that is was a crash diet. This meant that I was reducing my calorie intake by so much my metabolism would slow down and my body would be in storage mode. The diet was more about eating low calorie and the bare minimum, rather than just soup.

These starvation diets have never worked for me. I always end up gaining all the weight back, sometimes more, after I stop. While you can easily follow the simple recipes they offer, basically you can eat any high protein, extremely low calorie foods, and be safe. Just be aware of your portion sizes, as calories count with this program.

With the Sacred Heart Diet you will lose any water weight you are carrying around with you. There is the potential to lose more than that, but buyer beware of the weight gain that could occur after resuming your normal diet. There are so many other more healthy versions of this diet.

The idea that restricting calories can make you lose weight fast is appealing, but the end results in putting your body into starvation. When the metabolism slows, you begin to store your food. You will not notice any more weight loss on the program and think you are done.

Once you resume eating your regular diet, you will regain weight extremely fast. I found that I could even gain extra weight until I could break the starvation cycle.

The Sacred Heart Diet might be a great weight loss jump-start for those who are extremely heavy and have heart issues that only severe weight loss can provide, but I would not recommend it for a simple weight loss regime.

Trying too hard to become thinner can backfire on many people. Dieting is serious business and you should never opt for the fast way out. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

If you are considering this diet at all, be careful as to how long you are on it and check with your doctor first. The idea that you are losing weight because your main staple is soup is not true. You are losing weight due to a very strict calorie restriction.

Review by Shannon Gregory