Somersizing Diet

Losing Weight Celebrity Style Or Just A Fad

Somersizing Diet is not a new idea created by the Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers. It merely is an old idea being sensationalized by a star to generate popularity.

The Somersizing Diet utilizes the principles of food combining and reduced refined sugars. Basically you will eat low calories and fat, and make sure to eat specific food groups together. While this diet could work for many people, it could be very hard to maintain.

The reason behind the difficulty is easy. If you are living off too low of calories for too long, you begin to feel unsatisfied with your eating habits. This is when people stop using the diet and feel like a failure. I have done this time and time again. I did decide to try the Somersizing Diet anyway as maybe this time I would get a different result.

I decided to attempt the food combining along with the calorie counting. I decided to only drop down to 1800 calories each day, as I thought any lower and I would fail miserably. The trick was to combine specific food groups together to aid in proper digestion and optimum fat burning conditions.

The first rule was that carbs had to be eaten with vegetables, but not fat. I found this one a bit hard, as breakfast foods are loaded with carbs and I was not eating veggies for breakfast.

Proteins also were with vegetables, which that could work for dinner. I could also eat them with fats, but no carbs. So basically this could be great for dinner and lunch, yet not breakfast. I was only allowed to eat fruit on an empty stomach and it could not be combined with any other group.

Here is my experience with implementing this eating regime with exercise. I was walking 30 minutes each day, which has always been a great way for me to lose weight. My diet was as boring as any diet could be. I had to be realistic and eat the foods I like. This made food combining difficult, even though Somersizing Diet says it is very easy.

I had to eat my fruit for breakfast. Anything else I would have eaten did not combine with each other. For lunch I just had a salad with meat in it. Usually it was chicken or salmon. While it was easy and tasty, it was annoying to eat the same thing each day. Sandwiches were a choice but not being aloud to eat carbs with vegetables only gave me a veggie sandwich to choose from. Dinner had a few more options. I never seemed to find any combination I really liked.

Needless to say, my Somersizing Diet efforts failed miserably as I thought they would. This is not a diet for those who do not like everything and who are not afraid to eat weird combinations of foods at all times.

While I did lose weight on this program it simply could have been the exercise I was doing in combination with the lower calories. It is very usual to see weight loss when you exercise and eat less.

Review by Nina Johnson