Key Features

• Important tips for eating right
• Guides to selecting the right food
• Details of proper exercises to help maximize weight loss
• Analysis of “bad” diet plans (e.g. pills, starvation, etc.) and why they don’t work
• Motivational tips to keep you on the right track
• Detailed plan on how to target and maintain your desired weight

What it is

Burn Fat Once And For All intends to do just that – allow you as a person to actually burn any extra fat you may have accumulated over the years and feel great in the process. Not only does it detail out different ways to approach the diet to see some immediate results but it helps ensure long-term weight loss in a realistic, sustainable way. This means you’ll be able to not only lose weight and feel great in the process but be able to stay the size you want without killing yourself each day in the process.

Why it Works

Proper, realistic weight loss in today’s society requires a number of different elements to be successful. While exercise is of course important doing the right exercise is even more so. Still, simply working out by itself isn’t enough to give you the edge you need to keep fit on a realistic daily basis. A healthy diet as well as eating schedule is paramount to helping you utilize your body’s own natural weight loss capabilities to its fullest.

The Burn Fat Once And For All plan takes all of this into account and not only helps answer many of the common questions associated with weight loss in regards to these areas but also helps you to understand why other forms of “shock dieting” may seem like effective methods – in the short-term at least – but in reality are neither healthy for your body nor realistic long-term dieting methods to help keep you think and fit day in, day out.

Why we Recommend it

Being fit and happy is a right that all people deserve in life, though at the same time many other methods out there to reach that goal are neither realistic nor even achievable for most people in today’s fast-paced world. We realize this and know that finding the right plan is key to long-term success in order to not only lose weight but keep it off on a regular basis.

Burn Fat Once And For All not only takes your life into account but your health as well and provides helpful guidance to not only targeting a key weight for you to achieve but also set realistic short-term and long-term goals to achieving your dream. Because of this we recommend the plan 100% and stand by our decision as we’re certain that getting involved in a strong diet plan like Burn Fat Once And For All offers will change your life forever and make happier, healthier and more energetic than you’ve ever felt before.

Best of all is that it’s a risk free trial. With the program’s helpful 60-day money back guarantee if you follow the plan and don’t see any results within the first two months you can get all of your money back, hassle free. In short you have nothing to lose (except countless pounds) and everything to gain, so why not give it a shot and see what it can do for you?

The diet is designed to make the user feel as if this plan has been personally designed for them by providing case histories into these five different profiles, as well as individual diet plans dependent on which category the user assesses himself to be. As such, followers of ‘The Ultimate Metabolism’ diet can pick and choose their dietary and exercise plan, however Ridgen emphasises the importance for all dieters to apply some of the same rules to their new diet and general lifestyle.

Raw and lightly cooked vegetables, non-fat dairy products, lean meats and poultry and protein shakes are recommended food in all of Ridgen’s diet plans. The diet also recommends snacks of raw nuts and fruit. It largely discourages foods that are high in carbohydrates.

A more extensive exercise plan is applied to each individual profile, however all dieters are encouraged to partake in daily walking in order to improve their health and encourage weight loss.

Having been written by a weight-loss specialist, ‘The Ultimate Metabolism’ has been well-received by those who have had limited success with weight loss in the past, particularly those whose inability to lose weight has been because of other health complications. The program provides information specifically related to conditions such as thyroid, diabetes and heart disease.

This diet has been critiqued by making some users feel uncomfortable about their condition however, as it includes an overwhelming amount of medical terminology and typecasts individuals on the psychology of why they want to lose weight. This diet also places a lot of restrictions on users with regards what they can and cannot eat, making it difficult for the individual to eat out, instead spending a lot more time on food preparation. It additionally promotes the use of food supplements which can be expensive and discourage the dieter from eating.

In the second stage of the diet, known as the maintenance stage, the user’s diet becomes more varied to include more fruit, low-fat dairy products and wholegrain. The user is encouraged to gradually add carbohydrates to their diet and monitor their weight, in order to discover the right amount that they should be eating. In this way, the Schwarzbein diet is different to the Atkins diet, in that it encourages users not to omit carbohydrates from their daily diet, especially those who are more physically active in their day-to-day life.

Aerobic exercise is strongly encouraged, as well as resistance training, as a means of increasing the body’s metabolism, and can also promote faster weight loss. Dr Diana Schwarzbein, an endocrinologist who wrote the programme additionally supports the use of nutritional supplements in modification, however these can be expensive, and should not be viewed as an alternative to eating a meal.

The Schwarzbein Principle has been praised as a useful, stable diet, particularly for those with diabetes, insulin resistance and/or hormonal imbalance. It encourages individuals to eat healthy, staple meals and is thought of as much as a lifestyle approach as a diet.

This dietary programme has been generally well received, however has been critiqued for causing its users very slow progress, before weight loss occurs, meaning that many have switched to alternative dietary plans. Dr Schwarzbein however argues that slow progress is typical of any sudden dietary change to improve the user’s health, but that as the metabolic equilibrium improves, the user will both lose weight and improve their health.

The diet encourages users not to eliminate anything from their regular diet, and in fact encourages them to eat as many helpings of meat, salad and vegetables as possible. It does however suggest a limitation on caffeine, which can counter the effect that grapefruit juice causes, in slowing down the insulin levels in your body, as well as foods that are high in sugar or starch, such as desserts and bread.

The diet is suggested as a short-term plan, between 7 and 21 days, with exercise considered as not strictly necessary.

Grapefruits are high in vitamin C and beta-carotene, which makes including this fruit in your diet beneficial and nutritious towards a healthy lifestyle. Eating half a grapefruit prior to your meal can also make you feel fuller, encouraging you to eat less at dinner time.

Some criticism has come of the diet however in suggesting that there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that the effects of grapefruit are more special than any other fruit or vegetable, and that weight loss is primarily caused by fluids and not fats, which means that it is very easy to gain weight again once the user comes off the diet. A great idea then if you’re hoping to squeeze into that dress for next week’s bash, but not suitable as a long-term diet plan for serious, sustained weight loss.

‘The Cheater’s Diet’ can be a short or long term diet plan, and encourages its users to eat three small meals a day, and two snacks. The foods that are suggested during the week are lean meats, seafood, salads, berries and protein bars, with the dieter being able to enjoy other foods at the weekend. The diet plan provides sample menus with a low calorie intake to give the user an idea of the foods that they should be eating.

The diet further encourages its users to take part in as much physical exercise as possible in order to boost metabolism levels. Particular activities that are recommended are walking, washing the car, and gardening. The diet has consequently proven popular as users with a busy lifestyle do not feel pressurised into joining a rigorous training programme, and can increase their metabolism by adopting a cheap and easy exercise routine.

Some criticism has come of this diet in that the calorie intake suggested for users has been considered much too low and therefore neither suitable for men, or women with a very active lifestyle. Additionally, the diet encourages the user to use artificial sweeteners and other food supplements which many have found have not been effective to those trying to lose weight.

Praise has come of the diet however in being a life-style approach which doesn’t involve the user giving up the foods that they like. Dr Rivas argues that there are psychological benefits derived from allowing the dieter to continue indulging in foods that they would normally eat, if in limitation, and that this in the long-term can promote successful weight loss.