Hawaii Diet: The truth

The Hawaiian diet is probably the closest diet that I have seen that resembles normal, everyday eating. On this diet, you can eat as much as you want and really not gain any weight....(The other shoe will drop as you read on...)

With the Hawaiian diet, I lost some weight but that wasn’t the major outcome from this diet. The major outcome from this diet was the ability to change my eating habits completely. That is where my weight loss really got started. I don’t recommend the plan to people, but the concept I do. It’s the basic concept of eating healthy and knowing what you are actually eating.

Here is my basic synopsis:

Under the diet plan, there is a conversion table called an EMI (Eat More). With this, you can look at a specific item and see how many pounds of that item you need to eat to have a 2,500 calorie day. The chart will also tell you how much fat content it will provide in your caloric day.

Under this plan, you can then decide for yourself what you want to eat that day. Your not limited to what items can eat, but you are limited to the 2,500 calories. That is one of the things I didn’t approve of. 2,500 calories for someone that may not be active or may not be consuming that many know might actually be counter-productive.

What I accomplished on this diet was knowing how much of a certain thing I could eat per day before I went over my 2,500 calories. I made sure to work out each day so that I burned off anything that I needed to in order to lose more weight and tone up. The cool thing about the chart is that it tells you how much you can eat for most of the products on the market, be they good items or not.

For instance, you can have 27lbs of grapefruit each day before you hit 2,500 calories. Even then, you are only having a diet that contains 6% fat. You can have 28lbs of squash each day, .812lbs of bacon, and so forth. You decide what you are going to eat and how much of it and then you know both your total caloric intake for the day as well as how much fat content came from the food. These numbers are based on not adding any fattening sauces, cheeses, etc to your food.

One of the other things that I didn’t like is that the plan cost me about $125.00 to get and it wasn’t like that was food or anything. It was just the information on how to eat right. There was no weekly or monthly meeting, no moral support, just a book and chart and your on your own. Unless you have a huge amount of motivation, that’s not always feasible.

You also need to come up with an exercise routine to help reduce weight and this doesn’t help you with that either.

All in all, the concept of the diet is great. It can help you learn how to eat better basing your diet on a 2,500 caloric intake day but the price, lack of group support (which always helps) and lack of a basic exercise routine make it not worth getting in my opinion. You can get the same information from the internet or your local library.