Grapefruit Diet

The grapefruit diet is amazing in its protocols and suggestions. When we become more obsessed with losing weight rather than becoming healthy we may do things that are just plain odd. I actually eat grapefruit for breakfast regularly. They really help to wake me up as they are juicy and refreshing. However it is not the eating of grapefruit that makes me think the “grapefruit diet” is just a crazy way to go about trying to lose weight. Take for instance the suggestions that it is okay to load up your foods with butter and that for lunch and dinner we can eat as much meat or fish as we like. Again, fish is a great thing to eat for health containing fats and oils that are good for us. However consuming as much as we want is certainly not really restricting calories and therefore thinking we can just binge on meat and fish while eating our grapefruit magic pill to help us somehow lose the weight is crazy in my opinion. Is it not much better for us long term to think about improving our diet overall and not “going on diets” to help us lose weight? Instead we could spend time doing things like drinking more water, this helps keep us hydrated and flush out waste products from our bodies. We could also start consuming more fruit and vegetables. Rather than going on the grapefruit diet, how about adding a grapefruit to our breakfast a couple of times a week. This may displace some of the food that we already consume at breakfast time. For me this displacement strategy works well. I simply continue to work on substituting more healthy foods for less healthy foods in my diet. This is an iterative process so I do not have to choose the most healthy foods known to man. Just doing everything step by step and continue the process of making my diet better and better. In our modern day and age we often seem to want a magic pill that will resolve our issues. Even with the pills that are available for dieting and losing weight, they will not help us so long as we keep filling our bodies with junk. I define junk as foods that are nutrient bare. These are things like heavily processed foods, foods laden with sugar, preservatives and other additives. The grapefruit diet does have a good idea, eating more grapefruit. However even this may become off putting. Who wants to eat grapefruit three times a day for 12 days? Sure they do taste good but it is nice to eat other things too. Is the grapefruit diet really any good? I think not. But I will continue to eat grapefruit for a long time.