“Flat Belly Diet” Seems Bloated With Promises

before_after_result.jpgEveryone wants a set of killer abs. If you have a svelte midsection and you automatically feel healthier and sexier. But are you clocking in hours at the gym and hundreds of crunches a week with no results? There’s a new fad diet out there that’s sending everyone atwitter.

The editors of Prevention magazine have come up with a diet plan that aims to send your excess gut to the gutter…or so it seems.

The Flat Belly Diet” boasts a flat tummy in 32 days. The flagship website gives you everything you need to get started (read: sh*t you have to buy) including cookbooks (with cupcakes on the cover), exercise DVDs (for the “optional” exercise component), and online subscription program to track your progress. Best of all, what kind of diet would it be without a catchphrase (so you KNOW it works): “A MUFA at every meal!”

What’s a MUFA, you ask? Short for monounsaturated fatty acid, MUFA foods include almonds, peanut butter, olive oil and dark chocolate. The Flat Belly Diet encourages you to eat a serving of one of these foods at every meal. That’s right, glob some peanut butter on your crackers for lunch, and grab some dark chocolate cookies to nosh on with dinner. Does anyone else think this sounds a bit too good to be true?

Just from evaluating the website and the basic diet facts, I don’t feel so confident that the Flat Belly Diet could yield real results. Optional exercise? Chocolate with dinner? It sounds like a recipe for Too-Tight-Jeans-Syndrome, if you know what I mean. Not to mention that the “after” photos of alleged Flat Belly Dieters look like they simply donned a pair of Spanx (see above).

Ladies, what do you think?

[image courtesy of flatbellydiet.prevention.com]

One Comment on "“Flat Belly Diet” Seems Bloated With Promises"

  1. Linda Ashe says:
    Mon, 3rd Nov 200811:46 pm 

    I saw this on Rachael Ray months ago. It seems that it is picking up steam again or for the first time. I searched for the complete plan as I am always a skeptic before buying a diet book.

    Found this site that looks to sum it up pretty well http://www.idiet365.com/2008/10/flat-belly-diet-is-number-1/

    They have that video I saw on the RR Show. But “sassy water” seriously? Seems kinda like a marketing ploy.

    If anyone has done this let me know please. I love avocados and chocolate

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