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Beverly Hills Diet
The Beverly Hills Diet was a diet book originally published in 1981 by Judy Mazel. It has since been revised, and re-released as the New Beverly Hills Diet.
The diet is based on a theory that the body needs the enzymes found in certain foods in order to digest the food properly. The author believes that when food isn’t digested, it turns to body fat. A strange belief because the body cannot metabolize the food until it has first been digested!
The Beverly Hills Diet Plan
The diet is based on a food combining principle (called conscious-combining). The main food group of the diet is fruit, but the diet has vegetable-only days, fruit-only days, and other days when some starchy carbohydrate is allowed.
| Breakfast
8oz prunes |
| Lunch
Unlimited strawberries |
| Dinner
Baked potato |
| Drinks
Water, coffee, or tea. |
More all fruit recipes can be found here.
Diet Summary
This diet is dangerously low in daily calories (about 800), and also low in proteins, and many many other nutrients. The theory behind is completely unproven, and fantastical. The promised weight loss is 15 pounds in 35 days.
It would be very difficult to sustain such a diet without become deficient in certain nutrients, or simply putting the weight back on after the diet.
Not to be tried.
See page for 3 fat chicks on a diet – it lists the full plan – thanks so much to the person posting the first week list – I treat it like I’m doing a fruit fast / detox but one that leaves me very thin and feeling fantastic
I lost 10 pounds first week and another 4 the second then ate fruit in the mornings and “normal” food
Did this diet 10 yrs ago and tried other things (lost the book) and nothing else works
This diet works, and you eat SO MUCH, if you want to. My 60 year old mom ,lost 22 ounds in 14 days on the basic plan. The more elaborate plan ahs some great receipies, but we love fruit, so we kept it simple and felt fine!
Please,please,please could someone please list the old diet plan from day 8 – 15, have lost my book and am desperate to cary on, much prefer the old to the new…..Thanx
Lost my BHD original book. Anyone have the entire daily menu that they could share? Thanks
I’m trying out the Old Beverly Hills Diet for the first time and I’m surprised at how easy it is to stay on track.
I’m on Day 4 and can feel the difference – it’s brilliant. Plenty of energy too.
My tip: I read the book each evening for about 30 min and go over the chapters : It helps me stay focussed. And I prepared myself mentally for about a week before starting off.
this is the only diet that worked for me. I have tried others and this one for me works the best. I did manage to combine atkins and this one together to lose 130 lbs. but I, like so many others, didn’t stay focused. and gained a few pounds back. well I am going to jump start my program again soon and this is the best way. I don’t think it is healthy to eat fruit for months on end with nothing else, but for 10 days people how bad is that?
first few days….
day 1 pineapple….2 bananas
day 2 papaya….mango if available
day 3 papaya…pineapple…papaya
day 4 watermelon…
day 5 2 bananas..8oz.dried apricots..blueberries
day 6 8 oz. prunes..strawberries..2 bananas
day 7 watermelon…
Can someone tell me what you eat on the first few days of the OLD Beverly Hills Diet? I loaned out my book and never got it back. I just ordered a used copy from Amazon, but I want to start right away, while my momentum is high.
Can you stay raw on this diet? Can I skip the breads and meats and have salad and raw corn instead? I would even go for the cooked potatoes before the bread. Can I substitute? Not sure I wanna eat bagels or fish. I posted on the other BHD page, but now I can’t see any comments except for mine:( I also think I may have eaten too much watermelon today? I am scared I hope not, almost two large seedless one, it was all I could find. there was one black seed in the whole fruit! haha But I love fruit! And it is only 2 o’clock. I think I might eat more!
Answer to Amira’s question:
The fruit at night on the fifth day is pineapple, unlimited amounts (at least 1 whole pineapple). Make sure to wait 1 hour after your last bite of papaya.
I have the translated book,not the original. Something was lost in the translation;would any body out there, please tell me what is the fruit for dinner meal on the fifth day of the first week?
Thanks
Amira
I have used this diet since the book was first published. I gained 20 lbs in the last 3 years and had trouble losing the weight. I start back a few weeks ago eating primarily mangoes,grapes and papayas and I’ve lost about 8 lbs in 2 weeks. This is the only diet that works for me. And it is really easy because there aren’t a bunch of meal plans or calorie counting you have to do. I’ve been eating fruit during the week and then eating regular food on the weekends because I know I can go back to the diet and still lose weight. I feel great and the lbs and inches are coming off. You can get copies of the book online by doing a search.
This diet has been the best thing ever!! After my first child in 1995 I lost 80 pounds in 5 months doing this diet, I just had my son in February of 2008 and my daughter in 2010!! I have been on it for two weeks and I have lost 12 pounds!! Not hard to stick to if you do it during the summer when all you want is something light and cool. FRUIT!!! YUMM
I did the Bev Hills Diet (new version) when I was in college, in 1998. I lost so much weight.. I made it for about 21 days and then it became increasingly difficult for me to stay on. I lost weight daily on this and now will be going back on it.. for some quick weight loss. I hope it will still work for me!
You people that just say “just exercise and watch what you eat” are so annoying. duh that doesnt work for everyone and most people will hit a plateu at some point. Im 5’5 and 130lbs not overweight at all, but am having trouble losing the extra weight i want to by exercise and normal diet. Sometimes you need to shock the body to produce change.Its not like the book is telling you to never eat anything but fruit for the rest of your life, I cant wait to try this diet!!!
Can anyone write for me the first week of the original diet I lost my book 1st day Just Pineapple 2nd day i forget and 3rd day I think is just grapes… let me know if you can.
& THERE IS NO BODY ORDOUR OR BAD BREATH ON THIS DIET; THE RESULT IS AMAZING; BEEN ON IT FOR FEW WEEKS NOW AND HAVE LOST 8 KGS IN 3 WEEKS; HOWEVER ON AND OFF, SO THE RESULT IS NOT THAT EFFECTIVE; JUST GO BACK TO IT AFTER THOSE MISCOMBIng days and it works.
Love love love this diet, I’ve been Eating fruit in the morning for 3 years now and can’t eat enough after fruit to put on a few pounds. The only diet you don’t feel bad about eating candy, chocolate, pizza, fettechini Alfredo, Mac and cheese, tons of bread and cheese, nachos, fries and anything i want. As long as I eat fruit in the morning I can eat whatever else I want. I havent had to do a grape day for 3 years. The initial diet part I did the original diet. I like the first book so much better for how the author explains digestion. Just know people have their ideas and when they see how skinny you are, they will call the diet crazy and that it is not true….but believe me it is. Before the diet I couldn’t eat anything without gaining weight, now I just have to make sure I eat because I’m at the lowest body weight that is healthy for my body.
I LOVE THIS DIET I HAVE THE VERY FIRST COPY OF THE BOOK, ITS GREAT GIVES YOU LOTS OF ENERGY AND IT KEEPS YOU FULL…. ALSO GREAT HAIR AND SKIN
You are totally wrong about the Beverly Hills Diet , it does Not restrict the Amounts one can eat . It is a very easy food-Combining diet that shows us what to combine with what so as to assure smooth digestion and ingestion of the nutrients we eat . Nowhere in the book is there a limit on the amount of food to be taken . On the contrary , it is one of the few diets that allows you to eat as much as you want of each food , when properly combined. I have tried this diet and it works !
The above diet is not a good example of her Judy Mazels diet and the diet above is inaccurate. I have purchased both books and I dont know where they got that diet that they listed above it is totally false. the beverly hills diet cannot be explained in just a list there is alot information involved and it is designed so that you may eat what you want with the correct combining of fruit with meals. its only insuffcient if you allow it to be. since the goal is to allow you to make choices of what you are to eat.
This diet is extremely effective for losing about 20 pounds in the first two weeks. I find it difficult to stick to for longer than that, but it really gets the job done – and as long as you eat moderately afterwards, it’s not hard to keep the weight off that you lost.
The diet is only for initial weight loss, and anyone who needs to lose the weight will be fine for 3-5 weeks. The major good part is the maintenance diet part, the for life part. I have been on it for 26 years and, at 65, can keep up with those 20 and 30 years younger than me. Added bonuses are great finger nails and hair. Focusing on the initial diet only is silly.
Hi, i had the new version of this diet, the new bh diet, but i want to do the original version, however, it hasnt been solf for months.
i hopefully wish to receive from anyone the original version. thanks a lot.
email me chubby_cuppa@yahoo.com thanksssss
The best diet I ever did. and the only one that worked for me. after the first week I become full of energy and looked fantastic! kept the almost 35 pound I lost, off till my second child
its a very effective diet i tryed it myself, i lost 20kg/ month with sport, most of them in beging but u will diffnetly reach ur goal at the end.
the only thing that i didn’t like it or i found it diffecult for me, is that swiching from food to fruit, but the result alwayes gave me the curage to keep on.