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Fat Loss 4 Idiots
FatLoss4Idiots (formerly WeightLoss4Idiots) was released in late 2004. The diet is based on an on-line generator that will create daily meal plans based on your food preferences. The diet follows a 14 day cycle – 11 days of planned meals, followed by 3 days of “cheat” meals. The diet has been called many things – the “Fools Diet”, the “diet for idiots” – and many other condescending terms.
Meal Plan
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |
| Meal #1: Flavored Oatmeal Meal #2: Tuna Salad Meal #3: Sandwich (any type) Meal #4: Scrambled Eggs |
Meal #1: Banana Milk Shake Meal #2: Chicken Meal #3: Scrambled Eggs [and] Mixed Vegetables Meal #4: Cottage Cheese |
Meal #1: Chicken Meal #2: Fruit Salad Meal #3: Fish Filet Meal #4: Cottage Cheese |
Fat Loss 4 Idiots food is made up of lean proteins, fruit and vegetables, and the sources of fat come from whole foods (such as cottage cheese or eggs). There are some starchy carbohydrates (such as oats and pasta). The day is divided into 4 meals that should be eaten at a minimum of 2 1/2 hours apart. There is no calorie or carb counting, no limit on portion size – Fat Loss 4 Idiots says you “just eat short of being full”.
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Nutritional Breakdown
It is difficult to obtain an exact caloric breakdown because meal sizes are based around eating short of being full. An analysis of a typical days meal indicates the diet is high in protein, low in fat, and with reduced carbohydrates. However all the foods listed are good choices.
Weight Loss
Fat Loss for Idiots claims 9 pounds lost every 11 days. However this is extremely unlikely (and unsafe). This weight loss is often possible during an induction (typically a phase where you drop out starchy carbs). The weight lost is a mixture of water and fat (and possibly muscle). This kind of weight loss would be difficult to sustain, and would almost certainly be accompanied by a drop in metabolism.
The diet is a budget offering (at $27), and provides little in the way of recipes or ideas on meal preparation. There also appears to be no support of any kind from the site.
UPDATE Nov 2007: Is now priced at $54.
ANSWERS TO SOME OPF YOUR QUESTIONS;FAT LOSS 4 IDIOTA
After reading all your comments,i felt the argue to say something as am very passionate about this diet.I’ve just come off the diet after 2months and ahalf.And yes the diet works.I didnt have alot of weight to lose; my starting weight was 9 stones.and weighing 61 kilos.most of the weight i carried was on my hips and thighs.i didnt lose 9Ib in the first 11 days.I lost 4 and 1/2 Ibs. Not that the site lied but bse i did not have alot to lose.pple carrying more weight lose more infact on this diet i’ve had pple losing more than 9Ibs in the first 11 days.
If you want to follow this diet its best to read all the information on their site.the site feeds you with such usefull information such that once you’re on the diet you dont need any more guidance..it all becomes self explanatory. When the MENU says FIRST MEAL;chicken and peanut.yes thats exactly what they mean( a meal) nothing else. Thats why its called a diet,its outside what you would normally have. EXAMPLE of a typical menu on the diet is below;…
Day One
meal 1
sausage link
cashew nut
Meal 2
bowl of tuna salad
roast beef slices
fresh peas
Meal 3
fresh apple
red and green vegetables
Meal 4
Low fat milk
broiled (boiled) sea bass
Thats your days menu and thats all you get to eat nothing else.leave atleast 2 hours and 1/2 before the next meal.you do get a cheat day after every 11 day where u get to eat anything you like..you wont gain weight on the “cheat” day as long as you follow the rule,which is STOP EATING when you’re about to be full.When u eat dont feel too full bse when you do that means you’ve consumed more than you’re body can take.On the site it’s stated that no exercise required.apparently,we’re fat not bse we dont exercise,but bse we’re eating the wrong calories at the wrong time.i found this to be true bse i used to exercised atleast 3 times a wk for 8 months and eating healthy but my weight stayed between 59-61 kilos.i wasnt gaining and at the same time i did not lose alot but i did tone up though.Anyway,once i started this diet i never tried any exercise and at the end of the two months and 1/2 i was down to 50 kilos which is a stone gone that was my target weight …i would recommend the meal generator menu version if you’re on this diet its much easier.
TO the lady who’s asking for information about the diet bse she cant afford,my advice to you is if you want to lose weight just save some money and pay bse it’s worth more than what you’ll spend plus its a one off payment..and you can keep going back to download menu for the rest of your life. I was just like you.i thought i would make up my own menu from the information i get…theres alot to learn on the site which will benefit you..its like a health/diet bible.talks about what to do after your diet,how to eat in restaurants,what exercises are useless for weight loss,how to eat,how to drink water,how to do grocery shopping,which foods to avoid,why thin pple stay thin and yet they eat just about anything…i find the site very educational not only for losing weight but also explains to you things in details like why you do certain things to lose weight.i.e why u have to drink atleast 6-10 glasses of water,why its important to eat four meals..Why other diets have failed you,why you exercised and still stayed fat,ate healthy foods but still over weight.Other diets will not tell you this kind of information.The diet also tells you to weigh your self every 11 days once u start dieting.one person on here wrote that she weighed herself after 2 days and she’d instead put on more weight.plse read the information on the site first..its says weighing yourself every few days will give you false results.I dont know anything about the refunds as i’ve not tried to ask for a refund.
I hope i’ve answered some of your questions.And by the way i’ve kept my slim body and am still losing weight even when i’ve finished the diet.I must agree with the rest of you that the vegetables day was the worst for me..i would sleep most of the time.I found a little trick though..drink enough water before and after eating the veg plus each sitting dont eat single veg mix differrent types of recommended veg it gives the feel of having a proper meal.
my husband is a big beef eater… how does that fit into this diet?
If you want a refund you need to email refunds@clickbank.com and give them your purchase information to show when you purchased. yu have until 8 weeks or 56 days to refund.
This is an amazing diet! Iv’e lost 50 pounds overall since starting with it, and I’m still losing. It’s easy to follow and it works. The foods do get a bit boring after some time, but when I have my 3 cheat days I always find myself wanting to be on the diet again.
I’m just really thankful that I found fat loss for idiots when I did. I was skeptical at first and I doubted it would work, but I took the risk, and it really worked for me!
I’m not saying it would work for everyone. My sister who followed the plan with me, didn’t lose the 9 pounds in 11 days like I did, she lost about 4. So it depends upon the person, really.
I bought this diet to and now that I want to find the guarantee and how to get my refund – I don’t see anything referenced on the site. Anyone know how to get your money back?
hi, i want to ask how we prepare oatmeal, its without milk or water? the diet’ s instructions are not very clear. Thank you.
I don’t have the money for the diet so I was wondering what are the meal plans like. I know that you eat all fuit one day, and all vegs the next. Could anyone care to help tell me how the others go even in short detail. thanks so much it is greatly appriciated.
hey i am on day 8 right now…all veggies, which stinks. but tomorrow i am supposed to have frozen yogurt. i am wondering if it has to be plain or if i can eat a flavored kind? does anyone know???
I am currently trying out this diet & I have lost some weight, it isn’t bad overall & i don’t feel like I would ask for a refund
the weight around my middle started loosening up within 5-6 days. i agree that the all fruit day was the hardest. it just made me really tired and i felt like i was overeating the next day because i was starving from the lack of “substance” at all on the fruit day. other than that it was easy to follow and fairly idiot proof.
does anyone know where I go to get the refund? I just printed out my meals and one of the meals is bacon strips and peanuts? that does not seem like a meal to me. Can anyone help me get my money back? On the site there is no # to call or no link.
I am very interested in trying this diet but, I have questions on the meals. It says you eat chicken for meal #1, is that all you eat? Just trying to find out more info. on the meals. thanks for any help you can give.
you know it says chicken with a meal. does it mean u can have veggies with it?
hi i just started the dite it my second day when i started the dite my wait was 67kg after 2 day now its 70kg why is that i am folling the dite proply. please help me
thank you very much
5 STARS FOR SURE!!
To be honest, I never really noticed myself that I had lost any weight (not my clothes or anything), although I’m sure it’s evident, but my scale is what showed me I have lost the weight.
I wanted to add that I did follow this diet exactly & I also didn’t excersise, at all. I’m a female & started out at 226lbs & I am now at 210lbs. Sometimes the food does get to be a bit repititious, however, there are many foods you cannot eat on other diets, but not this one, this is great! My HARDEST days are the fruit only day (but you do get a sandwich for dinner) & then the veggie only day (that is veggies only all day). Other than that, it’s a pretty good diet that really DOES work! I give it FIVE STARS!!!!! P.S. I am very pessimistic when it comes to these diets, as pills have NEVER worked for me, other diets have NEVER worked for me, so at 37 years of age, I have finally found something that works, ALL you have to do is stick with it, then go off it & eat what you want (without stuffing yourself) & go back on it when you are ready to lose some more weight. Good luck to all!
I bought this diet in October of 2008. I lost 11 pounds in 8 days…I went off the diet for 2 months & never gained any of the weight back & I was eating whatever I wanted.
I then did the diet again for only 5 days this time & lost 5 pounds exactly & that was over a month ago & I still haven’t gained ANY of the weight back & am eating whatever I want.
I have to say that this is an AWESOME diet & I’ve tried SO many that didn’t work. It’s obvious you can lose weight on this & the BIG POINT here is that you don’t gain it back like you do with most “fad” diets, if you want to call this a fad diet. It’s the only diet that has ever worked & kept the weight off when I go back to regular eating. I have told MANY people about this diet, it DOES work & it IS awesome!!
I am on my 6th day, I am not sure if it is working thought…I have been following it pretty strictly, when do you start seeing the results? And is exercise important?
I purchased this diet in February when my husband and I decided to go on vacation to the beach. At 5′6”, I was tipping the scale at 180. I could not believe how heavy I was! I lost 9 pounds the first cycle (on the accelerated version called “Beyond Calories.”). On Cycle 2, I lost 4 pounds, and now I am half-way thru Cycle 3 and have lost no additional weight so far. I have gone down one dress size, and I feel more energized and sleeping better. I am working out 6 days per week, and recently added some strength traininig. Perhaps I have not lost more weight because I am building muscle… but I am not sure. Overall, the diet is easy (very easy) to follow and I can eat some of my favorite foods (including cheese and different types of deli meats).
I would recommend the diet because it teaches you about food portions, knowing when to stop eating and how often to eat. However, this diet fails to provide long-term weight-loss support and tips on workout routines. The diet is an e-book, and there are no counselors available to help you if you have questions. If I had to rate the diet on a scale of 1 to 5, I would give it a 3. It is a good “base” to start a weight loss program, but I would benefit from more personalized support and more food preparation instructions. Overall though, it is a straight-forward and easy program to follow.
Best wishes to all on your weightloss goals! I will stay on this program for another month to see if the weight keeps dropping.
This diet is Fab (for me) I would give it 5 stars!!! It is well worth the money… it tells you exactly that you need to know and will truely re-educate the way you think of food! So when you reach your goal you should easily be able to keep the weight off!!!!! (:
I chose this diet after trying all manner of diets from the tv, the papers and the internet. I spent a couple of years doing weigth watchers and my weight just went up and down each week. My mum on the other hand lost weight easily with weight watchers and managed to keep slim afterwards (she finished over 5 years ago).
The thing with this diet is thst it is so easy, providing you have enough imagination to cook different things. There is a wide choice of foods to pick from (I am refering to the Diet Generator) and the generator usually gives a well balanced selection of meals… but if you don’t like the combinations it gives you, you can just go back and resubmit your choice and it jumbles them all up again… its a bit of trial and error!
Anyway, I agree that it is not likely you’ll lose 9-11 lbs each and every fortnight, and weight loss will slow down, as with any diet when you get to those last few lbs! But between the beginning of August and mid December last year, I lost OVER 3 STONE!!! (from 13.10 to 10.7) I had a 3 weeks off over christmas, and after 1 fornight cycle had got back to the weight I was before i took my “time off”. My weight loss has now slowed, but its still working so I am over the moon.
Mickey…
If you are still checking this… sometimes it is a case of just eating chicken on its own, but as I said before, you just need to keep submitting your choices and in a few attempts a you get the right combinations! You can also eat lots of foods which you often cant on many diets (frozen yogurt- any type!, cheese- any type!!!, nuts, sausages, bacon, the list goes on…) and dont be put off by what seems like a really boring list of foods… just use your imagination! And the price hasn’t really doubled… what the review doesn’t say was that they put it offer for a little while… I think theres an offer on now too!
Nic Dias…
I hope you see this… the diet will work if you follow the menu above but probably only for a month or so as the diet works on a theory that you need to shift the types of foods (and therfore calories) you eat during each cycle.
Anyways, Hope this review helps!!!
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Hi i don’t have the money for this diet so i was wondering…could i just repeat the 3 day meal plan above for 11 days? And should the cheat days happen the last three days of the second week or in between the 11 days? And will i gain on the cheat days
Update, now I lost 9lb the first 11 days and currently I am losing a pound a day for the last 3 days! Woohoo!
Shortly before I did this I tried a low carb diet from an internet doc I trusted but it didn’t work despite feeling terrible and tired and very bored with the food (though mostly tired).
But with this despite being not low carb really works like a dream, I am enjoying the meals, the easyness, the weight loss, I just hope it keeps on trucking because if it does I am going to be over the moon as I reach 220lb in the first quarter of the new year. (at 220lb I’ll be pretty slim and light enough to go skydiving)
Right now I am at 288.4lb, that’s 11.6lb from the approx 300lb when I started. (I did however put on a few pounds by being super bad over the 3 day break)
Another review from an industry insider.
I just don’t believe you Lisa, a site this popular and long running can’t fail to give refunds and get away with it.
I have started on this program and already (2 days in) lost a bit (but it’s within random variation so far), but even if it doesn’t work for absolutely everybody it sure seems to work impressively for most people.
Things I like (besides it hopefully working for me):
It’s so easy, many diets fail not due to lack of willpower but the effort and time that goes into creating a menu that fits the specs.
I like cooking but it is a chore and these meals require so little effort.
That it is low in starchy carbs but not a low carb diet. (I have had success with them but I have also felt awful and tired)
That it doesn’t tell you what percentage to eat of protein, fat and carbs.
How on earth are you meant to calculate such things?
Meat contains a set amount of fat, you can’t just dial it up or down, if the fat is too low do you just pour oil on?
What if it is too high?
If it is to high despite best efforts do you fix it by eating more of the other 2 somehow? (how?)
And when something says x amount of protein, well it’s very hard to get accurate protein figures for even things as simple as meat.
I also like that it doesn’t require blood tests, or question tests or any other kind of ‘identify which type you are’.
To those who say ‘Just eat healthy’ well I have been doing that and eating organically and I did lose weight at first but just ‘eating healthy food’ and being healthy in other ways is NOT enough.
I went on the “Beyond Calories” which was downloaded with “Fat Loss for idiots”. Cost $54. My Husband and I went on it for 3-1/2 months. I lost 34#’s and he lost 28#’s. I loved this diet and the variety of foods you can eat on it. The only thing we did not like was eating 6 meals a day. It seemed like all we did was fix our plates and eat. Didn’t take that long but just seemed like every two hours it was “Come and eat”… I do believe it was worth the money. I have given it out to several people and they all have lost weight. We went off of it at Christmas time last year and I have gained back about half. Only because I love to eat the wrong foods. I do plan on going back on it here in the next few days. I would recommend it.
Does anybody know why the price has doubled? Also, anybody that’s already on the plan. Are these meals or what. For example, when it says chicken are you just eating a piece of chicken or that plus some side items? I want to try it but i’m not sure. Please help.
I feel like an idiot for trying this diet and for believing the website’s guarantee. They do not refund your money as promised.