If you’re looking to knock off a few pounds this side of Christmas without calorie counting or strict meal plans, than the “Alternate Day Diet” may be just what you’ve been looking for. It recommends that all you need to do to get a slimmer figure is to eat half your calorie intake every other day.

For those of you out there who’ve followed strict calories diets have probably noticed that over time your weight loss gets slower and slower as your body gets used to eating less calories and thus it lowers your metabolism accordingly.

But, by doing this type of diet it actually helps to trigger your “skinny” gene in your bodyby the feast to famine scenario and encourages the body to burn fat.

In medical trails in the University of Illinois, 16 patients followed this type of diet for 10 weeks by eating 20% of their normal intake one day and a regular healthy diet the next lost between 10lb and 30lb.

What are my thoughts?

I think if you look at it this diet does have merits, common sense would say that controlling your calories even its only every second day, leads to eating less and thus your body loses weight.

Also the body has a great way of adapting to changes either with exercise and diets and by changing your daily intake I can see how the results may be better than just being strict with calorie intake.

But if you do try this diet out and aren’t having success its probably down to either of these 2 reasons…

1 – You’re pigging out of your “off” diet days to make up for the next days fasting.

2 -  You haven’t gain a understanding of how many calories you really should be eating and not what you think you should be eating.

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Scientists have found that a component of protein can cause one change fat cells from being unhealthy to healthy. The product PRDM16 was placed into white fat cells in their early stages of development was able to transform them into brown fat cells.

Our bodies are made up of 2 types of fat cells, white which is unhealthy and brown which rae the healthy form of fat cells. White cells are the ones who cause all the health problems like obesity etc while brown fat cells actually burn calories in fact “three ounces of brown fat can burn several hundred calories a day.”

The scientists placed the PRDM16 into white cells and implanted them into mice and waited to see what would happen. They found that these cells went onto form more brown fat cells. The scientists believe from these results, it could go on to be of great use to doctors in the future in the fight against obesity.

So remember the name PRDM16, don’t be surprised if you find products coming on the market in the near future claiming to contain it or get featured on TV shows like Oprah, etc.

Watch this space…