The Hollywood Diet is marketed as a “48-hour Miracle Diet” that promises you’ll lose about 10 pounds in just 48 hours. However, most of the weight lost is the result of water and toxins being released from the body, not fat.
What Is It?
The Hollywood Diet, essentially, is a bottle of “miracle” juice that contains a number of vitamins, minerals, and essential oils. The Hollywood Diet is designed to detoxify and purify your system as well as help balance out minerals in your body. On the Hollywood Diet, you drink nothing but the bottled juice, which adds up to about 400 calories per day.
The makers of the Hollywood Diet suggest that anyone with the following symptoms should go on the cleansing diet:
? Skin problems
? Weight gain
? Body odor
? Bad breath
? Fatigue
? Sluggishness
According to the diet, these problems could be resolved through the Hollywood Miracle Diet, which promises to cleanse the colon and digestive system of impurities.
The Hollywood Diet is considered a Very Low Calorie Diet, which can actually be dangerous for your health. Very Low Calorie Diets are designed for morbidly obese people or those who need to lose weight quickly for surgery or other medical purposes. They usually consist of nothing but liquids and should only be done under a doctor’s supervision. This is because they are considered semi-starvation diets that could result in health problems.
What You Eat
On this diet, you don’t eat anything – you just drink the juice four times a day. According to the Diet, after two days drinking the miracle juice, you will have cleansed your body of 5-10 pounds of toxins. Even though all you consume for the full two days is nothing but the juice, the Diet claims that you will not feel hunger pains or the typical weakness that comes from such a low caloric intake because of the special formula that leaves you energized rather than weak.
Each bottle of the Hollywood Miracle Diet consists of just enough servings to last for the two days of the diet. Four servings of the juice are to be sipped throughout the day, along with 8 glasses of water. While on the Hollywood Miracle Diet, you should abstain from food, alcohol, caffeine and tobacco products.
The juice is marketed as a blend of vitamins and minerals that aid in detoxification and weight loss. The ingredients include Purified Water, Pineapple, Apple, Orange and Grape Juice Concentrates, Apricot, Peach and Banana Purees, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Pyridoxine HCl (Vitamin B6), Cyanocobalmin (Vitamin B12), Niacin, Folic Acid, Pantothenic Acid, and a special blend of Essential Oils of Bergamot, Tangerine, Lemon, and Orange.
In addition to the special juice, the Hollywood Miracle Diet also sells metabolism boosting pills that are recommended for taking while on the diet.
Once the 48 hours is over, the Hollywood Miracle Diet recommends maintaining the weight loss and healthy state by exercising regularly and cutting back on sugars and refined flours. In addition, they also suggest not eating after 6 PM. For best results, they recommend you go on the diet once a week.
Overall, the Hollywood Miracle Diet is not a reliable or healthy form of weight loss. However, used occasionally to cleanse the body, it is not considered harmful.