Six Weeks To OMG diet - is anybody trying this? I am!

**Damsella** · 26-05-2012, 12:17pm

I read about this Six weeks to OMG diet in the Daily Fail - and a couple of things caught my eye. One is cold baths - I read about those years ago. They burn a different type of fat, or something.

The other thing was not eating for three hours after you get up, or after you do morning exercise. This I love. I find that if I do eat breakfast then it really gives me an appetite for the rest of the day, and if I don't then I eat smaller meals later.

Also it's not about counting calories etc, but about keeping fairly low carb.

Anyway, I'm reviewing it and writing up my experience (just because I thought it would be fun...

). And also becase I wanted to see where I could get in the Google search results for it. Number one result, as it turns out

Here's my review, which is ongoing.

Anybody else trying it?

ETA: You can comment on my review, if you are logged into the forum. There's a linkup that lets you do that.

Here is the page to download the diet from Amazon.

And here's where you can download the Kindle Reader for your PC, laptop, phone etc.

**bisy backson** · 26-05-2012, 12:59pm

love your review!

**donna-j** · 26-05-2012, 01:00pm

Yes I have read it. It is a lot of paleo concepts so I do some of it anyway. Particularly not eating until lunchtime (intermittent fasting).

Jack Kruse talks a lot about cold thermogenesis.

http://jackkruse.com/easy-start-guide/

**DillyDally** · 26-05-2012, 04:08pm

Not read it, as it's in the Daily Fail. But I wouldn't try it - I am absolutely bloody starving within half an hour of getting up, there's no way I couldn't eat for three hours

And as for cold baths - erm, no thanks.

But then I'm not overweight, so it's not aimed at me

ETA - I read an anthropologists view of the paleo/cave woman diets that are all over the place at the moment somewhere, and I can't find it again

She basically ripped the idea to shreds - as there were early peoples eating grains and dairy, and not just meat, like paleo fanatics imply. But that's by the by, as I know these diets have huge fans.

**donna-j** · 26-05-2012, 04:49pm

Yes Dilly but today's wheat is very different. It has been modified for agriculture. Wheat does bad things to me so I don't eat it.

Paleo certainly doesn't say just eat meat.

It is about finding out what works for you - maybe in some parts of the world people ate grains and their ancestors will be ok with it. Almost like an elimination diet.

While one person may rip it to shreds, thousands and thousands have changed their lives by going paleo. These people GLOW, the change is amazing.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/categ...#axzz1vzVuQnWK

**DillyDally** · 26-05-2012, 04:54pm

Yeah I know donna, but I'm just getting a bit fed up with my overweight friends leaping on these diet bandwagons, raving about it, getting a bit irritating and then falling off the diet bandwagon, only to jump onto a different one

I also slightly struggle with the 'wheat is evil' thing - I don't eat loads, but eat some, and I'm not overweight, I don't bloat, I don't have cravings

**donna-j** · 26-05-2012, 05:39pm

Well then you are very lucky, aren't you? I can't touch it.

**DillyDally** · 26-05-2012, 06:12pm

Well, if I'm lucky then I'm thankful. I have a disabled son, another son with different kinds of problems, a marriage that is literally hanging by a thread due to, well who knows what, at least I don't have to add having a problem with wheat to that lot.

**'Line** · 26-05-2012, 06:23pm

Originally Posted by Damsella

I read about this Six weeks to OMG diet in the Daily Fail - and a couple of things caught my eye. One is cold baths - I read about those years ago. They burn a different type of fat, or something.

The other thing was not eating for three hours after you get up, or after you do morning exercise. This I love. I find that if I do eat breakfast then it really gives me an appetite for the rest of the day, and if I don't then I eat smaller meals later.

Also it's not about counting calories etc, but about keeping fairly low carb.

Anyway, I'm reviewing it and writing up my experience (just because I thought it would be fun...

). And also becase I wanted to see where I could get in the Google search results for it. Number one result, as it turns out

Here's my review, which is ongoing.

Anybody else trying it?

ETA: You can comment on my review, if you are logged into the forum. There's a linkup that lets you do that.

I am the same in that if I do have breakfast I seem to be hungry all day. If I wait until later I too eat smaller meals. Not sure I fancy cold baths though.

**Ruby** · 26-05-2012, 06:38pm

I don't think Dillydally is saying that paleo diets are bollocks, just that it's a myth that that's how prehistoric people ate? I think that's fair enough especially since most people I know who do paleo seem to consume large amounts of protein powder.

**DillyDally** · 26-05-2012, 07:20pm

Yes. No one really knows how they ate. Their whole environment was different too - no artificial hormones, no pollution. Meat would've been different too. Women then probably died before the protective effect of oestrogen came to an end, and their bones started breaking. And they probably got lots and lots of exercise and not much quantity wise to eat.
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**donna-j** · 26-05-2012, 07:48pm

I think I will step away from this now as I am pretty miffed about the comments re overweight people and fad diets. This is a lifestyle choice, not a diet.

If buying ethically sourced meat and organic fruit and veg, avoiding sugar and empty carbs is bad then what us good?

**DillyDally** · 26-05-2012, 08:10pm

I'm sorry donna. I probably should not have posted as I don't think diets work (and the OP was about a diet).

The way anyone eats can be called a lifestyle choice lol
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**donna-j** · 26-05-2012, 08:16pm

What does work then? How do you define diet? Everything in moderation doesn't work for everyone. If I eat wheat I bloat and other unpleasant side effects, if I drink white wine I put on 1lb overnight. My metabolism is royally fecked (totally broken thyroid) and cutting out processed crap and grains is working.

I am not sure the book that Damz posted about is a diet either really, and I have read it. I would think a diet is tracking calories, or points, or eating a set menu each day etc.

**mrsgrumpy** · 26-05-2012, 08:57pm

I'd be interested in trying it, I like the idea of skipping breakfast but coffee is something I normally avoid - it makes me too wound up and headachey

**DillyDally** · 26-05-2012, 08:57pm

I think a diet is anything that means you alter how much you eat, what you eat (as in cutting out certain foods, whole food groups etc) or when you eat (as in not justing eating when you're hungry, and stopping when you've had enough).
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**donna-j** · 26-05-2012, 09:02pm

OK does that mean you think no particular foods are bad then? Surely cutting out things that are damaging you is a good thing?

I don't like breakfast and often do instinctively what it says in the OMG book or the IF part of paleo. Does that mean if I do it that is ok but if someone does it because the book says so then it is not? I genuinely don't understand where you would draw the line.

**DillyDally** · 26-05-2012, 09:08pm

I suppose the line is if you are deliberately doing it to control weight in some way. It's just my personal opinion and I know lots of people won't agree with me. But it means, TO ME, eating without thinking or fussing unnecessarily about what you eat. Obviously if you don't like something that's fine, and liking healthy foods is fine, too. But it's not 'wrong' to eat pizza occasionally, or chocolate, if you fancy it.
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**donna-j** · 26-05-2012, 09:13pm

It is 'wrong' for me to eat wheat. It upsets my stomach horribly. And South American coffee (too acidic, very nasty results). Being overweight and being told you shouldn't try and control your weight is pretty confusing too.

**Jenevieve** · 26-05-2012, 09:30pm

Originally Posted by DillyDally

Not read it, as it's in the Daily Fail. But I wouldn't try it - I am absolutely bloody starving within half an hour of getting up, there's no way I couldn't eat for three hours

And as for cold baths - erm, no thanks.

WSS!

I feel really sick if I don't eat shortly after waking. My blood sugar must plummet and I feel really light headed.