The ‘doughnut diet’ taking the internet by storm – but will YOU be tucking in? [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

The ‘doughnut diet’ taking the internet by storm – but will YOU be tucking in? [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

But what if there was a diet that allowed you to eat cakes, biscuits and doughnuts – and still shed the pounds?

Social media is abuzz over the new ‘doughnut diet’ and even Time magazine has written about it, profiling “the incredibly fit guy who eats burritos every single day”.

The official name for the diet is IIFYM – or If It Fits Your Macros.

You don’t cut out food groups but instead have to stick to a personal calorie count, and a macros target.

‘Macros’ refers to macronutrients – the three main nutrient groups of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

With an IIFYM plan, you are given a calorie allowance and a macro target to follow.

The plan was launched by Anthony Collova, an American bodybuilder.

Explaining why he decided to share the plan with the world, Anthony wrote on the site: “With so much hype and confusion created around dieting, I wanted to launch a website that promoted a nutrition plan that is not only easy to comprehend, but easy to implement at well.

“Something based on science, and intuition, rather than hyperbole and hope.”

To start the plan, users must enter their weight, age, height and daily activity level, after which they are given their total daily energy expenditure.

They then choose what kind of weight loss they want – from burning fat to getting shredded, to “leaning out”.

The site then calculates how many calories a day dieters can consume.

But this is not just a simple calorie counting approach, as the diet tells users exactly how they should be consuming these calories via a “macronutrient target”.

So a dieter will be told the percentage of their daily calorie intake that should be coming from each food type – from fat to protein to carbohydrates.

It is then up to them to work out what that means for their meal plans.

Sadly, this leads to complexities that puts many would-be dieters off the plan – not least because they are then required to weigh and measure everything they eat.

So it isn’t really as simple as stuffing down a doughnut and carrying on with your day – but hopefully the plan may be refined to make it more simple to follow in the future.

The ‘doughnut diet’ comes as experts reveal how to reclaim your waistline after piling on the pounds during a holiday.

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