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The Jerusalem
Diet – 24 Hour Dieting
February 22nd, 2006
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The Jerusalem Diet
was created by Ted Haggard, a pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado
Springs. The reason that the diet is called “The Jerusalem Diet” was
that in 1998 he traveled to Jerusalem and had gained too much weight.
He thought he would eat only fruits, veggies and nuts for one day.
After a day of this he felt better and the clothes fit better. His diet
encourages you to weigh yourself every day so that you don’t get off
your goal weight.
If he gains a
pound or two he restricts his diet and exercises for an hour. This
usually turns into a weight correction within 24 hours. He doesn’t
promote fast weight loss, but makes it more manageable. The diet also
addresses addictions to food, cigarettes, and caffeine. It sounds
like exercise should be on a regular basis, more than just once a week. He recommends 14 super foods to
eat on the diet which are healthy foods choices.
The diet asks you
to keep a diary of your weight and to purchase a digital scale. By
weighing yourself everyday it will keep you thoughtful of your weight
goals and help keep you from overeating. I am not sure how weight
fluctuations are calculated into this diet, as it seems like you could
have a number of times a week that there are extra pounds. I am not sure if
you diet 3 extra days that week because you weigh more. I am sure
the book clearly explains the dieting ins and outs. It might be
better tailored for someone that is close within their weight range, as
their weight will not fluctuate
as dramatically from day to day. However, it could still be applied to
a severely overweight person, but have an understanding that your
weight will fluctuate.
What is good about
this diet is that you are not required to buy expensive foods or
supplements. The goal is to change a person’s attitude about what they
eat and to “lighten up” in a physical, spiritual, and emotion sense.
You don’t count calories. The goal is to stay on a diet for just 24
hours. It is my understanding that if you can stick to this diet for one day, it may help you lose
around one
pound a week.
It is an
interesting approach to dieting, because it might make it more
manageable to actually stick with one day a week on a diet and lose a
pound a week. It still takes a certain level of discipline and focus
just like any diet. If losing weight was easy we would all be skinny.
The diet is worth a try and may help a person get on track without over
stressing them with drastic changes.
Nicole Wilson
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