The Twinkie Diet



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The Twinkie diet – mavericky or fail? Can the Twinkie diet help you lose 20 pounds in 1 month? Can the Twinkie diet help you lose 50 pounds in a month? Does the Twinkie diet work at all? It pretty much goes without saying that the Twinkie diet sounds like a bunch of hooey, but while it is easy to dismiss the Twinkie diet as utterly inane and counterproductive, this diet actually works, big time.

How much weight can you lose on the Twinkie diet? Well, I wish none, frankly. Why? Because eating Twinkies should make you grossly overweight, it should not help you lose weight, and yet the guy who invented the Twinkie diet (nutrition professor Mark Haub) has lost 27 pounds in 8 weeks. Yes, he has lost 3.3 pounds a week by eating Twinkies and other junk food, which is not going to help you lose 25 pounds in 2 weeks, but that is not the purpose of the Twinkie diet anyway.

His goal was to prove the point that when it comes to weight loss, nothing matters more than portion control. It does not really matter what you eat. To lose weight, you just need to consume a certain number of calories, which is old news, of course, but it sends a wrong message. Besides, most people are unable to control their appetite on a diet high in artificial ingredients and sugar.

If you want sustainable weight-loss results, you have to learn how to eat healthy, and how to make smart food choices. This diet works short-term. The question is: What are you going to do long-term? Are you going to eat Twinkies and Doritos for the rest of your life? It just does not sound plausible.


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