Have you heard about the hot dog diet lately and have you been curious, how can the word “diet” and “hot dog” go in the same sentence? Isn’t food like that the first thing you have to eliminate if you want to lose weight? So you decide to do some research and discover the following:
The Hot Dog or Whole 30 Diet
- The hot dog diet or Whole 30 is a diet that many call magical or miracle and that consists of stopping eating for 30 days those foods that make us gain weight the most and that many of them are a source of energy, such as sugars present in many foods, legumes, dairy, carbohydrates and drinks that contain alcohol.
- What can you eat then? Fruits, vegetables and just a little lean meat. That’s it, in those 30 days all the extra kilos that you wanted to get rid of disappear in one fell swoop.
- You continue reading the short-term benefits of the new fad diet and to your surprise you discover that delicious and unhealthy hot dogs are allowed, how is it possible? Well, apparently, ketchup and mustard should be replaced by crushed natural tomato and make the sausage made of lean and unprocessed meat, how? For us it remains a mystery… Apparently there is a farm where you can get natural and organic products, which is why this diet and this farm in particular are gaining so much fame on social media.
- That said, the hot dog diet allows you to eat sausage, hamburgers and other processed food as long as it does not have sugar or is processed, illogical, right?
- You keep reading one of the many articles that talk about the benefits of the Whole 30 diet and you come to the section on allowed and prohibited foods. He says like this:
Foods Allowed on the Hot Dog Diet
Lean meats from pork, chicken, turkey and rabbit; all kinds of fish, including blue, fresh seasonal vegetables, lots of fruit, nuts and olive oil for dressing.
Foods prohibited in the hot dog diet
Sugar (but you can have a hot dog), cereals, rice, legumes, soy, dairy products and carbohydrates. (We do not agree, you already know that carbohydrates cannot be eliminated from the diet and even less legumes, cereals and dairy products). And what happens if you have bread or a glass of wine on the weekend? According to the creator of this regime, you have to start over from scratch!
Does the hot dog diet work?
- We have not tried it and we are not going to do it, we are not in favor of following magical diets or miracle diets, no matter how much its creator insists on saying that more than a diet it is an attempt to make society aware of the importance of eating well and healthy every day.
- The fact is that as this regimen seems to be becoming very famous, nutrition experts have not been slow to speak, putting on the table the danger to health that this entails, and here we are in agreement.
- To lose weight, you already know, you have to eat well and everything every day of the year, nothing to eliminate essential foods from the food pyramid such as dairy products, legumes or carbohydrates. By the way, in this diet they have forgotten to point out the importance of regular exercise.