Pippa Middleton’s pre-wedding diet is dangerous?
In less than a month, Pippa Middleton is getting married to James Matthews, and, according to E!, her pre-wedding diet and amped-up workout routine are both in full force.
Pippa’s pre-wedding diet, which is allegedly the Sirtfood Diet, has 20 specific foods—arugula, red wine, cocoa, coffee, kale, strawberries, and walnuts among them—very rich in polyphenols.
This chemical apparently ramps up the body’s metabolism and enhances its ability to burn fat. The trick, supposedly, is to eat more foods with that chemical in them in order to lose weight, Elle notes.
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During the first phase of the diet, you consume only 1,000 calories for the first three days. This is through just three Sirtfood-rich green juices and “one full meal rich in Sirtfoods.”
The rest of the week, intake is pushed up to 1,500 calories, with two green juices and two meals assigned for each day.
Phase two is 14-day maintenance, which includes three “Sirtfood-rich meals plus one green juice” each day.
According to dietitian Brigitte Zeitlin the diet would be indeed effective for weight loss because of its restrictive nature, but the weight loss wouldn’t last.
“It’s unhealthy and unsafe to eat below 1,200 calories a day. In addition to not giving yourself the proper energy and nutrients you need each day you’re on this fad diet, eventually you’re going to go off of it. You’re going to gain all of the weight you lost back, and more often than not, you’re going to gain even more weight back.” Zeitlin explained.
This is the so called Yo-yo effect, that can damage your heart, mess up your metabolism, stress your body, and increase risk of inflammation, according to the dietitian.
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