One of the purposes of this website is to motivate people to do more than just lose or gain weight. Being skinny, or losing 80 pounds so that you’re back to your “ideal” weight is not the definition of being healthy or fit. That’s only a small part of it- a very small part. That’s my biggest beef with The Ideal Protein Diet and with many other programs out there. It doesn’t teach the participants good principles of health, like how to eat well. You buy their food, it comes in the mail, they tell you what to eat, you eat it, and once you’ve lost the weight you wanted to lose, you stop the “diet.” And you’re left alone again, to fend for yourself. It doesn’t teach you anything other than the fact that you can lose weight. So what happens next? You gain it back. If the diet taught you how to shop for good foods, what good food is, what bad food is and why, and emphasized the importance of an exercise program in conjunction with the change in diet, you would be much better off. I’ve found a few programs that do that, which I’ll write about later, but The Ideal Protein Diet is not one of them.
Many of the proponents of low-carb high protein diets say that there is no research proving that it is harmful to the body. Here’s a few things that back up what I said in my first post about the Ideal Protein Diet:
On the Essentiality of Dietary Carbohydrate (Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (September 2003) 13(3), 161–168)
How the Body Loses and Gains Weight (Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies tenth edition, Francis Sizer and Ellie Whitney, pgs. 329-332)
I agree with your comments (and facts) about low carb/high protein diets. You just have one MAJOR error. Ideal Protein is NOT a high protein diet. (Check the science and program’s details.) Yes the Ideal Protein products include high-quality protein; however, the program does not promote or involve consuming dangerous or high levels of protein. You consume just enough to protect muscle mass. After all, the program was developed for Olympic athletes…why would they want or ever risk losing ANY muscle mass? They wouldn’t. Nor do people on the program.
Thanks for reading and replying to our post. We appreciate it a lot. You should know that when we say that the Ideal Protein Diet is a “high protein, low carb” diet we refer specifically to the percentage of total calories that come from carbs, fat, and protein in the diet. A typical quality diet will have around 45-65% of calories coming from carbs, 20-30% coming from protein, and 20-30% from fats. This is, however, not the case with The Ideal Protein Diet. The major percentage of calories from the diet come from protein, thus it is a high protein diet.
Also, I disagree that it provides adequate protein to “protect muscle mass.” After all, people on the diet are consuming less calories than their REE, or resting energy expenditure, so the diet isn’t providing an adequate amount of any nutrient. There are many studies, some of which I’ve sited on our second article about The Ideal Protein Diet, that confirm a low carbohydrate diet results in decreased lean tissue mass, which includes muscle mass. You should check these out. Without a source of energy derived from carbohydrates, the body will use protein energy. Thanks again for reading and replying to the article.
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