I have always felt The Rotation Diet was a great kick-start diet or a plan to help you over a bad weekend eating bout or vacation. I’ve also learned more over the past 5+ years or so than I have my entire life about food intake & dieting.
By eating too little for too long you can really ruin your metabolism and turn it from a fat burning oven to a sluggish, broken furnace that no longer works. You need to be careful of putting your body through starvation mode.
The way The Rotation Diet was written, those first 3 days of 600 calories can be impossible for some people to sustain. It’s almost as difficult as fasting for many There are a few options you can choose from to ease into this plan.
One option would be:
Day 1 - 600 calories, day 2 - 700 calories up to 1200 calories by day 7. You could start over on week 2 and only continue to week 3 if you really need to.
Another option would be:
Day 1 - 600 calories, day 2 - 1200 calories, day 3 - 600 calories, day 4 - 1200 calories, day 5 - 600 calories, day 6 - 1200 calories, day 7 - 900 calories & finish rotating between 900 & 1200 calories until you have 4 - 900 calorie days in. You could finish out the final week with all 1200 calorie days.
You could change out this diet plan however you’d like. The further you deviate from the original plan by adding on calories, the less weight you will lose in the 2-4 weeks you use this program. But I still believe in slow loss being so much more beneficial than very quick weight loss.
I also believe in trying to use this only as a 2 week plan instead of extending it much longer because you don’t want your body getting used to eating too few calories. The Rotation Diet can be an easy to use quick weight loss plan. Even its author doesn’t expect this to be a way of eating for life.
