How to Lose 20lbs. of Fat in 30 Days Without Doing Any Exercise? Reliable or Not?

2011-10-03T04:42:32Z

After eating dinner with a friend the other day, she proposed to me that she found herself a website that explained how she could lose 20 pounds in 30 days, without having to do any exercise at all! Now, I know that this sounds extremely possible, but I decided to check the website out to see if it was all it was cracked out to be. Hopping on my computer, I went to http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-20-lbs-of-fat-in-30-days-without-doing-any-exercise/ and read a little about what their weight loss regiment, and what I found nearly made me laugh out loud.
The weight loss plan is fairly simple, avoid white carbohydrates (because that makes sense), eat the same few meals over and over again, don't drink calories, and take one day off per week. Off the bat, this website is ripe with things that disprove its validity. There is no scientific proof stated on the website, and all of the facts come from the first-hand experience of the author. He then imposes the reader on the bandwagon fallacy, stating that "the most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat loss, eat the same few means over and over again", trying to sum up that success is derived from that point, but remember that correlation doesn't mean causation! There might be another variable that affected weight loss, like exercise maybe? Long story short, as great as it sounds to be able to eat infinite amounts of junk food one day out of the week to lose weight, this weight loss diet has no scientific backing, and is more of a pseudoscience than a proven weight loss regiment.