The Cambridge Diet is a popular very low calorie diet (VLCD) that has a large number of followers throughout the UK. While this particular weight loss plan hasn’t seen nearly the same level of popularity in the United States, this is still a viable weight loss and diet option for the morbidly obese.

This is a weight loss plan that is only recommended for very obese individuals. This is not a “lose those last twenty pounds” type of diet. If you aren’t at the highest level of obese on the BMI scale, then you shouldn’t be considering the Cambridge Diet as a viable option.

Basically this eating plan is a tiered system that starts out as an extremely low calorie diet in the beginning that only allows 450-600 calories of special Cambridge Diet supplements (shakes, soups, porridge, etc). As the dieter loses more weight, more and more calories are added until the diet becomes a low calorie diet. After enough time the tiers move up to the normal calorie range of a healthy diet.

Any dieter who is seriously looking at the Cambridge Diet needs to consider several things before committing to this eating pan. The first consideration is medical supervision. While this weight loss plan is used quite often in the UK, it is only done with proper supervision to make sure dieters remain healthy throughout the entire process.

Another consideration is how hard this diet can be to follow. Many dieters are going to have an extremely hard time sticking to a mere 450-650 calories a day. If you don’t think you can handle this, then this diet isn’t going to be able to help you because you won’t be able to follow it.

Several controversies still remain around this weight loss plan. Concerns remain around possible muscle loss, crashing metabolism, and the overall just lack of daily calories.

That being said, there are still plenty of defenders of the Cambridge Diet. The most defended point of this weight loss plan is obvious, which is that there are thousands of recorded examples of this diet helping morbidly obese individuals losing a lot of pounds.

Arguments about the Cambridge Diet might continue on, but this is a diet that will do well because of the sheer level of success stories. While definitely not for everyone, for the grossly overweight this could be a great solution.

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