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5FactorDiet Review

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Joining Fee:

Membership of the five factor diet online costs $20 a month, and includes access to all tools and recipes featured online. Users can purchase the 5 Factor Diet Book for around $17. The meal delivery service is available at additional cost.

Summary:

Diet features:

The five-factor diet is based around simple principles. Dieters should eat five small meals a day, each containing five simple ingredients (a lean protein, a complex carbohydrate, fiber, a 'good fat' and a sugar free drink).
The diet continues for five weeks in which time the average dieter can lose around 10lbs.
Dieters can have 1 cheat day per week, to help motivate them to continue with the diet.
The website contains more than a hundred recipes that follow the five-factor plan.
A daily meal planner is provided online to help decide which recipes to sample each day.
Use your 'personal recipe box' to store details of the recipes you like the most, or those you invent yourself!
The shopping list tool makes it easier to shop for all of the ingredients you will need to follow the five-factor diet.

Fitness features:

Users are encouraged to take part in a 25 minute workout each day, to complement the five-factor diet plan.
A custom fitness plan - designed to your specific needs and fitness ability.
Keep track of your fitness activities with an activity calculator.

Expert Advice:

The five-factor diet plan is designed by Harley Pasternak, a personal trainer and fitness expert who designed the plan as a celebrity health plan that could be followed alongside the pressures of a hectic lifestyle.

Community Support:

Take part in message boards hosted on the site to discuss your experiences of the five-factor diet with other dieters.
Daily inspiration messages are sent directly to your email inbox to ensure you stick to the diet and achieve results.

Help Files / Technical Support:

The five-factor diet website provides a range of helpful FAQs to answer common questions and address comm issues.
Users can email for technical support or call a toll free dedicated helpline for advice.

Extras:

Users can make use of a helpful eating out guide to ensure they stick to the diet when they eat out with friends and family.
Check out how well you're doing by keeping track of your weight loss using the weight tracker.

Editor's Verdict:

The five factor diet is one of the most popular recent celebrity diets to hit the market. Brought to the world by personal trainer and fitness expert to the stars, Harley Pasternak, the five factor diet is intended to fit around a hectic and busy lifestyle, making it easy to lose weight, eat healthily, exercise and feel great. Harley Pasternak has a number of celebrity clients, and many of Hollywood's biggest stars have reported having used the five factor diet to great effect, including Kanye West, John Mayer, Alicia Keys and Halle Berry. Harley Pasternak has since appeared on television as a nutrition and fitness expert on such shows as The Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show, and his book, 'The Five Factor Diet', made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2006.

The five factor diet was originally created for celebrities and based on their 'on-set' lifestyles. Harley was tasked with creating a diet that combined a brief, effective exercise regime, that could be carried out at home (without a great deal of gym equipment) or in the short breaks in between scenes on movie sets, with a range of healthy meals, which were quick to prepare and used few ingredients. The five factor diet was borne out of this desire to have a quick-fire diet that could be followed easily without either the diet or exercise regime impacting too much on daily life. The diet plan is simple - it involves having five small meals a day, with each meal including five key elements: a lean protein, a complex carbohydrate, fiber, a 'good fat' and a sugar free drink. Each meal can be made in a few minutes, as they contain simple, easy to prepare ingredients. These meals are coupled with brief, 25-minute workouts, which are carried out daily. Users of the five factor diet are reported to lose around 10lbs in five weeks (but dieters with a lot of weight to lose will need to stay on the diet plan for a great deal longer than five weeks in order to reach their target weight).

Whilst we can see the draw of a diet such as the five factor diet, in that the rules are simple to follow and the meals are easy to produce, we can't help but think that the diet is a little gimmicky. With such a great focus on all of the '5' rules, and the constant celebrity name-dropping, it would be easy to think that this diet is a little inaccessible for a regular home-dieter. Similarly, whilst the website does offer a range of potentially useful features (such as a shopping list, weight tracker, meal planner, eating out guide and more), we simply think that eating five meals a day (following such specific rules) is unlikely to be easy to follow for a regular individual (a mother with children, for example). It's certainly difficult to translate the principles from this diet into a diet that could be followed alongside regular family meals. Equally, we think the rules in this diet are likely to appeal to those who (like many of the celebrity names included on the website) have a personal trainer to guide them, and can afford to pay for the meal delivery service that can accompany the diet, as this undoubtedly makes the diet easier to follow. We were certainly a little disappointed that the site doesn't offer more in the way of community features, which could support followers of the diet who don't have access to a personal trainer.

In short, if you don't have much weight to lose, you could find this diet a great alternative to more flexible diets that you may have tried in the past. If, however, you're looking at this diet as an option for a lifestyle change, we would recommend trying other diets which may not only provide better results, but could also be easily translated into everyday life.

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