I have already talked about both the super metabolism diet and the diet recipes, to help those who are trying it. This is the famous diet of Dr. Haylie Pomroy, the first of her diets, the one that has had the most worldwide success.

Basically, every week you have two days of a high-carbohydrate but low-fat diet, two days of a protein diet and three days of a balanced diet with a higher fat content. This menu variation according to Dr. Pomroy raises your metabolism, allowing you to lose up to 8-10 pounds per month.

Yes, it is an advisable diet for weight loss, but despite this I have some doubts about the results.
In this article we will look at the cons of the super metabolism diet.

DIET OF SUPERMETABOLISM: DOES IT WORK?

Pomroy ‘s super metabolism diet works if you have at least 15 pounds to shed. In that case you could lose about six kilos in a month, and these will mostly lose in the first two weeks, which in my opinion are the ones that give the real jolt to the metabolism.

But no, they don’t make it super. I’ll explain why.

LIMITS OF THE SUPERMETABOLISM DIET

• Metabolism is a self-regulating mechanism.

  It tends to self-regulate and in a certain sense learns to organize and burn “also” according to your diet.
  However, not all metabolism depends on nutrition, but above all on LAF (daily physical activity level) and body composition (ratio between lean, fat and water mass). With each dietary variation, a more or less significant weight loss can follow. Then the metabolism will tend to adjust to the new dietary regime, and here may already be the first resistance to weight loss. Every time you lose weight your metabolism in fact lowers, does not rise, as I explain here.

  The stalemate of weight loss, called the plateau , usually comes after months of dieting, but if you are used to various diets, the weight loss results with a new regimen will be less and less. It’s a bit like your metabolism has been training for your diet changes. After a while it’s like cooking for years with the same non-stick pan. At some point it doesn’t attack anymore.

• There is a lot of talk about blood sugar in the book, but the diet is not low on glycemic impact.
  

  Millet, for example, present in the menu, is a food with a high glycemic index. The puffed cereal cakes ditto. Foods demonized from wheat, soy and corn. Especially in the first case it is not clear why. An al dente pasta dish does not lead to a spike in blood sugar. And so why? From reading the book it is not clear why pasta, semolina and durum wheat are condemned in the same way as refined foods, even in the integral version. At one point the author explains that it is to accustom the body to eat in various ways. Ah!
  This is a bit of an oversimplification. It is right to vary in foods and it is absolutely right to vary in cereals, in order to have a nutritious and healthy diet, but not because if you eat pasta your metabolism slows down. This thing said so does not make sense.