The 5 Factor Diet was created by celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak.  It is one of the growing number of diet books aimed at helping you to lose weight by following a simple diet to “create the body you’ve always wanted with Hollywood’s Hottest Diet.”  Because of course, if a “celebrity trainer” created it, it must be fabulous and healthy, right?  Celebrity weight loss has never been known for being particularly healthy.  But that aside, they are known for their extreme results in short amounts of time.

So where did the 5 Factor Diet come from?  Obviously, the basic idea is that Harley Pasternak used it with celebrity clientele, though of course we’d be curious to know exactly which celebrities they are talking about.  After all, while we all know Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt used the Zone Diet, nobody actually mentions any particular celebrities using Harley.

This being said, he has put it into a book as well as online.  Essentially speaking, they have an interactive online program that will help you to apparently lose more weight by providing you with a support group.  After all, it has been proven that people lose more weight when working together rather than when trying to diet alone.

So how does it actually work?

The 5 Factor Diet is simple really.  It is all centered around the number 5.  So for those who like something simple or for that matter for those who just like the number 5, this is your diet!  You start out with a 5 week plan.  During this 5 weeks, apparently he teaches you all about dieting and otherwise gives you quick weight loss.  There are diet and exercise plans like P90X(90 days), slim in 6(6 weeks), etc.  They are all centered around the idea that we like fast results, even if they don’t last.

Second, he gives you 5 meals per day.  This is just common sense.  In any diet you use, you should actually be eating 5 not regular meals, but rather small meals per day.  You break up the same amount of food into smaller portions throughout the day, you keep your metabolism going at a higher rate, and less gets stored up as fat.  It works with your body.  The question is, why in the world would you need to pay somebody to tell you this?

Third, they give you 5 ingredient meals.  For those who experience challenges in the kitchen, this is great.  After all, you could throw together a salad with 5 ingredients.  But frankly speaking, let’s be honest here.  Limiting your meal choices to those with only 5 ingredients isn’t necessarily going to help you to lose weight.  You could combine butter, popcorn, caramel, nuts, and sugar, and that would technically be a 5 ingredient meal, caramel popcorn!  Does anybody really think that’s healthy?

Fourth, they have 25 minute workouts broken up into 5 different workouts lasting 5 minutes each.  This is one of the worst parts of the diet.  To be frank, you actually need to exercise for at least an hour per day if you want to burn enough calories to start to lose weight.  Experts have quite recently come out with these findings.  And that’s just in cardio.  Pasternak’s workouts include weight lifting, so that 25 minutes isn’t even entirely devoted to fat burning.

And finally, the 5^th step is to have 5 cheat days in 5 weeks.  This is another one of those things that you shouldn’t have to pay somebody to tell you.  You could find this in an online chat room FOR FREE!  This being said, essentially speaking, while there is no scientific evidence to back up the idea of cheat days, many have found that it works not only to keep them satisfied and therefore less likely to cheat and binge, but also they say that it keeps their body from going into a plateau mode.

While one could say that the pieces of the 5 Factor Diet could work, the ones that do work are common sense steps that everybody already knows about.  There is no need to pay for them, and frankly speaking, this diet is only for short term use.  It will not promote serious weight loss in that time, and frankly some of the steps are just there to adhere to the number 5.  They actually have nothing to do with weight loss or even go against scientific knowledge.  We would not recommend using the 5 Factor Diet.

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