Weight loss tips & tricks for the holidays: 5 pros & cons of the new 'Holiday Diet' from Diet Doc

According to the Globe Newswire, the "Holiday Diet" involves two days of calorie loading. During this time, clients are recommended to follow a 3000-calorie meal plan.

Diet Doc's Holiday Diet promises to help individuals lose weight during the party-laden season without having to avoid the holiday feast but is it safe? Read on to see the program's pros and cons.

1.    Pro: Higher metabolism rate

According to an earlier press release on Globe Newswire, indulging on high-calorie, carb-rich foods for a few days increases the body's metabolism rate as well as your fat oxidation levels. This process prepares your body to lose weight during the next phase.

As your body's metabolism rate has been already been heightened by gorging, streamlining your carbohydrate intake during the next phase will allow you to lose weight and inches.

2.    Pro: More energy

With a low-calorie meal plan, dieters will experience hunger quickly and feel less motivated to push through with the diet. According to Diet Doc, the calorie loading phase prevents you from going hungry and does not make you feel irritable.

By gorging on food for two days, this will make it easier for you to continue on with the next phase of the diet.

3.    Pro: You eat less

With bingeing on food a few days before a party or feast, you break some of the food addictions you may have grown accustomed to over the years. HCG Diet Drops says that by bingeing on your favorite foods, you satisfy your cravings for those foods.

At the same time, you make those foods less appealing to your senses. As a result, if you find favorite foods on a buffet spread, you are no longer inclined to reach out and fill your plate with it.

4.    Con: No pain, no gain

SF Gate says that for most people, increasing the amount of calories only results to weight gain. Eating more than what you can burn causes your body to convert the excess calories into body fat.

In order to boost your metabolism without gaining more weight, the source suggests exercising and developing your muscles by lifting weights, doing push-ups or performing yoga. Lean muscle tissues can burn more calories, allowing you to increase your metabolism even hours after exercising.

5.    Con: All calories are not equal

Vitacost says that a hundred calories in terms of vegetables should not be compared to the same number of calories in cookies. It is not healthy and can cause your metabolism to go haywire.

Also, once your body gets accustomed to a high calorie diet, a reduction may cause you to feel lethargic and grouchy.