The Special K Diet Challenge: Does This Diet Plan Really Work?
Posted: Thursday, June 14, 2007
by Christina Goldman
The Special K Diet Challenge is a diet plan designed around the Special K breakfast cereal, snack and meal bars.
According to the Kellogg's Special K , website you can lose up to 6 pounds in two weeks. The average weight loss is five pounds, when replacing two normal meals with two Special K cereal meals.
The Special K Diet Challenge is a no-brainer as far as weight-loss programs go:
2. Replace another meal with another serving of your favorite Special K cereal or Special K protein meal bar.
3. Eat your third meal of the day as you normally do.
4. You're allowed to have two snacks per day, such as fruits and vegetables or any of the Special K line of snack bars, cereal bars, snack bites and Special K2O Protein Water.
5. Consume beverages as you normally would.
On the Kellogg's Special K website, you can create your own personalized Special K Diet Challenge , just by answering a few questions with their interactive questionaire.
I took the questionaire and it was pretty straight forward, consisting of just five questions.
You answer three questions about your attitude toward dieting and eating habits.
Then, you choose your favorite Special K cereal and products for your weight-loss plan . Lastly, you select which day of the week you would like to start your challenge.
The result is a personalized, Special K seven-day diet meal plan . Breakfast, lunch, and two snacks contain Special K cereal and other Special K products, based upon your selections during the questionaire.
You get to choose your own food for dinner.
You can modify any meal or snack by clicking on the individual menu listing and making a new selection from the drop-down menu that appears in the box. You can also toggle between the Week One and Week Two menu plan s.
You can easily email or print your plan or send it to a friend, if you so desire. You're also given the option of printing a coupon for Special K2O Protein Water. You also get special motivating diet tips for each day of the week.
If you don't like the The Special K Diet Challenge plan that you've been given, you can easily reset your challenge and start all over again!
Okay, that's the basics of the The Special K Diet Challenge . But does this diet really work? And is it healthy?
Pluses:
1. You'll be adding calcium to your diet. And studies have shown that adequate calcium intake can help you lose weight.
2. You'll be eating breakfast on a regular basis, which is supposed to help kick-start your metabolism, which also aids in weight loss.
Minuses:
1. There are no exercise recommendations.
2. Nor are there any suggestions for a healthy, non-cereal meal.
3. You'll be getting very little fiber or whole grains.
4. The diet is very repetitive and you may get bored easily.
In conclusion, the Special K Diet Challenge is very similar to other meal replacement plan s. You'll probably lose weight following the plan as you'll be eating fewer calories and less fat than normal. If you want to try a meal-replacement plan , your best bet would be to combine several of them to add a more variety of options.
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Top-level comments on this article: (6 total)not really cuz all i really want to know is what u have to eat within a whole week and get aheads up on the following week
This does help quite alot, but the thing is, i want to know if the diet actually works. Post another article and tell us the result on whether this diet works pls
i am doing a lab report ot see if the special k diet really works and a i need a data table or weight loss graph to prove the results. Do you have any idea where i can get one of these?
ya this works but i want to know how fast it will work and i need to know how well it will work cause i need to know so that i can were a b-keenie and not get shy at my fat and i also want it to work cause i am getting my belly botton pierced
Everyone just stop asking if it works or not and do it! Obviously these ppl wouldn't lie saying it works cuz they can get sued. So just take the challenge and see for yourself.
I have seen the TV commercial on special k it totally caught my eye, but never bothered cause I thought to my self and laughed yeah right I have tried so many diets its crazy. Just last night I bought a magazine Women's Health and I brought it to work i seen a page about special k and their I determined my self i wanna try I have put on around 25 pounds in the last year and I love food but their is a point in time you need to make yourself take care of yourself. I will be starting this diet on June 5th beginning of the month and I can get back with results!!! I am very excited and I hope to see results in my weight loss!!i have tried the special k diet before and i lost 18 pounds in about a month but then i started to eat a lot of junk food again and gained some of the weight back in 3 months, but i`m still not as big as i used to be. i think i`m gonna try and go on this diet again though, please let me know if it worked for you?!
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