Rush Limbaugh has lost 90 pounds in 5 months by following a diet from the Quick Weight Loss Center based in Florida.  This program combines a low calorie diet, office visits, protein boosters, carb blockers and appetite suppressants.

So, what is special about this diet?  Actually, it is much like any other quick weight loss diet.  Many people have lost weight quickly following the Quick Weight Loss Center plan, as have many on Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, NutriSystem and other similar plans.  By combining several diet tools together, this program can achieve fast results.  Perhaps, too fast.  Limbaugh has reported losing as much as a pound per day on this program.

Losing weight that fast may be good for the ego, but it is hard on your body.  When your body can not get enough available calories from your glucose, it will go to your fat reserves (that’s good) and your lean muscle mass (that’s bad), Because this program does not include exercise, your body will literally “eat” your muscles for calories  Your metabolism will then slow down as your body goes into starvation mode. That means that when you gooff this diet, you will gain weight on fewer calories.

The good part of this program is the office visits for monitoring and support.  This also includes vitamins and supplements, which help you stay healthy. Of course, this adds to the total cost, so don’t expect this program to be cheap. 

There is a very limited structure of foods that you can eat and some foods cannot be combined.  This will make this diet difficult for many people to stay on for very long.  Like many programs, this is meant to keep you as a paying customer for as long as possible.

The bottom line: The Quick Weight Loss Center diet does work, as will most programs if you can stick to them.  It is not a good long term solution. The program does have a maintenance program, but it may be difficult for most people to stay on for long term.  When you go off the program, your weight will come right back.  The key for long term success is to change your behavior and your association to food.  This program does not give you that help.