Originally Posted by RB
I fail to see the point in this diet. It shouldn't be used as a permanent diet for obvious reasons, so once you lose weight you're just going to have to go back to a low fat, medium carb diet. It's been proven that over a 1 year period, a low carb diet has little to no advantage over a healthy well balanced diet. I can see if he had an insane amount of weight to lose (100+ lbs), but a healthy well rounded diet can be just as successful.
CKD is a pretty extreme diet. it does give results though. i'm not giving all the details because i'd have to go look them up again. i havn't had to use this diet myself, luckily. lots of others have, however, and it does work if you make it work.
part of CKD involves a "carb up" every few days. it's a day where you just force feed carbs all day long to shock the body, then back onto no carbs for a few days. wash, rinse, repeat.
a diet like this, if researched properly before hand, can keep chipping away at the bodyfat very effectively until you're down to your target weight or bodyfat percentage. then you move along to a regular, more stable diet. i never said this is a perminent diet. if you combine it with regular exercise it becomes more effective, and since he's been in the gym, this will work.