Who can lose weight with diet programs by Richard Simmons

1) What Diet Programs are created by Richard Simmons?

The original diet program developed by Richard Simmons was the "Deal-A-Meal" diet program. With the "Deal-A-Meal" diet program dieters kept track of the foods they ate by moving "cards" from one side of a wallet to the other after each meal, etc.  After all of the cards (representing food items) were moved from one side to the other, a dieter was done eating for the day.  

The latest (and newest) diet program developed by Richard Simmons is similar to "Deal-A-Meal" and is called the "FoodMover". The "FoodMover" is different from Deal-A-Meal because the "FoodMover" has "windows" representing each food item (open windows and closed windows). Once a food is consumed the window representing that food item is then closed. Dieters are done eating for the day when all windows are closed.

The Richard Simmons Diet Programs are geared for severely overweight people.   These are people so overweight that they can get away with eating the foods that they love, just in smaller portions each day, while they can still lose weight.

2) What are the negative aspects of the Richard Simmons Diet Programs?

These programs are only good for severely overweight people. Those who have at least 50 pounds to lose can benefit from the diet programs developed by Richard Simmons (those who have at least 100 pounds or more to lose will benefit the most). However, eating the same foods that made a person severely overweight in the first place (but just in smaller portions than before) will only allow a person to lose a limited amount of weight (it will not allow a person to burn off all excess fat tissue).   A serious diet will still be necessary after a severely overweight person is done using the "Deal-A-Meal" or "FoodMover" diet programs.

3) What are the positive aspects of the Richard Simmons Diet Programs?

Severely overweight dieters can begin to lose weight without having to give up the foods they love (and are actually addicted to).

4) How much weight loss can dieters expect each week using the Richard Simmons Diet Programs?

One pound per week on average, possibly much more than that for really overweight people.

5) What are some alternatives to the Richard Simmons Diet Programs?

As mentioned above, the Richard Simmons Diet Programs are for severely overweight dieters only. Therefore, alternative diet programs for severely overweight dieters include Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers. Although, a sensible and well balanced diet consisting of fresh fruits, vegetables and high quality protein sources would be even better.