Have you heard of the Beverly Hills Diet? Yeah, me neither, but it's popular enough to warrant and upgrade, so Ta-Da ... The NEW Beverly Hills Diet has been unveiled. While one might assume that the traditional Beverly Hills Diet would consist of starving yourself after shamefully gorging on a salad without dressing, it's actually a somewhat sensible--albeit slight fad-ish--diet that focuses on food combinations. Here's how it works:

• Eat fruit for breakfast -- you can have an much as you want, but you must eat it by itself and you can only pick one fruit
• The next thing you eat can be a carb of your choice, which you can enjoy as much as you want of
  
• As soon as you eat a protein, the rest of your day must be 80% protein.
  
• You can combine proteins and carbs at one meal a day.
  
• You can have fats with either carbs or proteins

It sounds kind of like the Suzanne Somers Diet, except ... more confusing. Apparently you can lose up 10-15 lbs in the 35-day initiation phase, if you can keep all the rules straight, that is. To find out more about the diet, check out this article from WebMD.

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I know her as Chrissy Snow from after school re-runs of Three's Company but you might know her as a fitness and weight-loss guru. She's Suzanne Somers, and she's slim, sexy and sixty. Wait a minute .... 60? As in 6-0? Holy moses ... she does not look 60. The spokesperson for the thighmaster has a number of weight-loss books out that promise that you can eat really yummy 'real' foods and still lose weight.

The secret is combinations -- Proteins and fats should only be consumed with veggies, carbs should be consumed with veggies and no fat, and fruit should be consumed by itself. Sugar is a no-no. It sounds simple enough but I think it might prove a bit frustrating after a while. I mean, bread with veggies? Chicken without pasta? Hmmmmm.

The plan is pretty popular -- even my mom is doing it! Have you tried it? What do/did you think?

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