It’s hard not to listen to and roll your eyes at something called the “Anything Goes Diet,” which was exactly my thinking. Then I thought, what a clever way to steer thousands (or millions) of misguided dieters to your diet plan!

{This photo kinda brings new meaning to “practice what you preach”!}

Keep reading for yet another good reason not to judge a book by its cover.

What Is The Anything Goes Diet?

The Anything Goes Diet is a new diet by fitness author John Barban. This diet is an easy to follow path to weight loss that goes against what are considered fitness truths today. John does a good job of explaining why so many current diets fail. Although we at TFLA do believe that some concessions are necessary for successful weight loss, but we’ll get to that later!

Why do most diets fail? John Says:

• Most diets assume that each and every dieter faces the same exact weight loss obstacles.
• Many popular diets have a laundry list of rules that are virtually impossible to remember, let alone follow each day.
• Popular diets will only succeed if you follow them to the letter…every single day to maintain that weight loss.
• Eliminating all of your favorite foods in favor of many you may not like is unrealistic for most dieters.

Anything Goes Diet Exercise Plan Review

One of the most interesting things we found in our review of the Anything Goes Diet is that exercise isn’t a clear part of the diet, only a recommended part for successful weight loss. He does make it clear that exercise is essential to a healthy lifestyle, but views it as purely optional.

The Anything Goes Diet gives a very clear rundown of the many benefits of cardio and resistance training for weight loss.

Anything Goes Diet Food Plan

The Anything Goes Diet throws out conventional wisdom that the number of meals you eat for weight loss matters. Anywhere from 3 to 9 meals is acceptable on the Anything Goes Diet. The focus in terms of food is variety. Eat many different healthy foods for a stress free way of losing weight.

The Anything Goes Diet emphasizes that your diet should be what is considered most responsible for fat loss, so that exercise is considered bonus fat loss. The emphasis is not on restriction but rather limitations. Don’t focus on getting rid of all chocolate in your life for example, just set limits on the types of foods you know you will overindulge in. I think this is a great way to have an Anything Goes approach to dieting!

Exercise Paradox

This section cannot be emphasized enough. Many new dieters often “compensate” when they exercise, by eating more than they would if they hadn’t exercised. The Anything Goes Diet says that these dieters use exercise to justify the extra calories, setting back their weight loss progress without realizing it.

Anything Goes Diet Products

What’s good about the Anything Goes Diet is that you’re not given a set of relaxed guidelines and then a brush off. John has a wide variety of products in addition to the Anything Goes Diet Weight Loss Manual. You can get the Anything Goes Diet Recipe Guide to help you eat for weight loss.

[With a 365-day 100% money back guarantee, you have no excuses to try the Anything Goes Diet!]

If you need to keep track of your progress (and setbacks), there’s the Success Tracker Journal to make sure you always know where you are, so you know how far you have to go. Perhaps the most useful for all of us is the Social Eating Survival Guide, which helps you navigate the choppy waters of socializing while dieting. Thinking Thin is the mindset book to have to avoid negative influences that lead to unhealthy diet choices, despite the fact that the Anything Goes Diet does not subscribe to “bad foods”.

Stay on track easily with a 60-day email coaching program. Let the Anything Goes Diet do for your body what it did for John’s.

Anything Goes Diet PROS

• Weight loss continuum helps new and returning dieters determine what areas they need to work on. Makes it “suitable for everyone”.
• Logic v. desire a very good illustration of how you can enjoy life on an Anything Goes Diet.
• Just $47 for a fully explained diet manual that’s filled with more than just workouts!
• Focus on diet first great idea for those with lots of weight to  lose. Greater chance of success by succeeding at one, then the other.
• Diet on a weekly calorie count & burn rather than daily—good advice for successful and long term weight loss!
• 365 day Money Back Guarantee!

Anything Goes Diet CONS

• Limited focus on the importance of exercise to weight loss.
• May be too relaxed for dieters for whom overeating is a major problem.

Anything Goes Diet Review – Verdict

The Anything Goes Diet offers lots of good advice for different dieters. Allowing dieters to eat anything they want while realistic, isn’t exactly a good idea. Aside from the fact that exercise is not part of the Anything Goes Diet, it is encouraged enough to keep my complaints to a minimum!

There are many pearls of wisdom I found compelling in my Anything Goes Diet review and I think plenty of dieters, particularly those looking for a relaxed form of dieting, will find John’s advice helpful. Weight loss will likely occur on the Anything Goes Diet.

Want to see how this diet stacks up to others? Read our Eat Stop Eat review to see if intermittent fasting can work for you!