A-Mei, 50, Said To Have Lost 10kg For Her World Tour By Sticking To A Diet Doctors Are Telling People Not To Follow

Following her sold-out concerts across the United States last year, Taiwanese pop diva A-mei has embarked on her A-mei’s ASMeiR 2023 World Tour, which kicked off in Kaohsiung on March 31.
She is holding a 10-night show at the Kaohsiung Arena, before heading to London and Paris in June, followed by Singapore, where she is slated to perform at Singapore Indoor Stadium on July 8.
Her last show here was in 2017.
When A-mei, 50, took to the stage in Kaohsiung last week, she stunned fans with her noticeably slimmer look.
According to reports, A-mei is said to have lost around 10kg. Taiwanese media also said that her legs are so skinny now, they are like "pencils".
The secret to her drastic weight loss? Her “personal concert set meal”, which was developed seven years ago.
A-mei’s team revealed that the star's daily meal plan consists of a bowl of boiled vegetables, a bowl of clams and four slices of shabu shabu beef, all of which have to be consumed before 3pm each day.
According to a famous weight-loss doctor in Taiwan, A-mei's diet is a combination of the popular ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting.
The latter, which is also known as the 16:8 diet plan, involves fasting for 16 hours a day and eating within an eight-hour window. You typically have your first meal at noon and fast after 8pm.
Meanwhile, the keto diet, a high-protein, high-fat, and low-carbohydrate diet, promotes weight loss by using fats instead of sugars in the body as the primary source of fuel.
While A-mei's diet plan can help shed pounds quickly, the doc warned that in the long run, it can cause serious health problems like increased risk of heart disease due to the lack of trace minerals. In severe cases, it can even cause death.
He said that carbohydrates should account for at least 50 percent of our total daily calorie intake and grain products, which are rich in the trace mineral selenium, are the most essential. A selenium deficiency can cause heart failure.
He added that one can only stick to A-mei’s extreme diet for a maximum of two weeks.
For long-term weight loss, he recommends adopting a low-calorie balanced diet, such as eating till you are 60 to 70 percent full for each meal, and consuming less refined starch like sugar.
Zhao Qiang, a nutritionist at MacKay Memorial Hospital, also echoed the doctor's views.
He discouraged anyone from trying A-mei’s diet as it produces a large amount of ketones, which can cause acidosis, where your blood becomes acidic.
Some of the side effects include nausea, vomiting and it could even affect kidney and heart function.
He added that the meal plan, which only consists of protein and vegetables, and almost no carbohydrates, is “extremely low calorie”, and achieves rapid weight loss by breaking down fat and protein.
How it works is when sugar intake is insufficient, the body will continue to break down fat and protein, and may eventually resort to “attacking” the organs and tissues. This causes muscle loss, even affecting the nervous system and brain.
Zhao Qiang said this extreme weight loss method is only used on patients during clinical trials, during which their blood is drawn and monitored in the hospital every day. Usually, after about two weeks, there will be abnormal liver function, and it is necessary to return to the general weight loss method.
He said if A-mei remains on this diet throughout her concert, her “body could be prone to problems”.
While it is not known how long A-mei has been on this diet, Zhao Qiang said that judging from her pre-concert physique, "it is impossible to become so thin just by relying on this diet alone".
Photos: A-mei/Facebook