Diet
Diet Meal Plan
What is involved in setting up a proper diet meal plan for weight loss? So many times, people who are desperate to lose weight skip meals and practically starve themselves in an attempt to shed undesirable weight. Obviously, weight can be lost, but it is inevitable that the weight will be regained once normal eating resumes. Not only that, but skipping meals and utilizing very low calories diets have nutritional consequences as well.
When we lower caloric intake in an effort to lose weight, it’s imperative that the diet meal plan is well thought out so proper nutrition isn’t sacrificed. Here are some top tips on setting up a diet meal plan that will offer up optimum nutrition as well as promote weight loss in a healthful way. Read Full Entry
The Atkins Diet
The Atkins diet isn’t the first low carb diet. As a matter of fact, a low carb diet can be traced back to 1825 when Jean Brillat-Savarin wrote the book The Philosophy of Taste and prescribed a low carb diet. The popularity of the Atkins diet plan ebbs and flows with every new Atkins recipes book that is published. As well, numerous knock-offs of the plan exist with slightly different rules such as The Zone or Suzanne Somer’s diet.
The Plan
The Atkins Diet plan has four phases:
Induction phase – For the first two weeks a very strict diet will kick off the plan. There’s a list of acceptable foods that consists of protein, fats and vegetables. Foods can be eaten liberally from this list so long as the “rules” are followed.
During this phase, weight loss will be at its peak due to the extremely low calories consumed.
Ongoing weight loss – During this phase, certain carbohydrates are allowed. Five more grams of carbohydrate can be consumed than the stricter 20 allowed in phase 1. After a week, if weight loss has continued, you may increase it another 5 grams.
The carbohydrate choices remain the same, you’re just allowed a few more. Weight loss will continue, but at a slightly slower rate.
Pre-maintenance – This phase is a preliminary step to learning how to eat healthfully for life. Weight loss is slowed and this phase gears the dieter towards maintaining a healthful weight for life.
Life-time maintenance – In the last phase, the dieter will be eating normally with the idea that normal now means a much more healthful diet. Read Full Entry
Low Carb Diet Plan
The low carb diet plan has been around for well over a century in one form or another. The diet has gained popularity over recent years making dieting more confusing than ever. High carb, low carb, no carb, good carb, bad carb… it’s tough for people to figure out just what type of low carb diet plan, if any, will aid in their weight loss. And if so, is it healthful?
Let’s start with the negative aspects of a low carb diet and end on a positive note with the up side to low carbohydrate dieting.
Clearly, a low carb diet is really no different than any other type of fad diet. Though one might be lead to believe that carbohydrates are the evil behind flabby abs and big bums, what the diet is really doing is cutting calories. As we all know, healthful weight loss occurs when caloric intake is lowered to allow for more calories burned than consumed. A low carbohydrate diet’s gimmick is that by cutting out a lot of if not all carbohydrate from the diet, far fewer calories are consumed. Sounds good, right? Read Full Entry
New Year’s Weight Loss Resolution
Can you believe that in a few more days we will be in year 2009? Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it? Last year I told myself that I wanted to lose 15 lbs. I haven’t even started yet and now the year 2008 almost come to an end. Instead of loosing weight I’m gaining 5 lbs arggghhh!!.
Everyday we hear the news about how bad the economy will be in the coming year. We don’t know what the year 2009 will be like. One thing we have to understand is that worry won’t change anything one bit. Let’s take a positive thing out of the negative. Be an optimist and believe that everything will be better. Despite the economic crisis, this is actually the best time to lose weight. Cut all the unnecessary spending, cut eating out and cook at home more. Read Full Entry
Weight Watchers Diet
Millions of people use the Weight Watchers®. diet every year in an attempt to lose weight. It’s one of the most popular weight loss programs and one of the most respected. There are definitely advantages and disadvantages to the Weight Watchers diet points system. Read on and see if it’s for you.
The Weight Watchers®. diet is based on the idea that ” healthful weight loss occurs when we consume less food than we burn “. Many of us know this, but find it difficult to apply it to our own lives. Counting calories and weighing food to make sure we accomplish this mission just isn’t all that easy. It’s time-consuming and if there’s one thing most of us are short on, that would be time.
Not only that, but putting all that thought into what we’re eating kind of sucks the fun out of food. We begin to obsess on every bit we put in our mouths; how many calories was that? Oh, I forgot about the mayo! Etc. Read Full Entry