Everything You Need To Know About Losing Weight

1. Title: Diet Comparisons
Probably the most important things people want to know when they think
the time has come (again) to cut some of the daily food intake is which
diet is the best. Although we are all different beings, we all share the
same goal: a diet that can make us thin in no time at all. Some sort of
miracle pill or eating plan that makes fat go away and never ever return.
That’s actually the second part of the big wish: how to make sure that
all the weight lost through dieting stays lost through the years.
The more diets published in magazines and on the Internet, the more
people are confused about what dieting really means and about the right
way of bringing your body back in shape. The growing number of overweight
people has turned weight loss into an industry like never before and the
market is growing every year. It seems that nowadays all one needs is a
fashionable idea and a flair for marketing in order to make a lot of
money or garner a lot of popularity by proposing some sort of weird diet,
despite the lack of professional expertise in this field.
And there is a LOT of diets out there. We’re going to go here only
through the best-known diets, since a review of all the diets floating
around the industry would be beyond the scope of this article.
So let’s start with one of the latest fads of the dieting world: the
Atkins diet. Pretty much everybody’s head of the Atkins diet, largely due
to the flood of articles praising the extraordinary results, not to
mention the loads of good mail from satisfied customers. The biggest
thing in favor of this diet is that it lets you eat high fat dairy
products like cheese and butter. However, the Atkins diet has fallen from
its lofty perch over suspicions of increasing the risk of heart diseases,
not to mention the proved fact that bigger number of followers complain
of diarrhea, weakness, muscle cramps and rashes. The debate over the
scientific fundamentals of this diet is still raging.
Next comes the Zone diet; another well-known eating plan. This diet is
the brainchild of Barry Sears and it’s all about eating the right mix of
foods in order to reach the proper hormonal balance. This state of
balance, which is called the “Zone”, lets the body take in calories and
use them through the day without putting anything aside as fat.
Unfortunately, this diet does some serious discrimination among foods
without any scientific basis. Starchy vegetables, whole grains and beans
are banned, although these foods are not in conflict with the principles
of the diet. The American Heart Association says the Zone diet lacks
essential nutrients while promoting high-protein foods.
The Jenny Craig diet is next on the list. One of the longest running
diets, Jenny Craig started this business in the early 1980s and it’s
still around. The basic idea of this diet is a trade off: you don’t have
to choose recipes, do the shopping and the cooking, but you have to buy
the Jenny Craig prepackaged food. And that runs to some $100 per week.
Plus the membership costs. Plus the vegetables and fruits which are not
included in the prepackaged food. If you can afford it and if you can
stick to it, the diet is pretty good. However, similar low-calorie foods
can be bought at the grocery store and you don’t have to discuss this

2. with a Jenny Craig expert that insists on your eating the prepackaged
food because he gets a percentage of the sale price.
From sunny Florida comes the South Beach diet. This one has the right
idea and wrong approach combination down pat. Don’t get me wrong, a lot
of people have managed to lose weight with this diet and it actually
works. But the question is: can you really stick to it? The first phase
of the diet will eliminate most foods containing carbohydrates from your
daily consumption. Fortunately, this phase lasts two weeks.
Unfortunately, second phase focuses on a half-hearted return of whole
grains and fruits and lasts… as long as necessary. If reaching the
desired weight takes you one year, then that’s exactly how long this
phase is going to last. And if you don’t like the foods allowed by this
diet then you’re out of luck. There are no alternatives.
And yet another veteran dieting program around is Weight Watchers. This
is actually one of the best diets around because it puts all the
management tools in the hands of the user. If you are really committed to
losing weight, you have all the information you need to do it. And a lot
of people who are going through the same thing are going to be there to
help you. If having company during difficult times helps your willpower,
then you are probably going to lose all that extra weight. If, on the
other hand, you don’t like the idea of being constantly under peer
pressure, then this diet is not for you.
As you can see from this short review, there are a lot of diets out
there, dozens more than we’ve been able to cover here. The best thing to
do when choosing a diet is to do as much research about it as possible.
See what people who tried it have to say. Then see what doctors and
dietitians have to say about it. Between those singing praises and those
trying to prove the diet wrong you can probably get the truth yourself.
Still, pay special attention to what the doctors have to say. If they
tell you a certain diet will put your body to risk then think twice
before trying it.
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