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Natural Fat Loss Diet

July 26th, 2010
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The best healthy weight loss diets

I’m going to talk to you about a natural fat loss diet that you should use to help lose weight. When you get down to it, you’re going to have to develop your own diet. It seems hard, but if you want it to work for the long term. I can easily tell you what to do, but if you can’t sustain it, than what’s the point? You have to have a diet that you can follow for the rest of your life. That means you’re going to need to know what it takes to build your own diet that works FOR YOU!

You should start eating smaller meals more often. This seems a bit excessive for people, but it is an important part of a natural fat loss diet. When you eat these smaller meals more often it boosts your metabolism. As long as your body is constantly digesting something, your metabolism will stay up. The reason this is good is because you can technically eat more food. I’m not saying more food than you’re eating now, but more food than you would on a regular 3 meals a day diet. The extra calories mean you can eat more food and lose weight at the same time.

When it comes to your foods, you have to stop thinking so much and break it down to the root; protein, carbs and fat. These all play a role. Protein should be consistently eaten through all meals. Carbohydrates should progressively decline throughout the day. Fat should be eaten in the evening along with protein. That’s all there is too it.

If you follow these fat loss diet rules, you can structure in the foods you like to have great success.

Is The Fat Flush Diet Plan All Hype?

March 31st, 2010

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The Fat Flush diet plan claims to improve your health and accelerate weight loss by enhancing your livers ability to function at its best, which you do by detoxifying yourself. Is this just another money-making diet gimmick or is there any truth in the fat flushing concept?

The diet suggests you cleanse your liver with tonics like as unsweetened cranberry juice and water, and hot water and lemon juice. The Fat Flush diet plan also teaches to eat balanced proteins and healthy carbs, along with essential fats, as well as many herbs and spices which apparently can aid your weight loss.

Very few clinical studies have been able to support this diet or other detox diets and the majority of experts are cynical about the notion of fat flushing. Jane Kirby, a registered dietitian, states that the idea of the liver being a fat-burning furnace that you can rev up just by eating certain foods “deserves to be flushed” itself. She also explains that this claim is baseless and says most people lose weight when calories are cut low, as they are on the Fat Flush diet plan which is just a low-calorie diet.

According to Judith Stern, the vice president of the American Obesity Association, the Fat Flush diet plan should be lumped with others that make unsupported claims. Stern says that these books offer pseudoscience which is wonderful because it promises you everything, but is just a fantasy at the end of the day. She also explains that your liver does not need detoxifying and that muscle, not the liver, burns fat.

For exercise, youre recommended to bounce off fat on a mini-trampoline and walk regularly. The Fat Flush diet plan claims that you can remove cellulite-like deposits on hips and thighs just by following this advice. However, it would have been better to recommend more effective and proven exercises, especially when you consider that the most people have a serious exercise deficiency.

Time again, I have wrote about the classic myth that you burn more fat by walking than you do by more intense exercises like cycling or swimming. Higher intensity exercises may not burn as great a percentage of fat as low-intensity exercises do, but they burn far more actual fat calories in comparison. What this means is that if you want to melt fat off, youre going to have to sweat!

It can also be quite expensive if you follow the Fat Flush diet plan closely and purchase the recommended foods and supplements. Many of these can be hard to find and are not for those on a limited budget. You are instructed to buy unsweetened cranberry juice, whey protein powder, high-lignan flax oil, and organic foods, although some of the additional weight loss supplements are optional.

The Fat Flush diet plan can also be quite time-consuming, as you are expected to buy fresh fruits and vegetables, and cook and prepare all meals yourself. Due to the nature of the Fat Flush diet plan you will need to be very committed and have a lot of willpower to lose a significant amount of weight on this diet.

To conclude, I should mention that the first phase of the Fat Flush diet plan recommends against most carbohydrate foods and is a low calorie diet which will no doubt result in muscle and water loss for many people. Despite claims that you will shed fat by dieting in this manner this is simply not true. Such dieting is very unhealthy and will only make it difficult to maintain any weight loss you achieve.

Low Card Dieting|fat Loss Diets

July 14th, 2008

Category - Diet, Weight Loss

Learn The Details Of The Idiot Proof Diet.

The whole world has gone low fat crazy — and most people think that if they just begin eating low fat foods then their bodies will have less fat too.

Sounds logical right?

Wrong.

You see, the problem with this type of thinking is that there is no direct relationship between fat calories eaten and fat tissue on a persons body.

The Zone Diet is based on the theory of 40/30/30 — which means that 40% of calories should be from carbs, 30% from protein, and 30% from fats. This program was created by Barry Sears……and a well known book was published about this diet called “Enter the Zone”.

So when a dieter eats a meal which is “40/30/30″ — then it’s referred to as a “Zone Favorable” meal.

The author of the Zone Program (Barry Sears) claims that if you make all meals “Zone Favorable” then your body will have reduced insulin levels, which will lead to weight loss and fat burning.

However, we do not agree that eating a 40/30/30 meal (Zone Favorable meal) is the best way to reduce insulin levels.

Also, another thing to remember is that it can be difficult to follow the Zone Diet because everything must be calculated “precisely” at every meal (and most people will find such calculations very tedious, especially people with busy schedules).

We believe that average dieters may find this program too difficult to use for any serious length of time, and therefore we do not like the Zone Diet program.

The makers of this diet have even created their own line of Zone Favorable Food products (such as Zone bars, Zone Shakes, and other Zone products for dieters).

But of course, such products cost much more than “average food” costs……so many average dieters may discover that buying such products is not economical for them. This is yet one more reason why we do not recommend using this program.

The Jenny Craig weight loss program is a bit more traditional and simple in our opinion, though it probably costs a bit too much for the average person (it’s also a little too basic in its principles, in our opinion).

This entire diet seems to be based on eating fewer calories while exercising more, which is a very old concept. With Jenny Craig you get assigned your own weight loss expert (nutrition counselor) who will help to keep you motivated each week so that you’ll remain on the diet.

This is possible because Jenny Craig has many weight loss centers throughout the world, and if dieters live close to a facility then they can choose to meet with a nutrition consultant “in person”. Or, if dieters do not live near a facility then they can choose to meet with their nutrition counselor “via telephone” each week.

…But regardless of whether you meet with your nutrition consultant via telephone or in person — you’ll still have to buy Jenny Craig’s expensive “pre-packaged” meals. That’s the downside of this diet program in our opinion, since you have to continually buy Jenny’s pre-packaged meals (which are fairly expensive when compared to normal meals).

From everything we’ve seen these pre-packaged meals seem to be lower calorie versions of normal meals, so they don’t seem to be anything too earth shattering or special (from our perspective).

So with Jenny Craig you’ll basically be eating fewer calories (smaller portioned meals) and exercising more while meeting weekly with a nutrition counselor (who will keep you motivated so that you don’t quit the diet).

Plus, don’t forget that you’ll be required to buy Jenny Craig’s pre-packaged food every single week — which can be expensive over time.

So overall we don’t think that it’s smart to use the Jenny Craig program, since any diet that requires you to continually spend money for “special meals” is not a good choice in our opinion.

In fact, it’s not based on “low calories” either, and it’s also not based on “low carbs” (since low carb diets don’t work very well)… The Idiot Proof Diet is a brand new type of diet never seen before, so give it a try and watch the pounds come off fast.

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