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The World’s 7 Top Diets

The Atkins Diet
This diet has been controversial in that it is based on meat and high fat but research have shown that dieters loose weight fast but struggle to stay on this diet long-term.

The Atkins diet starts with a cautious first 14 days during which you have to follow instructions exactly. Thus you get your body’s metabolism into a lipolysis/ketosis state, burning fat for energy – thus making weight loss possible.

After that, the Atkins diet follower’s meal plan must mostly exclude pastas, potatoes, pies and cakes and only fruits and dairy in absolute moderation.

The Denise Austin Diet
The Denise Austin Diet concentrates on fitness and eating correctly. Diet followers work out for half an hour daily and eat every meal, but focus on the right foods.

This weight loss program encourage toning, cardio and stretching for daily exercise and foods high in fibre such as fruits and vegetables and only good fats – in the right sized portions.

In this diet it is vital that your state of mind improves as much as your fitness and eating situation. This diet is meant to encourage permanent lifestyle changes.

The Mayo Clinic Plan
This diet offers the follower a menu of limitless fruit and vegetables and other health options but also encourage physical activity strongly. This plan and diet is formulated to improve health offers a lifestyle approach to managing your weight and maintaining it. This is a diet to help lower cholesterol, reduce heart disease and risk of, deal with diabetes, cancer and other.

Foods that are encouraged include veggies, fruits, beans, fish and lean protein, low-fat dairy and unsaturated fats such as olive oils and whole-grain carbohydrates. The message behind this weight loss plan is to eat until you feel satisfyingly full.

Again, exercise is of utmost importance!

The Mediterranean Diet
This diet and weight loss programme is designed on the eating principles of the Mediterranean. Dieters are encouraged to enjoy the preparation of their foods and to mostly use olive oil in their recipes, to eat all they enjoy but always in moderate proportions.

The Mediterranean diet focuses on low fat, high energy plant proteins, bread, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, pasta, rice and whole grains. Dairy and meat must be eaten in small amounts and preferably low-fat options.

The success behind this diet lies in the fact that followers learn to enjoy the cooking of low-fat, cholesterol-free foods that are high in taste and to eat, but stop at the point of satisfaction.

NutriSystem
This is not a new diet and has reached great success over the last 3 decades. This weight loss plan is based on its low-fat, low-glycemic foods (NutriSystem Nourish foods), filled with good amounts of protein, fibre and good carbs.

The NutriSystem diet comes in a Type II diabetic program and strictly vegetarian program, a women’s program, silver for women, men’s and a silver for men. The NutriSystem meals have25% protein, 20% fat, low sodium and 55% good low-glycemic carbohydrates.

With these foods the dieter receives a NutriSystem Meal Planner that is pretty flexible.

The Sonoma Diet
This weight loss program is all about the science of food where the dieter can enjoy tasty meals in the correct combinations with serving suggestions. The idea is that you not only shed the weight but that each dieter changes his/her lifestyle too.

The Sonoma Wave 1 takes care of week 1 when the dieter is discouraged to eat refined flour, sugars and other ‘wrong’ foods. This week is a fast-result period.
The Sonoma Wave 2 takes you to your target weight. This period is a steady weight loss one and not as fast as Wave 1.
Wave 3 is all about maintaining!

In the Sonoma diet you focus stronger on how much you eat, versus what you eat. There will however be more veggies and grains with leaner meats while fat and calories are discouraged. These foods are eaten on size-specific plates so that you get the portions right.

South Beach Diet
The South Beach Diet is very popular and dieters lose weight fast in the first 14 days as long as they avoid baked foods and bread, soft drinks and snack plus all highly processed carbs. This diet teaches its followers to recognise the right fats and right carbs.

South Beach Phase One (2 weeks) cuts out carbs, fruit, baked goods and alcohol, and allows the follower lean proteins, eggs, nuts, cheese and vegetables in normal portions – eliminating sugar craving and/or hunger.
South Beach Phase Two take the dieter to their ideal weight with more dairy and whole-grain bread.
South Beach Phase Three is all about maintaining!

This is essentially a low-carb diet focussing on animal proteins and fat foods such as fish, chicken and turkey, milk, yogurt, cheese and nuts.