Diet Plans — Find Out Which Diet Plan Fits YOUR Needs

Diet plans!! Do they really work? Are they a permanent solution to weight loss?

The first thing that crosses the mind of an individual trying to lose weight are the words diet and exercise, and why not? Whenever you type the words “lose weight” in the internet, the first thing that comes up in the search results are a list of diet plans that help you lose weight, accompanied with certain exercises to lose that unwanted body fat. Although diets help you lose weight, the real questions is the fallowing, are diet plans a permanent solution to weight loss? Well to find the answers we will discuss three things, popular diet plans, exercise, and adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Today’s most popular diet plans!

Before we take a look at today’s most popular diet plans, do you know what a diet is? When you star a diet you severely change the quantity of food you consume each day, in essence you are starving the body of food. You do this with the anticipation of burning more calories (fat) as you eat fewer calories. Every time you go on a diet you significantly alter your body, and if you stay on a diet for an extended period of time, your body ultimately adjust to the modifications and you lose less and less weight each time. Know that you know how a diet changes your body, let us take a quick view at some diet plans used today.

Two popular detoxification diets plans. The fallowing two diets are called detoxification diets because during the whole process you are under the diet plan you eat or drink nothing except the specific concoction drink of each diet. As a result you lose a lot of fluids; one/two pounds of muscle, a few pounds of fat, but you mostly lose waste materials in your digestive tracks.

• The Hollywood Diet consists of drinking the Hollywood Diet Juice for one or two days. During this diet plan you are not allowed to eat any type of food or drinks, except water and the Hollywood Diet Juice. At the end of the diet you will lose ten or more pounds.
• The Lemonade Diet consists of dinking a mixture of lemon juice mixed with rich maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. During ten to fourteen days you are not allow to eat or drink anything except water, salt water, and one or two cups of natural herbal-tea with no caffeine or sugar/honey per day.

The fallowing three diet plans are completely different than the detoxification diets. During these diets you are allowed to eat three very restricted and controlled meals per day, except for the cabbage diet.

• The Grapefruit Diet consists of eating three strictly controlled meals per day and ingesting grapefruit juice with each meal. It can last somewhere between seven to twenty-one days.
• In the Cabbage Soup Diet you can eat as much soup as you want, but the soups must be made with cabbage and other vegetables. You are also allowed to eat very small quantities of low-calorie vegetables, fruits, meat, and skin milk, which will provide your body with proteins.
• The Three Day Diet consists of drinking four to eight glasses of water or diet soda daily, next to three strictly controlled meals for three days. (This diet works best if you to lose ten pounds or less.)
• During the Scarsdale Diet do not need to measure, or count anything. All you do is fallow a menu giving to you that consists of regular supermarket foods.
• The Vegetarian Scarsdale Diet is much like its predecessors except it is for vegetarians or for people who simply want to stop eating meat wile on a diet.
• The only rule on the Low Carb Diet is that you need to eat very little foods with bad carbohydrates, and instead eat foods rich in good carbohydrates (which also include proteins and good fats).

As you can see there are several diet plans you can choose from, and although some people claim they do work, is it possible to permanently lose weight? Well take a look at the fallowing data.

• A thirty year old research held in ten different countries showed that it only takes three weeks before fifty percent of the people on diets relapse to their old eating habits.
• Another research held on popular diets show that people only lost ten pounds on average! And fifty percent gain back all the weight they had lost and sometimes more!

Therefore the answer to the question is no, diet plans do not work! But before you blame the diet plans, take a look at the two pieces of information left.

Exercise, exercise, exercise!!

Can you tell me the best type of exercise you can do to lose weight? The answer quite simple and funny, because the best exercise to lose weight is the one you actually do!! Let me explain, there are three types of different exercises, aerobic exercises, anaerobic exercises and stretching exercises, however, if you do not to any type of exercise whatsoever they are all useless! Therefore it is important that you sit down, plan an exercise routine that is jut right for you, and stick to it, even if its jut two or three days a week. (When you start an exercise regime you must be realistic and recognize your limits, start slowly and when you adjust to the exercise regime you can pump it up.)

Let’s take a closer look at the three styles of exercise.

• Aerobic exercises use multi muscle groups at the same time, accelerate your heart and your breathing rate and make you sweat. Some aerobic exercises include biking, swimming, jogging, walking, and dancing.
• Anaerobic exercises are generally brief and are more intensive than aerobics, and they tend to focus on strengthening different muscles. Some examples of anaerobic exercises are weight-lifting and sprints.
• Stretching exercises are used to make limbs more flexible, therefore giving a person more flexibility. Some examples of stretching exercises are yoga, pilates, and tai chi.

Adopting a healthy lifestyle!

Resent research has shown that people who fallow the golden rule of sleep and have less stress in their lives, not only manage to lose weight easier but they actually have an easier time keeping the weight off. Why? The next two bullet points will explain.

• The golden rule of sleep is to sleep at least 7½ hours each nigh. When you do not fallow the golden rule your body produces to little hormones (Leptin and insulin) which help the body lose weight.
• When you have too much stress it has the opposite effect of the golden rule. This is because, when under constant stress, your body produces too much hormones (adrenaline, cortisol and insulin). These hormones make you hungry and cause you to eat more than you are supposed to or what you are supposed to.

Know that we have taken a close look at the diet plans, exercise, and a adopting a better lifestyle; do you think diet plans a permanent solution to weight loss? Well the answer is pretty obvious. Losing weight is not only about dieting and exercising, it’s also about adopting a better life style. It’s something that takes time, patience, and perseverance, because there is no easy way to lose weight. You constantly have to keep an eye on the types of food you eat, because eating healthy does not necessarily means you can no longer eat your favorite chocolate or ice-cream. It means you need to be careful of the amount and frequency you eat certain foods with. It means getting out of bed and taking a walk or taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Therefore, know that you have the knowledge; do you want to lose weight? It’s up you, so good luck!