Weight Loss Diet

It is true that the best way to lose and maintain weight is by maintaining a diet that provides sustainable nutrition and also a specific weight loss diet plan depending on a person's potential to losing weight and according to their temperaments and choice.

The following specific weight loss diet is recommended by nutrition experts and most importantly by the people who had successfully used them.

Cabbage Soup Diet

The Soup Diet is based on a fat-burning process and contains negligible calories.

This weight loss diet consist on a combination of food that almost force you to starve everyday although you are allowed to consume all the cabbage soup and water you want and a very restricted set of other foods.

The cabbage soup diet has a 7 days weight loss diet plan losing 10 to 15 pounds. This plan includes a variety of low-calorie vegetables like onions, cabbage, and tomatoes, flavored with onion soup mix, bouillon and tomato juice.

Each day has a specific foods including fruit juice, potatoes, various vegetables, and on a single day, beef.

Day 1:

For day one you can eat only fruit any fruit you prefer except banana and as much soup as you like. Drink only unsweetened black coffee, tea, cranberry juice, and water.

Day 2:

For day two stay away from peas, dry beans, and sweet corn but you can eat vegetables fresh, raw, or cooked. For dinner, eat a big baked potato with butter for your satisfaction. Of course as much soup as you like but no fruit.

Day 3:

In day three combine days one and two except no baked potato.

Day 4:

Day four is supposed to reword your desire for sweets, so drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like and eat eight bananas and don’t forget your soup!

Day 5:

In day five you may have up to six fresh tomatoes and 300-500g of beef (10-20 ounces). If you want you can change the beef with baked chicken or boiled fish.

It is recommended to drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day.

Day 6:

In day six eat vegetables, beef and two or three steaks with fresh vegetables or salad but no baked potato. Eat your soup at least once today.

Day 7:

This final day you can eat all you want of unsweetened fruit juices, brown rice, and vegetables, of curse at least your soup once and no alcohol, bread, or carbonated beverages, not even diet soda.

Medifast Weight Loss Diet Plan:

Medifast is a weight loss diet plan using meal replacements and real food. The program has been prescribed by doctors specifically for obese people.

Medifast comes with a 5 and 1 plan and is made up of 5 meal replacements per day - generally shakes, but also soups, bars, puddings and oatmeal.

One meal per day contains a small portion of up to 2 cups of salad or vegetables and lean meat. The eating periods are at every 2-3 hours and you must drink minimum of 64oz of water daily.

The 5 and 1 plan is a vast improvement on some of their previous programs and you can loss 2-5 pounds per week although is not a very low calorie diet.

3-Hour Weight Loss Diet Plan:

3-Hour Diet is an other very popular diet and is a book written by fitness author Jorge Cruise - "The 3-Hour Diet - How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin”.

The basic premise of the 3 Hour Diet is to eat a meal every 3 hours. The main idea is to help maintain consistent energy levels throughout the day and to increase metabolism.

Jorge Cruise recommends exercise, 8 minutes every day!

Every day meals are based on a source of carbs, lean protein, and healthy fats and the various frozen food and fast food and. The calorie amounts of the suggested daily meals amount to 1450 calories per day. The 3-Hour Diet is heavy on processed food - which can be of questionable nutritional value.

What is a GI diet?

Foods with a high GI value cause a rapid rise in blood sugar. This can often leave you feeling hungry within a short time, and will often result in you eating a snack.

You will gain weight by constantly overeating if this pattern is repeated often.

Diets based on low GI value encourage you to avoid eating foods with a high GI value and it helps to prevent swings in blood sugar, helping you feel fuller longer. Most GI diets recommend reducing fat and particularly saturated fats.

The Glycemic Impact Diet is an excellent weight loss diet because it takes the best from other diets like Zone Diet and South Beach Diet and combines them with easy-to-follow advice.