(Newswire.net — June 17, 2020) —
Have you ever wanted to lose weight but find the vast choice of available diets confusing? Or maybe you’ve tried dieting, but it never works. It seems that there’s a new fad or type of food available every week, so let us guide you through some of the more popular and effective ones.
Types of Diet
The first thing to consider when talking about dieting is what type it is. You might have heard of vegan diets (cutting out all animal products, including eggs and milk) or of going vegetarian, but what about other common ones?
Paleo
This has gained popularity over the last few years and is primarily considered a “natural” way to eat. In a paleo type of diet, processed food and dairy are out, and grass-fed and organic food is in. Think of it as being an ‘ethical omnivore’.
Blood Type
Simply put, this diet involves matching a person with food best suited for their blood type. For example, it’s recommended that someone with type A blood eat primarily soy, seafood, and vegetables in order to lose weight.
Mediterranean
Another veggie-friendly diet type, this promotes the use of oil as an alternative to salad dressings and marinades, as well as cutting back on (not eliminating) red meat from your daily meals.
5 Ways to Diet
Some of these diets come from well-known companies, others are based on a type mentioned above, but all have been proven effective in some way.
Weight Watchers Freestyle
Coming from perhaps the most famous weight loss company in the world, this diet involves a point system. Every type of food has points appropriate to its nutritional value, and the idea is to eat a set number of points a day/week to meet your desired weight.
Ketogenic
The keto diet is one of the more popular diets on this list, as various celebrities champion it. Effectively, it involves a high fat intake and a very, very low amount of carbohydrates.
Whole30
In a nutshell, this diet involves completely cutting out certain food groups of your choosing for a solid thirty days. If you feel better after the month, keep avoiding those foods. Otherwise, try eliminating something else for another thirty days.
Cinderella Solution
By all accounts, losing weight just got easier with this modern diet plan. It takes the form of two phases and is designed to make your body generate more hormones in order to burn fat. This diet emphasizes food and drinks with high antioxidants, such as green tea.
Macrobiotic
Diets based on a different country’s food culture are gaining popularity these days, and this is one of them. A macrobiotic diet is based on the Asian concept of balance. For example, if you have a meal of fish, you should also include food from the land on your plate, such as vegetables. Easy!
Diets You Should Probably Avoid
It almost goes without saying, but diets are very much an individual thing. What works for one may not work for another. Even so, there are some diets you might be best to avoid altogether.
The Mushroom Diet
Replace one meal every day for two weeks with…mushrooms. Just mushrooms. Suffice to say; anyone would get bored of this very quickly. Plus, it deprives your body of nutrients since you’re eating an awful lot of mushrooms and not a lot of anything else.
The Tapeworm Diet
You guessed it. Willingly put a tapeworm inside your body to help you lose weight! Obviously, this is a terrible, disgusting idea.
Juice Fast
In theory, drinking nothing but juice and smoothies for a (little) while is an excellent way to detox while still getting vitamins and nutrients. However, many of these diets promote lengthy fasts – anything up to two weeks, in some cases. Two days, perhaps, but not much longer than that.
Conclusion
When we talk about healthy eating, a balanced diet is the best way to succeed in maintaining an ideal weight. However, bear in mind that sometimes food culture dictates what’s best for us. For example, a typical Colombian diet is carbohydrate-heavy, while an Australian diet favors barbecued meat and fresh smoothies. If none of the above diets take your fancy, why not try following the diet from another country? You might be surprised at the results!