Weight Loss Success Strategies - Do Diet Plans & Diet Menus Really Work?

The answer to this question is not always clear.

Some diet plans and menus will work real well for some people, but this doesn't necessarily mean, however, that they will work well for everyone. The key thing to think about here is really the principles that the diet plan is based on and how long you can stick with the program!

Diet plans & pre-organized menus can be really helpful from two main aspects. Firstly, they can take away a lot of the stress associated with choosing and planning the food you are going to eat. Follow the plan and it is all there for you. Secondly they can be really helpful getting the actual weight loss you want, because the diet plan has hopefully been carefully looked into and developed with a person's nutritional needs taken into account. So it could actually be healthy as well.

Both of these help to eliminate some of the problems associated with diets...the choice of what to eat and when to eat it, and in what combinations...so we stay healthy through the dieting process. We need to not only stick with a certain number of calories per day, we also need to make sure that we get the right balance of protein, carbohydrates, fat, minerals etc.

Let's say you try out a low carb or low fat diet plan with a good reputation. Your diet plan tells you exactly what you should and shouldn't be eating and it may even have a specific menu that you can follow if you like. Dieting solutions that are well thought out and that have a solid basis of healthy rather than fad eating can be really successful.

But, things might look pretty different if the diet plans or diet menu you look at are based on shakier foundations. Let's say that as an alternative you decide to try out some new, never-been-tried-before high protein diet shakes and you use the shakes as a replacement to one or more meals a day. This can be a great way of losing a few pounds over a few weeks but can you eat like this forever? Chances are you can't and as soon as you stop mixing up the shakes and start eating a regular diet again the pounds will start creeping back on. It may well only be a temporary solution.

One of the drawbacks of some diet plans is that food or meal list only covers a short-time period, say two weeks, so it can also be darn hard to stick with repeating the same food day in day out for weeks and then maybe months on end. Let's face it, a few weeks of sticking to any boring and repetitive diet plan will drive most of us crazy and craving any food but diet food.

So look for diet plans with a good balance of food types, lots of variation, demonstrated success and a great reputation.

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H Woolston