Choosing a Diet Plan

With all the diet plans to choose from, how do you choose?

First get rid of starvation/fad diets. You can lose weight fast but this is the quickest way to get into the yo-yo diet cycle. Starvation diets are the quickest way to lose as much muscle as fat and be in worse physical shape than when you started.

The rest of the diets fall into two general categories: low fat high carb and low carb high fat. The diet advice you probably have gotten all your life is that high fat is bad. That is not as clear cut as it was once thought.

A November 2007 study showed a very low carb diet and a low fat diet both reduced 2 prominent features of metabolic syndrome, abnormal distribution of plasma fatty acids and increased inflammation. The study summarized that a very low carbohydrate diet resulted in reduced inflammation compared to a low fat diet. An April 2008 peer review paper has found that carbohydrates are the controlling factor deciding if saturated becomes a problem.

So now we have to paths to weight loss success. You can choose either that appear to work well. The thing that is important is you can't mix the 2 diet plan types. Choosing the plan best for you can basically boil down to what you can live without the easiest: Meat or bread.

One thing researcher from both camps agree on: Highly refined carbs of all kind is a bad food choice.

The last thing to remember is to allow a few cheats. Any time you make a major change you will fall back to old habits. When adopting a new way of eating, remember it is not what you do ever time that matters as much as what you do most of the time. Don't be discourage when you fall off the wagon, just remember to get back on.

The best diet plan for you will be the diet you can live with the rest of your life.

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