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Author:
Leslie Gibbon

More people than ever are trying to lose weight these days. But which diets are the best, and what do you need to do to make sure that your diet is a success? To sustain any progress one might make on a 'diet', they must consider this a permanent change in their behavior or patterns. Therefore, just like binging should be in moderation, so should dieting. Better a sensible weight loss plan that actually works, albeit slowly, that a crash diet that leaves you craving the very foods that you should be avoiding.

The current diet craze is for low carb diets, but are they really a good idea and do they work? We need a certain amount of carbohydrates to produce energy and maintain a healthy body. To eliminate all carbohydrates is not only unrealistic; it might even be dangerous. Since we only need to reduce and/or limit carbohydrates, it is essential that the carbohydrates we choose be those that are higher in nutritional value. It’s really a question of quality over quanty.

Many of the low carb diets don‘t only tell you what to eat; they want to sell you their own “special“ foods to go with their diets. This then is also expensive in addition to punishing. Unless someone has limited time, does not have the ability or desire to prepare healthful meals, and has unlimited financial resources, these diet plans are unnecessary.

As with any diet, the main ingredient is not the food that you eat, but the willpower wtih which you follow the diet. The only 'accessory' one needs for planning to change their eating behavior is perhaps one of the cookbooks that may be purchased from one of the low carb diet plans or probably just about anywhere cookbooks are sold.

Although there are discrepancies between the different low carb diets they do generally have some common characteristics. If you perform a cursory comparison of a typical meal, like any diet, they put an emphasis on vegetables both raw and cooked, a little fruit, protein and very few starches, or desserts, if any. As with most successful diets these are still based on limiting your calories.

A meal with any low carb diet plan will have almost no mention of allowing pasta, bread, baked goods, sugar treats, potatoes, rice, or cereals, although there are some exceptions. What is surprising is that some don't allow carrots or beets. One always associated in the past, with the calorie watcher diets, the dieter as one who is always munching carrots, these days it may well be that the image of a dieter is of the one that has most steaks on their plate rather than the one who has the most salad!

Despite limiting certain vegetables some diets allow fruit that is, although very good for you, high in natural sugars and therefore carbohydrates. We do need some sugar, and certainly fructose is a better source than refined sugar (sucrose). The best diets are really just a healthy eating plan that is both enjoyable and easy to keep to.

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Leslie Gibbon. http://www.lesliegibbon.com

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