Quick Weight Loss Diet Reviews

If you are trying to lose weight you might be confused with all the different weight loss programmes out there.

And because there are so many different weight loss programmes to choose from, you probably don’t have the time or money to try each of them out.

In this article, we will briefly review some of the most popular quick weight loss diet books/programmes that will help you to lose 10 pounds.

Once you know what’s out there, you will stand a better chance of picking a diet programme that will work for you and best suits your needs.

Lose 10 Pounds With Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution

This basis of this weight loss programme involves eating lots of protein and few carbohydrate foods.

For example, you can eat lots of meat and vegetables, but you can’t eat pasta or bread. You can also eat as much fat as you like on this diet.

Low carbohydrate diets tend to produce excellent results, and also result in long term weight loss.

Lose 10 Pounds With Dr. Heller’s Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet

This diet is basically another low carbohydrate diet. It promotes the consumption of vegetables, fruits, meat, grains and dairy products.

This diet allows you to eat more carbohydrates than the Atkins’ diet, and so may result in slower weight loss.

It can however, be good for people who are finding it difficult to reduce the amount of carbs they consume and don’t feel comfortable jumping into something as drastic as the Atkins’ diet.

Lose Weight With The Low Glycemic Index Diet

This is essentially a low carbohydrate diet, but a bit more specific as to what you can and can’t eat.

You are allowed to eat low glycemic index foods, and a few medium glycemic index foods.

This programme, like other low carb programmes, tends to result in rapid weight loss. However, the use of the glycemic index alone has been criticised as it may not always give you an accurate representation of what foods are “safe” to eat.

As a result, many people believe you should back up a glycemic index score with a glycemic load score.

Lose Weight With Dr. Goor’s Choose To Lose

The basis of this programme involves restricting the amount of fatty foods you eat. You are provided with a “fat budget” which allows you to eat a certain amount of fat each day.

There are no restrictions on carbohydrate consumption, meat, low fat diary products, fruits, vegetables, bread, pasta or grains.

Cutting out man made trans fats is certainly good for your overall level of health, but there is little evidence that reducing the amount of natural fat you eat will cause you to lose weight, especially if you are eating carbohydrates such as bread and pasta.

Weight Loss On The DASH Diet

This diet encourages intake of moderate quantities of unsaturated fat, protein and high carbohydrate foods. It advocates high intake of grains, fruits, vegetables and low fat foods.

Some people feel that you need to eat quite a lot on this diet to feel full, which can make it difficult to stick with in the long run.

Weight Loss With Dr. Ornish’s Eat More, Weight Less

This is a vegetarian and low fat diet. Like most vegetarian diets, it may help you to lose weight but is likely to result in nutritional deficiencies if you stick with it for a long time.

Lose 10 Pounds With Eat Right For Your Type

This diet varies depending on what blood group you are. For people with blood group type O, it encourages lots of meat intake.

But the diet plans for other blood types are not balanced and very low in calories, which can make the diet both unhealthy and difficult to stick it.

This diet however is interesting, because in the future, diets may be tailor made to suit your genetic makeup.

Lose 10 Pounds With The Pritkin Principle

This diet promotes the intake of watery foods to satisfy hunger, as a result you are encouraged to eat a lot of fruit and soups but you must limit your protein intake.

Whilst watery foods may satisfy short term hunger pangs, they can leave you feeling bloated, needing frequent urination/bowel movements and low in energy especially if you lead an active lifestyle.

Lose Weight With Weight Watchers

Weight Watchers is perhaps the most famous diet plan there is, and promotes high carbohydrate intake with a moderate intake of proteins and fats.

There are also lots of Weight Watcher foods designed to help you lose weight, but in reality these probably won’t help you very much.

Lose Weight On A Low Calorie Diet

This diet is based on research carried out on rats. It was found that rats which were fed a restrictive diet tended to live longer than rats which ate lots of food.

As a result, some people believe that severely restricting your calorie intake each day will allow humans to live longer.

Whether or not this is true we can’t say, as there have been no long term studies done on this. But evidence does seem to support the idea that eating less is better than eating more.

In terms of weight loss, low calorie diets will certainly cause you to lose a lot of weight, but probably too much weight.

People who follow such diets are likely to experience low energy levels, feel cold during the winter and find the diet very difficult to stick to.

Which Diet Should You Follow?

A low glycemic index/load low carbohydrate diet is probably your best bet when it comes to losing weight in a healthy way and keeping the weight off.

There is little real evidence to suggest that saturated fats cause heart disease (something which has not yet been proven), and plenty of evidence showing that carbohydrates cause weight gain.

Therefore, any diet which advocates high carbohydrate consumption is unlikely to result in long term or rapid weight loss.

However, it is important to remember that we all have a unique genetic makeup, so we each respond to foods differently.

Therefore, until we are able to do some sort of genetic screening to see what diet would best suit our genetics, it is impossible to say for certain what is the perfect diet for each individual.

For now, at least, the low carb diet is probably your safest option as many people report excellent long term results on it and it closely matches the sort of diet people used to eat before humans began mass producing foods.

In addition to eating low carb, it’s also probably a good idea to reduce the amount of food you eat, eating less in the evening, and to take enzyme supplements with each meal.

It could be argued that vegetarian diets also closely resemble diets our ancestors used to it, however, studies done on populations who eat a purely vegetarian diet usually show that those populations experience a lower level of health than populations who consume meat.

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