Weight loss diets

Don’t skimp on protein when you diet: It may help you lose more flab and less muscle, new studies show. Harness your hunger. A diet that’s 30% protein (similar to the Zone, Atkins, and South Beach plans) helped 19 overweight people lose an average of 11 pounds, 8 of them fat. Remarkably, the subjects consumed 441 fewer calories per day in 3 months on this regimen than they had during 2 weeks on a 15% protein diet–despite the fact that they could eat as much as they wanted, provided they maintained the 30% protein ratio. Protein can suppress appetite in ways that carbs and fats can’t, the scientists say, for reasons yet to be determined.

Pick better proteins.One of protein’s amino acids, leucine, may be the key to keeping muscle and losing fat. Twenty-four women who averaged 107 g of protein daily (similar to high-protein diets) lost 1 more pound of fat than 24 others who averaged 57 g a day over 4 months. Both groups limited calories to 1,700 a day. Other recent studies show that leucine can promote muscle building when overall calories are low. Although animal protein is richest in leucine (1,700 to 2,100 mg per serving), it’s also a prime source of heart-harming sat fats. So stock up on good, lower-fat sources.

7 protein foods high in fat-fighting leucine (mg)

• Tofu, firm, 1/2 cup - 1,511 mg
• Cottage cheese, 1% fat, 1/2 cup - 1,440 mg
• Fat-free milk, 8 ounces - 818 mg
• Mozzarella, reduced-fat, 1 ounce - 670 mg
• Cheddar, reduced-fat, 1 ounce - 608 mg
• Egg, hard- or soft-boiled, large - 538 mg
• Couscous, cooked, 1 cup - 464 mg

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Fresh fruits and vegetables that leave your stomach satisfied.

Bulking up your meals with water-rich fruits and vegetables is a proven waistline slimmer. Women who added lots of low-cal produce to a low-fat diet lost more weight than women who simply cut fat. Adding extra fruits and veggies helps you feel fuller. Produce is rich in moisture and fiber. Try these flavorful, in-season finds.

Produce pick: Radishes, sliced

• Calories per cup: 19 %
• water: 95 %

Produce pick: Cabbage, shredded

• Calories per cup: 17%
• water: 93%

Produce pick: Spaghetti squash

• Calories per cup: 31%
• water: 92%

Produce pick: Cranberries, whole

• Calories per cup: 44%
• water: 87%

Produce pick: Brussels sprouts, whole

• Calories per cup: 38%
• water: 86%

Produce pick: Kale, chopped

• Calories per cup: 34%
• water: 83%

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Well-known « the albuminous diet » was offered for the first time by scientist Robert Atkins.
It consists of two phases: weight reduction and its maintenance at the reached level.

Main principle: to avoid the products saturated by carbohydrates: a potato, macaroni and vegetables with the high contents of starch.

It is considered, that on “hostility” to carbohydrates Atkins diet is the most strict.
The albuminous diet is full contrast – carbohydrate. It, most likely, will please those who cannot do without meat products. Twenty five years ago professor Apfelbaun prescribed patients for treatment of some forms of adiposity diets on the basis of egg albumin. But if earlier albuminous diets had more likely restrictive character, and people grew thin due to very monotonous diet now the food of an albuminous diet includes not only fibers, but also many other things nutrients.

To keep to an albuminous diet in general, it is simple enough: it is necessary to refuse fats and carbohydrates, that is to remove from a diet such products, as a potato, grain, sweet, flour products and a butter. It is recommended to consume such albuminous nutrition, as: lenten meat, a fish, the eggs, the skim milk products.
For couple of weeks being on an albuminous diet it is possible to lose about eight kgs. All the matter is that carbohydrates are a source of glucose, that is original fuel for our organism. Receive its organism can two ways. First, from food stuffs; secondly, from own stocks. Therefore at absence in the menu of carbohydrates and fats the organism has only one way: to liquidate own stocks of fat. From here and such significant weight reduction.

But as any diet has pluss and minuses, and, in opinion of experts, restriction in the use of those products or other groups not so favorably influences an organism, try to understand, that for you it is more important, that is weigh all pluss and minuses of an albuminous diet.

Plus of an albuminous diet that you really will start to grow thin, not testing famine. The albuminous food is quite capable to supply your organism with necessary fuel. It occurs because fibers are digested longer and if you, for example, have eaten a piece of meat for a dinner, you will not want to have a bite than has got till the supper.

Besides, on digestion of albuminous food the lung, for example, yoghurt is spent much more calories, than for something. Your food will differ a variety – unlike some limited diets, such as kefiric or apple. That who loves sweet this diet will not approach.

Probably, has come to choose time – either sweets, or a beautiful figure.

The main advantage of the given diet, in opinion of dietarians, it is necessary to consider that after the stop diet you will not gain excess weight if, certainly, you will not have a desire to fill lost by pies, rolls, cakes or a spaghetti with fat sauce. At reasonable moderation in nutrition you can keep the achieved result for a long time, to keep a good figure.

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The Grapefruit Diet also known as Hollywood Diet
Grapefruit Diet is a weight loss diet built solely around the humble grapefruit.
Ggrapefruit is a sub-tropical citrus tree grown for its fruit.
Grapefruit – a marvelous fruit, fat free, low in calories and full of vitamin C, and the pink and red hues contain the beneficial antioxidant lycopene. Pink grapefruits also contain some beta carotene. The fruit is yellow-skinned, largely oblate and ranges in diameter from 10-15 cm and has an acidic yellow segmented pulp.
Grapefruit comes in many varieties, determinable by color, which is caused by the pigmentation of the fruit in respect of both its state of ripeness and genetic bent.
Studies have shown grapefruit helps lower cholesterol and there is evidence that the seeds have low levels of antioxidant properties.

There are some grapefruit diets which just add grapefruit to a relatively healthy diet because grapefruit supposedly has some fat-burning enzyme.

The traditional grapefruit diet consists of a 7 or 21 day eating plan.
The Rule: You must eat half a grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice before every meal. The grapefruit acts as a kick-starter for fat burning. Also required to restrict your daily caloric intake to 800 calories.
Eating only 800 calories a day total are not a good weight loss solution for many people. This is a very low calorie diet that is likely to leave you feeling tired, irritable and lacking in energy.

Grapefruit Diet Meal Plan:

A grapefruit diet meal is usually composed of protein-rich foods– like bacons and eggs– and veggies that are all low in complex carbs.
Diet plan also requires drinking 8 glasses of water every day.
You cannot eat white onions, potatoes, celery, peas, cucumbers, carrots, green onions, potato chips, cabbage, tomatoes, green beans, lettuce, chili, cheese, mayonnaise, hot dogs, coleslaws, regular salad dressing green vegetables, dried nuts and butter/dill/bread pickles.

Breakfast might include two eggs and two slices of bacon followed by a serving of meat and salad for lunch.
At dinner, you might have a serving of meat or fish, a salad, and a cup of coffee or tea.

You must eat the bacon and salads. These combinations of food burn the fat.
You may double or triple helpings of meat, salad or vegetables.
Dont eat between meals.
Limit coffee intake to 1 cup per meal.
Do not eat desserts, breads, and white vegetables or sweet potatoes.

Latest research has found that the simple act of adding grapefruit and grapefruit juice to your diet, really can aid weight loss, you get these results without changing what else you eat!
Experts agree that more research is needed before rushing out to stock up on grapefruit, but even now one thing is certain – eating more grapefruit won’t damage your health and can certainly contribute to a healthy diet.

Also you can find Grapefruit Diet Pills or Grapefruit Pectin Capsules, also called Grapefruit Solution. It is not a medication.
ingredients: 200mg of Grapefruit Pectin Complex, Cellulose, Hemmicellulose, and Fiber. studies have shown that serum cholesterol levels are reduced by a daily diet containing significant amounts of pectin.

Warning!
Grapefruit can have a number of interactions with drugs, , potentially causing serious side effects.
Speak to your GP before start Grapefruit Diet, other citrus fruits dont seem to have any effect.

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