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This diet can seem a little overwhelming at first, but it will teach you a lot about food and get you thinking about what you are eating. It is important to note that this diet is specifically designed to try and attack belly fat and give you a nice 6-pack abdomen so you must do the exercise part of the plan as well.
This diet takes dieters through four cycles in 17-day increments. Proponents of this diet say that changing your plan every seventeen days helps avoid plateaus and boredom and makes it mentally easier for people to stay on the plan longer.
This diet started to appear in the 80s. The basic goal is to promote fast weight loss, as well as giving you more energy and a body cleanse. Once the three days have passed the dieter is allowed to resume normal eating for another three or four days before returning to the diet for three days.
The Engine 2 Diet was created by firefighter Rip Esselstyn when he noticed that his firefighter co-workers had high cholesterol. The diet is a 28 day meal plan that lets you enjoy a variety of foods such as vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, and grains. Although this is a plant based diet, however, it doesn’t completely forbid meat.
As with most low-carb diets, exercise is optional. Initial weight loss can be significant, but largely consists of water weight loss and from depleting your body’s store of glycogen. If you love meat, and can live without certain fruits, grains, and pasta for a while, this is an alternative to Atkins that you can try.
Who would not want to eat cookies and lose weight? Unfortunately, eating cookies — even “healthy” cookies adds calories and carbohydrates that may make it hard for some people to lose weight. The solution? Severely restrict overall calories.
The 5:2 diet is a plan the involves intermittent fasting (IF). If you have any issues with blood sugar, or a lifestyle or occupation that requires daily energy from food, this is probably not the best plan for you. If you are pregnant or nursing, this is not a good plan to consider.*
The Flat Belly Diet has two parts, a four-day start and the four-week eating plan. This is a reduced calorie diet with high amounts of monounsaturated fat (MUFA) that purports to slim down stomach area with little to no exercising.
Flexitarian is a combination of two words: Flexible and vegetarian. This diet allows you to be a vegetarian most of the time, but lets you have some animal protein if the urge strikes. Hardcore vegans and vegetarians may take offense to this term, arguing that you are either you are a vegetarian or not, which, in general sounds logical, but does an occasional burger mean you can no longer claim a vegetarian lifestyle?
The Atkins plan lets you eat almost unlimited animal protein including red meats, eggs, and fish. Atkins forbids pasta, breads, fruit, some vegetables, or dairy other than butter, cheeses, and cream.
There is also a vegetarian version of this diet called Eco-Atkins.
