The term 'low carb diet' is one that every American is now familiar with. The views are varied on the success of low carb diets, and although they were Over the long term, these diets may be unhealthy for your body and only a short term.
Weightwatchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, and the Southbeach diet, are all well-known, popular, long standing diet systems offering a variety of programs. These programs range from group meetings, frozen meals, home cooked meal plans, and online support.
you should stay on your diet for about 6 to 12 months
The South Beach Diet is a great low-carb diet to help dieters lose weight. Under this scheme, people can consume as much food as they (no calorie counting) as long as what they eat is high protein and very little carbs.
"Fat free diet plans are not effective in the long term. You may lose weight initially but it is not realistic, or healthy, to maintain a fat free diet."
Yes, just as long as they are dill and the carb value is <or= 1gram
There are multiple websites that can help you find a decent long term weight loss diet plan. Some of these websites are: www.mayoclinic.com, www.diet.com, and www.myalli.com. All three sites offer great long term weight loss diet plans.
I read a really great article on webMD about taking the elements of various diet plans and making a list of the parts of each that work for your lifestyle and personality to create your own diet plan. Because you custom tailor it to yourself it is easier to stick with and have long-term success. Here is a link to the article: men.webmd.com/guide/diet-plans-men.
While a low carb diet is an effective weight loss tool it can be hard to meet all of your body's nutritional and energy needs on such a diet. You should also keep in mind that diets are short term solutions and that over the long term, lifestyle changes are required to make effective, long lasting benefits.
For a diet to be successful long term, one must be able to stick to it. Some diets that have both short term and long term success include Weight Watchers, Atkins, low carb diets, and general calorie restriction diets.
A high-protein, low-carb diet can help with fat loss, especially if it is backed up by an exercise regime. Keep in mind that calories in need to be lower than calories out for any diet to work properly over the long term.
Diets like the 17 Day Carb diet are effective as they are based on science and dieticians. Not all short term diets are effective, and in the long run a short term diet or a long term diet require work well into the future to maintain the healthy patterns established in the diet.
If you are in the first 2 stages of the Atkins diet you are not allowed to eat bananas due to their high carb count. When you get to the later phase where you begin to add more carbs, you may have a banana as long as you stay within your ideal daily carb count.