Commercial Diets Can Work

But this study doesn't follow up after 5 years. From studies I've seen, people on standard weight loss programs go on to regain all and more of the weight they originally lost in the first year of their weight loss regime.

In the end, the only way to lose weight permanently is to change your habits permanently. I know exactly two people who have lost significant amounts of weight and kept it off, and both made significant changes in their diets, and shifted away permanently from junk, packaged foods and animal foods towards plant-based, whole food diets.

I do flex but I think WW US has slightly better rates then other diets because
they give free meetings to liftime members.
they also have a mostly whole food plan called Core that's easily adaptable to vegetarians, vegans and slow carbers. I know weight watchers isn't perfect for everyone but it's a better program.

That's also the motto of commercial messages.

However, all these commercial diets have flaws in them. For once, the Atkins diet before did not realize how bad elaidic acid (the common hydronated trans fat) is and how it can wreck your body. Weight watchers fails to realize that nutrient-dense foods are and that the points system is based on calories alone. I don't know what the Rosemary diet or the Slim-fat diet is, but I think the real diet people should be on is more a whole-food's style diet, like the Paleo diet (My version forbids processed foods, fried foods, baked goods, and grain products. Mostly, it's an organic whole foods diet including berries, potassium and low GL fruits, above ground vegtables, eggs, nuts, fish, grass-fed dairy, and grass-fed meat. (However, carbs may have to eat brown rice, but no other grains are acceptable)Unlike lean grain-fed meat, because grass-fed meat contains so much healthy fats, you can have a rib-eye grass-fed steak and it's super-rich in healthy fats plus vitamin A, B12, D, and it's got trans fats that is actually good for you.

Of course the diets seem to work, but you don't know what's damaging your body. Best of all, did you know that chimpanzees are actually omnivores creatures? That's right, they eat smaller primates, small animals, and even insects, leaves, nuts, and fruit.

Here are three daily meal planners, the first one what a typical American eat, the second one is planned by the American Dietic Association, and the third one that I proposed (Actually, it's two days, the first one is the carb type, and the second one is the protein type.

(TYPICAL DAILY AMERICAN DIET)

BREAKFAST: None, although in some mornings, a stack of pancakes, doughnuts, or an Egg McMuffin and a coffee.
MORNING SNACK: A Latte
LUNCH: Hamburger with fries, or a deli sandwich with fries.
AFTERNOON SNACK: Potato chips.
DINNER: 12-ounce steak with 2 cups of mashed potatoes and coleslaw, or 3 or 4 slices of meat supreme pizza
DESSERT: Peanut butter chocolate cake with ice cream, or a big piece of pumpkin pie with cool whip and ice cream.

What's wrong with this picture? This is so unhealthy with all that sugar, trans fats, and junk food that this average American person eats. Too many Americans skip or eat a poor breakfast of doughnuts, pancakes, and refined grains, there's little or no vegtables, and for snacks and dessert is chips, cakes, and sweets. And best of all, there's so much grains, and worse: it's refined. Many of the meals are nothing but pizza, burgers, and fries, and many snacks are candy, chocolates, and chips. There's no health in this picture.

(AMERICAN DIETIC MEAL PLAN)
BREAKFAST: Cereal with fruits, milk
MORNING SNACK: Apple
LUNCH: Grilled chicken sandwich on a whole grain bun, salad, milk.
AFTERNOON SNACK: Nuts
DINNER: 3 oz. salmon, cup of brown rice, steamed brockley, sauteed with spinach w/ iced tea
DESERT: Pinapple

What's wrong with this picture: Well, it's certainly an improvement over the typical American diet, but the problem is, there are still grains in this picture and glutin is the problem. Baked potatoes are just as bad as french fries, and many people are developing wheat and grain allergies as well as immune deficiency.

Now, here's my diet plan:

(PALEO DIET MEAL PLAN) (Carb-type)

BREAKFAST: Salad with blueberries and nuts, Water.
MORNING SNACK: Apple
LUNCH: Eggs with spinach, bean soup, organic yogurt, water.
AFTERNOON SNACK: Fruit chips with nuts.
DINNER: Salmon with brown rice and beans, Brockley and brussil sprouts, açaí juice
DESSERT: Pinapple and coconut flakes and cherries, 1 Oz. dark chocolate,

(PALEO DIET MEAN PLAN) (Protein-type)
BREAKFAST: 2 Boiled eggs, salad, water
MORNING SNACK: Peanut butter (No hydronated oils) and carrots.
LUNCH: Chicken brest with vegtables, water
AFTERNOON SNACK: Chicken strips, nuts.
DINNER: 9 ounce salmon, 3 ounce of bison meat, 1 cup steamed vegtables
DESERT: Organic grass-fed ice cream sweetned with natural sweetner with coconut chips, pineapple, and dark chocolate.

What's right with these meal plans? As you see, there's no grains with the exception of some brown rice on the carbohydrate type to complete the protein intake with the beans, but you still notice still some animal products. And as you see with the protein type, there's no grains but lots of meat. That's because protein type people motabolizes protein faster than the carb type.

But if you just eat natural foods and don't eat grains, you should be fine.

Dr. Atkins was very opposed to Trans Fat, once the information was made available, long before the rest of society. I would say it's only been the last two years that mainstream society has even paid attention to it!

Whilst on the topic of the Atkins Diet, it doesn't really belong in the same category as the rest. It's hardly a commercial weight plan.

You buy a book and educate yourself - that's it.

They started a processed food company but that was seperate to a diet that had been going 25 years at the time.

You only need to buy the book that's it! You can pick it up for 75 cents!

http://product.half.ebay.com/Dr-Atkins-New-Diet-Revolution-by-Robert-C-Atkins-M-D-2002_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ2184253

Many people just don't want to think about what they put into their system. Nutritionally, their diet is distant from their minds. It's a lot easier to just eat what someone else is telling you to, but Leanne is right that won't really help in the long run.
I think those diets are ok, and all of them are more nutritionally wise than the 'typical american' cliche diet. Still, long term commitment tends to be problematic.

James
Atkins and WW are both calorie based they might be calorie based behind a gimmick but low carb has been proven by medical studies to be low cal. You disagreed with me last time about that so I decided to show you the evidence.

In hospital settings they found low carb people ate less calories.
http://www.medkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/nutrition/5229/The-Secret-to-Low-Carb-Diet-Success-Eat-Less

The studies that tried to show that low carbers ate more didn't actually monitor what people ate, they just sent them home with food or gave them a list.

I feel the flaws in WW system are the same in Atkins with allowing fiber to lower the point or net carb rate. WW has tried to fix this with a fiber cap. AS far as I know WW Australia has not fixed the fiber problem. Someone told me corn is zero points. That strikes me as odd. Low Carb Dave would know more about it than I.

You can't eat more than your metabolisms base rate.
I bet if they examined your diet before your whole foods diet you'd find you ate a lot less calories now than before. Bison has less calories than cow due to lower fat rate.
Your diet would have the greater successes paired with a good support system

After trying so many different diets over the years, losing weight then dropping out and gaining weight, my standard answer to anyone who starting raving about there new diet was, "Talk to me in a year." "If you still love it, I'll try it."
Nobody ever came back after a year. That's not a way to win friends, by the way. :-)

I have had a lot of success following my version of the WW Core plan. I agree that WW has a few flaws...you are allotted a certain amount of points per day, but they are vague as to what types of foods you should be eating to get those points. Therefore, you could eat 19 points' worth of ice cream and that's it for the day. Sure, you'd lose weight doing that I suppose but it really isn't healthy. I eat nutrient-dense foods that are naturally low in "points"...lots of veggies, lean protein, eggs, lowfat/nonfat dairy products, whole grains, and fresh fruits. I've maintained a 90 lb loss for 5 years and I can honestly say I've changed the style of my eating, I'm not just "on a diet".

Even though some people lose weight on commercial diets, studies done over and over again state that only 5% of people lose weight and keep it off. It proves that these solutions for weight loss is only a short time deal and I don't think dietiers just want to lose a couple of pounds only for a few months. Commercial diets do motivate people and get them started but I would rather see people develop healthy nutrition and exercise knowledge and put it into asking.

Only 5%? Which studies are those? The 5% figure is quoted on a large number of books and sales pitches - but has very flimsy evidence indeed. See more on the 95% Myth.

Regarding the 5% statistic, according to a study done in the U.S. by the National Weight Control Registry (NWRC) published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in July 2005 (which you can read here: http://tinyurl.com/npkbf), approximately 20% of overweight individuals are successful at losing weight; the average participant maintained that loss for 5.7 years, and 13% have maintained for more than 10 years. I'd say that beats the 5% statistic, and it definately gives me more hope!

The NWRC was established in 1994 and is a "self-selected population of more than 4000 individuals who have lost at least 30lbs and kept it off at least 1 year." I've been a member for about a year and a half, and I find their data re-affirming, although their demographics are not comprehensive.

Any diet programme does not give the final solution of weight loss. You have to change you lifestyle, your habits for ever and folloe it always. Only in this case you will have a chance to loss over weight and do not gain it any more.

Are there any products that are glutin free ?