Tips For Choosing the Best Diet

By Kayla Milliway


The experience of attempting multiple diets has been felt by many, and typically they'll discover that the diets do not work, or that after brief weight loss they gain everything back again. This might be because the diet you chose wasn't right for you, or it could be because you did not stay on track with it for long enough. In any event, you're more likely to have success with a diet if it's consistent with your goals and lifestyle and if its one that's backed by sound nutritional principles.

No matter which diet you end up choosing, being aware of the food you're consuming is a must. Whilst this doesn't sound too difficult it can actually be very easy to lose track of how many calories you've eaten in a day, including snacks and drinks. This is why you should start a food journal or diary as you will be able to note down every single thing that you consume, whether it be big or small. If you do this for even a couple of weeks, you'll probably be surprised at all the extras that slip in. You may believe that you're sticking to your diet, but you're actually not counting everything. By using the food journal as a tool you'll be helped with staying on course with your diet, or at least being aware of if you are cheating.

One thing you should do before you choose a diet is decide how much guidance and structure you would like. To get the most benefit out of your diet you will need to be honest about this. With some diets, you're basically on your own and it's up to you to choose the right foods and count your calories. You are given specific guidelines with the other diets that give you an allowance for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even between meals. Some people need this kind of structure to ensure that they stick to the diet, while others find it so restrictive that it just makes them quit the diet. It is about which fits you better rather than one being better than the other.

For weight loss and health, lots of experts recommend a vegan or vegetarian diet. A vegan diet is more extreme as it cuts out all animal products, like eggs and dairy whereas a vegetarian diets allows them but you cannot eat meat. Numerous websites and articles have both sides to the argument of whether vegan diets are healthier or vegetarian diets are. Some people get on well with these kinds of diets, others do not. You still need to be careful with your calorie and carbohydrate consumption on this kind of diet. For example, filling up on pasta, sweets and bread is still possible even though you're not consuming meat, which will still not help you to lose weight. Vegetarians must discover some other protein sources and both meat eaters and vegetarians must try to consume as many vegetables and fruits as possible.

There's no one holy grail of diets that's going to be effective for everybody. You have to be patient and give the diet a chance, for one thing. Except for extremely low calorie diets, which aren't usually considered healthy, it's best to lose weight gradually, as this gives you the best chance of keeping the weight off for good.




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