Is Dieting Right For You

[summerever]

Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. In many cases, the ultimate goal of women who wants to go on a diet is to lose weight. Diets can generally promote weight loss and they are divided in many categories like low fat, low carbohydrate, low calorie, and very low calorie.

Women normally watch their food intake and healthy habits, but more than a third of the women's population is already overweight, and the importance of getting fit and healthy is getting critical. One way to get fit is to adopt a healthy lifestyle and diet. But with all the diets, exercise crazes, and other activities out there, it is very difficult to find the perfect diet to utilize. No exact diet will work for everyone. You need to find the diet that fits your personality and needs. What you need to do is just choose a diet that you know can be a big part of your lifestyle. Do not trust diets that promise fast weight loss without any effort and do not trust diets that promise results without exercise and changes in your eating behavior.

Your Lifestyle and the Diet Options

The diet that suits you most is the one that suits your lifestyle. If you are sedentary, you should select the diet that put an emphasis on exercise. If you are constantly craving sweets, try the Carbohydrate Addict diet. If you are into body building, you can try the Targeted Ketogenic Diet or the Cycling Ketogenic Diet. If you have a blood sugar problem and any other cholesterol problem, try the Dr. Atkins diet. There are many types of diets out there and you should choose the one that will be most convenient to you.

Choosing the Diet

When it comes to choosing the right diet, there are some simple reminders and tips that you should follow.

* Try the Metabolic Typing Diet if you are unsure whether you should choose the diet that is lower or higher in carbohydrates.

* If you are looking for a low fat diet that is predominantly vegetarian, choose the Macrobiotic Diet. This diet can prevent hormonal related cancer like breast cancer.

* If you are having problems with your digestion, sinuses, and breathing, you should do the detox diet. You will feel a lot healthier, and you can experience the juice fasting method.

* Choose a low carbohydrate diet if you have blood sugar problems. The Zone diet is a low carb diet that includes essential fatty acids and plenty of antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables.

* Try the Alkaline Diet if you feel uncomfortable on high protein diet. This will help in counterbalancing the effects of diets will lots of protein, caffeine, sugar, processed and junk foods and grains.

* If you have a liking for Indian food, try the Ayurvedic diet.

* If you have any food allergies and sensitivities, a simple three-week elimination and challenge diet will help you identify all of them.

* If you have irritable bowel movement syndrome or any inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, Crohn's disease, or any small intestine bacterial overgrowth, you can try the Specific Carbohydrate Diet.

Edited May 11, 2011 by summerever

[Shurup]

Without going into too much details of various diets, here is my coments:

- the fat will not make you fat (preven fact) so what is a low fat diet is about? I lot of saturated fat (animal fat) is not healthy that's for sure, but it will not make you fat.

- very low calories, you mean starving? That will not make you loose weight either. You will initially see some results, but then your metabolism will come to a halt and you will stop loosing weight (and I mean weight as fat+muscle tissue). To continue loosing weight you will have to cut your food intake even further but in the end it will slow down yout metabolism even more. You can't fool your body... it's a natural response that made humans survive without food or with very little food for a long time. In the end you will give up and start eating as you were before but NOW since your metabolism is so slow, you will be consuming a lot more calories than your body's maintanance level, even though it's the same as the pre-starving amount of calories. The result - you will put on all the fat you've lost and more and also will have less muscles.

- low carbs and/or low calories will do the trick but for better result need to be combined together with weight training (to keep and maintain the muscles) and cardio exercises.

You're right - nothing is fast and easy here.

[kelvintkw87]

It is the GI that matters. Not the carbs. Information from the US has indicated that the GLYCEMIC INDEX of certain foods that are high will cause fat-retain and that low G.I foods have the tendency to increase fat burn (and hence reduce weight).