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Plans come in all sizes

All diets are based on the same principle: energy and you lose weight. Diets come in all sizes and flavors and all tend to rely on the lower calorie formula, despite their claims to the contrary. The Peanut Butter Diet is low calories with peanut butter at every meal. The cabbage soup diet is an unlimited amount of cabbage soup, 

but how much cabbage soup can you really have before you get tired of it, which means you'll eat fewer calories?

 The Atkins diet, the SouthBeach diet, and even Weight Watchers are all based on the idea that you use less energy than your body needs, so you lose weight. found that people ate two pounds of cheese and a pound of bacon every day, but some people do just that and then get alarmed when their weight loss stalls. My current diet includes a small piece of chocolate cake and a quarter pint of Haagen Daz most nights.

We can set a diet around any food you want. Like cheesecake? How about the Cheesecake Diet, three very low-energy meals a day plus a small piece of cheesecake equals the Cheesecake Diet. Do you like fries? Here's the French Fries Diet: Eat three very low-energy meals a day, with a small order of French fries to go, and you've got the French Fries Diet. The target food chosen is the one the diet developer intended, in a reduced component to provide the commonly suggested amounts of 1200 to 1600 energy per day. The fewer calories you have, the faster the initial weight loss; at least that's the expected result. Remember liquid protein fasters (Oprah used this the first time she hit size 10)?

Liquid protein fasts used to be very popular until a few people died, which put a damper on them. The sad truth is that we want to believe diet providers' lies so badly that we'll try anything,

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•   this is why the diet industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. If these diets worked such as The Zone, Perricone Prescription, Life Choice (opposite Atkins), the Negative Calorie Diet, etc.?
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• that a few people died, which put a damper on the hate. The sad truth is that we want to believe diet purveyors' lies so badly that we'll try anything, that's why the diet industry is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Design your own diet

A more reasonable approach of choosing the foods you like, estimating the energy number that would be reasonable for your height and body weight, and then getting started is usually met with snickers and sneers.

I heard "2 zero energy a day? I'm going to inflate like a balloon!" No, you won't. You lose weight, although more slowly than other more drastic diets, wouldn't you rather lose it permanently this time around? How to lose weight by eating two zero energy a day? Think about it. The typical adult woman eats about three-five hundred energies a day, believe it or not. Our typical lady, Carol, eats at McDonald's every day for lunch, grabs a Starbucks Latte every morning on the way to work, drinks four cups of coffee with cream during the day, pops two donuts on breaks, and s stops for takeout chicken For dinner. She "treats" ice cream and a half-pack of Oreos for dessert. Let's see how much energy this could describe: