How to Cut Weight for a Competition or Fight

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When it comes to cutting weight, many martial artists swear by it. The idea behind it is that if I can weigh in at 150 pounds, then gain weight back before the fight, and be fighting while weighing 165 pounds, then I'll have a size advantage on my opponent. This concept is most popular in western martial arts; wrestlers and Brazilian jiu jitsu fighters are so big on it, in fact, that you basically have to cut weight, just so you can be EQUAL in size to your opponent. I cut weight pretty successfully in my tournaments and I get people asking me for advice on how to do it safe and easy, so I thought I would share with every body. Be warned: cutting weight is not easy, but it is worth it on fight night.

How to Cut Weight for a Competition or Fight

First off, before your cut you should be lean. You need to prepare your body for competition. I try to get with in 12 pounds of my target weight before I even begin my true cut. For good healthy ways to lose weight I recommend the Paleo Diet, aka the caveman diet. A simple Google search can get you some good free info on that. You need to be at 8-12 pounds by 5 days before your weigh-ins. Now, a common misconception is that people think they will gain back the weight they lost while dieting before they fight. You will not, you will regain 2 to 3 pounds of your diet loss max by the time you fight. This is important to know because if you diet to 12 pounds short of your goal, and then cut the 12 pounds, will only be 15 whole pounds heavier on fight night. If you diet to 8 pounds short of your goal, you will probably only gain 11 pounds back by the time you fight. So the more weight you actually cut, the harder it will be, but the more you will get out of it. In martial arts, and especially in grappling, every pound counts!

So! Now your body is lean and ready to fight. Now comes the part that will test your dedication. We will begin the cut 5 days before the weigh-in. On days 5,4, and 3 before the weigh in, you should be drinking 2 gallons of water each day. DO NOT DRINK DISTILLED WATER. That amount of distilled water will wash out all minerals from your body, leaving your skin flaking and your head aching. Drink regular purified water. I carry around a gallon jug with me, so it is easier to remember how much I have drank. At this point there shouldn't any changes to your diet, just eat healthy and keep off the fat that you have lost in your dieting. You will be going to the bathroom like crazy! This is what we want. What we are doing is slowly washing out some of the minerals in your body (temporarily) this will help you retain less water in the later stages of the cut.

Once you have done this, for three days you can cut back on the water. 2 days before the weigh-in you want to drink one gallon of water. However, on this day, we must cut out all sodium from our diet. This means plain, raw, and green veggies. You can eat fruit for carbs/energy. Also, lean meats are good. Chicken or fish, but no sodium based seasonings. This means no stake sauce, no teriyaki sauce, no salt. I usually season my fish with lemon juice. Not the best tasting, but it's just for today. This is going to help us release water wait on the next day.

Now, you're one day from weigh-ins. Today is the hardest day, but don't worry, tomorrow will be the pay off. Today we drink no water at all. Because of all of the preparation we did the preceding days, we don't need to sauna or do any ridiculous work outs. Just do your regular work out. The amount that you sweat because of our preparation will be sufficient. Also, through out the day, and especially at night your body will release the water weight on its own. As far as food goes; your food will be minimal. Go to your local grocery store and pick up Balance Bars or some form of energy bar that his relatively high in calories but low in actual weight. Heavy bars like protein bars, will be too hydrated, and will put water weight in your body. I highly recommend Balance bars. They weigh next to nothing and they give you the calories you need to get through your work out. It usually eat 3 of these throughout the day. Eat nothing else besides those 3 bars.

When you wake up in the morning you should be with in 1-3 pounds of your goal weight. Your going to be thirsty and hungry, but your almost there. Take an all natural supplement called Triphala. You should be able to find it at a health food store or on the internet. So you may need to order this ahead of time. Take a dose of this (don't worry it is completely natural and you cannot overdose on them). What this will do is empty your bowels. You will lose a few pounds and should be on target at this point. Weigh in as early as you can so you have maximum recovery time.

Once you have weighed in you have to start the most important stage: the recovery. You should have 24 hours to recover. After your weigh ins your probably going to feel a little run down, but food and water will have never tasted so good. Start your recovery with Pedialite, you can get this at any grocery store. The original flavor tastes terrible but they have some good fruit flavors now. You want to drink one sip at a time. Chugging fluids will cause them to go right through you and you wont hold on to the nutrients. Take sip after sip and drink the whole thing. Then switch to water. If it is available to you, drink high PH water. 9.5 water if you can find it. Depending on where you live this might be easy to find or impossible. I have a filter on my sink that allows me to obtain it. If you don't have it, drink Arrowhead. As far as bottled water goes, it is the highest on the PH scale; 7.0. You may need to drink up to 2.5 gallons. Still continuing to drink one sip at a time. Don't depend on your thirst response to tell you when you are hydrated. Drink until your urine is clear.

A few supplements that will help you recover, if you want to spend the money on them, is Ionic Minerals, and spirulina chlorella. Both of these can be found online. They are all natural, and REALLY help you absorb the water you drink, this way you have to spend your entire day drinking gallons of water.

A FEW TIPS TO HELP YOU IF YOUR COMING IN SHORT:

If you are coming down to the wire and are not making weight, there are a few things you can do to lose an extra pound or so. Spitting helps, suck on jolly ranchers and fill a water bottle up. One water bottle = about one pound.

I do not recommend using the Sauna, but if you a pound short and you have 30 minutes until your weigh in, use it, but only in an emergency.

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Your Food Relationship - Achieve Your Diet and Fat Loss Goals Faster

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Food - none of us can go without it! But how does the way in which we think about food impact our diet? Are you someone who just sees food as body fuel, or do the different tastes, textures and nutritional values of food excite you? In today's health conscious world, I would think that most of us fall into the latter group. If you want to achieve your diet goals quicker, then you need to clearly understand you relationship with food.

Your Food Relationship - Achieve Your Diet and Fat Loss Goals Faster

Eat and Burn

In its simplest form, food gives our body the calories it needs to run on a daily basis. When there are too few calories, the body looks to its own reserves. When there are too many calories, the body puts them away in storage (i.e. as body fat). On a purely mathematical level, so long as we burn as much as we consume, we are not going to produce excess body fat. So yes it is possible to eat junk food and stay thin but we also know that what food we eat can be as important as how much food we eat.

Food Fanatics

Not all foods are created equal. It would be nonsense to say that a caramel flapjack and an organic apple containing the same number of calories are of equal health benefit. At the 'eat and burn' basic level then yes they might provide our body with the same number of calories but substance is surely just as important. We have all learned that the organic apple is bursting with healthy goodness, whilst the flapjack will be laden with sugar and other nutritional nastiness.

The food world has gone crazy over the past few years. Every other program on television is a cooking program. But why are we so obsessed? It is just body fuel at the end of the day...

I have to admit, I am a modern day 'foodie'. I love cooking and experimenting in the kitchen and I strongly believe in the health benefits of natural food. In my eyes, there is nothing wrong with this, food has the fantastic ability of making us happy so let's take advantage. However, you need to be aware of your root relationship with food. There is definitely a risk of obsessing over food. Such obsession may manifest itself as punishing yourself for eating 'junk' food, a lifetime of calorie counting, or possibly worse. We each have unique relationships with food and to get the most from food we should strip away the layers and get to the bottom of what and why. Why did you have to eat popcorn whilst watching that movie yesterday evening? Why did you have to drink alcohol when socialising last week? It is good to sit back and think about our food choices so we understand why we made them and can enjoy those choices instead of feeling guilty about them!

Strategies to Avoid Food Obsession and Achieve Your Diet Goals

As we are dependent upon food for survival, all of us have a relationship with food.

Here are a few ideas to help you find out, change, and nurture your food relationship.

• Make a Black, Grey, White list of foods you commonly eat. Black for the least healthy, White for the most. Then keep it in your kitchen, making sure that your cupboards are full of those foods on the White list (typically fresh fruit, vegetables, unsalted nuts and seeds, whilst trying to cut out those on the Black list (basically anything processed containing sugar, as well as alcohol and if you follow the Paleo diet, then all grains too). To take things further, you can keep a score board to measure how many food items from each colour group you are eating - monitoring your results forces the truth upon you, so there is nowhere to hide!
• Work out what type of food personality you are. Do this by clearly identifying what you enjoy about food. For me, I know that eating healthily will make me feel happy but so does the odd treat. I have a soft spot for beer and ice cream (not together though!), so I indulge in these things every now and again. It may be that you enjoy a certain type of cuisine, or need to eat every two hours. Being aware of your food personality will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses in your diet, which you can then address sensibly instead of obsessively.
• Be wise about food availability - possibly the most important factor in keeping a healthy diet is to always have the healthy food readily to hand. Most people resort to less healthy foods because they are so accessible. A little bit of effort on your part and healthy food can be fast food in any hectic lifestyle. Prepare your healthy food in advance and keep stock levels high (i.e. always have fresh fruit and vegetables at the ready).
• Equally, if it isn't in your house in the first place then you can't eat it! If you don't have very strong willpower, avoid the lethal step of bringing junk foods into your home. Too often I have picked things up and thought it would be saved for a rainy day but the evenings are full of temptation and before you know it that treat is in your belly. I know that keeping sweet food in the house can undo my healthy eating, so it's best kept out most of the time.

Free Your Food, Do Not Trap it with Rules

The key to making healthy eating a lifestyle choice and not a short term diet is to make it fun and enjoyable, not boring and burdensome! I think adopting a 'rule free' food psychology is more realistic than to simply ban certain foods altogether. To be truthful, we all fall off the healthy eating bandwagon. In my eyes, this can be a good thing providing that you that you do enjoy your treats (e.g. cake) that you consume otherwise what is the point!? Don't worry and just get right back on track instead of dwelling on that junk food.

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Wellness Coaching - Benefits of a Gluten-Free Diet

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The Serbian tennis player, Novak Djokovic is on fire. After winning 43 straight matches, including 41 in 2011-- something that hasn't been done since 1984 -- he plowed through the quarter finals then the semi-finals at Wimbledon this year. Even hadn't won Wimbledon, his winning streak would have rewarded him with enough points to put him in the top spot, ranking him as the #1 men's tennis player in the world. But, of course, he did win.

Wellness Coaching - Benefits of a Gluten-Free Diet

So what did Djokovic do to initiate such a dramatic energy boost? A gluten-free diet has been credited for the recent success, according to the Wall Street Journal. As recent as last year, his on-court struggles were evident when closing out matches. His serve became sloppy and his movement lacked the energy to hit closing shots. The shift to a gluten-free, low starch diet has left Djokovic feeling energized throughout his entire matches. As a result, he is not only sharper physically but, more importantly, mentally.

Even if you are not gluten sensitive, when you eliminate starch-based, refined and processed non-foods such as pizza, bread, pretzels, chips, pasta, potatoes, legumes, rice, and other high carb foods, you allow the body to reboot itself metabolically. As a result, it stops drawing it source of fuel from sugar (all starchy carbs are converted to sugar in the bloodstream), and begins to extract its source of fuel from ketones, the energy units found in healthy fats. The body (especially the brain) operates much more efficiently on ketones -- so much so -- that your energy levels tend to skyrocket after you make the dietary shift. It takes time, however, usually about four to six weeks before the carb (sugar) cravings subside, but when it happens, don't be surprised if you'll feel as if you've transformed into a superhero.

If you are gluten sensitive then you'll not only want to eliminate all foods containing gluten (such as all wheat-based products), but it would be wise to eliminate "cross-reactive" foods to gluten as well. Cross-reactivity is the reaction to substances that are either genetically or structurally similar to gluten because your immune system tends to associate them with gluten. Some of the most common cross-reactive substances are: casein (found in milk and cheese), oats, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, yeast products, coffee, and milk chocolate.

Other common food sensitivities can result from foods that people usually substitute for the wheat-based gluten products such as: corn, buckwheat, sesame, quinoa, sorghum, millet, tapioca, amaranth, rice, and potatoes. And of course, they are also starchy foods that turn into glucose after ingestion. Sugar is always sugar no matter what it looks like before you eat it. All starchy foods such as grains and legumes will be metabolized by the body as glucose.

Here's the bottom line. When we return to the diet of our paleo ancestors, the diet that we, as a homo sapiens species followed consistently, day after day, for over 250,000 years, our body's metabolism will become more compatible with our genetic physiology. It's all about the genes folks. The human body is simply not designed for this type of onslaught. No wonder see the epidemic proportions of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. And not surprisingly, the United Health Organization ranks the U.S. a pathetic 39th out of the top 50 healthiest countries on Earth.

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High Fat Raw Paleo Diet to Lose Weight - Gain Health and Gain Beauty

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A high fat raw paleolithic diet is the hardest diet to get into because of cultural conditioning against eating raw meat, against consumption of large amounts of fat and having to give up your favorite starches. The results of your efforts will be the most rewarding as you gain health and beauty at the same time, losing weight merely becomes a secondary issue and is guaranteed to lead to an ideal set weight.

High Fat Raw Paleo Diet to Lose Weight - Gain Health and Gain Beauty

From fossil records, a raw paleolithic diet can be seen as the original human diet even before cooking started, one could infer that this is the original diet of humans. Raw paleo diet is composed of these foods:

(1) Animal meat with their organs including prized fatty parts like back fat, bone marrow and brains; these could be aquatic or land based animals.

(2) Then there are ripe or unripe fruit.

(3) Then there are edible when raw vegetables.

The theory is, nature cannot possibly be wrong. Going back to the original, natural fuel for humans and humans are transformed into the naturally self repairing healthy, beautiful, athletic beings we were meant to be.

Raw fat is the preferred fuel of the body which is concentrated and gives steady clean energy, avoiding the sugar highs and lows in high carbohydrate diet. Raw fat is cleansing and lubricating at the same time.

Raw proteins are the preferred form of protein by the body as this is natural, clean, pure and muscle building, even without gym exercises you can maintain a lean muscular physique.

A small amount of carbohydrates in hydrating fruit and vegetables gives you extra vitamins and minerals.

Multivitamins are usually raw organs like raw liver, kidneys and other internal organs from such animals as oysters and small fish you eat whole.

When you begin a high fat raw paleo diet, you may get an initial detox phase for a few days, but on the first month you should be on your way to feel an enormous healthy feeling that only gets better and better. In many more months you will notice you may have stopped getting sick. After about a year, friends and family who you may not have seen for a long time will comment how beautiful you have become and will ask you, no plead with you to tell them what your secret is.

A high fat raw paleo diet involves consuming a majority raw animal foods diet with fruits and vegetables playing a smaller but important part of the diet.

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Paleo Food List

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The Paleo Diet (also known as the Caveman Diet) is pretty strict on what foods you should and shouldn't eat.

Paleo Food List

The diet is based on the premise that we should eat as our ancestors ate before the advent of agriculture.

Humans have been evolving for millions of years, but have only had approximately 10,000 years to adjust to the influx of grain, dairy, and legumes in our diet. The rising problem of gluten, dairy, and peanut allergies is an indicator that our bodies are not supposed to be ingesting these foods.

The main idea of these foods are: If you can't pick it from a bush or tree, you shouldn't eat it. If you can't pull it out of the ground, you shouldn't eat it. If you can't hunt it with a spear, you shouldn't eat it.

So what are some of the things recommended to eat? This list is by no means complete, but shows that there is no shortage of different types of food available on the Paleo Diet.

Meats (Store-Bought and Game)

• Beef - Steaks, ground beef, veal.
• Pork - Chops, loins.
• Poultry - Chicken, Turkey, Game Hens, Goose, Duck, etc.
• Fish - Salmon, Tuna, Tilapia, Flounder, Bass, Trout, etc.
• Eggs - Chicken, Duck, Goose.
• Organs - Livers, heart, tongues, marrow.
• Shellfish - Abalone, Clams, Mussels, Shrimp, Scallops, Lobster, Crayfish, Crab
• Bison (American Buffalo)
• Specialty Meats - Ostrich, Emu, Kangaroo, Emu, Alligator, Rabbit, Turtle
• Game Meats - Venison, Elk, Caribou, Moose, Rabbit, Squirrel, Wild Boar, Bear, Pheasant, Quail, Dove/Squab, Wild Turkey, Geese

Fruit

• Apple, Apricot, Avocado
• Banana, Blackberries, Blueberries
• Cantaloupe, Cherries, Cranberries
• Figs
• Grapefruit, Grapes
• Honeydew
• Kiwi
• Lemon, Lime
• Mango
• Nectarine
• Orange
• Passion Fruit, Papaya, Peaches, Pears, Persimmons, Pineapple, Plums, Pomegranate
• Raspberries, Rhubarb
• Strawberries
• Tangerine
• Watermelon

Vegetables

• Artichoke, Asparagus
• Beets, Bell Peppers, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts
• Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Cucumber
• Dandelion Greens
• Eggplant, Endive
• Kale
• Lettuce
• Mushrooms, Mustard Greens
• Onions (All Varieties)
• Parsley, Parsnips, Peppers (All Varieties), Pumpkin
• Radish, Rutabaga
• Spinach, Squash (All Varieties), Swiss Chard
• Tomatoes, Turnip Greens, Turnips

Nuts (Unsalted)

• Almonds
• Brazil Nuts
• Cashews
• Chestnuts
• Hazel Nuts
• Macadamia Nuts
• Pecans
• Pine Nuts
• Pistachios
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Sesame Seeds
• Squash Seeds
• Sunflower Seeds
• Walnuts

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Paleo Diet - Getting The Back to the Healthy Basics

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For thousands of years our ancestors in every continent on the planet found all of the nutrients their bodies had evolved to require in the things in nature that surrounded them. In this Paleolithic period of our history, they thrived and were very healthy. In most cases their brains were larger than ours, they were generally taller than we are, and they were far more physically fit than most non-athletes are today.

Paleo Diet - Getting The Back to the Healthy Basics

Most scientists agree that the diet that fueled their health and vitality was quite different from that of most modern westerners, although genetically we remain 99.99% identical to them. Around one-third of the food they ate was wild game they hunted and fish, and the two-thirds balance was derived from berries, seeds, fruits, melons, nuts, bulbs, stalks, roots, leaves, and flowers that they gathered. Meat and fish gave them the essential fatty acids and protein, and meat made up about 65% of their energy intake.

The domesticated, grain fed cattle we eat today is quite different from the wild game our ancestors ate, in that domestic cattle average around 30% total fat, in place of the less than 10% total fat average of wild game. In addition, domestic meat from grain fed animals contains mostly saturated fats, rather than the higher percentage of polyunsaturated fats found in wild game. This means that we now have four times less omega-3 fatty acids than our hunter gatherer ancestors had, and about one and a half times less monounsaturated fat. The human body needs a certain amount and quality of fat for certain processes. Vitamins A, D, E, and K, for instance, cannot be absorbed without it.

Nuts and seeds added other oils and essential fatty acids to our Paleo ancestors diet, and berries and fresh fruits gave them complex carbohydrates and other nutrients. A large part of their diet consisted of gathered vegetables and plants - leaves, flowers, stalks, bulbs, and roots. These were all consumed fresh and raw, which gave them the most benefit from the nutrient rich content and greatly benefited their immune systems.

Grains and small seeds, while they were around, were never ground into powder and cooked for consumption during this Stone Age period. That came only with the advent of agriculture and the domestication of animals, two of the most prominent things that marked the beginning of the Neolithic period. These things also began our journey into the mechanized processing of grains and other foods, the addition of pasteurized dairy products into our diet, and our exorbitant intake of sugar and simple carbohydrates. Ultimately, these factors, among others, are what have pushed modern humans toward heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, celiac disease, obesity, and many other "civilized" ailments.

At the end of the day one thing is certain, the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors is still the diet that is best suited for our metabolisms today. We thrived for countless centuries consuming only the things that were naturally available, and our bodies needs for maintaining health and vitality remain the same.

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A Diet Review

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There are so many differing views on diets and the best way to lose weight that it is extremely confusing for many people. This article is an attempt to put the record straight regarding some popular myths about certain diets and to give a comparison of the merits of some of the more popular ones.

A Diet Review

The first major argument in dieting is low carbohydrates (carbs) versus low fats Which is the best route to follow ? After the second world war people generally began to be gradually better off financially and were able to buy more food and a greater variety of food. As time progressed it seemed that many people in the western world were getting too fat for their own good and people looked for ways to reduce their weight. It seemed perfectly reasonable to many that eating too much fat was the cause of storing fat in the body and hence of putting on weight. This view was adhered to for many years and there were a lot of diets recommending cutting down your consumption of fats. Rosemary Conley's diet ideas were based largely on this premise after her own success with weight loss by cutting out fat for medical reasons. Many people have loss weight this way but it may well be that part of their success is due to their cutting down total food intake and not just changing the relative amounts of fat or carbohydrates in their diet. Cutting down on total calorie input is generally agreed to be appropriate for many people these days, and coupled with some increase in exercise, a factor stressed by Rosemary Conley, will certainly help achieve weight loss.

The general idea of reducing fat in the diet was challenged of course by Dr Atkins who saw evidence of people on a relatively high fat but low carb diet being able to lose weight. This diet became very popular for a while but was then criticised by some as being unhealthy and then lost favour. The reason it was criticised seems to be based on some misunderstanding of metabolism. When the body changes from what we know as a normal diet ( this is in fact a relatively high carb diet) to a low carb/high fat diet the body's metabolism undergoes changes to deal with this. The fact is that the body is quite capable of using fat as an energy source instead of carbohydrate without suffering any ill effects. Populations of Eskimos managed to stay energetic and healthy over many generations on a diet consisting of mainly seal and whale meat and blubber.

When little carbohydrate is consumed the body's metabolism gradually alters to allow for fat to be converted, producing ketone bodies and energy for use by the body. This causes a ketosis, i.e. a raised blood level of ketones, the excess of which is converted to acetone and excreted from the body in the breath and urine. There is no evidence that this type of metabolism leads to muscle loss as some have suggested. The muscle tissue of the body is not affected. There is simply a change to a slightly alternative metabolic pathway taking place. The body is able to synthesize glucose for use by brain and red blood cells.

If you are going to lose weight you will need almost certainly to reduce your calorie input one way or another and it probably does not matter too much if you reduce fat intake or carbohydrate intake or both, so long as your diet is reasonably varied to make sure you get all necessary nutrients. A certain amount of fat is required by the body for normal function, and, some vitamins and minerals are fat soluble and need fat to be ingested for their transport.

Carbohydrates, on the other hand are a lot less necessary, and some might say not necessary at all, at least not in refined form. Refined carbohydrates are notorious for causing rapid blood sugar spikes that can put a strain on the body's insulin/glucose regulatory system. If you are going to eat some carbohydrate as most of us do, then it's best to eat it in the from of natural foods such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and beans, rather than processed foods.

So, what diets are available today? Amongst the many there are the following and I'll make brief comments about each:

Low fat diets such as Rosemary Conley Reasonable in that it encourages the consumption of healthy foods such as lean meat and fish, fruit and vegetables, wholemeal bread and some dairy products whilst disallowing unhealthy foods such as cakes, biscuits, fried chips and pies. It might not actually lose you weight unless you confine yourself to sensible portions and take plenty of exercise.

Atkins Diet Again this approach is perfectly reasonable and works for many. You can eat a lot of different foods that might be thought fatty, but it's still best to eat healthy fats, rather more fish and nuts than meat, and you still need to eat fruit and vegetables, which although carbohydrate based, are good carbs full of fibre and nutrients.

The South Beach Diet. This is a sensible diet which favours low fat and low carbohydrate intake. It advocates the natural approach to eating, avoiding too much in the way of processed foods. It might be alittle too restrictive for some on a long term basis.

The Paleo or Caveman Diet This focusses on natural foods also, - fish, vegetables, lean meat, roots and nuts. It does not allow consumption of salt, refined sugars, dairy products, grains or oils. This again, although healthy enough is much too restrictive for most.

Fat Loss For Idiots This diet plan although popular does not seem to adequately explain how weight loss is to be achieved. It talks about "calorie shifting" which "tricks" the body to burn fat. Substituting one type of calorie food for another does not seem in itself sufficient to alter the body's metabolism as far as I can see. The body will consume calories in whatever form they are presented. A calorie reduction is necessary to lose weight.

The Zone Diet This is a balanced nutrition approach that supposedly controls the hormones in your body, and keeps them within the "Zone". It's a sensible diet that encourages eating plenty of fish and fish oils to get the important omega 3s, together with a balanced diet of about 40% carbohydrates, 30% fat, and 30% protein. This is a perfectly good diet for anyone but probably needs to be combined with exercise to actually lose significant weight.

Strip That Fat This diet plan does its best to rubbish all the fad diets and the weight loss gimmicks. It points out that unrealistic goals and unsustainable diets are the reason that most people fail to lose weight. This is a sensible plan based on sound principles and includes an ongoing program. It centres around good nutrition and healthy eating habits, showing what's good to eat and what is not.. It is not an extreme low fat or low carbohydrate diet, and as such is suitable for virtually anybody and therefore recommended.

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