You on a Diet Book: You on a Diet by Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D., is not like other weight-loss books. It does not focus on weight management. Its focus is on waist management.

It prescribes a 14-day diet plan which is based on three meals a day plus snacks. It is a good eating plan because it spreads out your daily calorie intake throughout the day, which is a good strategy to keep hunger at bay.

You are not allowed to eat simple carbohydrates (think white flour, refined sugar, and anything with high-fructose corn syrup). Products that contain trans fats and an excess amount of saturated fat are not allowed either. (more…)

Before I say anything else, let me get something out of the way: There is no such thing as a perfect weight. Sorry folks. A perfect weight is largely a myth.

So when I came across the title Perfect Weight America, I thought this book is talking about a perfect weight for a burger or a steak, which incidentally is about 7 oz. for the latter, in my opinion.

So what is Perfect Weight America: Change Your Diet, Change Your Life, Change Your World all about?

It is a diet program that tries to be more than just a diet program – which may cause some readers lose focus from the main premise of the book, i.e., help people lose weight – which in addition to telling you how to lose weight, focuses on mental, emotional, and spiritual health. (more…)

The only thing better than losing weight and getting in shape, is doing it quickly, with visible results that often start to appear in just a few days. There are hundreds of diet plans out there that will allow you to lose weight slowly and comfortably, the Velocity Diet, however, promises to melt your body fat much quicker than a typical diet plan.

Do not be fooled, this is dieting on “steroids” or shall I say on clenbuterol? Nah, this diet does not recommend using illegal diet pills, but the Velocity Diet is not for everyone. (more…)

What is calorie shifting? The idea behind calorie shifting is fairly simple. Let’s say you consume 2000 calories on your current diet. If you have been consistently following your 2000-calorie diet, your body is expecting to receive approximately 2000 calories every day.

But what if you are still not losing enough weight or your weight loss has stagnated? That is where calorie shifting comes in. Calorie shifting is designed to confuse your metabolism by up-shifting and or down-shifting into different calorie ranges, which may help your body burn more calories.

Does a calorie shifting diet work? Yes, it does work, but there is one important caveat. Calorie shifting is not going to work if your current diet is poor. You need to find a good diet, which you can follow consistently for at least three months. (more…)

When beginning a diet we are all well aware of the common enemy that threatens to derail our plans: an excess of food.

In the day and age of potentially unsafe diet pills containing hunger suppressing additives to keep our food intake to a minimum, Dr. Sanford Siegal of the Siegal Medical Group based in Miami, Florida has developed the Cookie Diet.

What is the Cookie Diet? While Siegal’s Cookie Diet may sound too good to be true by its title alone, the diet claims to help patients drop up to 15 pounds per month by following a strict eating plan that allows for one meal per day consisting of 6 ounces of lean white meat and one cup of vegetables. (more…)