Eenie Meenie Minie Moe Pick a Diet and Gain Control

Once you’ve decided to lose some weight, picking a diet can be difficult at times and confusing at best, there’s the celery diet, the cabbage soup diet, the lemon aid diet. There are diets which suggest you eat every other day, diets which make you count points for each food group, diet’s which require you to get your ear stapled, or surgeons to reconstruct your intestines and stomach. There are diets for the elderly, diets for the weak, and diets for the strong. There are diets based on your astrological sign, diets based on your blood type, and one of the newest crazes is diets based on your DNA. There’s the SouthBeach diet, the Mediterranean diet, and the Beverly Hills diet. You can follow Jenny Craige, Dr. Phil, or Richard Simmons. You can eat at subway and even Taco Bell, shoot I’m even writing a diet book called "The Lazy Man’s Diet" and there’s even a diet called the "No Diet, Diet"

But which diet should you choose?

First let me give you a pointer on what distinguishes a fad diet for a legitimate diet: any diet that is centered on one particular food, offers simplistic solutions for complex problems, or are not based on nutritional requirements are fly by night, lose weight quick, and gain it back tomorrow, fad diets. They have there place if you need to lose 5 pounds quick and don’t care if that it will come back just as fast, but they are nothing that can be maintained for any length of time.

No, the diets which have the greatest chance of success are those diets which are based on the nutritional requirements established by the FDA, diets which reduce your caloric intake, and recommend at least moderate exercise. Weight watchers, the Atkin diet, and nutrasystem, all are worthwhile endeavors. Just remember that there is nothing new under the sun here, the less calories you consume the more you will lose the weight, it’s just waking the finely balanced line of providing you with the appropriate nutrition required to survive and even flourish while restricting the amount of calories you consume. You can eat dirt for all that matters as long as you are getting your protein and your vitamins, and your minerals and your fiber and all the other stuff the FDA say’s that you need.

So pick your diet, stay with it, stay active, and soon you will be half the person you use to be.

Stay healthy, stay safe, and as always

Peace

Jerry (aka FatMan911)