For those who have been or are dieting...
By Prince CortSether 5 Comments
There are hundreds of diet plans out there and certain ones work better for some than they do for others. For those who had been or are currently on a diet plan, why did you choose the specific diet plan you did/are doing? And if you tried multiple, which diet plan gave you the best results and satisfied your hunger the best while on it?
I started experimenting with a bunch of different diet plans to see which one would work best for me after I got back from my 3rd year of college. During the last few weeks when finals were around my eating habits got pretty bad and I was mostly eating Dominos, which gained me a good 30 lbs eventually. When I got back home I thought that just no longer eating fast food would do the trick, but the Dominos slowed my metabolism a lot and I wasn't losing the 30 that I had dropped. I heard about juice fasting, so I purchased a juicer and would liquidize all my fruits and veggies, and mostly have the veggie drinks during the day. Making a juice out of fruit was easy, but making them out of vegetables was a challenge. The drinks were awful ( I still gag when I think about that damn cucumber-celery-ginger drink I made) and simply put, having nothing but water and fruit/vegetable drinks just didn't cut it for me.
So then I found a diet plan that totally fit my carnivorous nature - The Atkins Diet. I gotta say, out of all the diet experiments I have done in my life, which include: South Beach, Weight Watchers, Body for Life, Buddhist diet, and the Grapefruit Diet, etc - my favorite and most effective plan has been the Atkins Diet. It's basically a diet that restricts your carbs to 20g per day until you get the desired weight loss and then you gradually go up after a few weeks when you've hit your desired weight and you reach an equilibrium where you no longer lose weight but no longer gain. It's been working for me greatly, and I gotta say that any diet plan that allows me to eat meat, poultry and fish is a winner :P
So which diet do you like and why?
Edit: Ugh, just realize it should have been "had been" and not "have been". -_- pet peeve