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May 13, 2011 • Michelle Baker, Senior Staff Reporter
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Cheater’s Diet
On the Cheater’s Diet, you’re encouraged to eat a Mediterranean-style diet that includes plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, low fat dairy (especially yogurt), peanuts, and unsaturated fats. You enjoy three meals and two snacks each day using the plate method; fill half the plate with fruits or vegetables, 1/4 with lean protein, and the remaining 1/4 with whole grains. Two weeks of weekday menus, along with recipes, are included in the book to help dieters understand the composition of a healthy weight loss plan. To help dieters keep portions in check, weight loss physician Paul Rivas provides visual associations, such as a portion of lean meat being equal in size to a deck of cards.
In addition, the plan encourages dieters to include snacks twice daily from an approved list that includes fruit, nuts, low fat yogurt or pudding, protein bars, low calorie frozen treats, and more. During the week, sugar, bread, saturated fats, and alcohol are not permitted.
In the Cheater’s Diet, cheating is not optional. Rivas suggests foods such as: pizza, chocolate, peanut butter, cinnamon buns, ice cream, strawberry shortcake, cheese, bread, meat, and nuts.
Morning Banana Diet
The Morning Banana Diet is a super simple plan. For breakfast, you have only bananas and room-temperature water. Then, you can eat whatever you like for lunch, dinner, and snacks, as long as you don’t eat after 8 p.m. The only restrictions: No ice cream, dairy products, alcohol, or dessert after dinner, and the only beverage you may have with meals is room-temperature water. One sweet snack is allowed midafternoon. One of the most popular aspects of the plan is the lack of emphasis on exercise. Dieters are advised to do it only if they want to, and even then, it should be done in a manner that is the least stressful.
The Fast Food Diet
Dieters can enjoy grilled chicken sandwiches, chili, baked potatoes, fruit parfaits, and even junior burgers on The Fast Food Diet. But don’t think for a minute that french fries or sodas sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup are part of the plan. In fact, if you follow The Fast Food Diet plan, you won’t get many unhealthy trans fats — fried foods are not allowed. For example, choose vinaigrette salad dressing instead of ranch for a savings of 130 calories. (Use less of the dressing and you save even more calories.) Order seltzer with lemon instead of a sweet soda, and you save 310 calories. Forget mayonnaise and special sauces, and you can save up to 170 calories per sandwich. The Fast Food Diet also includes some simple recipes for nutritious meals that can be prepared in 15 minutes or less, as incentives for busy folks to eat at home rather than hitting the drive-through.
Diet information from /media.webpd.com/diet/evaluate-latest-diets
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