Top 2 Low Calorie Diet Plans For You
You must have heard about the term ‘low-calorie’ diet. Truth to be told, the term ‘low-calorie’ is sort of a misnomer. It is true that the diet indeed aims to reduce your calorie intake, but it does so by reducing the amount of your carbohydrate consumption! As such, you may also call it ‘low-carbohydrate’ diet.
Different low-calorie diets restrict your carbohydrate intake in different ways. Some do it by reducing your overall carbohydrate intake. Others bar you from eating only specific foods such as white bread, white sugar, potatoes, white flour, white pasta, white rice, etc., because they are high on simple carbohydrates, the carbohydrates that trigger weight gain. As a matter of fact, any “white” food (unless naturally made), is rich in simple carbohydrates.
Usually, a low-calorie’ or ‘low-carb’ diet recommends increasing the consumption of organic fruits and vegetables because they are generally low on calorie content yet highly nutritious, and forbids you from artificial and processed foods because they are usually high on empty calories and contain little or no nutrition. In this article I will tell you about two healthy low-calorie diet plans.
Most low-calorie diet plans would either force you to go hungry for days or eat like a mouse in the name of ‘dieting’. Fat Loss 4 Idiots is an exception in this regard. It actually keeps you satiated from all corners, while helping you lose weight at the same time! The makers of Fat Loss 4 Idiots claim that it is based on a certain ‘calorie shifting’ method of dieting, but when you join and look closely at their meal plans, you would notice that it is just a ‘low-calorie’ diet plan with a few exceptions such as:
a) You are allowed to eat both healthy and unhealthy foods, subject to a certain daily calorie limit.
b) While planning your daily meals, you would need to make sure that the sizes, calorie contents, and time of your meals differ from that of the previous day. In other words, you would be eating meals of different types and sizes at different times on different days.
Following such a diet has two advantages. First, it keeps you from getting bored of your diet. Second, when your calorie consumption level differs widely on a daily basis, your body would be unable to determine the level to keep your metabolic rate at and as such, it would always keep your metabolic rate at a high level. As you might know already, the higher your metabolic rate is, the faster you are able to burn fat and lose weight!
The disadvantage of following such a diet is that it requires careful and extensive meal planning on your part. Thankfully, Fat Loss 4 Idiots offers a free diet generator tool to its members that would generate customized meal plans for you on auto pilot! When I say “customized meal plans”, I actually mean that the generated meal plans would be based on your food choices. This way, you are able to lose weight while eating your favorite foods!
Although Fat Loss 4 Idiots doesn’t ask you to exercise, I highly recommend it! According to Fat Loss 4 Idiots, working out is not necessary since one can lose weight with the help of their diet program alone. While such a claim might be true, working out obviously comes with its own advantages. The main advantage of workout is that you are able to build strong lean muscles that not only make you physically strong but also helps you with weight maintenance long after you quit dieting, since muscles burn fat!
2. Strip That Fat:
This is yet another low-calorie diet plan that I highly recommend. It is roughly based on the “shortcomings” of Fat Loss 4 Idiots. Several people disgruntled with Fat Loss 4 Idiots have found solace with Strip That Fat. So let me tell you where Strip That Fat wins over Fat Loss 4 Idiots:
a) Strip That Fat is very beginner-friendly, in that it comes with more detailed and useful instructions about the diet program than you would find at Fat Loss 4 Idiots.
b) Unlike Fat Loss 4 idiots, it doesn’t rule out exercises altogether. It recommends light, home-based workouts.
c) Strip That fat is way cheaper than Fat Loss 4 Idiots.
Having said that, there are a couple of similarities between both diet plans. Both allow you to eat your favorite foods, and the recipes you get are usually very delicious and yummy. One of the major complaints about fad diets is that they make one eat boring foods; that is where these two diet plans score a high point! On another note, both Strip That Fat and Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet programs offer you “cheat days” when you would be free to eat whatever you like!
Drinking water also retains the fluids necessary for the body to function. When the body gets less water, it begins to hold on to each drop of fluid and water it has. Water is stored outside the cells making feet, legs and hands to swell. To overcome this problem, the best thing to do is to drink plenty of water. The stored water outside the cells will be released.
3. Divide you calories over 5 or 6 meals rather then 2 or 3. You should aim to eat every 3-4 hours.
One of the downside of quick and easy ways of cooking is that we often substitute fresh products with processed ones. This is so we can prepare our meals faster. We go to bottled and canned ingredients just to keep up with the time element of preparing and cooking the meals. Although, some products would claim that no preservatives have been added to their products. Prioritize these product lines when doing your weekly groceries.
Healthy diet—which include eating balanced amount of food from all food groups—along with exercise or regular physical activity can lessen people’s inclination to health problems. Doctors say that though basic principle of healthy diet is simple, there are those people who are having a hard time sticking to it. The major reasons behind this include a super busy lifestyle, work that causes a lot of stress or even an environment that is not conducive to having a healthy diet.
