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What can Oprah’s trainer do for you?

If you watch Oprah Winfrey you may have caught the shows where she talks about how her personal trainer Bob Greenechanged her life and helped her to overcome the yo-yo weight problems she had between diets. She managed to lose a lot of weight but could never keep it off consistently – until she tried it Bob’s way.

Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet program consists of three-phases, that you proceed through at your own pace. It introduces gradual changes to the diet – his book even list’s a typical week of Oprah’s eating regime – then “each phase gradually leads you to an increasingly healthy and slimming diet and encourages you to increase physical activity.”

In each phase, you’ll be asked to reexamine the decisions you make on a daily basis and gradually alter your habits to achieve lasting results. The book also includes easy-to-follow meal plans that make it simple to meet your daily energy and nutrient requirements, whether you are on the run and breakfast means a quick smoothie or you have time to shop for fresh produce and make something special.

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author: Julia Denhem

Diets don’t work – not in the long term. This is why it’s easy to get burned out with weight loss. When you’ve been on many diets, you hesitate about starting yet another diet which leads to disappointment.

The Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet is different, because it gives you five keys to a healthy weight loss, and it will be the last diet you never need. You’ll discover that you can eat all you want without putting on weight. (more…)

Guaranteed Weight Loss with Your Own Personal Chef. Lose 10lbs in 4 weeks.
Experience weight loss with foods prepared by your own personal chef!

Diet-to-Go has discovered an important strategy of success that is missing from most weight loss plans. Let someone else prepare meals for you, and the food should taste as good as or better than anything you are eating now.

It’s a proven strategy that has worked for thousands of others. It will work for you, too! It’s easy, it’s delicious …it’s like having your own Personal Chef.

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What is heck is a cookie diet?

It’s Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™. That’s right – it’s a cookie diet! You eat cookies, and almost nothing else but cookies, all day long.

All cookies, all the time. Can you really lose weight on this seemingly “fad” diet? The answer is YES!

Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet was created by pioneering diet doctor and author Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., medical director of Siegal Medical Group which operates several South Florida weight loss clinics. The special cookies are high in protein and contain a proprietary blend of amino acids, natural food proteins that suppress hunger.

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author: Daniel Yan

The Atkins diet hit the diet scene in 1972 when Dr. Atkins published his book, “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution”. And the Atkins diet was really revolutionary. Most diets of the day focused on counting calories and maintaining a low fat diet. Calories were felt to be the enemy and the fewer you ate, the better off you were. Dr. Atkins paid less attention to calories in his diet and more to reducing the number of carbohydrates in the diet. To followers of his diet, the carbohydrates were the problem. The diet promoted the use of lots of protein and a moderate amount of fat with the idea that your metabolism will cause you to lose weight on this diet.

The Atkins diet was not taken very well by many nutritionists who were promoting diets low in fat and protein. This was about the time that the four food groups turned into the food pyramid. Fruits, vegetables and grains were near the bottom and should be consumed the most. Unfortunately for the Atkins diet, these were things that were to be avoided on the diet. Near the top of the food pyramid are fats and meat proteins. We weren’t supposed to eat many of these types of foods on a healthy diet and yet they were prominent in the Atkins diet.

The Atkins diet included menu plans high in bacon, fried meat and even fried pork rinds. While there were some salad greens on the diet plan, you were allowed to add fatty dressing to the diet plan. The Atkins diet plan really promoted eggs, cheese, meats at every meal and, in some cases, protein bars or protein drinks. This was a time when cholesterol and triglycerides were being better understood and their role in heart disease was made more clear. Experts felt that the Atkins diet plan was too high in cholesterol and other fats, making one’s risk for heart disease greater. Dr. Atkins continued to promote his diet plan, amid a great deal of controversy.

Atkins Diet Foods

The Atkins diet also included some Atkins products, like Atkins hot cereal, Atkins protein shakes and Atkins protein bars. Instead of having regular hot cereal, you would choose the Atkins variety of hot cereal. The company made money off of these specialized products and still does, but to a lesser degree. As long as carbohydrates were counted and Atkins products used, the diet was expected to help you lose weight.

It’s unclear how successful people were in losing weight on the Atkins diet. If dieting is truly based on calories, the Atkins diet certainly weren’t lacking in them. Since the origin of the Atkins diet, more is known about the effects of cholesterol (from meat protein) and triglycerides (from other fats) on things like stroke, peripheral artery disease and heart disease (coronary artery disease). Doctors are more likely to check cholesterol and triglycerides in patients and doctors are active in putting people on medications to lower these fats in the blood. Few doctors would recommend such a high content of cholesterol and fat for patients at risk for heart disease. Few would recommend this kind of diet for even normal people. Still, there are those who still go on the Atkins diet in the hopes of losing weight.

The Atkins diet is gaining in popularity and we want to bring you the most up-to-date information online. Also check out our latest information page at http://www.atkinsinfosite.com.

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Nutrisystem followers don’t have to pay full price for their favorite dinners, lunches, snacks, and desserts! Go to eBay and buy the surplus from other Nutrisystem users! Get meals and snacks for less than half the price. Look at these prices below and see how much you can save.

Jenny Craig fans or those looking to try out the diet plan. You don’t have to pay full price for their favorite dinners, lunches, snacks, and desserts! Try eBay and buy the surplus from other Jenny Craid users! You can get meals and snacks for less than half the price – try it for your first time or enjoy the savings and stay on the plan if you’re already enjoying the food.

Take a moment to look at these prices below and see how much you can save.

How I lost 35 pounds in 5 months

After years of trying to lose weight, I was encouraged by a friend to try a commercial diet plan. She had success with Weight Watchers and felt that one of these programs that limit calorie intact would work for me. I was intrigued by the Nutrisytem claims on TV and in print ads that the food was delicious and the pounds came off easily. So I decided to give it a try.

My results? I lost 35 pounds in 5 months.

It just melted away while I ate Nutrisystem’s pizza, lasagna, chili, chicken salad, pasta, burgers, pancakes, oatmeal, biscotti cookies, shakes, puddings, granola bars, soups, chocolate and so much more. I’m not a cheerleader for all their food: I loved most of the meals and found their were a few items I didn’t care for, but isn’t that true of any weight loss food program?

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Both Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig have pros and cons but here are some tips that might help you decide which plan to try in your weight loss program.

Nutrisystem

Nutrisystem is an at-home program – there is no center for you to go into each week to get face to face counseling, or to get your food and weigh in. They have a website, and if you need to speak to a counselor about a question or concern, you log into their website and can be directed to an online counselor who can “chat” with you instead about your issues.

The food from Nutrisystem is “shelf stable” meaning that it can all be stored and shipped at room temperature. It is usually shipped via UPS if it is a large order, or by USPS if it is a small order.

Because the food is shelf stable, it means that a lot of the entrees are either dehydrated (like cup-a-soup), shelf stable canned (like Chef Boyardee, Dinty Moore beef stew, and canned soup are) or full entrees that freeze dried (like gourmet hiking foods). You can either boil or microwave most entrees.

One of the positives about Nutrisystem is that you don’t have to sign any contract to do the plan for a certain amount of time. The food costs about $10 per day (depending on how you set up your orders) and when and if you want to stop doing it, just cancel any future orders and stop. You can set up an auto-ship program or order a la carte after the initial 4 weeks plus one week free. The counseling online, the online forum, etc. are all included in the basic food cost.

Jenny Craig

With Jenny Craig, there is a choice. You can either go to a local center…or you can go to their website and order online. You DO sign up for a certain amount of time on the plan-but they often have shorter “try me” specials so you aren’t automatically signing up for a year…some of the specials are the “20 pounds for $20″ and other promotions, which you can look up on their site. There is the joining fee…and then the cost of food on top of that.

With the actual centers – you go in, weigh in, and can get counseling face to face. If you go to a center, you can get some of their shelf stable entrees and snacks…but you can also get some of their frozen entrees as well… most people like the frozen meals better than the shelf stable ones, but it’s a matter of choice. With the Jenny online program, the choices are more like Nutrisystem, where they are shelf stable and can be shipped to you. Jenny Craig also has an online forum, and other things available as well.

Pros and Cons of Nutrisytem and Jenny Craig

There are pros and cons to each one, but Nutrisystem is a big plus because of the no contract. But if you’re a people person and want to go to a center – Jenny Craig is the better choice. It is really the decision on whether you want to do it on your own, or go to a center and weigh in.

Head to head in costs, Nutrisystem costs less than Jenny Craig – approximately $290 a month for food, versus $450 – $500 a month for Jenny Craid.

The most important point , though, is the taste of the food.

Jenny Craig has a sample pack in their online store that has a couple shelf stable entrees and snacks, and a coupon off your joining fee.

With Nutrisystem, you can go to their site and choose to order an “a la carte” order rather than buying a full week or month of food – and you can choose an entree or two and a few snacks and just try them out if you would like before you spend a lot of money on a full order.

As is the case with either program, there will be entrees you love and other that you won’t like at all. Again, it’s a personal preference but with a bit of research you’ll find that people who have tried both programs give the taste edge to Jenny Craig due to the frozen foods preference over the shelf stable items.

You will lose weight on either plan and you will learn more about nutrition and meal portions than you ever thought possible.

The success stories of both plans are very real. People are losing weight every day by learning to eat sensible, exercising a little more, and paying attention to the good points of a diet (protein and fiber) and how to be aware of pitfalls (sugar and trans fats).

Diet pills might work for some people but the majority of people who pop the pills end up being hungry all day long, don’t lose weight and gradually begin to realize they’ve been taken.

If you’ve wasted $70 or more buying Hoodia diet supplements online and ended up tossing them out after a few days – you are not alone. Thousands of people have fallen for the scam.
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