What diet is good

I need to get back on a diet. I dont know what diet though. THe low carb diet makes me depressed cause all you have is meat. I want a good diet where i can loose weight healthy and you can eat meat veggies and fruit. ANY suggestions?
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Honestly...I just would just reccomend eating what you want but keeping your calorie intake under 1000 a day and fat grams under 12. Some may argue that is too low but it works fine for me when I need to loose a few pounds. Combine that with working out and you should see results pretty quick. I dont go by any of these 'fad' diets. Bottom line, you loose weight when you burn more calories than you take in.....so however you go about that is cool but most of these 'fad' diets arent giving you a healthy balance of food. Good luck with whatever you do

 

I have seen your pic and really don't think you need a diet. Focus on being healthy rather than being thin and the later will follow. Do not succumb to what the world is telling you should be, be at a weight that you know is healthy for you. I am 5'9 and my weight makes me sound very heavy but it is beacause of my height. I had a hard time with my weight because even at a size 8 the scale numbers sound high and haunt me.

 

The Suzanne Somer's, "Somersize", program incorporates fruits, veggies, meat, and whole grain carbs. It's pretty well rounded, plus, it's not just a diet, it's a healthy way of eating for life. Hmmm... I should do infomercials. Anyway, I lost 50 lbs on it.

 

1000 calories a day is too low. You have to stay at LEAST at 1200-1300 to maintain health. The commercial diets are ridiculous. There is no way to stay on one for your entire life; and once you stop, you gain all the weight back (usually more). I recommend a nutritionist to help. I have never seen your picture, and I know what it's like to "think" we need to lose, when in reality we don't...However, talk to a dietician or nutritionist if you are really concerned.. Be careful.. Dieting can be harmful when taken too far..

 

That's why I like mine. It's not telling me to drink a shake, or only eat cottage cheese for two weeks. Basically the only thing eliminated is white flour products and those that contain large amounts of starch. It replaces white bread with whole wheat breads (rye, pumpernickel, etc), trades white rice for whole grain rice, and eliminates all the processed foods which contain nasty heart-clogging trans fats. Low carb has the right idea, except that you do need some form of carbs for energy. That is where all the whole grains come in. I think basically eating fresh fruits and vegetables, getting enough protein, and eliminating sugar in combination with exercise will promote weight loss.

 

Yeah, avoid partially hydrogenated oils. Just eat in moderation. Don't forget to exercise, that's how you really lose weight, burn calories. But judging from your pic (I assume that's you) you don't need to lose weight.

 

elle, it is irresponsible to tell a 15-year-old to only eat 1000 calories...the girl is only 15, which means she is more than likely still growing. teens actually need more calories than adults because of this. if she took your advice to heart, she'd be starving herself which causes more harm than good in the long run, especially for someone who's still going through puberty and developing.


and judging by her pic, she really doesn't need to be going on a diet at all. she looks to have a perfectly proportioned weight for her frame. whenever teens on this forum ask for weight loss advice, i never tell them that they should go on a "diet" because i don't want to be responsible for adding more to a teen's poor body image.

i wish more people would be careful when they post a reply to messages like this. if someone came on saying they were 50 lbs over weight and their weight was a health problem for them, then i'd give them advice on how to lose it. if it's a 15-year-old who thinks she's fat just because she isn't bone-skinny, i try not to encourage that teenager to keep thinking that they need to diet. it's okay to encourage someone to be healthy, no matter what the case. eat foods that are good for you, have regular physical activity, and your whole life will get better. there is nothing wrong with that. but telling a teen your little dieting secrets when they obviously don't need to diet is really, really careless.

be part of the solution, not the problem.

 

One time, I only drank water and lemon water for like three days, and then on the fourth day, I never got hungry... so I ate anyway, and then threw up. It really sucked. I hate throwing up. I swore off diets after that, because I thought I had become anorexic...haha

 

I'de say vegetarianism/veganism, as long as you do your research and get plenty of calcium and B12...

 

The Schwarzbein principle is one of the healthiest 'diets' i've run into. It's all about balance, healthy fats, organic produce, whole foods, etc, etc, etc. Weight loss is a side benefit, wellness is the goal.

 

Go with the south beach diet. Its kinda a load of bullshit cause all it says it you should eat a moderate amount of carbs and protein, and suplement it with some fruits and veggies, alongside proper exercise. which is basically what science has known about dieting for the past two hundred years and they try to pass it off as some miracle new fad... but it works great.

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hi all. i lost 24kg and im not sure what that would be in ur weight if you are from america but its a shitload. i didnt really do a diet but i just decided to ask myself when eating. are you full? if the answer was yes i would instantly stop eating. i would still have fast food but cut the burger up in 4 and ask myself after i finished each quarter. normally i would eat half and be full and put the rest in the fridge for the next day...it does work and you are not depriving yourself of anything neither.

 

stop encouraging a teen to diet! it's irresponsible. and it's obvious from her pic that she doesn't NEED to lose weight, so STOP IT!!!!! grrrrr...

 

Diet can be more then losing weight, it can also be about eating healthier to enjoy a healthier life. many people who want to gain weight or muscle *or at least do it right* diet.

 

there was a lady at the place i used to work who went on a diet and all she wold eat were like hot dogs without the bun and cottage cheese.......... she got sick pretty quickly!
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*huff* you KNOW what i mean. i was a teenager who always tried to "go on a diet" and it started a vicsious yo-yo dieting cycle and i ended up weighing over 200 lbs. now i'm taking it off the right way and it's taken me 3 years because a diet is not the way to be healthy and i abused my body so long with "diets." that's why i said it's irresponsible to promote "dieting," especially in someone who is young and probably still growing.

dieting and adopting a healthy lifestyle are two different things. argh.

 

Well I know what your getting at, shes a pretty girl, she doesn't need to do anything drastic, but dieting and adopting a healty lifestyle are the same, and shouldn't be confused with an eating disorder. Theres nothing wrong with a person of a healthy weight dieting anyway, and from her post she didn't seem to be sending up any eating disorder flags.I kinda agree with you though.

 

well the title of this post is "what diet is good" meaning, to me, that she wants to "go on" a diet. people should not "go on" a diet. they should change permanently to a healthier way of eating.

 

Well I guess I agree, but we shouldn't get caught up in semantics, nothing wrong with her being curious about healthier eating habits.