The Diet Secrets

While a food diet generally means you’ll be restricting food intake, the Ultimate Sex Diet doesn’t quite follow the same pattern.  Instead of eschewing the activity, this sex diet actually involves having more sex - lots and lots of it in order to lose weight.

According to the author, Kerry McCloskey, plenty of sex brings innumerable physical and emotional benefits, like a healthy heart, stronger immune system, less propensity for depression and weight loss.  At the bare minimum, practitioners of the Ultimate Sex Diet should have sex three to five times during the week and at least once on weekend.  The more sex you can fit into your schedule, the better the weight loss results will be.

That’s the exercise portion of the system, by the way.  It, of course, also involves an eating regimen that’s a little more forgiving than your typical diet programs. Recommended food types in the Ultimate Sex Diet consists of mostly low-fat and high-fiber fare.

Bread and pasta are particularly cited as good items you should limit.  Anytime it is available, dieters should always choose low-fat versions of dairy and milk.  Food choices that come highly recommended include whole grains, fruits, vegetables, sugar-free desserts, herbs, spices and seafood.  Aphrodisiacs like dark chocolate and wine are also encouraged, if they help increase your sexual appetite.

There is no calorie-counting in the Ultimate Sex Diet, where focus is trained on eating healthy while getting lots of sex to burn off  excess calories.  The book is currently available for about $28.

NutriSystem Select is a collaborative diet program between NutriSystem and Schwan Foods, an online grocery.  It features pretty much the same diet as NutriSystem’s meal-delivery program, with the addition of several better-tasting frozen dishes into the mix.

Many people have found success with NutriSystem’s controlled meal system and it is among the most effective, albeit considerably expensive, diet systems around.  Just like the regular program, the Select version allows dieters to choose meal packages (such as vegetarian, seafood or whatever you fancy) or customize it based on the diet’s guidelines.  Apart from the food, the NutriSystem Select program comes with well-outlined instructions on consuming the food to maximize the diet as well as an exercise program to facilitate better weight loss.

Under the system, you will eat three square meals and one snack everyday, with all of the food delivered to you.  Some add-in foods that you can integrate into the diet are encouraged and is clearly discussed in the accompanying materials.   Since the delivered meals are both healthy and rich in flavors, the diet has been very effective for those able to afford its steep costs.

For instance, check these new items provided by Schwan Foods, all of which you can include in your meal plans: Shrimp Alfredo, Homestyle Pancakes, Margherita Pizza, Spicy Asian Beef Tips, Ice Cream Sandwiches, Apple Crisp, Peach Crisp,Orange-Cream Ice Cream Bars,  Ham and Cheese Sandwich and Garden Vegetable Omelets.   Sounds delicious, don’t they?

If there was ever a drawback to these meals plans apart from their cost, it’s the fact that you’re essentially hand-held into eating healthy.  What happens then when you decide to cut it from your monthly expenses?  Since you never learned to prepare healthy meals on your own, do you think you can cope?

Celebrity fitness trainer David Kirsh is reportedly making a killing on his new diet supplements, which, according to reports, have been finding favor among many Hollywood personalities looking to burn off fat.  The supplement, dubbed Thermo Bubbles, is a fat-melting and energy-boosting concoction served in the form of a powdered herbal drink.

Sold at his website for a hefty $40 for 10 servings, each 16-ounce shot of Thermo Bubbles contain known fat-loss ingredients such as white tea, guarana and green tea as well as ginseng.   Kirsh claims the drink will melt away fat naturally, curb appetite and not make you crash like other energy drinks.  While I can appreciate the weight loss properties (it’s got guarana and green tea), the energy boost is likely still from caffeine (because of the green tea).

In all honesty, this is nothing but an appetite suppressant, no different from similar stuff you can buy for much cheaper.  With Kirsh recommending two shots per day, this can turn into an expensive habit pretty fast.  Since it’s geared towards moneyed Hollywood types, the steep price might be justifiable.  For regular folks like you and me, you’ll reap greater benefits just working out and watching your food intake.

The Scarsdale Diet continues to be one of the most popular low-carb diets in recent memory.  Designed for short-term, express weight-loss, few diets can measure up to its rapid results, with many dieters reporting up to twenty pounds lost in the two weeks it takes to complete the program.

Under the Scarsdale Diet, you limit your food intake to three controlled meals a day, with celery and carrots serving as snacks to help eliminate hunger pangs.  Your meals follow a detailed nutrient breakdown - 43% protein, 22.5% fat and 34.5% carbohydrates.  Unlike many controlled calorie programs, there’s no need for calorie counting under the diet.  Instead, you follow a meal plan with specific components and many types of food completely eliminated.  The allowed fare are so low in calories, however, that you end up naturally consuming very few, often between 800 to 1000 a day.

As you may expect, the diet is heavy on protein sources - lean meats, protein breads, eggs and similar fare.  Additionally, fruits and vegetables are heavily used throughout.  Beverages are limited to coffee, water, tea and diet soda, although their consumption can be increased or decreased depending on your preferences.  Various sauces and spices are banned from the diet as well.

If you want to lose weight fast, there are few diets that can get you there as quickly as the Scarsdale Diet.  Since it only lasts two weeks, there’s little danger of wreaking havoc on your metabolism, unlike sustained low-calorie diets.