The Protein Power Diet Review

May 31, 2009 by Sherry Ingram · Leave a Comment 

The Protein Power Diet Program is a low carbohydrate diet plan based on a diet book, which espouses a do-it-yourself regimen using regular grocery store food.  Formulated by the Eades who are doctors that have vast experience in helping others in their weight woes. 

The Protein Power Diet consists of a high protein low carbohydrate diet similar to the Atkins Diet. The main difference is that the Protein Power Diet has accompanying literature with detailed calculations as to the amount of carbohydrates and proteins consumed based on your physical measurements. The diet plan has three stages, called intervention, transition and then maintenance. Together in this program is the recommendation for specific exercises which include weight lifting, maintenance muscle mass and aerobic activity to stimulate the basic instincts of the body.  

The problem here is in the low carb, high protein diet would reduce insulin levels to help in weight loss is inaccurate. Since this is the foundation of the diet, this protein power diet plan may soon find its adherents discovering this inherent flaw of the plan.

The Lindora Online Diet Review

May 31, 2009 by Sherry Ingram · Leave a Comment 

Lindora Online is the online version of a nationally offered program by Lindora’s thirty-four clinics in Southern California. This means broadens the market base of Lindora has expanded, allowing for dieters to access the diet program without needing to go in to a Lindora clinic in Southern California.  

This virtual clinic is another aspect of the business of the largest multi-site medical weight loss program in the United States. This ten-week program has eight weeks of weight loss programming with two weeks of metabolic adjustment that can make you lose ten percent of your body weight in just ten weeks.  This program is designed for the individual through counselling and diet regimentation that is effective for the public. The company has been doing this work since 1971 and over the years it has perfected its program to provide a quality program allowing flexibility for the individual’s needs and is effective in its goals for weight loss.

The Optifast Diet Review

May 7, 2009 by Sherry Ingram · Leave a Comment 

The Optifast diet is a medically supervised modified fasting program with counselling sessions. The diet involves the use of company liquid supplements and grocery store bought food.

The central idea to this diet is a formula which is a calorie level intake determination specifically attuned to the individual patient. There is a formula manufactured by Novartis, the diet plan’s purveyors, which is a powdered and liquefied 160 calorie per serving drink for the dieter. There are also nutrition bars that provide for 25% of RDA. Attendant to this is the Weight Management Learning System, which are educational modules, designed to learn topics on building healthy eating and lifestyle behaviour. There is medical supervision involved in the diet program, counselling sessions and an exercise plan to have a complete physical and emotional support system for weight loss. This program is the most effective one and its results have been empirically proven to keep weight loss by alteration of both the lifestyle and habits of the individual. It is also the recommended weigh loss program in the medical field.

The Inches A Weigh Diet Review

May 7, 2009 by Sherry Ingram · Leave a Comment 

The Inches A Weigh is a chain of commercial weight loss clinics designed to provide counselling for those seeking to lose weight in a healthy fashion. They provide for sale company packaged nutritional products and on site exercise facilities. These features differentiate the chain from other commercial weight loss companies.

The program is based on regular grocery store food but the company also offers its own 144 private label food items, fifty protein drinks, 25 nutrition bars, cereals and soups. Other offerings include vitamins and other health products for use. The concept is a “Three Phase Figure Correction” which caters to mature women. Phase 1 uses nutritionally sound, family oriented eating plans using regular food, supplements and vitamins. In Phase 2, there is nutritional counselling which individualizes the figure shaping programs. Phase 3 is more exertional and cardiovascular based which conditions heart and muscle groups. This program provides for weight loss programs in a day spa environment which caters specifically to the individual allowing for a healthy well rounded approach to weight loss and body sculpture.

The Bariatric Surgery Review

May 5, 2009 by Sherry Ingram · Leave a Comment 

This is an active medical intervention to lose weight not only dramatically but immediately and hopefully in the long run. Costing about $3000, this surgery involves gastric bypass procedures and has increased popularity over the past several years. It is still surgery and has all the risks involved in the invasive means of weight loss. It involves two steps, the first being removal of a segment of your stomach so one can only take in small amounts of food and reattaching a portion of your small intestine to the new stomach, reducing the capacity to absorb nutrients and calories from the food being consumed.

Not all can qualify for this procedure as there is criteria that need be met that were set by the National Institutes of Health, such as a minimum Body Mass Index of 40 or 35 if there are other morbidities involved. Also, the bypass surgery must be the court of last resort for the prospective patients. There is also preparation for surgery such as exercise and weight loss tips. The downside is that twenty percent of patients that undergo the surgery require follow up operations to correct complications like abdominal hernias. Others develop anemia, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. These may be averted so long as the proper medical advice and discipline is observed by the patient.

The Body Clock Diet Review

May 5, 2009 by Sherry Ingram · Leave a Comment 

The theory of the diet is that it is not just what you eat that makes the difference in weight loss but also the circadian cycle that keeps your body in sync. This means that your natural rhythms are controlled by your body clock, which include sleeping patterns, metabolism, appetite and energy levels. By eating regularly and having your meals be attuned to your body clock, you can use the body’s chemical reactions to regulate and control hunger pangs and feeling of fullness.

This is a simple fourteen-day diet plan that has three meals and two snacks, with an option for a seven-day vegetarian plan. The diet includes starchy carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables, protein rich food and low fat dairy products. It is projected that an adherent would lose up to 2 pounds a week with the diet. The plan is sensible as it was formulated by a dietitian and it is easy to follow healthy eating plan that you can incorporate into your lifestyle in the long run.

The Ultimate Sex Diet Review

May 1, 2009 by Sherry Ingram · Leave a Comment 

The Ultimate Sex Diet proposes a regular sexual activity to shed unwanted pounds. Regular sex means a lot of sex, which is about three to five times during the week and at least once (or more) on the weekend.

The author, Kerry McCloskey is not an expert on nutrition or dieting but her work proves that she can do her homework. She has shown that regular sexual activity experience benefits such as healthy hearts, immune systems, lesser depression and weight loss. Not only does it wake up your sex life, the activity burns calories making you lose weight promoting a healthy heart with endorphin release. There is no calorie counting involved and even if the progenitor of the diet is not an expert, the soundness and the fun ness of the diet cannot be discounted.

There is a diet program accompanying the regimen and it is essentially low fat and high in fiber, limiting the intake of bread and pasta. All other food products are to be enjoyed in moderation with an allowance for dark chocolate and wine aphrodisiacs in order to whet the sexual appetite and allow for more sexercise.