Best Healthy Weight Loss Diets

Since its Summer, time to eat healthy produce to help your weight loss. For starters, most of us are trying to be beach body ready. Today’s post will help you pick the best diet to maintain and achieve results.

Healthy Weight Loss Programs

Because there are so many programs available, it is important to find a program that suits your lifestyle. Each diet has its own pros and cons. How can you decipher the best plan to accommodate your goals? By fitting in fitness activities with your diet, you will be able to reach your goals.

Weight Watchers Diet

So, many of you know I’ve been on the Weight Watchers Diet plan since last fall. Indeed, I have achieved great results. Visit my prior Weight Watchers Lifestyle Quest post. In the first place, Weight Watchers is about enjoying great food while getting healthy.

As a member of Weight Watchers, I am given an amount of points I can consume during the week. In addition, I receive 28 bonus points a week to use as I want. What I found as the key to maintaining this diet, is not to give up. For example, if you gain a few pounds one week, don’t quit. Keep on track. By getting back to where you started, you will be able to continue your weight loss goals.

Although I have found myself fluctuating a pound or two throughout the diet, I have found that the weight I have lost thus far has remained off. For me, the most important part of having success on the Weight Watchers diet is not to give up. Furthermore, I have become much more label conscious when I’m out grocery shopping.

The key to success in this diet is to remember it is a lifestyle change. It isn’t about a week or two, or a month of losing weight. By staying on top of your food choices, you will see overall greater success.

In addition, it is important to note that you can learn from the process of eliminating bad food from your diet and stay on track. You don’t necessarily have to continue with the program if you have learnt and changed your eating habits.

Mediterranean Diet

The Mediterranean Diet has become well-known by its success from people in Greece, Italy and Spain. Visit my Mediterranean Healthy Diet Overview post for more on this diet.

The foods on this diet consist of fruits, vegetables, nuts and olive oils. Of course, fish is part of this diet. In addition, this diet teaches you to eat meat, less and drink less wine. Also, the importance of olive oil helps reduce weight, lower cholesterol and lower the risk of heart disease as well as help with diabetes.

Plant Based Diet

For me, I have found success by following a plant-based diet. Visit my Choose Plant Healthy Diet post for some suggestions.

Since I am a vegetable lover, I have enjoyed trying new recipes. Additionally, I am eating less meat and chicken with this diet. With this diet, you can incorporate more vegetables and fish into your daily food intake. By visiting Farmer’s Markets, you can walk away with some different vegetable, fruit and fish options.

Of course, the health benefits I’m seeing from eating more vegetables has me on a plan to continue my weight loss goal.

New Nordic Diet

The new Nordic diet is similar in ways to the Plant based diet. Likewise, it also has components similar to the Mediterranean diet. There is a strong influence on foods such as fruits, vegetables, oil, fish and staying away from foods like meat, dairy and desserts. Of course, you may have a sweet tooth, so eat sparingly.

One big difference in the Nordic diet compared to the Mediterranean diet, is it uses rapeseed oil instead of olive oil. Rapeseed oil contains the least amount of saturated fats. Much of the produce from this diet comes from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Also, some of the signature foods on this diet are:

• Whole grains like oat and rye
• Local fruits
• Root vegetables
• Rapeseed oil
• Vegetable oil-base margarine
• Low dairy fat milk
• Meats including beef, pork, lamb and reindeer
• Fish
• Herbs made out of parsley, dill, chives, mustard and horseradish
• Desserts made out of oat bran

Conclusion

In conclusion, the best weight loss diet is to eat fresh, healthy choices year around. By the same token, it is important to incorporate exercise into your diet. On that note, I’m off for my daily fitness routine.

As always, I look forward to your comments.