14 DAY TRIAL // Dropping a few pounds doesn’t have to be a question of imposing absurd many limits as regards to what we eat until all pleasure is sucked out of eating, as neither must is be detrimental to our health. Still, many fad diets place too little importance on health and more on achieving impressive results over a very short period of time. This is why Health comprised a list of the top 10 healthiest diets in America, of which we’ll present to you only the top 5.
As also noted above, dieting should never come at the cost of our health: whether coming with few restrictions or not, we should understand that a healthy diet means, first and foremost, a change in lifestyle, a change that means we stop eating foods that are bad for us and have them replaced with something healthier and lighter in calories. The Structure House Weight Loss Plan is one such diet. It’s been around for about 30 years and it has managed to win major points with the experts consulted by Health because it includes one element often overlooked with other such plans: exercise.
Second place goes to The Step Diet, yet another diet that combines healthy eating with working out. “The nutritional approach of the Step Diet, devised by weight-control experts from the University of Colorado, is profoundly simple: Cut food intake to 75 percent of what you currently eat. ‘This plan is for people who like things simple,’ nutrition expert Christine Palumbo says. ‘Simply cut back on what you normally eat.’ With suggestions (not hard-core regimens) for making healthy meals and a food diary for building mindfulness, this plan can work well for dieters who like to have daily control and choices,” Health writes of the diet. It also proposes walking 10,000 steps every day by employing easy techniques like parking the car farther than usual or taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
Number 3 goes to the popular and internationally famous Weight Watchers program. As Health puts it, it’s a classic for a very simple reason: it simply works. Aside from the many celebrities who followed it, there are millions of other people who can vouch that Weight Watchers and a support group actually work wonders in terms of losing weight and keeping it off. Position number 4 is occupied by a relative newcomer, the EatingWell diet, which relies more on behavioral changes that alter one’s relationship with food than on food itself.
At number 5 is The Volumetrics Eating Plan, a diet that says the slimmer can eat as much as they want. “[Barbara Rolls, PhD] says you’ll eat better and lose weight if you focus on the energy density of foods. And her Volumetrics plan explains how low-density foods like fruits and vegetables, as well as soups and stews, fill you up without overloading you with calories. This diet scored highest for its safe weight-loss-rate and nutritional components because it’s ‘based on sound nutrition principles and overall healthy food choices,’ judge Samantha Heller says,” Health explains.
This goes to show that losing weight can not only be achieved but also done so without paying too high a price for it. For more on each diet named above, as well as for more healthy diets now popular in the US, please refer here.