The Diet Trial

Here I am folks 5:40am on a Wednesday, looking up diets and deciding which one I will go with.  Please bear with me, I have never been on a regulated diet plan, do to laziness and bad will power, so I make no promises to dedication!😜.

Quick Tip:
Written by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE on August 28, 2017
Fad diets are extremely popular for losing weight. They typically promise rapid weight loss and other health benefits, yet often have no scientific evidence supporting their use. In addition, they are often nutritionally unbalanced and ineffective over the long term. However, there are some “fad” diets that have been found to produce weight loss in high-quality, controlled studies. What’s more, these diets can be healthy, well-balanced and sustainable. Here are eight “fad” diets that actually work.
* Atkins Diet.
* South Beach Diet. Like Dr. Atkins, Dr. Arthur Agatston was a cardiologist interested in helping his patients lose weight sustainably and without going hungry. …
* Vegan Diet. …
* Ketogenic Diet. …
* Paleo Diet. …
* The Zone Diet. …
* The Dukan Diet. …
* The 5:2 Diet.

Well after reading this maybe I will go with one of those.

Vegan Diet:
Well I already know that I’m not going on a vegan diet!

Keto Diet: Description
“The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Wikipedia”.  

No not this one.

Paleo Diet: Description
“The Paleolithic diet, Paleo diet, caveman diet, or stone-age diet is a modern fad diet requiring the sole or predominant eating of foods presumed to have been available to humans during the Paleolithic era. Wikipedia”

Oh my goodness no.

The Zone Diet: Description
“The Zone diet is a fad diet emphasizing low-carbohydrate consumption. It was created by Barry Sears, a biochemist. The ideas behind the diet are not supported by scientific evidence. Wikipedia. The diet is meant to promote weight loss via reduction in calories consumed and avoid spikes in insulin release, thus supporting the maintenance of insulin sensitivity.[4][6] The Zone diet proposes that a relatively narrow distribution in the ratio of proteins to carbohydrates, centered at 0.75, is essential to “balance the insulin to glucagon ratio, which purportedly affects eicosanoid metabolism and ultimately produces a cascade of biological events leading to a reduction in chronic disease risk, enhanced immunity, maximal physical and mental performance, increased longevity and permanent weight loss.”[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_diet

I know this one sounds cool and sustaining but when I read on with the approach and the effectiveness, I was not into it!

Dukan Diet: Description
The Dukan Diet is a low-carbohydrate protein-based fad diet devised by Pierre Dukan. Dukan has been promoting his diet for over 30 years; it gained a wider audience after the 2000 publication of his book, The Dukan Diet, which has sold more than 7 million copies globally.[1][2][3] The book has since been translated into 14 languages and published in 32 countries. The book was released in the United Kingdom in May 2010, and in the United States in April 2011. It is not clear the diet has any benefit and it carries risks to kidney and cardiovascular health.[4]” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_diet

Big fat No on this one!!!

The 5:2 Diet: Description
The 5:2 diet is a fad diet that emphasizes intermittent fasting. The 5:2 approach is similar to but less restrictive than alternate day fasting as adherents restrict calories for just two days per week. Wikipedia

Not into fasting,

Long story short I want nothing to do with these fad diets!  I’m going to do diet recipes made by a place called Mind and Body.  These recipes were actually hand crafted for my husband but I’m going to take advantage of knowing they are nutritious and aimed for weight loss!  Going to start the day after Easter! So I can enjoy my three year olds Easter basket!! Hehehehe